through europe - capitalism http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/30/0 en Fragments on the zombie myth: the mortification of general intellect and the half-life of the cognitariat http://th-rough.eu/writers/locke-eng/fragments-zombie-myth-mortification-general-intellect-and-half-life-cognitariat <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtejustify"> <em>The only modern myth is the myth of zombies&mdash;mortified schizos, good for work, brought back to reason.<br /> </em></div> <div class="rtejustify"> - Gilles Deleuze &amp; F&eacute;lix Guattari </div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> The zombie is the point at which power&rsquo;s domination, the domination of the state and of capital in all its shades - subjective, existential, epistemological, even ontological - has entered so completely into our communities that the unquestioning automaton is the most recurrent and common form-of-life to be encountered. It is the point at which subjectivity has been so deeply infested by the love of power, the micro-facism that is diffused across the global bio-political mass, that life only appears as a half-death, an existence the potential forms of which are predetermined, prelimited, constrained. The images of loved ones appear, but terrify; intimacy gives way to disgust, and those who break free of their cages of isolation, who demand to reclaim life from its half-death, are confronted by the utter terror that surrounds them.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/locke-eng/fragments-zombie-myth-mortification-general-intellect-and-half-life-cognitariat" target="_blank">read more</a></p> locke-eng capitalism cognitariat exploitation zombie English Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:55:55 +0000 Toby Austin Locke 350 at http://th-rough.eu Per Una Società Senza Capitalismo, Per Una Democrazia Senza Parlamento http://th-rough.eu/writers/dursi-ita/una-societ%C3%A0-senza-capitalismo-una-democrazia-senza-parlamento <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtejustify"> La prima idea da dimenticare, quando si comincia ad occuparsi della &ldquo;trasformazione sociale&rdquo; ed a viverla quotidianamente, &egrave; che la &ldquo;politica&rdquo; possa essere un quieto mestiere con cui si costruiscono perfetti edifici di parole. Le passioni che animano l&#39;attivit&agrave; trasformatrice della presente realt&agrave; sociale non sono alimentate dalla &ldquo;necessit&agrave; di pensiero&rdquo;; semmai, alcune fantasie e visioni corroborano, come &ldquo;gioco di pensiero&rdquo;, il concreto percorso antagonistico-duale di fuoriuscita dall&#39;atrocit&agrave; d&#39;una condizione materiale che codetermina forme individuali di vita da negare e formazioni economico-sociali da mutare radicalmente ed irreversibilmente.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/dursi-ita/una-societ%C3%A0-senza-capitalismo-una-democrazia-senza-parlamento" target="_blank">read more</a></p> dursi-ita capitalism democracy Lenin struggle Italian Tue, 06 Aug 2013 16:56:49 +0000 Giovanni Dursi 340 at http://th-rough.eu Esorcismi satanici all’apparir del vero http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/esorcismi-satanici-all%E2%80%99apparir-del-vero <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtejustify"> Non sono un accanito tifoso di Nanni Moretti, non tutti i suoi film mi piacciono e lui mi &egrave; abbastanza antipatico. Ma alcune delle sue prove (<em>Bianca</em> forse pi&ugrave; di ogni altra) denunciano il genio. E quando vidi <em>Habemus papam</em> mi inginocchiai davanti alla grandezza di questo regista.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Sullo sfondo della splendore barocco della Chiesa di Roma, incarnazione terrena di una potenza ultraterrena, quel film parla della depressione contemporanea: il mondo che gli uomini hanno costruito &egrave;&nbsp; uscito dall&rsquo;orbita dell&rsquo;umano per entrare nell&rsquo;orbita di una divinit&agrave; tecnica che l&rsquo;uomo ha creato e di cui ha perduto il controllo. Troppo complesso, troppo veloce, il mondo che la potenza tecnica ha sottratto alla volont&agrave; divina. Troppo crudele per poter essere elaborato secondo le categorie di cui l&rsquo;umano dispone. E il divino &egrave; null&rsquo;altro che la proiezione fragile di un&rsquo;illusione umana, e a nulla serve dio, quando siamo finalmente capaci di comprendere l&rsquo;ultima verit&agrave;: che non vi &egrave; alcuna verit&agrave; nella nostra storia, non vi &egrave; alcuna speranza, solo vi &egrave; il piacere dei sensi e della poesia, e la gioia della costruzione collettiva, che &egrave; illusione collettiva, costruzione di un ponte di sensi sull&rsquo;abisso del non essere del senso. <em>Caminante no hay camino, el camino se hace al andar</em>.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Ma quanta energia occorre per camminare quando sappiamo che non vi &egrave; alcun percorso e alcun punto di arrivo, quanta energia occorre perch&eacute; quel ponte possa sorreggere il nostro cammino, quanta energia occorre perch&eacute; l&rsquo;illusione possa produrre edifici eventi scoperte. Quell&rsquo;energia si esaurisce quando l&rsquo;entropia si impadronisce del cervello.