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Tag Archives: Occupy Gezi/Taksim
Impressions of autonomies: Istanbul
But hope is not enough for me. I no longer want to listen – I want to sing songs … The scars of Istanbul’s self-inflicted wounds run deep and its self-mutilation appears to know no respite. The centre of the … Continue reading
Gezi park and beyond: Resonances of rebellion
(Yüksel Arslan) From the Global Uprisings news/video collective, a new documentary on political protest in turkey, since the Gezi Park commune …
Witnessing our times: Film from Gezi
I’m an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I’m in constant movement. I approach and pull away from … Continue reading
Not for bread alone: Berkin Elvan
… from a friend of Autonomies “We live under an occupation, under police occupation” The Coming Insurrection “À chaque instant de son existence, la police rappelle à l’État la violence, la trivialité et l’obscurité de son origine” Introduction à la … Continue reading
Rule by murder: For Berkin Elvan
; The State and Capitalism do not kill by accident, consequence of inattention or moral failure. The domination and appropriation of human creativity can only be violent, whether it be the violence of its law, institutionalised, or the violence of securing it. … Continue reading
Poetry for gezi-taksim
From Everywhere Taksim …
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
Gezi/Taksim: So that memories are not erased, and the future is not closed
Video that gathers the lived experience of the occupations of Gezi Park/Taksim square, and beyond …
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Gezi/Taksim: The rebellion of one-many, or a figure of Bartleby
From Occupied Taksim …
The dispossession of urban commons: Istanbul
(Photograph by Ufuk Akari) Don’t say it’s the necessary result of historical, social, and economic conditions – I know! My head bows before the thing you mention. But my heart doesn’t speak that language. Nazim Hikmet, The Epic of Sheik … Continue reading →