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Cuando hablamos de libertad y democracia no estamos diciendo que los derechos de los más ricos deben estar más protegidos que los derechos de las fuerzas populares (trabajadores, estudiantes, profesionales, feministas, homosexuales...).
Cuando hablamos de libertad y democracia no estamos diciendo que el liberalismo económico debe estar más protegido que la planificación económica y la democracia social...
Cuando hablamos de libertad y democracia no estamos diciendo que el beneficio de una minoría debe anteponerse a los intereses de la mayoría.

Il Golpe è avvenuto e non ce ne siamo accorti. Senza sparare un colpo, senza carri armati, senza distintivi, senza comunicati ufficiali. Una Giunta di impostori è salita al potere, ma non ha segni di riconoscimento visibili: né occhiali scuri, né divise, né mostrine. Il Governo dei Giusti, lo abbiamo chiamato.
Questo è post-berlusconismo, questa la Terza Repubblica. Questo il Governo di fascisti e progressisti, insieme.  Benedetto dalle banche, dalla Chiesa, dalla borghesia produttiva. Una massa informe unita dalla fiducia – ancora! – nel neo-liberismo, nel tutto-scorra-e-rimanga-uguale, nell’avidità nell’ignoranza delle plebi.

A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words but their tasks

(G.Battaille, in Athey, 1997, 'Visions of Excess', p. 31)

May 2007, Titnore, West Sussex. Let me begin with a reflection on a series of key terms, written whilst I was resting on a couch, suspended 30 feet off the ground, hoisted on a tree; attempting to analyse the functioning of a treesitting protest site through it’s vocabulary:

Since 3/11 and subsequent calamites, I have been thinking all the time about Japan, the archipelago in the Far East where I was born. Now it has been thirty years since I moved to NYC, but beginning from the 1990s, I began to reconnect myself with various veins of radical movements there. So I have many comrades and friends suffering and struggling there at the moment. I am communicating with a number of them every day by skype and e-mail. Along with a few other Japan-born activists in NYC, I cannot remove my attention from what is going-on there. We are destined to be closer to the situation than the majority of New Yorkers.

Afin de contribuer à la discussion actuelle sur l'entrelacement entre différents concepts de l'historiographie contemporaine, le travail de certains artistes contemporains et modernes (Courbet), et la théorie de l'art, je cherche d'abord à déterminer quel est le rapport entre le concept d'histoire, la production artistique et la production de la vie. En quoi la tension entre la vie, le temps et l'événement est productive et politique dans La vague de Courbet (1869) ? Si nous ne commençons pas à esquisser quelques traits au sujet de ce rapport, nous ne parviendrons pas à comprendre en quoi cette vague nous fait sens maintenant.