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TODAY #3

Written by , 27.01.2012
TODAY #3: a publication by Through Europe.

Featuring articles by Franco Berardi Bifo, Federico Campagna, Amador Fernandez Savater, Paolo Mossetti, Aaron Peters, Robert Prouse.
Cover: Anna Galkina.
 
In English, Italian, Spanish. Freely available here.

The politics of adventure - part 1

Written by Federico Campagna, 23.01.2012
It is surely not in vain that I myself am in need of thy words:
those of the future norms of strength,
those of the future norms of a valorous heart,
those of the future norms of fervor.
Nothing now, among all things, inspires my heart with valor.
Nothing now points me to the future norms of my existence.
 
Guarani prayer, as recorded and translated by Leon Cadogan (1966).
 
 
It
 
It I have often encountered a problem, when talking or writing about anti-work politics. While busy producing my proclamations against the dictatorship of Work’s ‘activity of repetition’, the strangulating theism on which it lies, the unforgivable sacrifice of one’s life which it imposes, and so on, I found that the alternative which I was able to offer did not match the narrative and environmental qualities offered by the ideology I was opposing.
 

Bio-image and General Intellect: can images transform bodies?

Written by Francesca Martinez Tagliavia, 20.01.2012

This text results from KAFCA (Knowledge Against Financial Capitalism) conference, which was held in Macba, Barcelona, 1-3 december, 2011.

In spring 2011, hundreds of migrants arriving from revolutionary Tunisia to Paris opened a harsh conflict within the metropolis, reclaiming the right to circulate freely, and the right to have rights. In November 2011, the Central Tunisian Bank decides to state explicitly its independency in the lawconcerning public powers. « If we do nothing, it simply becomes the death of revolution », a Tunisian Comrade says.

But beyond the catastrophe, the « Occupy » global movement - starting from revolutions in Maghreb and Mashrek, until Spanish acampadas, and all the occupations that are taking place all over the world - teaches us, that we experience a new temporality : the temporality of crisis and the temporality of global becoming. How do the « occupy-bodies » struggle against their financial captation, and transform singular micro-politics of resistance in a common power to act against it?How do they re-appropriate, through bodies and images, their wealth and potency and that produced, generated, created by bodies, from within, but against financial capitalism ?

¿Cómo se organiza un clima?

Written by Amador Fernandez-Savater, 17.01.2012
La pregunta rebota de aquí para allá: “¿dónde está el 15-M?” ¿Ha fallecido, tal y como dictaminan los medios de comunicación que sólo conceden existencia a lo que es espectacular y masivo, noticiable? ¿Se ha retirado a los cuarteles de invierno, esperando tiempos mejores (y temperaturas más altas) para reocupar su espacio natural: las calles y las plazas? ¿Se ha replegado a los barrios, fuera de la vista de los focos mediáticos y de la volátil “opinión pública”, pero construyendo al modo de las hormigas una base duradera para el cambio social?
 
A la comisión de Extensión Internacional de Sol, que tuvo un papel relevante en la preparación del 15-O, no le satisface ninguna de las respuestas, así que se ha declarado en huelga (!), invitando a detener la producción (los activistas también producen: activismo) para pensar a fondo lo que a su juicio es una crisis de la estructura organizativa del 15-M. En su declaración llaman la atención sobre tres problemas particularmente: la bajísima participación actual en asambleas y comisiones, la dispersión y división interna, y la burocratización de los comportamientos (automatismos, falta de imaginación).
 

Radical Atheism

Written by Federico Campagna, 11.01.2012
in loving memory of Pierre Clastres and Max Stirner
 
 
Few places in the world are more secular than the United Kingdom. The laughable origins of the Anglican church, mixed with the centuries-old hegemony of capitalist ethics seem to have finally killed the religious spirit of the people of Albion. Religion, in the UK, is a mark of underdevelopment usually reserved for impoverished ethnic minorities or for the inhabitants of rural areas.
 
As a migrant from Catholic Italy, when I first arrived in the UK I thought I couldn't have asked for more. Not only were the remnants of the church so liberal and progressive that even homosexuals were allowed to be priests, but also people did not feel the need to fight off the presence of the church by indulging in God-oriented swearing, as is the common habit in Italy. God seemed to have finally disappeared, both as an unrequested father figure and as the millenarian oppressor of all living creatures. Back then, I thought I had arrived in the promised land of ‘really existing atheism’. And yet, I couldn’t have been more mistaken.
 

The State of Connotation

Written by Robert Prouse, 09.01.2012
This text derives from a conversation with Federico Campagna
 
 
A common criticism of contemporary capitalism is that the financial industry has completely decoupled capital from the materiality of production. The crisis in Europe has achieved such epic proportions because the creation of wealth was no longer inextricably linked to the labour of workers in the eurozone but could be amplified by complex algorithms of a computerised speculation. However there has also been a twin decoupling that has taken place alongside the rise of financial industry from the 1980's; a race to the bottom of signification which has seen a wedge driven between signifier and signified. The rise within advertising of a pure aesthetic of connotation which has created a feedback loop that engulfs the entire cultural sphere.
 

Il bisonte e la locomotiva

Written by Franco Berardi Bifo, 07.01.2012

 Qualche giorno fa ho letto su un giornale questa dichiarazione di Nichi Vendola:

“IL PD ha dimostrato una grande generosità sostenendo Monti, ma in ogni caso noi non romperemo per questo con Bersani perché la cosa più importante è la prospettiva. Noi non siamo il governo, vogliamo chiudere il berlusconismo con una svolta a sinistra. Monti faccia la sua opera, nel tempo più breve possibile e poi la parola passi alla democrazia.”

Chissà se Nichi Vendola può rendersi conto della bestialità che gli è uscita di bocca. Qui provo ad aiutarlo nella riflessione.

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