Don Juan was a choir boy compared to today’s hipsters. — Tiqqun
available only in person. we’ll be at both the nyc and bay area anarchist bookfairs tomorrow.
i. premise | ii. female sacrifice | iii. insemination | iv. not-men |v. the body | vi. the sign | vii. gender strike | viii. the void |  ix. negation | x. male sacrifice | xi. nihilism | xii. on waiting
“Let’s not talk about desires anymore, let’s desire: we are desiring machines, machines of war.” After the events of March 1977, Radio Alice became the symbol of the free radios. It was emitted from Bologna, one of the strongholds of the Italian Communist Party and the explicit showcase for the Historical Compromise [alliance between Christian Democrats and Italian Communist Party (PCI)].
a q&a for men.
for all our nerdy friends struggling through lacan.
The gender relation is a contradiction between men and women. As such, this contradiction is in the class struggle against the class struggle. In a society of classes, the gender distinction is constantly obscured as a social phenomenon; it is the presupposition that class society naturalizes… The proletarian (man) who struggles as such against capital reproduces in his proletarian struggle the gender distinction and the contradiction between men and women.
CONTENTS I. Adrift through the circuits of feminized precarious work II. Close encounters in the second phase: The communication continuum: care-sex-attention  III. First Stutterings… IV. A Very Careful Strike: Four Hypotheses V. Bodies, lies, and video tape: between the logic of security and the logic of care VI. Precarias Lexicon VII. Political bodies vs. bodies politic
But patriarchy can only exist so long as it is performed - that is, so long as the role of the man is fulfilled. What we want, quite simply – as for with any other determinate role imposed by and in the service of capital – is for it to be destroyed.
The term “human strike” was forged to name a revolt against what is reactionary even – and above all – inside the revolt. It defines a type of strike that involves the whole life and not only its professional side, that acknowledges exploitation in all the domains and not only at work. Even the notion of work comes out modified if seen from the ethical prism of human strike: activities that seem to be innocent services and loving obligations to keep the family or the couple together reveal themselves as vulgar exploitation. The human strike is a movement that could potentially contaminate any- one and that attacks the foundations of life in common; its subject isn’t the proletarian or the factory worker but the whatever singularity that everyone is. This movement isn’t there to reveal the exceptionality or the superiority of a group on another but to unmask the whateverness of everybody as the open secret that social classes hide.