Leaving normalization behind: Notes on crisis

Confronted with those who neglect to recognize themselves in our festivals of destruction, we offer neither criticism nor sympathy but only our scorn. We must destroy all fossilization of our desires—in secret. It is necessary to commence absolutely; not to dream of new ways to negotiate, but to make manifest the subterranean multiplicities in the heart of each barricaded hallway. The pathetic activism proposed to us is like a bad joke, and instead of laughter we respond with zones of indistinction which need no justification.

This is a call to insurrection, not an insistence on impotentiality. To those who deride the singular ecstasy in a c-clamped pushbar or a moment of friendship, we propose nothing less than to negate their homogenous absence, at all costs. What's needed is not humanism, and even far less mobilization, but a putting-into-practice of inoperative social war, a rejection in all forms of the logic of passivity. Our need to occupy everything is less the realization of a plan than the setting forth of a line of flight.

Every smashed window is a refusal to organize, a blow against the teleology of the mileu, a recognition of the radical temporality inherent in the articulation of zones of offensive capacity. In the articulation of becomings, we shatter those who would have us give up the immanent joy of rupture for the misery of totality.