ian alan paul
@elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social
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technopolitics and anarchist thought faculty @ universitat pompeu fabra in barcelona https://www.ianalanpaul.com
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There is a significant delay with the English print edition b/c I broke my contract with the first publisher over issues related to Palestine. Thankfully @pmpress.bsky.social picked it up and will publish it this Spring with a new introduction and afterword: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
The Reticular Society
Ian Alan Paul The Reticular Society theorizes the online colonization of everyday life, diagramming capitalist society’s network form while searching for the means of abolishing it.
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The French edition of The Reticular Society will be coming out with lundimatin in October with a nice postface from Frédérique Neyrat 🔥🔥🔥
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“What must be confronted in our fascist moment then is not simply the proximity between subjectivity and subjugation, but rather the degree to which ... domination itself has been embraced as the foundation of social life.”
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Subjectivity, Subjugation, Spectacle

Ian Alan Paul
September 25th, 2025

In English there is an ambiguity in the word “subjection.” It can denote the way lives are made into subjects and thus are given subjectivity, but also the way lives are subjected to domination and thus are subjugated. That both subjectivity and subjugation ambiguously coincide in “subjection” tells us that the forms within which life is lived are never far away from the forms through which life dominates and is dominated, that the positive formation of life is always nearby the negative possibility of constraining it.1 What must be confronted in our fascist moment then is not simply the proximity between subjectivity and subjugation, but rather the degree to which fascism has made subjugation the very ground of subjectivity, to which domination itself has been embraced as the foundation of social life.