Monthly Archives: January 2014

Okupying production: Kazova workers’ resistance

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

From Fatih Pinar, a video about the Kazova textile factory okupation in Istanbul, today a factory that continues to produce through workers' self-management.  Autonomy is constructed slowly, step by unpredictable step, in a movement in which the ends and the … Continue reading →

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The desire of rebellion: Okupation

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Insurrection is the self-constitution of a temporality splitting and proliferating. Franco Berardi “Bifo” We need to be disciplined to be undisciplined. Saul Newman This post is inspired by the ongoing struggle of so many to create and defend Autonomous Okupied … Continue reading →

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Insurrection in the city: Gamonal Resists

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

…the revolution in our times has to be urban – or nothing. David Harvey, Rebel Cities The greater part of the human species now dwells in cities; more correctly, in urban spaces, which for the most part exist in a … Continue reading →

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The plurality of autonomy

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Autonomies are woven in different ways, at different levels.  The self-understanding of those who participate, the goals and means employed, may vary enormously.  It is far too easy then to criticise such initiatives from a puritanical and ultimately impotent ideological … Continue reading →

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Revolution as Destituent Power

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Only if we’re able to disentangle the future … from the traps of growth and investment, will we find an escape from the vicious subjugation of life, wealth, and pleasure to the financial abstraction of semio-capital. … the future is … Continue reading →

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Photographs of ecstasy: The Spanish Revolution

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

A face of revolution, the joy of rebellion triumphant captured in the eye of a camera lens; an icon of freedom in a spain struggling against fascism through social revolution.  1936 and the fleeting image of a revolution; fleeting, yet … Continue reading →

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