| by Val Basilio Thirty years ago, a Belgian situationist—whose decayed radical subjectivity is now in an advanced state of decomposition—noted in his most famous work that: “Power, if only it were human, would be proud of the number of potential encounters it has successfully prevented.” Continue reading The Merchants of Life |
Ma da ogni altro punto di vista che non sia quello del facilitare il controllo poliziesco, la Parigi di Haussmann è una città costruita da un idiota, piena di rumore e violenza, che non significa nulla.
G. Debord
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M. Sartin |
Diavolo in corpo
“Saying that a government represents public opinion and public will is the same as saying a part represents the whole.” —Carlo Pisacane
Continue reading The Representative System
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E. Kerr |
Diavolo in corpo
Work less to live more. What a beautiful slogan! I wonder if the one who coined it understood the unintended truth it contains, that work is the negation of life. “Eight hours of obligation is enough to exhaust a person’s energy. What he gives at work is his life, the better part of her strength. Even if the work has not degraded her, even if she has not felt himself overcome by boredom and fatigue, he leaves exhausted, diminished, with the imagination withered.” So a worker wrote several decades ago. Anyone who has worked even for just one day understands the meaning of these words. This is why the reduction of work hours has always been one of the primary demands of those who don’t commission the work, but who carry it out, and so bear its entire burden.
Continue reading Eight Hours Too Many?
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Adonide |
Diavolo in corpo
When one speaks of totalitarianism, thought runs immediately to a form of implacable domination that has historically been embodied in the figure of a single dictator. Hitler the Fuhrer, Mussolini the Duce, Franco the Caudillo, Stalin the Little Father, Ceausescu the Leader, Mao the Great Helmsman, Pinochet the generalissimo: all are examples of dictators from a not too distant past that is nevertheless considered difficult to repeat. In the course of the past few years we have been experiencing the end of the era of individual dictatorship as this form of power receives nearly unanimous condemnation. And if in a few parts of the world, regimes still survive that are led by strongmen, the tendency to replace them with modern democracies is taking hold without much dispute. The Fuhrer, the Duce and their like have had to give up their place to somewhat disembodied, cold systems of domination, without surprise, from which the human element is almost completely banished.
Continue reading Who Is It?
