Re: <nettime> what exactly is breaking?

[sebastian@rolux.org]

> On May 31, 2020, at 12:27 PM, Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com> wrote:
> 
> what exactly is breaking?



the short answer is, of course, the patience of people who keep getting
murdered. but this is not new. see london 2011, athens 2008, paris 2005.

WHITE SILENCE = CONSENT, but also WHITE AGITATION = UNNECESSARY.
having said that, i'm still tempted to post the following... ;-)



What Exactly Is Breaking?

March 30, 2020

It is economics or life. The states of emergency decreed everywhere, the
infinite extension of police and population control measures already at work,
the removal of all limits to exploitation, the sovereign decision of who is
allowed to live and who is allowed to die. The aim of this apology for Chinese
governmentality, without any complexes, is not to provide for the "salvation of
the people" now, but to prepare the ground for a bloody "return to normality",
or rather for the establishment of a normality even more anomalous than that
which prevailed in the world before. In this sense, the leaders are not lying
for once: the time after is now. It is now that caregivers have to challenge
any obedience to those who flatter them by sacrificing them. It is now that we
must wrest the definition of our health, of our great health, from the disease
industries and from "public health" specialists. Now is the time to build up
the networks of self-help, self-supply and self-generation that will prevent us
from succumbing to the blackmail of addiction which will seek to double our
enslavement. It is now, since the prodigious suspension we are experiencing,
that we have to figure out everything we need to prevent a return and
everything we will need to live beyond the economy. It is now that we must
nourish the complicity that can limit the impudent revenge of a police force
that knows it is hated. It is now that we need to deconflict ourselves, not out
of mere bravado, but gradually, with all the intelligence and attention that
befits friendship. It is now that we must elucidate the life we want - what
this life requires us to build and destroy, with whom we want to live and with
whom we no longer want to live. No care with leaders who arm themselves for war
against us. No "living together" with those who let us die. We will have had no
protection for the price of our submission; the social contract is dead; it is
up to us to invent something else. The current rulers know very well that, on
the day of deconfinement, we will have no other desire than to see their heads
fall off, and that is why they will do everything to prevent such a day from
coming, to diffract, control, differentiate the exit from confinement. It is up
to us to decide when and under what conditions.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)




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