through europe - students http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/49/0 en 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 Jóvenes ¡levantaos y tomad el mando! http://th-rough.eu/writers/fisac-seco-spa/j%C3%B3venes-%C2%A1levantaos-y-tomad-el-mando <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> La clase pol&iacute;tica, la izquierda, parece haber alcanzado, terminada la larga marcha durante la cual se cre&oacute; la ilusi&oacute;n del Estado de bienestar, su meta, su para&iacute;so, su tierra prometida: la integraci&oacute;n en el Estado capitalista, El Estado hegeliano u orwelliano, siempre el Estado, como meta final al que las izquierdas, como el hijo pr&oacute;digo, vuelve de rodillas en actitud de adoraci&oacute;n. El Estado, representaci&oacute;n del patriarcado freudiano, al que, atrapada en un sentimiento de culpa por haber sido, en otros tiempos, revolucionaria, vuelven las izquierdas renunciando a la revoluci&oacute;n. En este panorama estepario se encuentran atrapadas las contradicciones, anta&ntilde;o dial&eacute;cticas y por tanto antag&oacute;nicas, de las clases sociales.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/fisac-seco-spa/j%C3%B3venes-%C2%A1levantaos-y-tomad-el-mando" target="_blank">read more</a></p> fisac-seco-spa art-world european movement Spain students Spanish Mon, 23 May 2011 21:35:55 +0000 Javier Fisac Seco 178 at http://th-rough.eu Street-Fightin' Press? - Dal "Trojan Journalism" al disprezzo di classe http://th-rough.eu/writers/mossetti-ita/street-fightin-press-dal-trojan-journalism-al-disprezzo-di-classe <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> Qualche settimana fa, nella sezione &ldquo;culturale&rdquo; dell&rsquo;<em>Evening Standard,</em> pubblicarono una foto: erano ritratti otto ragazzi, sui venti anni, seduti su una scalinata di un palazzo medievale. Erano vestiti, da buoni londinesi &ldquo;intellettuali&rdquo;, in uno stile fintamente casual-sciatto; erano tutti sorridenti; due di loro maneggiavano un cellulare; una giovinetta aveva un pc sulle ginocchia: &laquo;Stiamo parlando di tecnologia&raquo;, sembrava dire. Chi erano costoro? Erano loro quelli che lo <em>Standard</em> chiamava, con un bel titolone, <em>Clicktivists</em>, attivisti del &ldquo;click&rdquo;. Ecco i volti nuovi della protesta di questi mesi: coloro che usano i social network come Facebook o Twitter per organizzare manifestazioni, coordinarsi, promuovere scioperi. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/mar/16/highereducation.news">[1]</a></p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/mossetti-ita/street-fightin-press-dal-trojan-journalism-al-disprezzo-di-classe" target="_blank">read more</a></p> mossetti-ita activism class journalism london students Italian Tue, 17 May 2011 22:18:44 +0000 Paolo Mossetti 177 at http://th-rough.eu Teaching Insurrection: Franco Berardi Bifo @ Brera Academy, Milan http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/teaching-insurrection-franco-berardi-bifo-brera-academy-milan <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtecenter"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="281" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21160879" width="500"></iframe></p> <p class="rtejustify"> I would like to talk about something that everybody knows, but that, so it seems, no one has the boldness to say. That is, that the time for indignation is over. Those who get indignant are already starting to bore us. Increasingly, they seem to us like the last guardians of a rotten system, a system without dignity, sustainability or credibility. We don&#39;t have to get indignant anymore, we have to revolt.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/teaching-insurrection-franco-berardi-bifo-brera-academy-milan" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-eng education insurrection Italy lecture milan protest students English Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:31:22 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 151 at http://th-rough.eu A scuola di rivolta - Franco Berardi Bifo all'Accademia di Brera, Milano http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/scuola-di-rivolta-franco-berardi-bifo-allaccademia-di-brera-milano <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtecenter"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="281" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21090563" width="500"></iframe></p> <p class="rtejustify"> Vorrei parlare di una cosa che tutti sappiamo ma che nessuno sembra avere la spudoratezza di dire: e cio&egrave; che il tempo dell&#39;indignazione &egrave; passato e chi si indigna gi&agrave; comincia ad annoiarci, comincia a parerci ogni giorno di pi&ugrave; l&rsquo;ultimo difensore di un sistema marcio, di un sistema privo di dignit&agrave;, privo di sostenibilit&agrave;, privo di credibilit&agrave;. Noi non ci dobbiamo pi&ugrave; indignare, noi dobbiamo insorgere.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/scuola-di-rivolta-franco-berardi-bifo-allaccademia-di-brera-milano" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-ita education insurrection Italy lecture milan protest students Italian Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:46:17 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 150 at http://th-rough.eu Dangerous alliances: class and the student movement http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/dangerous-alliances-class-and-student-movement <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> Recently, I have been asked several times by Italian friends and comrades to talk about the British student movement. I must confess that their questions always made me feel slightly embarrassed.