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Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem Hans Ulrich Obrist

Translated from the French by Eric Anglès

HUO: In his book Utopistics, Immanuel Wallerstein claims that our world system is undergoing a structural crisis. He predicts it will take another twenty to fifty years for a more democratic and egalitarian system to replace it. He believes that the future belongs to “demarketized,” free-of-charge institutions (on the model, say, of public libraries). So we must oppose the marketization of water and air.1 What is your view?

An Order to Bring Down "Tarnac 9" Support Committees

Collective Statement of the Delegates from Nearly 30 "Tarnac 9" Support Committees Who Met in Limoges, Belgium, in March 2009

It is a failure. We haven't feared "anarcho-autonomous" terrorists weaving international networks. This invasion -- so brutal and crude -- by the political police has pushed us to put our bitterness into words, to leave our isolation.

Situationist Inheritors: Julien Coupat, Tiqqun and The Coming Insurrection Patrick Marcolini

In twenty-nine issues and more than 1,500 published pages, Le Tigre has succeeded in never making a close study of the work of Guy Debord. Not without reason, the invocation of the situationist movement having become a banality in the media. In the preceding issue of Le Tigre, devoted in part to the texts of Julien Coupat and those close to him, there wasn't a precise analysis of the filiation between them and the situationists. Here's one.

Second-wave Situationism? Gavin Grindon,

"Ward Churchill Redux" Stanley Fish, New York Times

"Resisting Degradations and Divisions" in South Africa S’bu Zikode interviewed by Richard Pithouse

S’bu Zikode is the elected president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical and radically democratic shackdwellers’ movement in South Africa that has committed itself to waging its struggles independently from party-political and NGO control.[1]

Richard Pithouse: What is your understanding of a living politics?

"The Transborder Immigrant Tool, Violence, Solidarity and Hope" Electronic Disturbance Theater

Border Context, Walking, Deaths

Consider the incommensurability of the following two re/presentations of walking: The first from Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Walking” (1862), while pleasant enough to contemplate, hardwires an ironic Orientalism into its infrastructural mandates:

"On Failure and its Possible Remedies" Wayne Spencer

In June 2007, when my text 'On Lice and Fleas' first appeared, one of the members of the partnership that writes under the pseudonym Monsieur Dupont asked me what I would do in the event of defeat. It would seem too soon to talk of defeat, but perhaps it is time to acknowledge and confront some measure of failure.

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