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Insurrection in the city: Gamonal Resists
…the revolution in our times has to be urban – or nothing. David Harvey, Rebel Cities The greater part of the human species now dwells in cities; more correctly, in urban spaces, which for the most part exist in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Gamonal, insurrection, occupy the city, rebellion, revolution, spain
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The plurality of autonomy
Autonomies are woven in different ways, at different levels. The self-understanding of those who participate, the goals and means employed, may vary enormously. It is far too easy then to criticise such initiatives from a puritanical and ultimately impotent ideological … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, rebellion, revolution, spain
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Taking/making the food
… human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to … Continue reading
Spain’s 15M: Doing revolution
The old revolutionary certainties have gone. John Holloway, Crack Capitalism What in our conduct, our action, makes it revolutionary? Is it a simple matter to say of one activity that it is anti-capitalist, and of another that it is not? … Continue reading
Whither the egyptian revolution?
What follows are reflections, readings, of events in egypt of the last few months, of a revolution seemingly appropriated or hijacked by military authorities. They are testimonials, but also efforts to trace, open, paths beyond seeming failure …
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
A Madrid October: 15M is dead. Long live 15M!
It would be difficult to think of 15M in the form of a movement. If that is, as a movement which has an origin, a goal, some objectives and a trajectory … Nevertheless, an event is but a timid call … 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
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The desire of rebellion: Okupation
Insurrection is the self-constitution of a temporality splitting and proliferating. Franco Berardi “Bifo” We need to be disciplined to be undisciplined. Saul Newman This post is inspired by the ongoing struggle of so many to create and defend Autonomous Okupied … Continue reading →