-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Commentary (1,716)
- Discussion (6)
- Film (128)
- Interview (71)
- News blog (848)
- Poiesis (134)
- Review (3)
- Uncategorized (2)
Tag Archives: Okupations
A Madrid October: The liminal reality of autonomous okupied social centres
… l’exclusion est une arme possible et nécessaire. C’est la seule arme de tout groupe fondé sur la liberté complète des individus. … Cette discipline définit nettement une plate-forme incorruptible, dont l’abandon ne se rattrapera pas. Autrement, il y aurait … Continue reading
The struggle for a commons: Chronicles from spain
Civil war is the free play between forms-of-life; it is their principle of co-existence. “War” because in each singular play between forms- of-life, the possibility of a fierce confrontation — the possibility of violence — can never be discounted. “Civil,” … Continue reading
Posted in News blog
Tagged 15M, Occupations, Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, revolution, spain
Leave a comment
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
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 spreading of okupations: Chronicles from 15m´s spain
To okupy, to appropriate, to re-appropriate that which was claimed by theft; a theft paid for with public monies. Today, in spain, okupation has become the central strategy of anti-capitalist politics, a politics that is not only opposed to State-Capital, … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, News blog
Tagged 15M, Occupations, Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, spain, Spanish Revolution
Leave a comment
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 …
Posted in Film, News blog
Tagged Occupations, Occupy Gezi/Taksim, Okupations, turkey
Leave a comment
Gezi/Taksim: The rebellion of one-many, or a figure of Bartleby
From Occupied Taksim …
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, … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, News blog
Tagged Occupy Gezi/Taksim, Okupations, revolution, turkey
Leave a comment
Revolution as Destituent Power
Only if we’re able to disentangle the future … from the traps of growth and investment, will we find an escape from the vicious subjugation of life, wealth, and pleasure to the financial abstraction of semio-capital. … the future is … Continue reading →