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15M: “Excelente. Revulsivo. Importante”
From the project 15M.cc and Stéphane M. Grueso, a new documentary about spain's 15M (with english subtitles) …
Gezi Park/Taksim Square: The festival of revolution
Le premier geste pour que quelque chose puisse surgir au milieu de la métropole, pour que s’ouvrent d’autres possibles, c’est d’arrêter son perpetuum mobile.
comité invisible, L’insurrection que vient
The faces and voices of Gezi Park of Taksim Square, Istanbul, are many: youth, students, pensioners, house wives, Kurds, Armenians, Alevis, communists, anarchists, Kemalists, feminists, the unemployed and precariously employed, labour unionists, anti-capitalist Muslims, LGBTQs, the disillusioned with the AKP, environmentalists, football fan clubs … the kaleidoscope is seemingly inexhaustible. And yet all have lived, together in Taksim, the ecstasy of freedom, the shedding in part of what divides them, and the discovery, which is more of a making, of a fashioning of something new, of new subjectivities, centred on new concerns, concerns that others, burdened by different identities, also surprisingly share.
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Tagged Occupy Gezi/Taksim, Okupations, revolution, turkey
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Street Politics 101: Returning to Québec’s Le Printemps Érable
From the very remarkable anarchist film collective, subMedia.tv a portrait of Quebec's 2012 student movement …
Vio.Me: Self-Organization in Greece
An excellent video report from Global Uprisings and Brandon Jourdan of the Vio.Me. factory occupation in greece. Any revolutionary movement will inevitably confront the issue of production. In radically changing capitalist society, how can the basic needs of people be met? Excluding the scenario of a dramatic overthrow of the system (whatever that might mean), any change will be partial and slow, or its extent and pace will be at least unpredictable. The issues, problems and questions of the Vio.Me. workers are therefore fundamental. But so too is their courage and lucidity.
The chimera of revolution: Travels through 15M’s spain
Chimaera … breathed awful fire,
Three-headed, frightening, huge, swift-footed, strong,
One head a bright-eyed lion’s, one a goats,
The third a snake’s, a mighty dragon-head.
Hesiod, Theogony
Monsters have always defined the limits of community …
Donna Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs
A chimera points to what is imaginative, implausible, a general term to describe an idea or a concept as unrealistic; in our so realistic present, a seemingly unanswerable objection to all that is proposed that is different from that which is perceived to be. But the term here masquerades as descriptive, when in fact its function is normative. One should not think the implausible, nor imagine differences beyond what is, nor, even more dangerously, act upon such imaginings.
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Tagged 15M, Mayo 2013, revolution, spain, Spanish Revolution
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The passing of Le Métèque: Georges Moustaki
Songs that celebrate those without roots, but who walk the paths offered to them, led by their passion for beauty. To Georges Moustakis …
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In the eyes of Olmo Calvo: spain’s crisis
The photographic and video work of Olmo Calvo continues to give expression to the violence of a governance by crisis, but also of the resistance to it. Calvo's work is that of ignored realities, as well as that of realities made which shatter our complacent experience … a shattering of the spectacle …
Diagnosing the city under crisis: Athens
A multimedia research collective, The City at a Time of Crisis, has inaugurated a rich project to cartograph and analyse the changing dimensions of urban life in the city of Athens, under the regime of crisis. The endeavour is noteworthy and the collective has already produced a great wealth of material.
Gezi/Taksim: From the margins
Il y a une figure universelle de la conscience minoritaire, comme devenir de tout le monde, et c’est ce devenir qui est création. Ce n’est pas en acquérant la majorité qu’on y atteint. Cette figure, c’est précisément la variation continue, comme une amplitude qui ne cesse de déborder par excès et par défaut le seuil représentatif de l’étalon majoritaire. En dressant la figure d’une conscience universelle minoritaire, on s’adresse à des puissances de devenir qui sont d’une autre domaine que celui du Pouvoir et de la Domination.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Mille Plateaux
From the Occupied Taksim blog, the translation of a text written by Nazan Ustundag from bianet.org, reflecting on the nature of the Turkish movement from the margins …
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