</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/esorcismi-satanici-all%E2%80%99apparir-del-vero" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-ita aging capitalism depression Faust Moretti Pope Ratzinger refusal Italian Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:50:44 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 314 at http://th-rough.eu A Reading List for #Occupy - Part II http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/reading-list-occupy-part-ii <span class='print-link'></span><p style="padding:0 0 0 18px; color:#AAA"> Edited by Paolo Mossetti</p> <p> <em>After the Occupy Wall Street &quot;People&#39;s Library&quot; was brutally dismantled by the police, last November, I asked</em><em>&nbsp;some of my favourite writers, activists, and academics to help me compile a list of books that would recreate, though only virtually, the library&#39;s shelves.&nbsp;<br /> <i>This is the second part of the answers I collected.&nbsp;</i></em></p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/reading-list-occupy-part-ii" target="_blank">read more</a></p> side projects capitalism critchley library nina power occupy wall street ows police struggle students Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:39:03 +0000 Paolo Mossetti 270 at http://th-rough.eu A Reading List for #Occupy - Part I http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/reading-list-occupy-part-i <span class='print-link'></span><p style="padding:0 0 0 18px; color:#AAA"> Edited by Paolo Mossetti</p> <p class="rtecenter"> <img alt="" rel="lightbox" src="/sites/default/files2/occupy_logo.png" style="width: 660px; height: 349px; " /></p> <p class="rteright"> <span style="font-size:10px;">Cover by <a href="http://www.cyopekaf.org/">Kaf &amp; Cyop</a>. Image courtesy of the artist</span></p> <p> </p> <p class="rtejustify"> <em>While the Occupy Wall Street &quot;People&#39;s Library&quot; was being brutally dismantled by the police, last November, I asked some officers why they were seizing those books and throwing them into trash cans.</em></p> <p class="rtejustify"> <em>Only one of them replied by saying, simply, &quot;I don&#39;t know.&quot;<br /> Then I decided to ask some of my favourite writers, activists, and academics to help me compile a list of books that would recreate, though only virtually, the OWS library.</em></p> <p></p><p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/reading-list-occupy-part-i" target="_blank">read more</a></p> side projects anarchism books capitalism crisis library New York occupy ows reading list struggle wall street English Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:38:05 +0000 Paolo Mossetti 266 at http://th-rough.eu To Do and Do Not http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/do-and-do-not <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtejustify"> <strong>Stuff</strong></div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> The supposed invasion of the <em>being</em> by the <em>having</em> has been a recurrent theme throughout the history of Western civilization. Long before the advent of capitalism, one&rsquo;s material possessions and social status in the community were already deeply intertwined. It was not by accident that the mention of a king in the pages of the Iliad was often followed by the endless list of his possessions, as if the number of sheep and pigs one possessed helped in some way to express the personality of the individual.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> As time went by, the crass simplicity of the lists of the Iliad, turned into a more sophisticated catalogue of belongings. As already noted by Suetonius, first, and by Sallust later, at the time of the Roman empire fashion had already entered the equation of material wealth and social subjectivity. Above a certain threshold of wealth, It wasn&rsquo;t just the sheer amount of <em>stuff</em> that one owned that was used to define his (rarely her) social status, but it was <em>what</em> he owned. His possessions did not simply have to be opulent and abundant &ndash; they also had to be filtered by the whims of fashion.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> This trend proved unstoppable even during the so-called dark ages, and when private wealth could not keep pace with a minimum level of sophistication, the Church stepped in by prodigally investing in the assertion of its hegemony over fashion. If, out of laziness, we did not want to look back to those remote times for proof, we would simply have to look at the obsession for fashionable opulence of the current Pope, Benedictus XVI, rightly considered by many as the reincarnation of a medieval Pope in present times.