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Tag Archives: Spanish Revolution
This is not a demonstration – Actions, constructions and revolutionary turns to save the world.
(From Take the Square/Al final de la asamblea, a celebration of two years of rebellion in spain, in the wake of 15M). In the past two years we have completely reinvented the way we try to transform the world into … Continue reading
Lines of tension, lines of flight: the revolution of occupations
Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of revolution …, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible … Everything is played in uncertain games, ‘front to front, back to back, back … Continue reading
Towards a real assembly-ism
From the working group of 15M-Madrid, Política a Largo Plazo, comes the following reflection on the assembly as a space for horizontally and freely creating human community, a reflection on what is here is called asamblearismo. The translation from the … Continue reading
Žižek dreaming, or Žižek, the dialectical trickster
“…one should learn the art of recognizing, from an engaged subjective position, elements which are here, in our space, but whose time is the emancipated future …” Slavoj Žižek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously Reflecting on the year 2011, a year … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, revolution, Slavoj Žižek, spain, Spanish Revolution
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The tides of change: spain’s “mareas”
On the 17th of February, over half a million people took to the streets of spain’s cities in a protest against cuts to the budget of the country’s public health services. It was but only the most recent example of … Continue reading
Creating Revolution: 15M through images
Documentary photography and film do not represent; indeed, no art does. It creates perspectives of worlds, worlds, openning possibilities, ways to be in world. The creation is but partially that of the director; there is also the unveiling eye of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Art and Revolution, spain, Spanish Revolution
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Rebelling against property: the PAH
The PAH, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, predating the emergence of 15M in spain has been, with 15M’s neighbourhood assemblies in various cities, been one of the most emblematic protagonists in the popular efforts to resist the power of … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, spain, Spanish Revolution
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The war of okupations
Toute différence entre formes-de-vie est une différence éthique. Cette différence autorise un jeu, des jeux. Ces jeux ne sont pas politiques en eux-mêmes, ils le deviennent à partir d’un certain degré d’intensité, c’est-à-dire, aussi, à partir d’un certain degré d’élaboration. … Continue reading
The insurrection of citizens or of freedom?
On the 27th of October, the spanish congress was again a stage for protest, another encerclement, with the aim of protesting, contesting, but also openning the door to a new constituent process of political/institutional creation. How many such acts will … Continue reading
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Tagged 25S ocupar el congresso, revolution, spain, Spanish Revolution
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Anarchy and 15M
As 15M approaches its second anniversary, it is an occasion to reflect on its young and yet rich history, on its present, and possible future. Far be it from us however to suggest any kind of omniscient or final judgement … Continue reading →