Obsolete Capitalism is a collective of independent researchers founded in 2014. They define themselves as “gypsy scholars” and engage in philosophy, art, and politics. They publish independently and intermittently, both through digital platforms with Creative Commons licensing and free access such as Monoskop and La Deleuziana, as well as through rhizomatic publishers like OCFP and Rizosfera, and with qualified publishing houses they consider “strategically allied” such as Mute and NON/Mille Plateaux.
Among the publications under the OCFP label, we highlight “Money, Revolution, and the Philosophy of the Future: Deleuze, Foucault, Guattari, Klossowski and Nietzsche’s Accelerationist Politics” (OCFP, 2016), “Birth of Digital Populism” (OCFP, 2014).
With Rizosfera, Obsolete Capitalism has published, among others, “The Strong of the Future: Nietzsche’s Accelerationist Fragment in Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus” (2016), “Dromology, Bolidism and Marxist Accelerationism” (2017), and “Control, Modulation and Algebra of Evil in Burroughs and Deleuze” (2018).
Obsolete Capitalism has created a sonic laboratory with poly-media publisher Rizosfera, NUKFM, with which they have released works such as the “Chaos Variations” (2016-2020) with authors such as Adi Newton (Clock DVA), Mark Stewart (Pop Group), Howie B, Zafer Aracagök, Network Ensemble, Nico Note, the album-book “Chaos Sive Natura” and the book+USB card “Chaos Rhythm and Non-pulsed Man” curated with philosopher Stefano Oliva for the scientific philosophical journal La Deleuziana (2020).
With the record label Mute Records, they have published the book-zine “Kynismus, Chaos and Rhythm” within Mark Stewart & Maffia’s double album “Learning to Cope with Cowardice” (Mute, 2019). They have collaborated with NON/Mille Plateaux in the first volume of ‘Ultrablack of Music’ under the alias of Algorithmic Committee with the essay “The Scream and the Sound of the Flesh” (NON/Mille Plateaux, 2020). Obsolete Capitalism’s latest publication involves a collaborative contagion with Lee Scratch Perry, “Black Magic Spell“, a track and text included in a modular book-work created and curated by media theorist Bernd Herzogenrath for “©Ovid’s Metamorphoses” (Meauksma, 2023).
