Matteo Pasquinelli

texts

• Italian Operaismo and the Information Machine
  Essay on the political economy of the algorithm from Alquati’s cybernetic factory to “the society of metadata”. Out now for Theory, Culture & Society.
• The Number of the Collective Beast: Value in the Age of the New Algorithmic Institutions of Ranking and Rating
  Talk at the ‘Money and Debt in the Post-Industrial World’ conference in Dortmund.
• The Labour of Abstraction: Seven Transitional Theses on Marxism and Accelerationism
  Forthcoming text. German translation in AKZELERATION (Merve Berlin, 2013).
• Il lavoro dell’astrazione. Sette tesi provvisorie su marxismo e accelerazionismo
  Italian version of the above text.
• The Politics of Abstraction: Beyond the Opposition of Knowledge and Life
  Column for the Amsterdam-based journal OPEN! The power of abstraction as common ground between the paradigm of cognitive capitalism and biopower.
• Der Aufstieg der Metadatengesellschaft
  Essay on the society of metadata for the Austrian art journal Springerin.

translations

• Reflections on the “Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics”
• Manifesto per una politica accelerazionista

events

• Berlin, 20 Sep. The Ultimate Capital is the Sun exhibition
• Vancouver, 8 Mar. Incredible Machines conference
• Dortmund, 17 Jan. New Industries conference
• Berlin, 14 Dec. Accelerationism symposium
• Rio de Janeiro, 19 Aug. O poder de abstração e o seu antagonismo
• Munich, 14 Jul. A keynote on the cruelty of abstraction

arts

• Berliner Steinwein. A geophagic concoction
• Manifesto of Urban Cannibalism (Berlin declaration)