Occupied

Last night Hank I and I talked about the Occupied UC Berkeley movement. Chris's recent post on space made me once again think of it. I realized how truly revolutionary occupying a building is, no overthrow of a structure, no radical new creation, using pre-existing society and using a simple space to convey a larger message.

Youtube has a great little short documentary of the Occupied UC Berkeley Movement here.

Watching this made me realize another purpose for my part on lines of fracture. Not to simply discuss Lines of Fracture or have intellectual lines of fracture but to actually make revolution. As Guattari said when interrupting Lacan, I have no other goal then to make revolution. I am not sure how I am going to make it but I will now dedicate some posts to successful organization and protest.

Here is a kinda cool piece done by Banksy--I think I will end most of my revolution oriented posts with some of his art.

Holloway on Fractures

Came across an excellent passage in John Holloway's new book Crack Capitalism that is highly relevant to this blog:

"Imagine a sheet o f ice covering a dark lake of possibility. We scream 'NO' so loud that the ice begins to crack. What is it that is uncovered? What is that dark liquid that (sometimes, not always) slowly or quickly bubbles up through the crack? We shall call it dignity. The crack in the ice moves, unpredictable, sometimes racing, sometimes slowing, sometimes widening, sometime narrowing, sometimes freezing over again and disappearing, sometimes reappearing. All around the lake there are people doing the same thing as we are, screaming 'NO' as loud as they can, creating cracks that move just as cracks in ice do, unpredictably, spreading, racing to join up with other cracks, some being frozen over again. The stronger the flow of dignity within them, the greater the force of the cracks."