15M continues to walk the limenal space between political contestation and the construction of other worlds … a space without identity, always in the making … the space of autonomy …
From the The Guardian, a video series that reflects on worlds beyond capitalism. The first is an animation to the words of John Holloway …
Capitalism is an economic-political system of dependency and wage slavery. Debt is one of the system´s instruments for the domestication and domination of human beings. It constrains freedom and creativity, it generates fear, it discplines and shapes, through a diversity of apparatuses, human subjects. Debt is a form of economic dominion, but also ethical and political constitution. Subjects of debt can imagine no morality beyond law and command, beyond utility. The sheer presence of human singularity brings with it no ethical appeal. Like Melville´s Bartelby, an individual who can not prove her/his worth is beyond moral community. To imagine an ethical-political reality beyond debt is therefore to move towards an ethics of presence, an ethics without "I" or "you", "mine" or "yours", but of a common, changing we.
The artist Alex Schaefer has recently put to the test the limits of freedom of expression, limits revealed to be all too present. The prohibition on chalking and the violence used against it (Occupy LA) however show far more than a state fearful of free speech; it exemplifies a state that expresses itself increasingly through violence, through the police, that the state and “politics” have been reduced to the policing of populations and that states of emergency are the norm of administration. The ideal is pacification …
Okupied in early March of this year, the building that became Espacio Vecinal Okupado y Autogestionado LA CANTERA, in the province of Madrid, was cleared by the police on the 26th of July, in an ongoing struggle against what all such okupations are, examples of collective, self-managed spaces of resistance. Two documents follow as testimony, but also as an invitation to continue to rebel through ever more okupations …
The spanish edition of Le Monde Diplomatique (July/2012) carries a very good analysis/evaluation of 15M. the text follows in spanish …
After Somonte, the Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as promoted a further okupation of public lands (24/07), military in this instance, known as Las Turquillas, as an act of resistance against idle public wealth, unemployment and the domination of marginalisation and poverty. The ambition is to organise a self-managed, collective farm, providing thereby the means for a dignified life to some and an example to others.
Interview with Enrique Polanca of #YoSoy132, by Lorena Aguilar for Kaos en la Red (Domingo, 22 de Julio de 2012 02:10) …
Becoming "wild" is always an erotic act, an act of nakedness.
Hakim Bey, The Temporary Autonomous Zone
The days and weeks of the white heat of summer bring illusions and hallucinations in their wake, visions of metamorphoses. Our dreams always dictate reality; the summer deludes us with the reality of our dreams.
Making worlds with casseroles: The quebec student movement
A collection of essays (Wi: Journal of Mobile Media: Out of the mouths of “casseroles”: textes qui bougent au rythme du carré rouge) speaks of the radical possibilities emergent within the Quebec student movement. The perspectives and positioning on/in the movement are many, but what runs through many of the reflections is the notion that the movement is constituted of a politics that is simultaneously an ethics and aesthetics.
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