Monthly Archives: April 2014
Land and Liberty
against the new city [foreclosures in the East Bay] 1. Debt, wage-labor, rent. These are the three scourges of the modern, fully capitalist world, the three faces of exploitation that confront the proletarian of today. Rent might be the … Continue reading
Limit Analysis and Its Limits
published in Sic 2, in response to “Under the Riot Gear” As a mode of inquiry into the conditions of present-day and historical struggles, much recent output from the so-called ‘communisation current’ might be described as a kind of limit analysis. … Continue reading
Plaza-Riot-Commune
We are the generation of the abandoned, the betrayed. Tossed up on the shores of the present by 150 years of failed insurrection, by the shipwreck of the workers’ movement, the failure of a hundred political projects. But it is … Continue reading
From Passive to Active Spectacle: Afterimages of the LA Riots
[written to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the LA riots, one of the most significant events in recent US history – r&d] ϕ LOS ANGELES, March 3, 1991 – On the shoulder of the freeway, police are beating a man. Because we … Continue reading