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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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Tagged 15M, Occupations, Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, revolution, spain
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The ecstasy of revolution: Gustav Landauer
Only when anarchy becomes, for us, a dark, deep dream, not a vision attainable through concepts, can our ethics and our actions become one. We want to be everything though: humans, animals, and Gods! We want to be heroes! In … Continue reading
In the days of our wars
…Empire has succeeded in shaping, out of the debris of civilisation, a new humanity, organically won over to its cause: citizens. Citizens are those who, in the very midst of the general social conflagration, persist in proclaiming their abstract participation … Continue reading
Rebelling against debt: examples from spain
… discourses of crises become a way to governmentally produce and manage (rather than deter) the crisis. “Crisis” becomes a perennial state of exception that turns into a rule and common sense and thus renders critical thinking and acting redundant, … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, Maurizio Lazzarato, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, revolution, spain
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Occupy Wall Street, two years on …
(poster from the Brooklyn Artist's Alliance) Anniversaries are always problematic. While celebratory, they lend themselves to nostalgia, nostalgia for past feats, glories, passions, which may mask present poverty and paralyse action in the present. They also lend themselves to accountings … Continue reading
The Sirens of representation: 15M before the seduction of elections
… all power is derived from the people, they possess it only on the days of their elections. After this it is the property of their rulers. Benjamin Rush … we are confronted even in the midst of the French … Continue reading
Ofelia Nieto 29: The ethics of resistance
… what we are waiting for can only come from ourselves, from our own being. It will come once we force the unknown, the unconscious, up into our spirit; it will come once our spirit loses itself in the spiritless … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, revolution, spain
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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 …