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The pacifying state: Spain and the laws against rebellion
The State’s power is fundamentally rooted in its ability to define the limits within which its sovereignty is exercised; a power that rests upon the State’s ability to simultaneously stand outside those very limits. This paradox is at the very … Continue reading
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
A Madrid October: Creating agoras, creating forms of life against capital
On the 19th of October, 15M returns to the streets and squares of spain's cities. From the manifesto … Under the slogan, "Against Your Austerity, Take your Agora", more than 20 15M assemblies support this international demonstration that will take … Continue reading
A Madrid October: The struggle against eviction – Resistance and occupation
After days of gathering to resist the announced eviction of an apartment block in Girona, the Salt block, owned by the SAREB, spain's bad bank, and occupied by the PAH on the 22 of March of this year, in the … Continue reading
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A Madrid October: The weapon of hunger
Capital exploits by appropriating human creativity and makes this exploitation the necessary condition to accede to those goods required for human survival. It is a system, not in any static sense, comprised of a complex of social relations of domination; … 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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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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The pacifying state (cont.): the sovereignty of the police
The transformation of political issues into security matters makes explicit the relationship, if not the identity, of sovereignty and the exercise of police power. The “police – contrary to public opinion – are not merely an administrative function of law … Continue reading →