Crack Capitalism

Contents......Page 3
Part I:
Break......Page 5
1. Break. We want to break. We want to create a different world. Now. Nothing more common, nothing more obvious. Nothing more simple.
Nothing more difficult.......Page 6
2. Our method is the method of the crack.......Page 9
3. It is time to learn the new language of a new struggle.......Page 10
Part II:
Cracks: The Anti-Politics of Dignity......Page 12
4. The cracks begin with a No, from which there grows a dignity,
a negation-and-creation.......Page 13
5. A crack is the perfectly ordinary creation of a space or moment in which we assert
a different type of doing.......Page 15
6.
Cracks break dimensions, break dimensionality.......Page 18
7. Cracks are explorations in
an anti-politics of dignity.......Page 24
Part III:
Cracks on the Edge of Impossibility......Page 28
8. Dignity is our weapon
against a world of destruction.......Page 29
9. Cracks clash with the
social synthesis of capitalism.......Page 30
10. Cracks exist on the edge of impossibility, but they do exist. Moving they exist:
dignity is a fleet-footed dance.......Page 40
Part IV:
The Dual Character of Labour......Page 45
11. The cracks are the revolt of one form of doing against another:
the revolt of doing against labour.......Page 46
12. The abstraction of doing into labour
is the weaving of capitalism.......Page 48
13. The abstraction of doing into labour is a historical process of transformation that created the social synthesis of
capitalism: primitive accumulation.......Page 55
Part V: Abstract Labour:
The Great Enclosure......Page 58
14. Abstract labour encloses
both our bodies and our minds.......Page 59
15. The abstraction of doing into labour is a process of personification, the creation of character masks,
the formation of the working class.......Page 62
16. The abstraction of doing into labour is the creation of the male labourer
and the dimorphisation of sexuality.......Page 64
17. The abstraction of doing into labour is
the constitution of nature as object.......Page 67
18. The abstraction of doing into labour is the externalisation of ourpower-to-do and the creation of
the citizen, politics and the state.......Page 70
19. The abstraction of doing into labour
is the homogenisation of time.......Page 72
20. The abstraction of doing into
labour is the creation of totality.......Page 75
21. Abstract labour rules: the abstraction of doing into labour is the creation of a cohesive law-bound totality sustained
by the exploitation of labour......Page 77
22. The labour movement is the
movement of abstract labour.......Page 80
Part VI:
The Crisis of Abstract Labour......Page 86
23. Abstraction is not just a past
but also a present process.......Page 87
24. Concrete doing overflows from abstract labour: it exists
in-against-and-beyond abstract labour.......Page 91
25.
Doing is the crisis of abstract labour.......Page 94
26. The breakthrough of doing against labour throws us into
a new world of struggle.......Page 103
Part VII: Doing Against Labour: The Melodies of Interstitial Revolution......Page 105
27.
Doing dissolves totality, synthesis, value.......Page 106
28. Doing is the moving of the mulier abscondita against character masks. We
are the mulier abscondita.......Page 111
29. Doing dissolves the
homogenisation of time.......Page 118
Part VIII:
A Time of Birth?......Page 126
30. We are the forces of production:
our power is the power of doing.......Page 127
31. We are the crisis of capitalism, the misfitting-overflowing of our
power-to-do, the breakthrough of another world, perhaps.......Page 130
32.
Stop making capitalism.......Page 131
thanks......Page 136
Notes......Page 137
Bibliography......Page 148
Author Index......Page 154
Subject Index......Page 156