Category Archives: Commentary

The desire of rebellion: Okupation

Insurrection is the self-constitution of a temporality splitting and proliferating. Franco Berardi “Bifo” We need to be disciplined to be undisciplined. Saul Newman This post is inspired by the ongoing struggle of so many to create and defend Autonomous Okupied … Continue reading

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Insurrection in the city: Gamonal Resists

…the revolution in our times has to be urban – or nothing. David Harvey, Rebel Cities The greater part of the human species now dwells in cities; more correctly, in urban spaces, which for the most part exist in a … Continue reading

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The plurality of autonomy

Autonomies are woven in different ways, at different levels.  The self-understanding of those who participate, the goals and means employed, may vary enormously.  It is far too easy then to criticise such initiatives from a puritanical and ultimately impotent ideological … Continue reading

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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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Taking/making the food

… human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to … Continue reading

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Carlos Taibo: What is happening with 15M?

Carlos Taibo continues to be one of the more reflective and lucid commentators/activists in spain’s 15th of May movement.  What follows is a recent and succinct analysis of the state/diffusion of the movement, published in the Madrid based 15M newspaper … Continue reading

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Performing Revolution: the Orange Alternative

This post comes to us from a friend of Autonomies …  “The more our daily life appears standardized, stereotyped, and subject to an accelerated reproduction of objects of consumption, the more art must be injected into it in order to … Continue reading

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Political dissidence made criminal: Resistance from spain

Before State interdiction and oppression, how can and should resistance and opposition proceed?  If public protest risks falling into spectacular re-appropriation, should the streets then be left to the authorities of pacification?  And if protest is necessary, how can it … Continue reading

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Health as autonomy

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. Hippocrates I believe it is time to state clearly that specific situations and circumstances are sickening, rather … Continue reading

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Spain’s 15M: Doing revolution

The old revolutionary certainties have gone. John Holloway, Crack Capitalism What in our conduct, our action, makes it revolutionary?  Is it a simple matter to say of one activity that it is anti-capitalist, and of another that it is not?  … Continue reading

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