[ssf] Re: Art n activism (private&public life)

[Dan]

Kind of like Guattari on molecular revolution:

“What is important is not an authoritarian unification, but a kind of 
infinite swarming of desiring machines.”

If you think about that from various different angles, some are 
profound, and some are just a bit comical!

Dan

Alan Dawson wrote:

> Quoting Amparo <amparo.gutierrez at tiscali.co.uk>:
>
>>> "People who talk about revolution and class struggle without
>>> referring
>>>
>>>> explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is
>>>> subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal or
>>>> constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth"
>>>
>> The "corpse in the mouth" is a powerful metaphor,
>> whose is the quotation?
>>
>
> IMHO you still can't beat the situationist international...
>
> Guy Debord for the analysis and Rauol Vaneigm for then practicalities.
>
> "The Society of the Spectacle" and "The revolution of everyday life" 
> are the two
> classics, and both are available on line at http://www.nothingness.org/SI/
>
> A page a day keeps the anger sharp :-)
>
> Loads of other great stuff came out of it .. some of Larry Law's great
> pamphlets "Spectacular Times" are here http://www.cat.org.au/spectacular/
>
> PS the quote is from the Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigm 
> .. along
> with many other gems including
>
> "The long revolution is creating small federated microsocieties, true 
> guerilla
> cells practising and fighting for this self-management. Effective 
> radicality
> authorises all variations and guarantees every freedom. "
>
> AED


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