Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene (McKenzie Wark)

p. 65    Detournement

p.125 Ernst Mach   mediation--sensations-- not reducible to subjective senses /impressions
         What is the activity that chunks sensations into an index of some object, on the one hand, and as traces via which a subject might come to assert its own separateness, on the other?

p. 138         (Alexander Bogdanov) seemed to accept that bloom carries differences, but advocated the sharing of blood to overcome them. Rather than be prey to the vampire of capital, labor shares among its own, as if the brotherhood of man could be made physically so through blood exchanges.


p.144  The "mutation" of the private property form into strictly controlled "intellectual property" makes whole new classes of things available for commodification.
A patent defines what is nature and what is not…. Patent is a site of struggle over what counts as subject and what as object.

James Boyle,  The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

p.147  reading of Donna Haraway

Perhaps it would be possible to sense a web of human and nonhuman agents, more a mechanically and digitally reproducible compound eye than a single labor point of view.
Perhaps this point of view could be broader than that of labor, and not separate, out in advance, production from reproduction. Perhaps it could also include something a bit distant from either, a kind of activity that neither produces nor reproduces, but proposes other means of doing either, or neither,  or both. Could it even include the hacker class as a distinctive point of view not entirely reproducible to labor? One might start here with Bogdanov's notion of organization, rather than production, as a "basic" level of analysis, but look aslant at its unquestioned functionalism.

P. 150   Haraway  in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women p.176
  Humanistic Marxism was polluted at the source by its structuring ontological theory of the domination of nature in the self-construction of men and by its closely related impotence to historicize anything women did that didn't qualify for a wage.


p.151  for this is an era in which life itself has been disaggregated and brought under forms of molecular control. what makes that control possible is a whole series of technologies based on sciences whose object is not just on molecular but even the sub-atomic level. Rather than assert a claim to contemplate these transformations as if from the outside, what might actually be more useful is a way of accounting from the inside for the apparatus that produces us as cyborg beings in an Anthropocene time on a planet experiencing vast metabolic rifts.

p.152-55  Karen Barad      meet the University Halfway
diffraction    x-rays   as a method     non-representational

P. 162   What counts as agency? Agency is not something that humans or even nonhumans "have." It is not something that some possess and some do not. It's an effect of a situation, often a situation that includes an apparatus. For an agent to appear, there's a prior cut. The agent appears separate as an effect of a kind of "exteriority-within-phenomena."

Inter-actions       not agents exist before the actions