Let's focus on the events that have been taking place. From the never-ending street riots in Athens to Israel's homicidal fanaticism over Palestinians; Brexit and the rise of right-wing populism in Europe and the US; Thailand's referendum and the growing populism in Europe and the US; the failed coup in Turkey and Erdoğan consolidating his power; the recent State oppressions against Papuan students in Yogyakarta and beyond, to the ever worsening "global economic crisis." From our point of view, the world stage seems to be gradually set for a serious revolutionary and poetic transformation.
Unfortunately, however, we would have to say that these changes will be for the worse, simply because of how terrified and pacified we have all become in spite of, or perhaps because of, all these troubles the world has seen within the last month or so. And in all our tangled and worried moments, we cannot help but to turn our heads to Pokemon Go and the new Frank Ocean album. We cannot even get over the fact of how alone we really feel but are not really alone at all; that all it takes are tiny refusals and acts of resistance.
A real paradigm shift is about to occur.
Our language and voice, robbed. Our families and friends, denied existing. Maybe it is time that we use (or exploit) the silence—the silence as an astute expression of rebellion and discontent: a rebellion against the 'noise' of the spectacle, that is now situated more deeply on the level of everyday life. Because ours is a protest of men and women against inhuman(e) life—a culture of neoliberal homogeneity and its rampant philistinism. Because the struggle begins at the level of the real single individual, and because community, from which the individual in revolt is separated, is the true social nature of man—human nature.
What does anyone want except to feel freer?
Contents
1. An Ongoing Investigation / Suspect: L.
2. Serba Tahu
3. The Belly of a Shark
4. Executioner's Salt
5. Griya
6. Karat
7. Some Remarks on the Affirmation of
"No"
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