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Destituent power as living communism
“To destitute is not primarily to attack the institution, but to attack the need we have of it.” This statement, from the Invisible Committee’s text Now (2016), is at the heart of an essay by Spencer Beswick that we share … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, autonomism, autonomy, germany, Giorgio Agamben, Invisible Committee, revolution
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(Thirteen theses + 1) On destituent power
From lundi matin #293 21/06/2021 … At what point is destituent communism? Its theory? It continues apace. From its Italian sources, it has provoked fruitful debates, even across the Atlantic. Let us bring to the subject a little more material, … Continue reading
Now and the anarchy of destituent power: Reading politics with the invisible committee
… they wanted to reinvent everything, each day; to make themselves masters and possessors of their own lives. Guy Debord If to constituent power corresponds revolutions, uprisings and new consititutions, that is, a violence that lays down and constitutes new … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Invisible Committee, Nuit Debout, politics, revolution
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Giorgio Agamben: For a theory of destituent power
From a public lecture in Athens (16/11/2013), at the invitation of and organised by the Nicos Poulantzas Institute and SYRIZA Youth, and originally posted on Chronos … A reflection on the destiny of democracy today here in Athens is in … Continue reading
Revolution as Destituent Power
Only if we’re able to disentangle the future … from the traps of growth and investment, will we find an escape from the vicious subjugation of life, wealth, and pleasure to the financial abstraction of semio-capital. … the future is … Continue reading
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Tagged Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, rebellion, revolution, spain
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Kutuzov: For a destituent strategy today
From lundi matin #249, 29/06/2020 … “Even those who denounce the permanent state of emergency do not hesitate to repeat the same slogans, to make the same appeals as the “decision-makers”, who now work shamelessly and in the open for … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Challenging the anarchy of power through the anarchy of forms-of-life
Smettetela di pensare ai vostri diritti, smettetela di chiedere il potere. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Pci ai giovani We return to the work of Giorgio Agamben, in the translation of a lecture from 2013, dedicated to the concept of destituent power. … Continue reading
Amador Fernández-Savater: Reaching for a politics of pure potentiality, or trying to keep power at bay
One never takes power, it is power which takes us. Tomás Ibáñez We follow Peter Gelderloos’ critical evaluation of spain’s “radical” municipalism with a more theoretical reflection, by Amador Fernández-Savater, on the political cycle in the country that began with … Continue reading
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Tagged Amador Fernández-Savater, anti-capitalism, Giorgio Agamben, revolution, spain
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All power to the plenums: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s insurrection
Generalised self-management is simply the totality in accordance with which the councils unitarily inaugurate a style of life based on permanent and collective imagination … Raoul Vaneigem … power does not define itself only by its capacity to make itself … Continue reading
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Tagged bosnia and herzegovina, Communism, insurrection, rebellion
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Mario Tronti: On destituent power
For Mario Tronti, from the Ill Will collective (22/05/2022) … In his influential 2008 interview with Adriano Vinale, Mario Tronti provides some of the earliest speculations on the possibility of a destituent power. Below we present the first English edition … Continue reading →