<br /> At first, I tried to forget about this uncomfortable feeling, talking about the rise of a new civic participation, which had been lacking in this country since the 1980s, with the brief exception of the anti-war movement of 2003. Then, in my heart of hearts, I tried to offer to my embarrassment the acknowledgment that in the UK, at the moment, there is not a &lsquo;movement&rsquo; as such, rather a constellation of small groups and organizations.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/dangerous-alliances-class-and-student-movement" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-eng class european movement proletariat protest struggle students UK English Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:47:31 +0000 Federico Campagna 135 at http://th-rough.eu L'intelligenza ribelle della vita http://th-rough.eu/writers/coin-ita/lintelligenza-ribelle-della-vita <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> &ldquo;C&#39;&eacute;st une r&eacute;volte!&rdquo; &ldquo;Non, Sire, c&#39;est une r&eacute;volution&rdquo;, rispose il duca de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt a Luigi XVI la notte del 14 luglio 1789, dopo la caduta della Bastiglia e la defezione delle truppe reali davanti all&#39;insurrezione popolare. Si affermava in quel momento &ldquo;la grandezza dell&#39;uomo di fronte alla piccolezza dei grandi&rdquo;, come disse Robespierre, ed arrivava al culmine il pathos che per decenni aveva acceso gli animi di fronte alla possibilit&agrave; di liberazione del genere umano dalle carceri del buio medievale.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/coin-ita/lintelligenza-ribelle-della-vita" target="_blank">read more</a></p> coin-ita biopolitics european movement students urge Italian Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:35:44 +0000 Francesca Coin 132 at http://th-rough.eu From Tute Bianche to the Book Bloc: the Italian movement and the coming European insurrection http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/tute-bianche-book-bloc-italian-movement-and-coming-european-insurrection <span class='print-link'></span><p> <em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6pm,&nbsp; 23rd February 2011 @ Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute, London<br /> </em></p> <p class="rtecenter"> The transcript of the speech is avaible now in <a href="http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/tute-bianche-book-bloc-english-transcript">[english]</a> and in <a href="http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/tute-bianche-book-bloc-italian-transcript">[italian]</a></p> <p class="rtecenter"> <img alt="" rel="lightbox" src="http://th-rough.eu/images/we-will-kiss.png" /></p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/tute-bianche-book-bloc-italian-movement-and-coming-european-insurrection" target="_blank">read more</a></p> side projects autonomia european movement Italy struggle students urge Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:15:50 +0000 administrator 126 at http://th-rough.eu Who is the Black Bloc? Where is the Black Bloc? http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/who-black-bloc-where-black-bloc <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> This question, appearing on most newspapers after every riot, such as the one in Rome on December 14, deserves an answer. Do you want to see what our faces look like, when they are not hidden by scarves, helmets and balaclavas?</p> <p class="rtejustify"> They are the same faces that pay the rent for your scruffy flats, the faces to whom you offer unpaid internships or full time employment for &pound;800 a month. They are the faces that pay thousands of pounds to attend your lectures. They are the faces of the kids that you slap when you catch them with some weed in their pocket. They are the faces that have to run out of the bus when the inspectors appear, as they couldn&rsquo;t afford to travel otherwise.</p> <p></p><p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/who-black-bloc-where-black-bloc" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-eng black bloc european movement Italy struggle students urge English Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:28:09 +0000 Federico Campagna 87 at http://th-rough.eu Visti da Londra - Se l'Italian style diventa un metodo di lotta http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-ita/visti-da-londra-se-litalian-style-diventa-un-metodo-di-lotta <span class='print-link'></span><p>L&rsquo;Italia vista da Londra sta cambiando colore. Niente pi&ugrave; spiagge dorate, piatti di pasta fumanti e donne generosamente svestite. Gli occhi delle nuove generazioni inglesi vedono il fumo delle camionette bruciate alzarsi sulla penisola e di colpo sembrano accorgersi di quanto fosse rimasto finora nascosto dalla luce accecante del sole del mediterraneo.</p> <p> Sono soprattutto gli studenti, in marcia per le strade di Londra o asserragliati in dozzine di universita&rsquo; occupate, che oggi rivolgono lo sguardo verso l&rsquo;Italia in cerca di un&rsquo;ispirazione che non sia pi&ugrave; quella stantia dei classici.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-ita/visti-da-londra-se-litalian-style-diventa-un-metodo-di-lotta" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-ita european movement Italy struggle students urge Italian Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:58:13 +0000 Federico Campagna 86 at http://th-rough.eu