Tag Archives: spain

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

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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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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

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Autonomy at the limit: Playing with Deleuze and Guattari around contemporary rebellions

(This text is born of an experiment, an experiment in progress, that of thinking through our contemporary rebellions with the tools of contemporary philosophy.  Spain´s 15M is the example considered here and the hypothetical conclusion arrived at is that the … Continue reading

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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

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The revolution as trans/queer

(poster by Javi Larrauri) … only those who find themselves in opposition to the institutionalised Norm can play a fully critical role. In other words, only feminist self-consciousness and homosexual awareness [29] can give life to a vision of the … Continue reading

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15M: “Excelente. Revulsivo. Importante”

From the project 15M.cc and Stéphane M. Grueso, a new documentary about spain's 15M (with english subtitles) …

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The chimera of revolution: Travels through 15M’s spain

Chimaera … breathed awful fire, Three-headed, frightening, huge, swift-footed, strong, One head a bright-eyed lion’s, one a goats, The third a snake’s, a mighty dragon-head. Hesiod, Theogony Monsters have always defined the limits of community … Donna Haraway, A Manifesto … Continue reading

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In the eyes of Olmo Calvo: spain’s crisis

  The photographic and video work of Olmo Calvo continues to give expression to the violence of a governance by crisis, but also of the resistance to it.  Calvo's work is that of ignored realities, as well as that of … Continue reading

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Year 02: 15M’s spain

For the so many whom 15M has brought forth, for the enormous passion and creativity that this movement has engendered, for the extraordinary generosity and love that so many show as they build together, for its beauty and its freedom, … Continue reading

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