Talk Nation Radio. Rage Against The Machine's recommended reading list. Ishmael.org. The Coming Insurrection « Support the Tarnac 10. Download the full book in French Download a printable booklet From whatever angle you approach it, the present offers no way out. This is not the least of its virtues. From those who seek hope above all, it tears away every firm ground. The sphere of political representation has come to a close. The flames of November 2005 still flicker in everyone’s minds. There will be no social solution to the present situation. As an attempted solution, the pressure to ensure that nothing happens, together with police surveillance of the territory, will only intensify.
The impasse of the present, everywhere in evidence, is everywhere denied. This book is signed in the name of an imaginary collective. First Circle “I AM WHAT I AM.” “I AM WHAT I AM.” Meanwhile, I manage. The injunction, everywhere, to “be someone” maintains the pathological state that makes this society necessary. “I AM WHAT I AM.” “WHAT AM I,” then? It’s dizzying to see Reebok’s “I AM WHAT I AM” enthroned atop a Shanghai skyscraper. Sniggle.net: The Culture Jammer’s Encyclopedia. The Fourth World War by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos / Autonomy: Chiapas - California / In Motion Magazine. The following text is an excerpt from a talk given by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos to the International Civil Commission of Human Rights Observation in La Realidad, Chiapas on November 20, 1999.
The outline for the talk was published in Letters 5.1 and 5.2 in November of the same year, with the titles "Chiapas: the War: 1, Between the Satellite and the Microscope, the Other's Gaze," and 2, "The Machinery of Ethnocide. " Any similarity to the conditions of the current war is purely coincidental. Published in Spanish in La Jornada, Tuesday, October 23, 2001. The Restructuring of War As we see it, there are several constants in the so-called world wars, in the First World War, in the Second, and in what we call the Third and Fourth. One of these constants is the conquest of territories and their reorganization. At the end of what we venture to call the "Third World War," and which others call the Cold War, a conquest of territories and a reorganization took place.
Anarchism and Political Theory: Contemporary Problems. Anarchism in America. Society of the Spectacle. Guy Debord 1967 Written: 1967;Translation: Black & Red, 1977;Transcription/HTML Markup: Greg Adargo. Chapter 1 “Separation Perfected” But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness. Feuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished.
Separation is the alpha and omega of the spectacle.