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Reading our times with “NOW”: The invisible committee

Beginning by abandoning the old idea of revolution and reinventing it … Not as a new ideology but as a true praxis of an ethics of freedom to redefine the desirable and the undesirable and to create a new subjectivity that makes possible the impossible. Octavio Alberola, Revolución o colapso What follows is an exercise in the sharing of ideas, of visions.  The most recent essay by the invisible committee, NOW,… …

Theory

“To a Friend / Essay on Blanqui” by The Imaginary Party

The ingenuity of the Imaginary Party’s essay on Blanqui is that it goes way beyond merely contextualizing Blanqui; it even goes beyond trying to defend the indefensible Blanqui, the revolutionary who is unacceptable to everyone, especially self-proclaimed revolutionaries. “To a friend” (as the preface is also known) aims to be a modern Blanquist statement: an advancement of Blanqui’s own ideas and actions by people unafraid to be called “Blanquists.” Who… …

Theory

“Invisible Politics – An Introduction to Contemporary Communisation” by John Cunningham

In the wake of the organised left and the demise of working class self-identity, communisation offers a paradoxical means of superseding capitalism in the here and now whilst abandoning orthodox theories of revolution. John Cunningham reports from the picket line of the ‘human strike’. As we apprehend it, the process of instituting communism can only take the form of a collection of acts of communisation, of making common such-and-such space,… …

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