hydrarchist writes"

On Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

Antonio
Negri

Translated by Charles
T. Wolfe. An earlier version of this essay appeared in Chimeres 17 (Paris,
Fall 1992). It is printed in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Volume 18,
Number 2, 1995, in honor of the late Felix Guattari. Hacked from it is printed
form and publicized by korotonomedya in May 2002.

I

It is in Sein und Zeit
that Heidegger decrees the end of the Geisteswissenschaften and their
tradition (Enlightenment and Hegelianism), when, as he is commenting on the
Briefwechsel [exchange of letters] between Dilthey and Yorck von Wartenburg,
he pays homage to the latter for "his full understanding of the fundamental
character of history as virtuality [...] [which he] owes to his knowledge
of the character of being of human Dasein itself." Consequently, Heidegger
continues, "the interest of understanding historicality" is confronted
with the task of an elaboration of the "generic difference between the
ontic and the historical." But he must part ways with Yorck when the
latter, after having clearly established that difference, moves from virtuality
to mysticism.

Building Revolutionary Nuclei

By Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives (Great Lakes Region)

What is the best way to organize for revolution?  How do we start to take on the system of patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, and the state?  In what way will our efforts pre-figure the free society we are fighting for, defend autonomy and self-organization from authoritarian repression and new elites?

Nuclei is a fancy word that means seeds, kernels, cells, "the head of the comet', "a central point, group, or mass about which gathering, concentration, or gradual build-up takes place".  Revolutionary Nuclei means a core group that is trying to learn, expand, develop, prepare opportunities in which we can help bring the struggle for total freedom and equality to higher and deeper levels; ultimately an uprising or "insurrection" that joins into an international anti-authoritarian Social Revolution.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Leftist Globalization, Freedom, and Differences from the Right

Marx, alienation,
and what a future Communism would look like, written in contrast to pre-capitalist
communalism.

Globalization and anti-globalization moves to the local have been the
focus of lefty debate for years now: we've had Seattle, the IMF/World Bank
protests, and more attention thrown on the issues than ever before. Looking
at some of the fundamental concepts behind a move to the local, then, would
be a good way to flesh out what people mean when they talk about alternatives
to globalization. So here we go.

Click here: Mouffe and Laclau

Dr Woooo submits the following review by Rob los Ricos of Hardt and Negri's "Empire."

Rob los Ricos is a J18 anarchist political prisoner. Info on Rob Los Ricos can be found at: http://www.infoshop.org/rob.html or

http://eugene.indymedia.org/features/prisoners/

Empire by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt (Harvard University Press,
Cambridge, MA, 2000) 478 pp. $18.95 paper.

In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in 1988,
Bush the Elder proclaimed that we had entered into a New World Order. I was alarmed to hear someone drunk with power-and who knows what else-crowing over the seemingly unlimited authority the ruling powers had achieved. The media tried to pretend it never happened, but the concerns of many, many people-who, like myself, were stunned into disbelief by Bush I's proclamation of power forced conservative political pundits to eventually address the President's megalomaniacal statement. Mostly, they stressed the "fact" that the NWO had been in existence for quite a while and was nothing new after all. Most lefty-liberals fell in line with the conservatives and even tried to outdo them by claiming that the NWO was just more of the same old capitalist imperialism. This isn't so. In Hardt and Negri's book, Empire they describe how the emergence of the NWO/Empire represents a new epoch in human evolution, an event so profound as to put an end to history, not by negating it, but by bringing historical processes to their conclusion. This (Empire) is it: the ultimate fulfillment of human endeavor.

To the authors, this is not necessarily a bad turn of events. To me,
however, Empire represents the triumph of the darkest aspects of human
capability and must be resisted with every bit of energy by everyone who
treasures life.

In the aftermath of September 11th, certain sectors of the US left buckled under ruling class pressure and turned against Noam Chomsky. His uncompromising anti-imperialism might have been acceptable during the 1980s when the Sandinistas were under Washington's gun, but in today's repressive atmosphere no quarter is given to the dissident intellectual. Of course, no quarter is asked from Chomsky, who remains fearless and principled as ever.

Anonymous Comrade writes

"The Sad Story of Shamus Kelly

“When I turn 29, I’m gonna put a bullet through my head.”

And that’s how I meet Shamus Kelly.

I stroll into Klapper’s Pub with my buddy Sam Brown and we sit down at the back corner table next to Karl Gruber the German and Michelle his girl (should be my girl). Klapper’s has become a second home for me since I moved to Boston and I know most of the people here. Walter from Jersey is here and so is my fellow writer friend Pete Mora the converted Muslim poet and beautiful French-Canuck Susan Blanc who I haven’t seen in a few weeks—she had mono—and we sit and talk and order pitchers of on-draft Kronenberg. Klapper’s has everything on draft, over 112 drafts, and what they don’t have on draft they have in bottles, perhaps the greatest selection of beer in the world. The choice of music when I walk in is Violent Femme’s “Add It Up”, a great song, and I get to hear that disturbingly beautiful piercing voice of Gordon Gano, the direct descendent of Lou Reed, I dig it. I dig all the music they play and why I’m using the phrase “dig” I don’t know but I like it, I dig the sound of it, it’s from before my time but from a great time (the 1950s). I was born too late like ol’ Miniver Cheevy and perhaps I use their language to keep them alive in desolation with me, but I do dig it all, the loud yet melodic noise of the California hardcore scene of the 80s, Bad Religion and the Dead Kennedys and Circle Jerks, and the pure raw sound of Charles Thompson aka. Black Francis aka. Frank Black, leader of the Pixies, timeless cool music that you feel flowing through your balls—I dig it all.

from hydrarchist:

"Panic, War and Semio-Kapital"

Franco Berardi (Bifo)

Globalisation stands reframed in the dark light of the global war. This means we need
to reconceptualise the change that is taking place in the social, economic and anthropological
form of globalisation. During the past two centuries, global control was the
general techno-utopia of capitalist society and modern culture. Now, the time of global control
is over. We are completely out of this framework today. The new governing framework
of capitalism is global panic. If we want to understand what panic means we have to talk
about the ‘attention economy’ and about ‘digital labour’. This is where the source of contemporary
panic is, in the organisation of time in the digital sphere, in the relationship
between cyberspace and cybertime.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

You may find our pamphlet "Bordiga versus Pannekoek"
interesting:

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3909/bo rdiga/bvptoc.html

Incidently, its just been reviewed by the ICC who rather
predictably criticise it for 'modernism', 'anarchism' and
undermining the need for the Revolutionary Party.

jim writes:

"ANARCHA-FEMINISM * by Flick Ruby

For too long anarchist feminists have been labeled as the ladies
auxiliary of male bomb throwers. The misconception and manipulation of
both feminists
and anarchist principles and practice have resulted in the use of
sensationalist and ridiculing tactics by the state and its spokespeople.
This has not only
polarised the general populace from potentially liberation concepts but
has also polarised anarchist from feminists. In the past and more so
recently there
has been a uniting of these beliefs and Peggy Korneggers article;
'Anarchism; the Feminist Connection' goes so far as to say that the two
genres of
thought are inextricable tied although the connection has not been
consiously articulated by feminists very often. Kornegger agrues that
feminism
"emphasis on the small group as a basic organisational unit, on the
personal and political, on anti- authoritarianism and on spontanious
direct action was
essentially anarchism. I believe that this puts women in a unique
position of being the bearers of a subsurface anarchist consiousness
which if articulated
and concretised can take us further than any previous group toward the
achievement of total revolution.