http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:15:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a very scary article about the Israeli army’s use of 1000 Plateaus to re-make their army into a war machine which can more successfully combat the Palestinians (and now Lebanese). Maybe it’s time to rethink the revolutionary potential of theory as such?  http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060801170800738  http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com/2006/08/07/deleuze-used-by-the-war-machine/ No offence to anyone, but I knew there was a reason I didn’t like these guys.  Their plans for radical overhaul of the city sound a lot like extreme right wing versions of the same thing - I for one prefer a Berlin with "Karl-Marx-Straße" to one without. And can someone ... http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com/2006/05/25/18/ The Lettrists attending the September 26 meeting jointly put forward the following proposals for solutions to the town planning problems that happened to come up during debate. It is worth noting that no constructive action was decided, since all those present agreed that the most urgent task is to lay ... http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com/2006/05/23/project-for-rational-improvements-to-the-city-of-paris/ "We broke down the doors. The master’s room was wide open. The master’s room was brilliantly lighted, and the master was there, quite calm…and we stopped…He was the master…I entered. ‘It is you,’ he said to me, quite calmly…It was I. It was indeed I, I told him, the good ... http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com/2006/05/22/cockroaches/ In a recent interview, Paolo Virno says: "Whoever mistrusts the movement’s ethical attack, rebuking it for disregarding the class struggle against exploitation, is wrong. But for symmetrical reasons, they are also wrong who, pleased by this ethical attack, believe that the latter might put aside categories such as ‘exploitation’ and ... http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com/2006/05/19/8/ JC made the recommendation that we look for example of communism’s being-in-extension.  In response, I thought I’d link to some recent comments I posted elsewhere, regarding immigration and Mayday.  As a more literary addendum to that post, some excerpts, below, from Bob Kaufman’s "FRAGMENT FROM PUBLIC SECRET" (the caps are ... http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com/2006/05/17/addendum-to-may-1/ From one of my favorite passages from H&N’s corpus, found late in _Labor of Dionysus_: ” ‘Real Socialism’–that is, the socialism that actually existed in the Soviet Union and other coutries in Eastern Europe–did not constitute a form of government substantially different than the form invented by capitalism in the course ... http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com/2006/05/15/hn-on-real-socialism/ On DB’s post re: difficulties, I want to say right out that I really like the move here: lacks become difficulties, and are given–even if they are lent–a certain kind of positive, practical existence. I could not agree more, though perhaps more importantly, I think that it is precisely via ... http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com/2006/05/15/re-difficulty-2/ "Writing…presupposes a radical change of epoch - death itself, interruption - or, to speak hyperbolically, ‘the end of history,’ and writing thus brushes against the coming of communism, recognized as the ultimate affirmation, as communism always lies beyond communism." MB http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com/2006/05/12/writing/ For important news about the Zapatista’s Other Campaign and its solidarity with those in Atenco, check the May 7 blog entry of a friend whose with the campaign. http://vogliamotutto.blogsome.com/2006/05/10/resisting-the-present-in-atenco/