02 April 2009
stop asking for recognition and organise instead
k-punk and Owen on yesterday's protest. K-P:
Time to withdraw from the feelgood simulation of politics. Time to give up the gratification of displaying wounds inflicted by the police as signs of grace, evidence that we are on the side of the Good. Time to relinquish the easy jouissance of impotent acting-out. Time to face the fact that organising marches isn't the same as political organisation.
There has to be a synthesis (and overcoming) of the opposition 'the revolution will not be televised' and 'there is only the spectacle'. But it's going to have to come from elsewhere...
Time to withdraw from the feelgood simulation of politics. Time to give up the gratification of displaying wounds inflicted by the police as signs of grace, evidence that we are on the side of the Good. Time to relinquish the easy jouissance of impotent acting-out. Time to face the fact that organising marches isn't the same as political organisation.
There has to be a synthesis (and overcoming) of the opposition 'the revolution will not be televised' and 'there is only the spectacle'. But it's going to have to come from elsewhere...
