Communization and its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggles

Contents......Page 7
I......Page 9
II......Page 10
III......Page 12
IV......Page 15
V......Page 17
VI......Page 18
The Moment of Communization......Page 21
1. What are we to do? by
Endnotes......Page 25
2.
Communization in the Present Tense
by Théorie Communiste......Page 43
a) Crisis, restructuring, cycle of struggle: on the struggle of the
proletariat as a class as its own limit......Page 44
b) Struggles producing theory......Page 49
c) Two or three things we know about it......Page 55
Primo......Page 63
Secundo......Page 64
Tertio......Page 66
Quarto......Page 68
Sexto......Page 70
Septimo......Page 71
Octavo......Page 73
Nono......Page 74
Decimo......Page 75
Uno décimo......Page 77
Duo decimo......Page 78
Terco decimo......Page 79
Quarto decimo......Page 81
Frames of Struggle......Page 83
4.
Now and Never
by Alberto Toscano......Page 87
5.
Capitalism: Some Disassembly Required
by Nicole Pepperell......Page 107
Three approaches to understanding emancipatory potential......Page 108
Political Economy as Intelligent Design......Page 110
‘The Higher Realms of Nonsense’......Page 114
Post Festum Knowledge......Page 120
Microscopic Anatomy......Page 124
Selective Inheritance......Page 128
Introduction......Page 133
Communization......Page 134
The Utopia of Exact Living......Page 136
Artists on the Assembly Line......Page 137
The Communist Imaginary......Page 139
What is There in Uselessness to Cause You Distress?......Page 140
Something about between nothing and money......Page 144
Financialization: Form Follows Finance......Page 147
Don’t Worry, Mate, It’s Only Art, It’s Not Worth it, or, the Labor of
the Negative......Page 149
Conclusion......Page 151
Strategies of Struggle......Page 155
1. limit: barrier; bridle: spur......Page 159
2. glass floor: shattered glass......Page 161
3. crisis: swerve......Page 162
4. double barricade......Page 166
5. double swerve......Page 174
8.
Fire to the Commons
by Evan Calder Williams......Page 177
9.
Make Total Destroy
by John Cunningham......Page 197
An Anti-Political Violence?......Page 198
Periodizing Destruction......Page 200
Real Abstract Violence......Page 204
Pure Means......Page 208
The Limits of Pure Means......Page 213
No Future?......Page 217
10.
Communization and the Abolition of Gender
by Maya Andrea Gonzalez......Page 221
I. The Construction of the Category ‘Woman’......Page 226
II. The Destruction of the Category ‘Woman’......Page 232
11.
Black Box, Black Bloc
by Alexander R. Galloway......Page 239
Contributors......Page 255
Notes......Page 260
Introduction......Page 262
1.
What are we to do?......Page 263
2.
Communization in the Present Tense......Page 264
3.
Reflections on the Call......Page 265
4.
Now and Never......Page 267
5.
Capitalism: Some Disassembly Required......Page 269
6.
Work, Work Your Thoughts, and Therein see a Siege......Page 271
7.
The Double Barricade and the Glass Floor......Page 274
8.
Fire to the Commons......Page 275
9.
Make Total Destroy......Page 276
10.
Communization and the Abolition of Gender......Page 278
11.
Black Box, Black Bloc......Page 280