lazosubverto writes:

"The Art of Flight: An Interview"

Yann Moulier-Boutang with Stany Grelet

Part One: Exodus

Grelet: Since the introduction of your work De l'esclavage au salariat in 1998,
you have presented your central idea that, in the history of capitalism, the control of
the flight of workers would be the power of the constitution of the salaried worker.

hydrarchist writes: "This essay, which first appeared in L'Autre journal, no. 1 (May
1990), is included in the forthcoming translation of Pourparlers
(Paris: Editions Minuit, 1990), to be published by Columbia
University Press. It previously appeared in October #59, Winter 1992, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3-7."

"Postscript on the Societies of Control"

Gilles Deleuze

1. Historical

Foucault located the "disciplinary societies" in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the
outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization of vast
spaces of enclosure. The individual never ceases passing from one
closed environment to another, each having its own laws: first the
family; then the school ("you are no longer in your family"); then
the barracks ("you are no longer at school"); then the factory;
from time to time the hospital; possibly the prison, the preeminent
instance of the enclosed environment. It's the prison that serves
as the analogical model: at the sight of some laborers, the heroine
of Rossellini's Europa '51 could exclaim, "I thought I was seeing
convicts."

"Oil and Iraqi War"

Ralph Nader


Despite well-known ties to Big Oil, Bush Administration officials have managed to keep a straight face as they insist that the drive to war against Iraq is motivated only by an effort to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and establish democracy. Tomorrow we'll see what evidence Secretary of State Powell presents to the United Nations. It is not credible that there would be such a strong push for war if there were no oil in Iraq. Oil is power and this is in significant measure a struggle over that power.

nolympics writes:

"Force and Consent"

Perry Anderson

http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25101.shtml

jim writes: from Rethinking Marxism Volume 13, Number 3/4 (Fall/Winter 2001)

Protocol, or, How Control Exists after Decentralization

Alex Galloway

So far there is no Marxist theory of the media.

-Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The basic question asked by Empire is this: How does control exist after decentralization?

In former times the answer was clear. In what Michel Foucault called the sovereign societies of the classical era, characterized by centralized power and sovereign fiat, control existed as an extension of the word and deed of the master, assisted by violence and other coercive factors. Later, the disciplinary societies of the modern era took hold, replacing violence with more bureaucratic forms of command and control. Gilles Deleuze has extended this periodization into the present day by suggesting that after the disciplinary societies come the societies of control. Hardt and Negri (2000) fundamentally agree with this periodization, calling it instead the move from the modern disciplinary societies to societies of imperial control.

jim writes ""Governor Ryan's Song"

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Gov. George Ryan, in the last passing days of his first and only
term, saved the best for last.

He sent shock waves across the nation when he issued four pardons to
men sitting on the Condemned Units of the state's prison system,
opening the doors of the dungeon for four men, one who sat in the
shadow of the gallows for nearly two decades. Speaking in a soft,
Midwestern accent, his words were as damning as the death sentences
that his orders negated: "The system is broken."

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Empire and the Multitude:

A Dialogue on the New Order of Globalisation (*)

Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo (Translation by Arianna Bove)

1. A Debate of Exceptional Scope

D.Z. I confess that for a long time I've resisted the calls, coming from many sides, to publicly debate Empire, the book that you and Hardt have published in the US two years ago that promoted, on both sides of the Atlantic, a debate of exceptional scope and intensity. What stopped me was a sense of impotence before such a complex, ambitious and ample work.

"The Ba'athists"

Tariq Ali

Given that different factions of the Ba'ath Party have ruled Syria and Iraq for almost half a century, a study of its origins is not a purely academic exercise.

hydrarchist writes:

In the autumn there was considerable discussion of two articles on the subject of sharing and its broader social consequences. This essay brings us back to similar themes in the context of a proposition for the construction of communities in relation to commons as an alternative to trite forms of political activity and representation. The essay is in two sections. All footnotes can be found at the end of the second installment.

"Commons, Communities and Movements:

Inside, Outside and Against Capital"

Olivier De Marcellus

Three proverbs:

One for all of us: "Leave your village, but never let it leave you!" (Afghanistan)

One for Mr. Bush and friends: "He who has no enclosures around his field, has no enemies." (Burundi)

And one for my generation: "Experience is the comb that Nature offers us as we grow bald." (Belgium)

John Holloway writes:

"Is the Zapatista Struggle Anti-Capitalist?"

John Holloway

The march of the zapatistas is the march of dignity. Not
was: is. And not just of the indigenous, but of all.