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Struggles for space: Hijacking spaces of authority (6)
To momentarily conclude our series dedicated to struggles for space, we close with the work of the anarchitecture collective, Space Hijackers. A London based group, active between 1999 and 2014, it sought to sabotage architectural hierarchies of built space. The … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, revolution, Space Hijackers
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Struggles for space: Profaning architectural practice (5)
For our series, Struggles for space, we share below an essay entitled Playing in Space: Profaning Architectural Practice by a friend who has formerly published with Autonomies, Carlos Jacques. The essay originally appeared in Philosophy@Lisbon: International eJournal: Centro de Filosofia da … Continue reading
Against labour, labour capital: The right to be lazy
We close our review of anti-work and anti-capitalist literature with Paul Lafargue’s essay, The right to be lazy. With no intent to be exhaustive, and in no way considering that all has been said about the subject, the exercise was … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: The original affluent society
Marshall Sahlin’s essay, The original affluent society, is now a classic text in the critique of labour under capitalism as the path to material well being. For those not versed in the lessons of the abundance of simplicity, when jobs … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: The phenomenon of bullshit jobs
David Graeber’s essay, On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs, reflects upon the moral-disciplinary role of work in an age when contemporary capitalism renders most work redundant due to technological development and automaisation. We work not because we need to satisfy … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: Against the totalitarianism of capital, the destruction of work
Life unbridled, a venture into the absolute other, requires the total destruction not only of ‘my’ work, but of the very concept of work and economy as the basis of human relations. Everything that led to the possibility of workers … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital … play!
In the domain of our life excess manifests in itself in so far as violence wins over reason. Work demands the sort of conduct where effort is in a constant ration with productive efficiency. It demands rational behaviour where the … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: Anti-politics against capitalism
A precondition for reestablishing the perspective of action is to make a final and clear break with all “politics” in the institutional sense. Today, the only possible form of “politics” is radical separation from the world of politics and its … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Anselm Jappe, capitalism, Krisis Group, politics, revolution
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Against labour, against capital: Marx’s theory, the crisis and the abolition of capitalism: An interview with Robert Kurz
Liberation is a historical fact and therefore cannot be theoretically “deduced” like the falling rate of profit. The famous “objective subject” of traditional Marxism is nothing but a category of capital itself, or a function of the “automatic subject” (Marx) … Continue reading
President Trump: Countdown to Apocalypse – From Crimethinc
After the Trump election, from CrimethInc …