Anonymous Comrade submits:

A Call For An Anarchist People of Color founding conference.

ANARCHIST PEOPLE OF COLOR CONFERENCE SET FOR OCTOBER 3-5, 2003

WHAT: An organizers' conference of people sympathetic to the
Anarchist movement in various communities of color.

WHEN: October 3-5, 2003 [ October 3rd schedule: Friday 6:00-9:00
PM] orientation and registration; [Saturday, Oct. 4th all-day
workshops*]; breakfast 9:00-10:20, 10:30-12 noon morning session;
12:00-1:30 for lunch; 1:30-8:30; [ breakfast on Sunday October 5th]
9:00-10:00] morning session 10:00-12 noon, break for lunch 12:00-
1:00, conference resumes at 1:00 and ends at 3:00 (or later, if
majority of participants agree).

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"The Eros Effect"

An Interview with George Katsiaficas

George Katsaficas is a professor of Humanities and Social Studies at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. In 2001 he spent time reasearching the Kwangju uprising in South Korea. He is the editor of New Political Science and the author of several books including The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life and Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968. He has also edited several books, most recently The Battle for Seattle. A close friend of Herbert Marcuse, Katsiaficas runs the website ErosEffect.com.

RAAN came into contact with Katsiaficas mostly because of his book The Subversion of Politics, which dealt in part with the German Autonomen and Italian Autonomia. After a few exchanges of dialogue, RAAN was able to conduct this interview, in which they have tried to hit on some practical solutions to common problems within the anti-authoritarian movement. This interview originally appeared in the first issue of Praxis, journal of the Red & Anarchist Action Network (Summer, 2003).

"The Violence of the Global" [1]

Jean Baudrillard (Translated by Francois Debrix)

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of
anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary
partner of globalization. To identify its main features, it is
necessary to perform a brief genealogy of globalization, particularly
of its relationship to the singular and the universal.

Full essay is at ctheory

"Dossier: Scattered Speculations on Value"

Toni Negri

Introduction by Ronald Judy

In the spring of 1996, Marcia Landy and I organized a boundary 2 panel for the annual Rethinking Marxism conference held in Amherst, Massachusetts, in December of that year. We thought that Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's speculation on the relationship between value and affect ("Scattered Speculations") afforded an opportunity for rigorous engagement with these concepts, their historical significance, and their viability for understanding the emerging social formations attending the global economy. We envisioned a format of collective discussion carried out through individual papers and followed by an open discussion with Professor Spivak. Among those who agreed to join in this Sprechstimme were Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, Reda Bensmaia, and Etienne Balibar. Unforeseen circumstances prevented Professors Spivak and Bensmaia from taking part. Through the graciousness of Hardt and Balibar, however, the panel went ahead. We never planned for Negri to come, given his well-known political predicament -- although at the time he was free in Paris, he could not enter the United States. Still, he prepared and sent a paper that Hardt translated from the Italian and I read aloud, to which Balibar gave an informed and engaging response. Negri's paper and Hardt's talk follow in these pages. (They expand on these notions in their forthcoming book, Empire.) Despite the absence of two colleagues, the event was well received. We owe sincere thanks to those who attended the session. We want to thank Stephen Cullenberg for giving us the opportunity to present our conversation in the venue of the Rethinking Marxism conference. We are most grateful to Etienne Balibar, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri. Our debt to Hardt and Negri is compounded by their agreeing to allow us to publish their papers in this issue of boundary 2.

tomobedlam writes:

I have just completed the wrist busting task of converting all the Echanges Et Movements Issues from some ancient Wordperfect format to text/html so they are web browsable, and therefore hopefully saved them from file format death. They are all HERE at EndPage.

Enjoy,
Tom

Jason Adams writes:

"Proletariat or Multitude? A Postanarchist Critique of Empire"

Jason Adams

Introduction: A Proletarian Ideology of Progress and Productivity?

Though it is not clearly articulated as such, underlying the argument of Hardt and Negri's much-acclaimed book, Empire there is a fundamental singularity/universality nexus that is typically deployed as the basis for the emerging counter-Empire of the multitude as well as for the postmodern sovereignty of world order and the informatized production of postmodern capitalism; this is then juxtaposed to the particularity/universality nexus that had been deployed by the new social movements and left-wing nationalisms of the late twentieth century as well as the modern sovereignty and industrial production systems which they are depicted as having been actively refusing.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

New issue::movement, bodies, sites vol 2 no 1 2003
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/

:::in the latest issue...

"Tango is the dance of the milieu – the in-between...tango never finds
its rightful place, dancing instead at the borders of existence in the
interloping worlds between here and there." Erin Manning

"The airport not only transforms a body on the ground into a body in the
air, but it also involves the incorporeal transformation of the
travelling body — as a citizen, a passenger (pax), a baggage allowance,
an accused or an innocent." Gillian Fuller

"Whether God or the law—or indeed capital—are decreed as sovereign, in
each case this sovereignty consists not in the recognition of universal
human rights but in the stipulation of who has the right to be regarded
as human, and who has not. In this way, there is always a space created
for those who are excluded from the community and from definitions of
humanity: non-citizen, non-believer and the uncommodifiable." Angela
Mitropoulos

"...what took place in Seattle was a kind of explosion that lead to the
construction of a new global imaginary...It seemed to us [DeriveApprodi]
that this was the first time in the history of anti-systemic movements
that a movement had emerged that took the unification of the planet not
as an end but as a starting point." Sandro Mezzadra

"Worriers cannot care about their nation because they have not been and
are not being cared for properly by it." Ghassan Hage

Marko writes:

"Anarchism and Human Survival:
Bertrand Russell's Problem"



Bertrand Russell throughout his long career as a public intellectual and political activist had reason to reflect on the follies of humanity and the real threats to human survival, threats which are self induced. Much speculation and movie making is devoted toward such survival threatening events as asteroid strikes and mantle head plumes. What is totally ignored is the threat to human survival posed by our own institutions. We can notch another one for the propaganda model; it is to be expected that our pathological institutions would not dwell on their inherent pathology. We can expect nothing less of the corporate media.

jim submits:

"What Does the Felling of the Monument Mean?"

Jürgen Habermas

Let us not close our eyes before this revolution in world affairs: the
normative authority of America lies shattered

1 The whole world watched that scene on the 9th of April in Baghdad,
followed the American soldiers placing the noose around the neck of
the dictator, watched the tyrant being felled from his pedestal in a
most symbolic act, before a jubilant crowd. First the apparently
immutable monument wobbles, then it falls. Before it crashes
liberatingly to the ground, gravity has to overcome the grotesquely
unnatural horizontal position in which the massive figure, gently
see-sawing up and down, is poised for one last disturbing second.

tomobedlam submits:
"George Sorel", a 1980 Pluto Press book by Larry Portis, is now
HERE on the Collective Action Notes web site(CAN Has very limited bandwidth so its

mirrored on EndPage

Influenced by Marx and Proudhon, Sorel was a early 20th century
theoretician of the French syndicalist movement and a critic of
orthodox Marxism."