[Reader-list] anti-globalica: quotes

[Monica Narula]

Recently, i participated in a symposium titled  [anti-] globalica:
conceptual and artistic tensions in the new global
disorder. will come in later with the paper that i (as member of raqs
media collective) presented, but i thought i would share with you the
interesting quotes that the organisers of the symposium, Geoff Cox
and Joasia Krysa, put in the beginning of the presentation.

best
M


::
::  quotes:
::
::  [1. melting vision  - marx quote]
::
::  'All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient
and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed
ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid
melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last
compelled to face with sober senses, his real condition of life, and
his relations with his kind.
::  The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases
the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle
everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.'
::  (Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848)
::
::  [2. empire - negri quote]
::
::  '[Empire is] characterised by a fluidity of form - an ebb and
flow of formation and deformation, generation and degeneration. [Š]
[It is the] decentered and deterritorializing apparatus of rule that
progressively incorporates the entire global realm within its open,
expanding frontiers. Empire manages hybrid identities, flexible
::  hierarchies, and plural exchanges through modulating networks of
command.' [Š] 'Our political taskŠ is not simply to resist these
processes but to reorganise them and redirect them towards new ends.
The creative forces of
::  the multitude that sustain Empire are also capable of
autonomously constructing a counter-Empire, an alternative political
organisation of global flows and exchanges.'
::  (Hardt & Negri, Empire, 2000: 202, xii-xv)
::
::  [3. disorder - joxe quote]
::
::  'In the absence of a declared enemy, the most formidable enemy
one must face in politics is disorder. [Š] Disorder is present
everywhere, like liberty, and this type of threat is never lacking as
long as an elite
::  brings it to the fore. This is the case today, although only
because neo-liberal ideology [...] paradoxically considers disorder
to be positive and order negative, the equivalent to an abuse of
power. Yet the representation of
::  disorder as something harmful was the original source of the
political desire for order.'
::  (Alain Joxe, Empire of Disorder, 2002: 118)
::
::  [4. resistant subject - zizek quote]
::
::  'It seems easier to imagine the 'end of the world' than a far
more modest change in the mode of production, as if liberal
capitalism is the 'real' that will somehow survive even under
ecological catastropheŠ. One can thus
::  categorically assert the existence of ideology qua generative
matrix that regulates the relationship between visible and invisible,
between imaginable and non-imaginable, as well as changes in this
relationship.'
::  'How we are to reformulate a leftist, anti-capitalist political
project in our era of global capitalism and its ideological
supplement, liberal-democratic multi-culturalism.'
::  (Zizek, 1994:1 & 1999:4)
::
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Monica Narula
Sarai:The New Media Initiative
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