Leaving representation behind: Notes on crisis

We must reject all totality—without illusions. What's needed is not fossilization of our desires, and even far less passivity, but a putting-into-practice of radical insurrection, a rejection in all forms of the logic of humanism. Confronted with those who fail to recognize themselves in our conspiracies of negation, we offer neither criticism nor sympathy but only our contempt. Every c-clamped pushbar is a refusal to make demands, a blow against the teleology of the mileu, a recognition of the singular being inherent in the articulation of communes.

To those who deride the inoperative joy in a car set aflame or a burning dumpster, we propose nothing less than to shatter their compulsive mobilization, at all costs. In the setting forth of encounters, we destroy those who would have us give up the immanent ecstasy of indifference for the catastrophe of normalization. The pathetic activism proposed to us is like a bad joke, and instead of laughter we respond with social war. This is a call to zones of indistinction which need no justification, not an insistence on absence.

Our need to occupy everything is less the construction of a concept than the articulation of an event. It is necessary to commence in secret; not to dream of new ways to organize, but to make manifest the subterranean desiring-bodies in the heart of each moment of friendship.