-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Commentary (1,694)
- Discussion (6)
- Film (125)
- Interview (70)
- News blog (840)
- Poiesis (133)
- Review (3)
- Uncategorized (1)
Category Archives: Commentary
The Politics of the Commons: Silvia Federici
A political demand/action must be judged not only from the perspective of its goal, but also, and more fundamentally, from its capacity to generate unity and organizational potential among those who challenge and struggle against capitalism.
Remembering/living Tiananmen
On this, the 25th anniversary of the massacre of Tiananmen Square, it is more than fitting to return to this past; not though only to remember past tragedy, but to be able to live our present. The protests and occupations … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged china, Giorgio Agamben, rebellion, revolution, Tiananman Square
Leave a comment
Autonomy as threshold spatiality: Stavros Stavrides
Stavros Stavrides’ work on political autonomy in our contemporary crises governed cities, illuminated by an experience and knowledge of protest and rebellion in Athens since 2008, is of considerable significance. In the wake of the square occupation movements of our … Continue reading
Can Vies: The resonances of an okupation
…we need to abandon the view of autonomy that fantasizes uncontaminated enclaves of emancipation. Stavros Stavrides For over a week, thousands protested the eviction and partial destruction of the Can Vies Self-managed Social Centre in Barcelona, in the Centre’s neighbourhood … Continue reading
The rebellion/resistance of okupied social centres: Centre Social Autogestionat Can Vies
An okupied social centre is a form of direct action against State-Capital. It is a refusal of the sacrosanctity of private property and of the authority which oversees its protection. It is a making common that which is held privately … Continue reading
A Madrid May: Where is 15M?
Two young women danced among those who walked in protest on the 17th of May, from Cibeles to Puerta del Sol. They bore upon their heads plastic vaginas with the slogan, “ni sumisa, ni devota” (“neither submissive, nor pious”). And with the sound … Continue reading
A Madrid May: resistance, escraches, occupations – the struggle for a commons
In February, 2013, a 47 year old woman walked into a bank in Almassora, Castellón, poured inflammable liquid over herself, and then set herself afire, screaming as she did so: “Look at what you have done to me! You have … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, News blog
Tagged 15M, Occupations, Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, spain
Leave a comment
A Madrid May: A rebellion´s music
The general assemby of 15M Madrid in Sol, celebrating the 3 years of the movement, was opened and closed by performances of the orchestra and choir La Solfónica, born in the wake of the of the first protests in the … Continue reading
A Madrid May: 15M – A school without walls
The assembly in Puerta del Sol marking the 3rd anniversary of the 15M movement begins with presentations on the current economic crisis, that falls to the responsibility of the Economics and Justice groups of Sol, a heritage of the original … Continue reading
The games of dispossession: FIFA’s machine of capture
The FIFA World Cup circus is about to begin in brazil. And while millions are earned in match after match, we can turn our eyes away from the spectacle, even if momentarily, to see some of what has made it … Continue reading →