Analysis of the impact of counter-insurgency theory on everyday policing in the US. Very useful for thinking through anti-repression activity.
Imposed PDF: staterepression1
Tag Archives: social control
Posters for a Hot September
A new series of posters ready to distribute and agitate.
Color PDF for printing: freedom-red
For social media:
Color PDF for printing: orchestration-color
B&W PDF for printing: orchestration-bw
Color PDF for printing: milwaukee_color
Abyss
Writings by the Encyclopedie des Nuisances on nuclear power, industrialism, and green capitalism. Interesting transitional texts from the 1980s as the French post-situationist milieu came to grips with the ecological crisis.
To Libertarians
An anonymous open letter signed by 25,000 people, laying out a radical critique of the “democratic transition” in 1970s Spain and setting the terms for a solidarity campaign should the Spanish State refuse to release the autonomous prisoners. The publication of the letter led to the release of dozens of these prisoners.
Necropolitics
Achille Mbembe challenges Foucault’s notion of biopolitics – the profitable fostering and management of populations under capitalism – using the lens of anti-black racism. For some populations, especially black or indigenous, genocide might be the system’s preferred alternative over management.
The Autonomy of Migration
“The Animals of Undocumented Mobility.” Academic but compelling treatment of migration, using Deleuzian categories. Emphasizes imperceptibility, chaos, and the migrants’ slipping away from control.
If It Was Easy, They Wouldn’t Call It Struggle
Two interviews with Mark Barnsley about his experiences as a prison rebel, as a fighter in the Palestinian cause, and more.
Postscript on Societies of Control
Late text by Gilles Deleuze on the emerging forms of surveillance and social control under advanced capitalism.
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