Re: Brexit democracy

I'm following this whole thread with great interest and feel that I could add a few synthesizing comments from a strategic designer's perspective. These designers are usually hired to be less concerned with the creation of the perfect, shiny object but more with shaping the structures culture

Re: Brexit democracy

Brian writes: "Supporting them remains essential, in the way that dreams and utopias are essential. But I think there's another responsibility, which is to imagine and get behind the factors of sweeping systemic change, which is what the times are callling for." I don't think the two are mutually

Re: Brexit democracy

On 13 Nov 2017, at 09:21, Alex Foti wrote > The problem of the revolutions of 2011 is that they failed to produce durable > organization and to use their term institutions of the common, save for > limited success on the municipalist front. Now that nazi-populism is >

Re: Brexit democracy

Assembly by H deals with the problem of organization and exercising power on the part of movements. Their proposal is to invert the relationship between leadership and base, so that the democratic multitude (based on the emerging subjectivities in wealth production and social reproduction) is in

Re: Brexit democracy

Wendy Brown wrote: > Insistence that 'another world is possible' runs opposite to this tide > of general despair... The Left alone persists in a belief (or in a polemic, > absent a belief) that all could live well, live free, and live together > - a dream whose abandonment is expressed in the

Re: Brexit democracy

-0500 From: Ian Alan Paul <ianalanp...@gmail.com<mailto:ianalanp...@gmail.com>> To: Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com<mailto:bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com>> Cc: nettime-l@mail.kein.org<mailto:nettime-l@mail.kein.org> Subject: Re: Brexit democracy Message-ID:

Re: Brexit democracy

...in hopes of pushing the conversation a bit forward, we have this helpful passage from the end of Brown's most recent book "Undoing the Demos" which I think quite accurately and concisely sums up the present conjuncture we find ourselves within: "The Euro-Atlantic Left today is often depicted,

Re: Brexit democracy

Wendy Brown was a crucial writer for all those who wanted to understand neoliberalism in the 1990s and 2000s. I subsequently lost track of her, mainly because you can't follow everything but also because I began to perceive her work as an endless critique of the adversary, with no positive

Brexit democracy

Greetings, It is encouraging to see Wendy Brown’s name appearing in this discussion and so I will add a bit more of her insightfulness:  "the institutions as well as the political culture comprising liberal democracy are passing into history, the left is faced both with the project of mourning

Re: Brexit democracy

Wendy Brown is an indispensable thinker for these times. In addition to Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, her recent short text that explores the progression from neoliberalism to neofascism is a must-read: http://www.publicbooks.org/defending-society/ (and for more depth on this subject, see her

Re: Brexit democracy

Not new to anyone here i'm sure, but this thread can't help bringing to mind Wendy Brown's ever more prescient work on this subject- especially chapter IV http://www.tepotech.com/chiapas2015/Brown_Walled_States.pdf On 6 November 2017 at 15:44, Brian Holmes wrote:

Re: Brexit democracy

On 11/06/2017 05:13 AM, David Garcia wrote: The success of the slogan ‘Take Back Control” is cruscial to understand it speaks to the profound loss of agency that so many of us feel and how for many the capacity to disrupt politics as usual gave Brexit voters a sense of power. This is spot

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ommon Market". He believed we would never fit in. We may learn from our mistakes and future generations may have a change of heart (there are signs of this) but for now, sadly.. very sadly de Gaulle may have been right. David Garcia > > Brexit: Democracy robbery? > > > > I

Brexit democracy

From Sauvons l'Europe newsletter http://sauvonsleurope.eu/brexit-hold-up-sur-la-democratie/ In French Deepl.com translated: Brexit: Democracy robbery? By Arthur News/editorial comment November 6,2017 We have already written about the confiscation of the most basic democratic principles