Leaving absence behind: Notes on rupture

To those who deride the inoperative ecstasy in a smashed window or a barricaded hallway, we propose nothing less than to reject their pathetic representation, with every weapon at our disposal. What's needed is not totality, and even far less passivity, but a putting-into-practice of radical social war, a rejection in all forms of the being of normalization. We must destroy all humanism—in secret. Our need to desire is less the realization of a plan than the construction of a state of exception.

In the setting forth of multiplicities, we shatter those who would have us give up the immanent joy of zones of indistinction which need no justification for the catastrophe of impotentiality. Every c-clamped pushbar is a refusal to organize, a blow against the temporality of the bureaucrats of revolt, a recognition of the singular teleology inherent in the articulation of zones of offensive capacity. The homogenous mobilization proposed to us is like a bad joke, and instead of laughter we respond with indifference. Confronted with those who refuse to recognize themselves in our orgies of negation, we offer neither sympathy nor dialogue but only our contempt.

It is necessary to commence without illusions; not to dream of new ways to make demands, but to make manifest the subterranean communes in the heart of each burning dumpster. This is a call to insurrection, not an insistence on activism.