Re: <nettime> Athens: Plato’s Academy and its neighborhood are at risk!

First with equating resistance with the extreme violence that this system, everyday, employes to keep everything and everyone in their place. It is a privileged position, one that claims to derive from a reading of historical record, when actually history tells us that only a people that is untammed and ungovernable will shake the foundations of the oppressive systems that hold their spirit hostage.

But the best argument against this position you hold, since to you it comes from a position of misogyny, is by a woman of “color, poor and peripheral”, in her own words. It is a short movie 🎥 that was screened at the 2018 NYC Anarchist Bookfair this past weekend called “MEU NOME E SIMONE”. She makes a great argument for collective self defense and fearlessness and lays out a critique of capital and the state from below. Here it is:

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 5:13 AM Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com> wrote:

Hi Alexandre,

my reply is late, because I was busy and hoped that someone else would
reply, but nobody has and nettime is the home of the slow it's still
time say something.

I think your mail was exceptionally wrong. On numerous levels.

First, it was a classic example of some guy feeling entitled to
take a piss at a women who is vastly more competent than he is. And this
within a space where the gender balance is already extremely, well,
unbalanced. So, that's radical.

Second, you don't seem to understand politics as we move into a more
authoritarian realities. The state, and the elites, like street-level
violence, because it makes it easy to brand their opponents as '
anti-social' or 'terrorists' and bring out the full force of the
militarized state to crush them under the applause of a fearful majority.

Third, leaving random calls for violence in public fora is potentially
really harmful, not just for you but to the wider range of people
involved in the specific forum.

Felix

On 2018-06-10 11:56, Alexandre Carvalho wrote:
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