jason adams writes:

"The Constellation of Opposition"


Jason Adams

Introduction: The Constellation of N30

The protests that occurred around the world on November 30, 1999 (N30) were truly without precedent. They mark an important turning point in what had become increasingly fragmented struggles of new social movements constructed around various forms of antiauthoritarian politics, identity politics and ecological politics as well as traditional class struggle politics. In the cultural rebound against universalism after the 1960s, new social movements continuously sought to create autonomous space for the particularity of youth, queers, women and people of color as well as for the general ecology of the planet. While there have been enormous strides made since that time, the downside has been that in general, they have not succesfully articulated the intersectionalities of these various oppressions and resistances.

Please submit your own comments on the last year, remedy the gaping holes in the review of events, other signioficant deaths, favourite article, books etc. whatever, alcoholic existential ramblings....

"Instead of an Almanac..."

Hydrarchist

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Here's the stats: there were 845 stories and 545 comments. So the difficulty in being participatory, rather than modelled on a traditional broadcast model, is plain. The following panoramic view of the site's activity makes no claim to cover all of the salient events of the year; many things are missing, notably commentary on the US's financial scandals, news from the social and economic earthquakes of Uruguay and Brazil, and commentary that would do justice to the fight in Israel-Palestine, just to name a few. In fact, the value of this summary lies in the lacunae revealed. Nonetheless it reflects the interests of the site's administrators and users, mirrored in the subject matter of the popular stories posted, those which generated discussion (still all too few) and those that decisively more readers than the rest.

lazosubverto writes:

"The Art of Flight: An Interview"

Yann Moulier-Boutang with Stany Grelet

Part One: Exodus

Grelet: Since the introduction of your work De l'esclavage au salariat in 1998,
you have presented your central idea that, in the history of capitalism, the control of
the flight of workers would be the power of the constitution of the salaried worker.