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Anti-fascism: A struggle against fear
A foreigner, returning from a trip to the Third Reich When asked who really ruled there, answered: Fear. Bertold Brecht Fear is the food of the sovereign. Fear of the enemy without, fear of those enemies who may also lie … Continue reading
In the days of our wars
…Empire has succeeded in shaping, out of the debris of civilisation, a new humanity, organically won over to its cause: citizens. Citizens are those who, in the very midst of the general social conflagration, persist in proclaiming their abstract participation … Continue reading
Rebelling against debt: examples from spain
… discourses of crises become a way to governmentally produce and manage (rather than deter) the crisis. “Crisis” becomes a perennial state of exception that turns into a rule and common sense and thus renders critical thinking and acting redundant, … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, Maurizio Lazzarato, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, revolution, spain
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Occupy Wall Street, two years on …
(poster from the Brooklyn Artist's Alliance) Anniversaries are always problematic. While celebratory, they lend themselves to nostalgia, nostalgia for past feats, glories, passions, which may mask present poverty and paralyse action in the present. They also lend themselves to accountings … Continue reading
The Sirens of representation: 15M before the seduction of elections
… all power is derived from the people, they possess it only on the days of their elections. After this it is the property of their rulers. Benjamin Rush … we are confronted even in the midst of the French … Continue reading
Performing the government of crisis: greece
The permanent state of emergency/exception that characterises the government by crisis continues unabated in greece. To eliminate the reality-memory of resistance, squats are brought an end to throughout the country (29/08/2013: the eviction of the squat Antiviosi in Epirus; 02/09/2013: … Continue reading
Ofelia Nieto 29: The ethics of resistance
… what we are waiting for can only come from ourselves, from our own being. It will come once we force the unknown, the unconscious, up into our spirit; it will come once our spirit loses itself in the spiritless … Continue reading
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The excesses of okupations: Reading events in spain and greece with the Free Association
What we need are cheerful voices; voices that remind us that the few will turn into many! Gustave Landauer In order to be happy I’ll have to change the whole world! The Free Association The text that follows borrows freely … Continue reading
The Gezi-Taksim Utopia
(All the paintings in this post are by the turkish artist Yuksel Arslan) La poésie ouvre le vide à l’excès du désir. Georges Bataille For ten days, from the 1st to the 11th of June, Taksim became … a free … Continue reading
The ecstasy of revolution: Gustav Landauer
Only when anarchy becomes, for us, a dark, deep dream, not a vision attainable through concepts, can our ethics and our actions become one. We want to be everything though: humans, animals, and Gods! We want to be heroes! In … Continue reading →