2/20/2011
12/15/2010
Note- Yesterday and Today
Yesterday a new labor law passed urgently from the Greek parliament. It annules several fundamental labor rights as we knew them in Greece for decades.
For example:
- Each business can make a special contract-agreement with it's own workers, paying them less that it is required by the contract-agreement between businessmen and trade unions of workers of a whole sector. Practically the agreements between businessmen and trade unions of each sector are annuled. Practically there will be unions only (apart from the general confederation, of course) at a level of each single enterprise (where the workers are fewer and less powerful, than the total of workers in a whole sector of economy). This will have an immediate effect at wages in the private sector.
- The provisional period of work is raised from 2 months to 12 months, 1 year. That means that a boss can fire a worker after 1 year without giving him any redundancy pay.
And several other harsh neoliberal changes both at the private and the public sector.
So after London and Rome, today, in Athens, Greece, at the General Strike, we had wild clashes between protesters and police.
They are maybe the wildest clashes since the "troika" lenders (IMF, European Commission, European Central Bank) took over the control of the economy of the country, this spring, because of the debt crisis. Although the participants in the demonstration were probably less, the clashes were harsher than those at the 5th of May demonstration (when 3 employees of a bank were accidentally killed by rioters).
Molotov bombs were thrown to the anti-riot policemen guarding expensive hotels, close to the parliament. Similar attacks occurred in many places in the center of Athens. 2 police motorbikes were destroyed. An ex-minister (of the opposition right-wing party that ruled from 2004-2009 and destroyed the economy, while changing the statistics to deceive the people and the E.U.) was beaten (video) (photo) by people who saw him in a street in the center of Athens. Workers and anarchists, returning from the demonstration, tried to occupy the offices of the General Confederation of Workers (which is controlled by well paid professional "tradeunionists" affiliated to the ruling "socialist", but extremely neoliberal party), but were prevented by the anti-riot policemen.
The police made extensive use of chemical gases. (bought by Israel). Lots of people have been beaten.
Till now we don't know the exact number of people arrested and injured.
You can see some images and videos here:
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1237676
http://www.babylonia.gr/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1296%3A%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1-15-%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%BA%CE%AD%CE%BC%CE%B2%CF%81%CE
These were the second clashes of this week. Residents of Keratea, an area outside Athens, are clashing with anti-riot policemen for 4 consecutive days, protesting against a new waste dump in the area. Not only molotov bombs but also gunfire (at the air) was reportedly used by the local residents. The Greek Police for the first time made use of a water-cannon vehicle.
Some photos ot these clashes here:
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1236686
Meanwhile scores of prisoners are on hunger strike in Greek jails because of the conditions there.
For example:
- Each business can make a special contract-agreement with it's own workers, paying them less that it is required by the contract-agreement between businessmen and trade unions of workers of a whole sector. Practically the agreements between businessmen and trade unions of each sector are annuled. Practically there will be unions only (apart from the general confederation, of course) at a level of each single enterprise (where the workers are fewer and less powerful, than the total of workers in a whole sector of economy). This will have an immediate effect at wages in the private sector.
- The provisional period of work is raised from 2 months to 12 months, 1 year. That means that a boss can fire a worker after 1 year without giving him any redundancy pay.
And several other harsh neoliberal changes both at the private and the public sector.
So after London and Rome, today, in Athens, Greece, at the General Strike, we had wild clashes between protesters and police.
They are maybe the wildest clashes since the "troika" lenders (IMF, European Commission, European Central Bank) took over the control of the economy of the country, this spring, because of the debt crisis. Although the participants in the demonstration were probably less, the clashes were harsher than those at the 5th of May demonstration (when 3 employees of a bank were accidentally killed by rioters).
Molotov bombs were thrown to the anti-riot policemen guarding expensive hotels, close to the parliament. Similar attacks occurred in many places in the center of Athens. 2 police motorbikes were destroyed. An ex-minister (of the opposition right-wing party that ruled from 2004-2009 and destroyed the economy, while changing the statistics to deceive the people and the E.U.) was beaten (video) (photo) by people who saw him in a street in the center of Athens. Workers and anarchists, returning from the demonstration, tried to occupy the offices of the General Confederation of Workers (which is controlled by well paid professional "tradeunionists" affiliated to the ruling "socialist", but extremely neoliberal party), but were prevented by the anti-riot policemen.
The police made extensive use of chemical gases. (bought by Israel). Lots of people have been beaten.
Till now we don't know the exact number of people arrested and injured.
You can see some images and videos here:
http://athens.indymedia.org/
http://www.babylonia.gr/index.
These were the second clashes of this week. Residents of Keratea, an area outside Athens, are clashing with anti-riot policemen for 4 consecutive days, protesting against a new waste dump in the area. Not only molotov bombs but also gunfire (at the air) was reportedly used by the local residents. The Greek Police for the first time made use of a water-cannon vehicle.