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/do-and-do-not" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-eng action anarchism anti-work capitalism depression psychopathology taoism victory work English Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:35:42 +0000 Federico Campagna 263 at http://th-rough.eu La Leggenda del Santo Imprenditore http://th-rough.eu/writers/mossetti-ita/la-leggenda-del-santo-imprenditore <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> &ldquo;Vive! Vive! Vive!&rdquo;, sembrano ripetere, come una pietosa bugia, quegli <em>hashtag </em>che accompagnano il feretro virtuale di Steve Jobs per le cyber-piazze del pianeta. Chi non e&rsquo; pratico di Twitter non puo&rsquo; sapere che quegli <em>#iSad</em> e <em>#Thankyousteve </em>non sono altro che &ldquo;chiavi di ricerca&rdquo; per inseguire il morto, per accodarsi alla sua infinita veglia funebre, la&#39; dove il corpo del Martire e&rsquo; portato di mano in mano, ridotto in milioni di pixel, <em>re-tweettato </em>di polpastrello in polpastrello. Al suo passaggio, tutti vorrebbero allungare un dito per sfiorarlo, tutti hanno qualcosa da gridare: un &ldquo;grazie&rdquo;, un &ldquo;ci mancherai&rdquo;. E cosi&rsquo; la salma digitale del <em>Mahatma</em>&ndash; &ldquo;grande anima&rdquo; &ndash; viene trascinata dalla folla oceanica e solitaria, per l&rsquo;ultimo saluto, prima che il fuoco della pira lo consumi.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/mossetti-ita/la-leggenda-del-santo-imprenditore" target="_blank">read more</a></p> mossetti-ita capitalism psychopathology social networks Steve Jobs Italian Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:39:48 +0000 Paolo Mossetti 214 at http://th-rough.eu Dlaczego Wielka Brytania natychmiast potrzebuje Brygad Międzynarodowych http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-pol/dlaczego-wielka-brytania-natychmiast-potrzebuje-brygad-mi%C4%99dzynarodowych <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> <em>&nbsp; &ndash; Bardziej niż wyb&oacute;r walk, wyzwaniem jest czasem wybieranie p&oacute;l walki &ndash;</em></p> <p class="rtejustify"> W całej Europie młodzież, pracownicy, bezrobotni, emeryci, migranci i rodziny mierzą się z jednakowo posępnym zestawem środk&oacute;w zaciskania pasa, kapitalistyczną reakcją oraz brutalnością policji. Nie spos&oacute;b nie przywołać tutaj ulubionego powiedzenia brytyjskiego premiera: w tym historycznym momencie europejskie klasy niższe i średnie rzeczywiście &bdquo;są w tym wszystkim razem&rdquo;.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-pol/dlaczego-wielka-brytania-natychmiast-potrzebuje-brygad-mi%C4%99dzynarodowych" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-pol anarchism capitalism crisis protest struggle UK urge Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:25:13 +0000 Federico Campagna 200 at http://th-rough.eu Why the UK needs International Brigades, now. http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/why-uk-needs-international-brigades-now <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> <em>- More than battles, sometimes the challenge is to pick battle-fields -</em></p> <p class="rtejustify"> All across Europe, youth, workers, the unemployed, retirees, migrants and families are today facing the same bleak army of austerity measures, capitalist backlash and police brutality. Like the British Prime Minister loves to say, in this historical moment the European lower and middle classes truly are &lsquo;all in this together&rsquo;.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/why-uk-needs-international-brigades-now" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-eng anarchism capitalism crisis protest struggle UK urge English Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:13:01 +0000 Federico Campagna 199 at http://th-rough.eu Un decalogo per pensare ed agire collettivamente, nel presente http://th-rough.eu/writers/dursi-ita/un-decalogo-pensare-ed-agire-collettivamente-nel-presente <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> Un decalogo per pensare il presente ed agire collettivamente in esso. Con la &ldquo;lentezza&rdquo; necessaria. La lentezza &egrave; consapevolezza e attenzione al &lsquo;<strong>qui e ora</strong>&rsquo;. A volte, pare indispensabile una &lsquo;<em>snap decision</em>&rsquo;, cio&egrave; decidere rapidamente, esercitare una capacit&agrave; &ndash; la velocit&agrave; - che va conservata a patto che ci sia una lucidit&agrave; e una consapevolezza alla base, ma soprattutto una &#39;libert&agrave; di pensiero e d&#39;azione&#39;, in verit&agrave;, negletta socialmente.<br /> Gli antichi greci la chiamavano <strong>kair&ograve;s</strong>, il <strong>momento opportuno</strong>.</p> <p></p><p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/dursi-ita/un-decalogo-pensare-ed-agire-collettivamente-nel-presente" target="_blank">read more</a></p> dursi-ita biopolitics capitalism philosophy politics theory urge Italian Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:43:34 +0000 Giovanni Dursi 191 at http://th-rough.eu