Exploring the politics of networks through and beyond social media Organized networks are an alternative to the social media logic of weak links and their secretive economy of data mining. They put an end to freestyle friends, seeking forms of […]
Organization after Social Media by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter
In diesem Jahr sind zwei Bücher über die Massenproteste von 2016 gegen das Arbeitsgesetz in Frankreich erschienen. Beide Bücher geben gute Einblicke in eine soziale Bewegung in Frankreich, die jederzeit seine Fortsetzung in dem Land finden könnte. Vor zwei Jahren
Angriff auf die kapitalistische Verwertung
The echoing of the mass-media critique of the Frankfurt School, albeit in more strident terms, can be clearly be heard here as can the extension of Meinhof’s own self-critique as a columnist for the radical press. What the RAF were
The ‘Baader Meinhof Complex’ and the June 2nd Movement
Riots are the Sphinx of the left. Every soi disant radical intellectual feels compelled, it seems, to answer the riddle they hear posed by the riots of the present, in Bahrain or Asturias, Chile or Britain: Why now? Why here?
History and the Sphinx: Of Riots and Uprisings
Interview with Kristin Ross by Yavor Tarinski for Babylonia Journal. You can find the interview in Greek here. Kristin Ross gave an interview for Babylonia journal, analyzing the meanings and significance of May ’68. She will be among the keynote speakers
May ’68: Beyond the Artificial Commemorations and Remembrances
Verändert die aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse! „Die Kugel Nummer Eins kam aus Springers Zeitungswald Ihr habt dem Mann die Groschen auch noch dafür bezahlt.“ Wolf Biermann, Drei Kugeln auf Rudi Dutschke Was 2017 Luther war ist jetzt Marx, es ist ein
Von der Alltagsarbeit einer Basisgewerkschaft Die FAU-Berlin feiert im April 2018 ein besonderes Jubiläum. 10 Jahre sind seit dem Neustart vergangen, der die Grundlage dafür bot, dass sie von einer Ideenorganisation zu einer Basisgewerkschaft mit knapp 500 Mitgliedern geworden ist.
”We must call into question the entire framework of expropriation in the widest sense of the term: the expropriation of once-possessed land, of culture, of relational capacity and of labor from the hands of the State and the capitalist, patriarchal
NO SELVES TO ABOLISH – AFROPESSIMISM, ANTI-POLITICS, & THE END OF THE WORLD
In the December of 1968, Maurice Blanchot issued a warning that was to be repeated in the years to come: “May, a revolution by idea, desire, and imagination, risks becoming a purely ideal and imaginary event if this revolution does
Au Revoir Aux Enfants… de Mai! (Abstract)
RECALLING THE RADICAL EVENT, REFRACTING UTOPIA, AND COMMONING MEMORY This essay is a meditation of the problems of passing on the memory of radical events to forthcoming generations and the problem of making memory common. As the first generation of
ARE YOUR CHILDREN OLD ENOUGH TO LEARN ABOUT MAY ’68?
[Note on the translators introduction: Crucial for our understanding of the particular fusion of political activity with knowledge production that comes out of Precarias a la Deriva is their novel use of the Situationist derive. As they note in ‘First
Strike Till Retirement (notes on Precarias a la Deriva’s ‘A Very Careful Strike’)
Sebastian Lotzer – Schanzenblues PDF hereDokument0 aus: Hrsg: Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Achim Szepanski, J.Paul Weiler Riot: Theorie und Praxis der kollektiven Aktion. Was war da los in Hamburg? Die vielfältigen Formen von Protest und Widerstand gegen den G20-Gipfel in Hamburg