Some photos ot these clashes here:
http://athens.indymedia.org/
Meanwhile scores of prisoners are on hunger strike in Greek jails because of the conditions there.
12/04/2010
One @ http://www.sotoso.org/a/a/imgboard.htm
I was not offended when you looked at me and I realized that there was no one in my place to look at you back. I comprehend. Seriously, I have strange feelings about the different wars that are going on in the universe and I am ready to take some action, very serious action. No jokes. This is not some kind of whatever mechanism that you find in a shopping mall or you fish from the pockets of extremely annoying weirdos while they’re sleeping. Flowers in the middle of the unspeakable, caramelized news behind curtains in front of other curtains and all of them become layers and some kind of onions that all my friends talk about; it’s over for my cup of tea. It is empty talk. We got used to talking with our fingers or pretending that if I wink, you will get what I mean, but I want you to get something and if you think this is a problem then you have an issue, which a dentist can take care of. First of all it is about the dogs. Something went wrong with the dogs in the mastermind cities and all of them have their own leashes. The parks are brighter, too many lights to keep any secrets, the smoking is not permitted and all of us we have one particular something to take care and especially ourselves. Then, I missed all my friends in a well-established university. I’m bored and I don’t know why. I never have enough money to go up and down anywhere. The issue here is that no one, I’m telling you no one, is going to take care of you. Just think about it when you look at me;
Georgia Sagri
One
10/05/2010
Note
Violence is not taken, is acted up at the moment of the oppression. In order to take it back you need to be a part of violence at the moment of the oppression. If you are not a part of it you are in a life in which you don't have any desire to take anything back.
Community in a state of civil war is a false community. What that means? It means that a subject in a state of civil war can’t be part of a community. A subject in a state of civil war will always be in a state of emergency. The community in a state of emergency is always formulated within the community for reasons of survival. There is a distinction then between the subject of survival and that of life. The subject inside the community for reasons of life is to create the conditions of forms of life and not the conditions of survival. Life forms are not waiting from someone to name them as such. So, in a way life forms only exist in the presence of non-identity. How we can talk about a political subject without identity? How we can name a party when there is no one to identify it as such? A community for reasons of life owns such complex regions that it will be hard for someone to give them a distinctive name. What would be then interesting here is not to focus on the question of name but how that community can maintain its complexity so no one will be able to name it. Complexity here is not a construction or a refusal of construction of an identity but the creation of life forms that can maintain their particularity. On the first book of Plato's Republic, Socrates says that injustice causes civil war and by a civil war even a single individual is incapable of achieving anything, because he is in a state of civil war and not of one mind; second it makes him his own enemy, as well as the enemy of just people. How then we expect the creation of community in the state of civil war? What kind of community that would be? Are we interested to examine, to follow strategies and to create community in a state of civil war when we know that even as singularities we are enemies of ourselves, even when we know that our communities will fall into patterns of survival by creating them in a state of civil war? Are we interested to imagine forms of life outside the environment that creates them? Is it useful to think of that ? why ?
civil war
humanity against economy
economy against technology
technology against nature
nature against the earth
earth against the galaxy.
The governmental politics is a construction. Construction is representation. In order to have something out of the state which is a stage of the image then we need to realize that the subject is part of that stage as well. The subject although in display must be able to create life forms. What is that outside the image? Is it creative to think outside of the image? What about virtual reality and telepresence ? It is interesting to consider cross-sensory explorations between stereo visual imaging and auditory dimension. After images. Thresholds. Physiological resonances. Acoustic spaces of felt sound phenomena, experienced eithersubliminally, or making recognizably direct physical resonances to the body. Composite mental images of immersion in space, as in stereo vision; direct physiological experience of an acoustic space, as distinguished from the perception of an acoustic space, aurally, as "image."
Those thresholds inside the image are images. The thing that makes them different is that they don't exist topologically and they are constantly changing dimensions and users. There is no separation between who is producing and who is consuming. Composition (production-consumption) throws a party every night and there will be soon no institution to prevent where, when and by whom this may happen.
Time issues might sound banal for some.
Real and symbolic become the same in this variety of praxis. Ideas become commons and exist in multiple spaces. Can still mathematics count the flow of those different spheres? Free mathematics, counting systems and pressure measures will be the next important concern.
10/02/2010
Note
For rhythms
If you don't know the way
you can clap your hands and
figure it out.
Then maybe you can set
patterns.
Design
a song
Make a beat
loop it for millions of times
and sing words
Things you see around
Two snickers
A hug
The appliance electronic giants
and a backpack
You let the sound be
and you can just leave.
9/19/2010
Note- I thank the city who
My friend Stefanos died and I thank the city that remains the same. I can walk on that corner we talked this dream and argument and I can stay there for a while and it won't be so hard to say bye.
