Blog Purpose

The aim of the Blog “Philosophy and Cognitive Capitalism” is to have an ongoing discussion of the transformation of the general economy to that of cognitive capitalism inspired by the insights from contemporary philosophy. In this regard the blog is an attempt to create a symptomatology of this transformation and to pose different and experimental diagnoses of its consequences in relation to how our existence is produced and assembled inside the rapid circulation of cognitive capitalism and its logic of sense.

The inspiration to create this blog is governed by four parallel lines:

• Firstly, the blog is inspired by three student classes at the Copenhagen Business School at the master-program of Business Economics and Philosophy which have run over the last 1½ years. The titles of these classes have been “Non-linear Economy”, “Socialanalytics and Contemporary Diagnostics” and “Gilles Deleuze and his Philosophy”; the second class was with the emphasis on Deleuze and Guattari’s “A Thousand Plateaus” and the latter class was with the emphasis of Deleuze’ “Difference and Repetition” and “The Logic of Sense”.
• Secondly, the blog is inspired by my participation in the grounded research-program at the School of Education at Aarhus University “Socialanalytics and Contemporary Diagnose” (http://www.dpu.dk/site.aspx?p=5801).
• Thirdly, the blog is inspired by my participation the European research-program “A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics” under the Sixth Framework Program of the European Union” (http://www.atacd.net).
• Fourthly, the blog is inspired and informed by a range of public lectures under the theme of the new forms of control and power of contemporary work-life, not least with the focus on its biopolitical technologies of intimacy dominating modern management and its organizational world.

It is my hope, that the blog can be a vibrant forum for both philosophical discussions in relation to cognitive capitalism and contextual discussions in relation to the all expanding biopolitical technologies of intimacy controlling the productivity of contemporary work-life.

Lastly, the blog should also be seen as a response to the students and the practitioners who have asked for an ongoing debate of contemporary philosophy and its transferability into a symptomatology of cognitive capitalism and in what way we can diagnose this highly heterogeneous world in which we feel, think and act.

Looking forward to hear from you.

Martin Fuglsang.

P.S. Even though the purpose of the blog is written in English any response, questions, comments or discussions are not limited to English, responses in Danish is more then welcome.