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An Order to Bring Down
"Tarnac 9" Support Committees
Collective Statement of the Delegates from Nearly 30 "Tarnac 9" Support Committees Who Met in Limoges, Belgium, in March 2009
It is a failure. We haven't feared "anarcho-autonomous" terrorists weaving international networks. This invasion -- so brutal and crude -- by the political police has pushed us to put our bitterness into words, to leave our isolation.
The day after the arrests, support committees sprung up like crocuses after the thaw. Without consultations or slogans, the contagion spread: concerts, debates, meetings, evening performances. . . . Everywhere the support has brought together dozens, even hundreds of people.
"Focusing: Greece, France and Communism"
The Invisible Committee
Everyone agrees. It will explode. A serious or daring air is suitable in the corridors of the Assembly, as if one would have repeated it in the bistro yesterday. One amuses oneself with the estimation of the risks involved. One already itemizes in detail the preventative operations in which the territory is turned into a grid. The festivities of the New Year take on a decisive turn. "This is the last year that there will be oysters!" So that the celebration is not totally eclipsed by the tradition of moral laxity, one must have the 36,000 cops and the 16 helicopters dispatched by [Michele] Alliot-Maria,[1] who -- around the time of the December [2008] student demonstrations -- lay in wait, trembling, for the least sign of Greek contamination. Under the reassuring remarks, one hears, always more clearly, the noise of preparation for open warfare. No one can continue to ignore the open gearing-up for action, cold and pragmatic, which no longer even bothers to present itself as an operation of pacification.
Situationist Inheritors: Julien Coupat, Tiqqun and The Coming Insurrection
Patrick Marcolini
In twenty-nine issues and more than 1,500 published pages, Le
Tigre has succeeded in never making a close study of the work of
Guy Debord. Not without reason, the invocation of the situationist
movement having become a banality in the media. In the preceding issue
of Le Tigre, devoted in part to the texts of Julien Coupat and
those close to him, there wasn't a precise analysis of the filiation
between them and the situationists. Here's one.
Second-wave Situationism?
Gavin Grindon, Fifth Estate
Last year saw, at least here in London, a plethora of commemorative events to mark the 40 year anniversary of the events of 1968, with pundits and talking heads emerging from everywhere to offer their accounts and experiences of that year, in which a multitude of movements remade and reclaimed the terrain of everyday life in a variety of ways from the jaws of capitalism. These accounts often mentioned the Situationist International, and the many groups whose ideas – if not directly related – were often very close to them. The list of these groups who attempted to fuse art and everyday life in a rejection of capitalism and the creation of autonomous spaces will be familiar to most readers. In New York, the Yippies and Black Mask, in California the Diggers, in Chicago the Rebel Worker Group, in the UK King Mob, in Amsterdam the Provos...
"Ward Churchill Redux"
Stanley Fish, New York Times
Last Thursday, a jury in Denver ruled that the termination of activist-teacher Ward Churchill by the University of Colorado had been wrongful (a term of art) even though a committee of his faculty peers had found him guilty of a variety of sins. The verdict did not surprise me because I had read the committee’s report and found it less an indictment of Churchill than an example of a perfectly ordinary squabble about research methods and the handling of evidence. The accusations that fill its pages are the kind scholars regularly hurl at their polemical opponents. It’s part of the game. But in most cases, after you’ve trashed the guy’s work in a book or a review, you don’t get to fire him. Which is good, because if the standards for dismissal adopted by the Churchill committee were generally in force, hardly any of us professors would have jobs.
"Resisting Degradations and Divisions" in South Africa
S’bu Zikode interviewed by Richard Pithouse
S’bu Zikode is the elected president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical and radically democratic shackdwellers’ movement in South Africa that has committed itself to waging its struggles independently from party-political and NGO control.[1]
Richard Pithouse: What is your understanding of a living politics?
"The Transborder Immigrant Tool, Violence, Solidarity and Hope"
Electronic Disturbance Theater
Border Context, Walking, Deaths
Consider the incommensurability of the following two re/presentations
of walking: The first from Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Walking”
(1862), while pleasant enough to contemplate, hardwires an ironic
Orientalism into its infrastructural mandates:
"On Failure and its Possible Remedies"
Wayne Spencer
In June 2007, when my text 'On Lice and Fleas' first appeared, one of the members of the partnership that writes under the pseudonym Monsieur Dupont asked me what I would do in the event of defeat. It would seem too soon to talk of defeat, but perhaps it is time to acknowledge and confront some measure of failure.
"On Décapitalisme"
Granad(a) Collective
I. gravity is the first law of force that is inscribed into our bodies. grammar is the second. social war is the third and self management is the fourth.
II. how do we decapitate capitalism? by cutting of its head. a rhizomatic internet devoid of its tags, a sentence with a lower-case beginning. an always emergent discourse without a title. decentralised institutions that become constellations of extitutions. deindividuated bodies in acéphalous collectives.
III. an “I” that is always decapitalised. we own no proper nouns just as i do not want to own you and you do not want to own me. only the Structures that we imagine to still be standing retain their brand names and ownership capital. structures that must be decapitalised and torn down.
IV. no longer anarchists or socialists or communists or marxists or situationists or nihilists or new hegelians or nietzscheans or surrealists. no longer any ‘ists’ or ‘-ans’ or ‘ishes’ or ‘ics’ and no longer any national identities. no more hyphens hugging our fragmented sense of self identification, only outstretched arms.
"Promissory Notes: From Crisis to Commons"
Midnight Notes and Friends
After five hundred years of existence, capitalists are once again announcing to us that their system is in crisis. They are urging everyone to make sacrifices to save its life. We are told that if we do not make these sacrifices, we together face the prospect of a mutual shipwreck. Such threats should be taken seriously. Already in every part of the planet, workers are paying the price of the crisis in retrenchment, mass unemployment, lost pensions, foreclosures, and death.
16-page printed "Promissory Notes" pamphlet here
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