Power Play in the Tropics “The active phase of a coup is like a military operation – only more so. If the general principle of tactics is the application of force at the right place, the coup achieves this with surgical precision by striking at the organisational heart of the whole state; if speed is often important in military operations, in the coup it is an essential requirement. But the…
The Gamification of Proletarian Struggle In our historical perspective, play — the constant experimentation with ludic innovations — only comes into being alongside ethics and questions of life’s meaning. The only success which we can appreciate in play is the immediate success of its ambience, and the constant increase of its powers. In its present co-existence with the residues of the phase of decline, play cannot completely free itself from…
