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My piece for @NewLeftReview / Sidecar on the current US attempt to finish off Cuba via the Venezuelan oil "chokepoint".
Thanks due to Ernesto Teuma and Rolando Prats for insightful feedback.
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Ever since Adobe started rent-gouging I've been entertaining the idea of building equivalent Free Software apps to kill their monopoly, but it was too huge a task and I've always been too busy. Now someone else has done it, easing the programming labour with help from agents.
AI is now being used to recreate Adobe’s software, a developer has released seven free, open-source apps as clean-room alternatives to Adobe’s main tools:
- PhotoCraft → Photoshop
- VectorCraft → Illustrator
- FilmCraft → Premiere Pro
- LightCraft → Lightroom
- EffectCraft → After Effects
- DesignCraft → InDesign
- PrintCraft → Acrobat Pro
Built in Rust with help from Claude Opus 5.5, they run on Windows, Linux, and macOS under MIT/Apache licenses without using Adobe’s source code.
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Marina Vishmidt’s contribution centers on the paradoxes of self-abolition in communisation theory and its relation to similar debates on gender and race.
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Rob Lucas’s False Totalities Don’t have Exits is a companion piece to his text, Error, published in Endnotes 5
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Abolition and Aufhebung is Ray’s response to Dimitra’s reply to his original critique of Endnotes. Questions of value, subjectivity and negation come to the fore here.
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Keepsakes by Dimitra Kotouza is a direct response to Ray’s critique, pushing the debate on communisation and mediation further.
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Ray Brassier’s original 2014 article Wandering Abstraction, a probing critique of communisation.
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Rob introduces the dossier as part of a longer Endnotes conversation on the problems of periodizing subsumption.
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Finally, Rob Lucas’s Feeding the Infant, on totality, abstraction, and, feeding infants.
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*new dossier*
on subsumption, abstraction, and totality. With articles by Rob Lucas, Ray Brassier, Dimitra Kotouza, and Marina Vishmidt, to whom this dossier is dedicated.
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I'm wandering the Mongolian steppe, taiga etc, so not disposed to promote such things, but here are some Endnotes-related texts just published on the @endnotesjournal site. Feeding the Infant was probably the most developed point for me at least...
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Here's the video of my talk at Remarque/NYU in November, on the geopolitical history of telegraphy and the internet, including a critique of the current milquetoast European tech-sovereignty discourse. A few people asked at the time; was just uploaded now.
youtu.be/kLecvkHsDLQ?t=2106
I'm presenting the Endnotes contribution to this book this afternoon at Goldsmiths—coincidentally, also the place that project was first presented in 2007 or 2008.
3-5pm RHB 137 (in person only)
Free and open to all
Organised by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought
Now available for ordering and/or free download…
Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done under Real Subsumption?
Edited by Anthony Iles & Mattin
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When capitalism feels inescapable, theory becomes a weapon to challenge fatalistic totalities.
Years ago I wrote some stuff for this book, coming out of a debate we participated in as Endnotes. I had thought the project gone, but it has risen from the dead. Odd to have something you wrote come out so long after the event. Glad they got there though!
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J'ai traduit pour @SRContretemps cet article extrêmement éclairant de @roblucas sur le blocus imposé par les US à Cuba. L'auteur analyse la question énergétique et les ressources matérielles et politiques dont dispose Cuba pour affronter cette épreuve.
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🇨🇺 Armas para pensar | ¿Cuba a punto de ser estrangulada?
✍🏼 @roblucas
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Important piece from @roblucas on the cruel intensification of the US embargo on Cuba - with fresh insights into its history, politics, and energy sources newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
If Snowden, Huawei, TSMC signalled a new fear of tech dependency, Nord Stream II and the US embargo on fuel for Cuba should ring alarm bells on the risks of fossil fuels for the sovereignty of those without major deposits. Renewables against chokepoints!
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"Cuba has a history of punching above its weight: the only country of its size with a record of successful foreign military campaigns – undertaken on its own initiative and at the invitation of the national-independence movements in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique – not to mention surprising intelligence achievements against the US. Cuba has, of course, been preparing for US invasion more or less since the revolution. The question is whether the Cuban state has the capacity to hold out long enough to reach new strategic terrain."
— Rob Lucas, "Stranglehold?"
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Mi artículo sobre las últimas agresiones estadounidenses contra Cuba, en español. Traducido y publicado por @communispress.
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