9/16/2010
why are some people hot in clothes? - for Stefanos only-
wHY aRE sOME pEOPLE hOT iN cLOTHES?
animal nudity are not going to address this issue, instead they are
going to celebrate the once (scantily) dressed kelly lebrock this
saturday at cakeshop. a FREE concert for ALL ages with 25 bands being
all geeky and amazing. at the strike of midnight get ready to
experience "weird science" as you've never seen it before with sounds
provided by hells hills.
the international KELLY LEBROCK'S bday invitational w/ 25 bands, each
playing 10mins.
animal nudity coming on stage at 10.50pm.
see full lineup at
http://www.cake-shop.com/calendar/calendar.php?year=2007&month=03
animal nudity currently consist of stefanos tsigrimanis (guitar) and
performance artist par excellence georgia sagri (cello). the two of
them have never played together before and have vowed to destroy any
evidence of their upcoming performance so that they can claim the same
thing for future events. they are both theoretically entrenched in the
concepts of amnesia and improvisation. expect nothing less.
cakeshop
152 ludlow st.
kelly lebrock bday celebration, sat 3/24, 8pm - midnight
set yr alarm clocks, mark yr calendars, tattoo yr forehead if you will: animal nudity at club midway, next thursday, 4/26 at 9pm.
animal nudity are not going to address this issue, instead they are
going to celebrate the once (scantily) dressed kelly lebrock this
saturday at cakeshop. a FREE concert for ALL ages with 25 bands being
all geeky and amazing. at the strike of midnight get ready to
experience "weird science" as you've never seen it before with sounds
provided by hells hills.
the international KELLY LEBROCK'S bday invitational w/ 25 bands, each
playing 10mins.
animal nudity coming on stage at 10.50pm.
see full lineup at
http://www.cake-shop.com/calendar/calendar.php?year=2007&month=03
animal nudity currently consist of stefanos tsigrimanis (guitar) and
performance artist par excellence georgia sagri (cello). the two of
them have never played together before and have vowed to destroy any
evidence of their upcoming performance so that they can claim the same
thing for future events. they are both theoretically entrenched in the
concepts of amnesia and improvisation. expect nothing less.
cakeshop
152 ludlow st.
kelly lebrock bday celebration, sat 3/24, 8pm - midnight
cAPITALIZATION kILLED tHE lOWERCASE sTAR
set yr alarm clocks, mark yr calendars, tattoo yr forehead if you will: animal nudity at club midway, next thursday, 4/26 at 9pm.
ear-splintering moments of ritualistic silence and sprawling improvisatory excess for guitar/cello/voice.
animal nudity are stefanos tsigrimanis (guitar) and georgia sagri (cello, vox). they promote forgetfullness and they advocate the institutionalization of sesquipedalian verbiage as the next step towards amnesia. they like reading and being read. expect nothing less.
a video of their last performance can be found at: www.myspace.com/animanudity
club midway, thursday 4/26
25 avenue b, btw 2nd and 3rd
$5
sean mccaul, 10pm
animal nudity, 9pm
top down, 8pm
animal nudity's final appearance for this year at one of nyc's most celebrated dens of iniquity: siberia.
guitar/cello/vox+freemprov+coordinated+randomness+amnesiac+differentiation
a video of a recent performance of theirs can be found at www.myspace.com/animanudty.
animal nudity, 10pm
siberia
356, w40th st,, btw 8th and 9th
$8, 21+ w/ID
Exodos- 13/9/2010
The demand is made by the movement of the mirror reflecting the parliament, the city, the passers by and the faces, the buildings' details and the streets.
8/05/2010
Note -exit, virtuosity and revolution: the political theory of exodus, Paolo Virno
"Nothing is less passive than flight. The "exit" modifies the conditions within which the conflict takes place, rather than presupposes it as an irremovable horizon; it changes the context within which a problem arises, rather than deals with the problem by choosing one or another of the alternative solutions already on offer. In short, the "exit" can be seen as a free-thinking inventiveness that changes the rules of the game and disorients the enemy. One has only to think of the mass flight from the factory regime set in motion by the workers of North America halfway through the nineteenth century as they headed off to the "frontier" in order to colonize low-cost land. They were seizing the truly extraordinary opportunity of making their own conditions of departure reversible."
ok, but is it possible to act as if you are outside the action? how can you construct action already being outside of it? To depart from, means that you are already part of something or you are somewhere that you depart from. The possibility of the action of exit cannot create space which you can depart from. The question is who makes the space that you depart from. Is it the same one who makes the space and he/she departs from it? Is it a different kind of departure when it is a space of your creation or someone else's ? When is the right time of departure when the space you have made it's already made as a space of exit?
ok, but is it possible to act as if you are outside the action? how can you construct action already being outside of it? To depart from, means that you are already part of something or you are somewhere that you depart from. The possibility of the action of exit cannot create space which you can depart from. The question is who makes the space that you depart from. Is it the same one who makes the space and he/she departs from it? Is it a different kind of departure when it is a space of your creation or someone else's ? When is the right time of departure when the space you have made it's already made as a space of exit?
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