And it’s along the African highways, and nowhere else, that auto mechanics has been elevated to a form of popular art. All thanks to an RFID chip, a biometric passport, a DNA profile. Instead, one of the Tarnac Nine, Julien Coupat, was held for six months before being released without charge. The metropolis is not just this urban pile-up, this final collision between city and country.
It’s the psychic economy of the French as much as the political stability of the country that is at stake in the maintenance of the workerist fiction.
"We can but notice," eight members of the "Tarnac Nine" recently wrote for The Sorbonne criminologist Alain Bauer, the man who first brought the Tarnac group to the French government's attention by circulating copies of L'insurrection qui vient among the security forces in 2007, has argued that groups such as the Tarnac Nine herald the rebirth of a 1970s-style violent left. From flirtation to divorce, from cohabitation to stepfamilies, everyone feels the inanity of the sad family nucleus, but most seem to believe that it would be sadder still to renounce it. "The chapter is a revolutionary prescription, in four pieces of advice to the reader: First, "Communes should be formed, and their maintenance can and should be supported by various forms of Information and energy circulate via wire networks, fibers and channels, and these can be attacked.
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There still remain some fragments of the city and some traces of the country caught up in the metropolitan mesh.
It’s not for us to defend them, or to install ourselves in these temporary shelters or to preserve them as a privilege for those in the know.
Persevering in their nothingness, they ask for nothing more than to return to that state for good.
Of course, this imperialism of the relative finds a suitable enemy in every empty dogmatism, in whatever form of Marxist-Leninism, Salifism, or Neo-Nazism: anyone who, like Westerners, mistakes provocation for affirmation.
— but is on the contrary the condition for maximum freedom of action. Choices will have to be made.” This is how a virology expert sums up, in a September 7, 2005 article in All means to these ends are acceptable, even the least democratic, the least civilized, the most repressive. In the world of the economic, everything is in flight, just like in the USSR under Andropov. When things get serious, the army occupies the terrain. NASA, frustrated at having to shelve its idea of an anti-missile shield in the museum of cold war horrors, suggests installing a gigantic mirror beyond the moon’s orbit to protect us from the sun’s now-fatal rays.
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For years such threats have been a powerful lever for railway workers, truck drivers, and electrical and gas supply workers. Communes that aren’t afraid, beyond their specifically political activities, to organize themselves for the material and moral survival of each of their members and of all those around them who remain adrift.
If there is a French exception, this is why.
The mine in Carmaux, famous for a century of violent strikes, has now been reconverted into Cape Discovery. And if possible, a multiplicity of communes that will displace the institutions of society: family, school, union, sports club, etc. Please enter your email address below and we'll send you a link to reset your password.Please enter your email address below and we'll send you a link to reset your password.
New blazes responded to the original ones, appearing where they were least expected. The police are not invincible in the streets, they simply have the means to organize, train, and continually test new weapons. France is a product of its schools, and not the inverse. Guess why. Nobody respects money anymore, neither those who have it nor those who don’t. It’s because the city has finally disappeared that it has now become fetishized, as history. The world would not be moving so fast if it didn’t have to constantly outrun its own collapse. All communes have their black markets. It’s the art lover who wants us to be awestruck before the “modern genius” of a century of artists, from surrealism to Viennese actionism, all competing to see who could best spit in the face of civilization. And now it’s caught up to us, invading the airwaves like a hit song in summertime, because it’s 68 degrees in December. They certainly don’t have a hope of rivaling theirs in firepower, but can be used to hold them at a distance, redirect attention, exercise psychological pressure or force passage and gain ground by surprise. An insurrection is more about taking up arms and maintaining an “armed presence” than it is about armed struggle. As for strategy, we will remember that an obstacle that has been cleared away, leaving a liberated but uninhabited space, is easily replaced by another obstacle, one that offers more resistance and is harder to attack.
You have to admit: this whole “catastrophe,” which they so noisily inform us about, it doesn’t really touch us. The metropolis is this simultaneous death of city and country.
Who lives where they grew up? This book is signed in the name of an imaginary collective.
The rest of the time, “the democratic character of decision making” is only a problem for the fanatics of process. Every practice brings a territory into existence — a dealing territory, or a hunting territory; a territory of child’s play, of lovers, of a riot; a territory of farmers, ornithologists, or What, if not the need to fill up some totally idle time, to reconstitute their labor power or “health capital”? Nothing appears less likely than an insurrection, but nothing is more necessary. Just as the bourgeoisie had to deny itself
It’s a The June days of 1848 — 1,500 dead in combat, thousands of summary executions of prisoners, and the Assembly welcoming the surrender of the last barricade with cries of “Long Live the Republic!” — and the Bloody Week of 1871 are birthmarks no surgery can hide. It seeks to dissolve the question of needs.
We still need to find the means to permanently destroy computerized databases.