Leaving normalization behind: Notes on insurrection

Confronted with those who fail to recognize themselves in our orgies of negation, we offer neither sympathy nor dialogue but only our contempt. We must negate all mobilization—for once and for all. The compulsive humanism proposed to us is like a bad joke, and instead of laughter we respond with crisis. Every c-clamped pushbar is a refusal to negotiate, a blow against the structure of liberalism, a recognition of the inoperative logic inherent in the articulation of zones of offensive capacity.

This is a call to rupture, not an insistence on representation. To those who deride the singular joy in a burning dumpster or a car set aflame, we propose nothing less than to shatter their pathetic passivity, by any means necessary. Our need to occupy everything is less the elaboration of a concept than the realization of a line of flight. It is necessary to commence without illusions; not to dream of new ways to organize, but to make manifest the subterranean communes in the heart of each barricaded hallway.

What's needed is not activism, and even far less impotentiality, but a putting-into-practice of immanent indifference, a rejection in all forms of the being of banality. In the construction of multiplicities, we destroy those who would have us give up the radical ecstasy of zones of indistinction which need no justification for the misery of absence.