arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

When we protest against those who govern the world, we cannot use measured means. The system wants someone (or some people) to govern everyone, and the individual can do nothing. And in these days thousands of individuals, not only some anarchists
(now that everything interests us except riding the tiger), have expressed and have lived their own anger without mediations.
They know--the organizers, the mediators, the institutional politicians--that no one, neither us, nor them, nor anyone in the streets yesterday or in the future, can govern protest, can restrain the fury
of those who are constrained every day to live under the aegis of the State, of laws, of justice.
They--the so called pacifists, social democrats, and reformists--cannot do anything but retrace the systems
and methods of those that they say they are
contesting: hierarchical and specialist organizations, delegation, representation, control, censure, repression. Power against power. They disappear. Or they resign themselves to organize trips for bored
alternative-antagonistic tourists, even to exotic and far destinations, that don't touch them closely in their daily lives.
Some general and abstract critical notes: the danger of these demonstrations is that even the most determined and sincere subside when it is only on these occasions that one can express oneself, that is,
only when there are mass situations, when the satisfaction of agitating is shared by many, and when these actions are disseminated by the media: the
dangers therefore are the renunciation of
projectuality and self satisfaction.
On the contrary, that which is materially extremely dangerous is the spreading of film, video and photographic cameras everywhere, even in our own ranks. The instrument most useful by repression for
control is the identification and repression of individuals. It is necessary to eliminate first of all amongst us, this practice, this stupid and useless
habit of filming and photographing. Representation, the spectacle of reality cannot do other than deviate our actions.
El Paso, Sunday July 22, 2001
El Paso Ocupato--Torino Italy
ne'centro ne'sociale...ne'squat