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Metamorphoses of Occupy
History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now. The awareness that they are about to make the continuum of history explode is characteristic of the … Continue reading
The presence of fascism
In a general way, our present is far from having come to terms with its recent nazi and fascist past … One is called to vigilence before possible returns – it is the motive of the "never again". … Nevertheless, … Continue reading
The resistance of bodies: The photography of Antoine d’Agata
Le désir demeure en nous comme un défi au monde même qui lui dérobe infiniment son objet. Georges Bataille … to take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. Susan Sontag … Continue reading
The Drumming of Rebellion: Idle No More and Beyond
Native protesters in canada's Idle No More movement speak of responsabilities to mother earth, the spirit of the ancestors, the creator; a language which resonates poorly with a secular and atheistic left and is often celebrated hypocritically by this same left in … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indian Movement, canada, Idle No More, Indigenous peoples
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Lines of fracture, lines of conflict, lines of freedom: The war of okupations in greece
In solidarity … From greece to spain, passing through italy, okupations increasingly mark a territory of conflict between State-Capital and those who seek to create spaces and times of autonomy inside/outside the reigning regime of power. Beyond what they directly contest in capitalism, … Continue reading
Taking Rome: Okupation as Revolution
This last 6th of December, eight new occupations of buildings and houses took place in Rome. This was not a spontaneous, momentary explosion, but a premeditated collective step that allowed some 2000 families to be sheltered. That many have been … Continue reading
The ZAD is Everywhere: The Autonomies of Protest in Notre-Dame-des-Landes
“On veut inventer un nouveau mode de vie … On s’oppose au projet d’aéroport et au monde qui va avec, au système qui le porte … C’est un projet emblématique d’une logique d’aménagement du territoire autoritaire, qui contrôle les vies et détruit les … Continue reading
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Tagged france, insurrection, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Okupations, revolution
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Strikes against Capitalism
ParkeHarrison Flying Lesson (2000) The State is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently. Gustav Landauer The struggle … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, insurrection, Okupations, revolution, spain, Strike
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Figures of Bartleby’s Rebellion
Once upon a time, three friends beneath the soft shade of grape vines shared their Bartleby … for them.
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Tagged Giorgio Agamben, Herman Melville, insurrection, revolution
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Updates from Greece: Greek Proletariat Occupies — Life without Bosses
Greek worker resistance has turned a new page in combatting and overcoming the ongoing capitalist onslaught against the majority of the population everywhere. Street demonstrations and battles, occupations of public spaces and the creation of alternative centres have been joined … Continue reading →