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 <title>Perché gli artisti? MACAO è la risposta</title>
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 <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;perch&amp;eacute; i poeti nel tempo della povert&amp;agrave;?&amp;rdquo; chiede Holderlin nel suo poema &amp;ldquo;Pane e vino&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;	E commentando questo verso, Heidegger dice: &amp;ldquo;Forse siamo nel momento in cui il mondo va verso la sua mezzanotte&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;	&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;	&lt;strong&gt;In nome del vuoto&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;	Il 5 maggio un gruppo di artisti, architetti, insegnanti e studenti e lavoratori precari della scuola e della comunicazione hanno occupato un edificio chiamato Torre Galfa e l&amp;rsquo;hanno rinominato Macao. L&amp;rsquo;edificio &amp;egrave; un grattacielo di trentacinque piani, abbandonato da quindici anni.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;	Dieci giorni dopo l&amp;rsquo;occupazione, mentre il corpo gigantesco del precariato cognitivo milanese cominciava a stiracchiare le sue membra e a sintonizzarsi con la torre, sono entrati in azione gli esecutori del piano di sterminio finanziario. Il proprietario, noto alle cronache giudiziarie come corrotto e corruttore, ha deciso che quel posto &amp;egrave; suo e deve rimanere com&amp;rsquo;&amp;egrave;: vuoto. Tutto deve essere vuoto nella citt&amp;agrave;, perch&amp;eacute; il capitalismo finanziario ha bisogno di distruggere ogni segno di vita. Le risorse materiali e intellettuali vengono progressivamente inghiottite, annullate, perch&amp;eacute; i predatori possano espandere la loro insensata ricchezza.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;	Per la prima volta, occupando la Torre, il movimento &amp;egrave; uscito dalla sfera dell&amp;rsquo;underground e si &amp;egrave; proiettato verso l&amp;rsquo;alto. Non &amp;egrave; un movimento di talpe, ma di sperimentatori. Le talpe ora debbono venire fuori, debbono occupare ogni spazio, e contenderlo all&amp;rsquo;organizzazione di morte che si chiama Banca Centrale Europea.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;	&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Franco Berardi Bifo</dc:creator>
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 <title>The Republic of the 99%</title>
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	&amp;quot;More wood, this is war!&amp;quot; The train in the Marx Brothers&amp;rsquo; film is the most accurate picture of present-day capitalism. Running away, fleeing forward, dismantling itself to further fuel the machine: destroying rights, guarantees, life, wealth, resources, care, bonds, the entire building of modern social civilization. The mad rush of capitalism threatens to bring everything down with it. There is neither an overall plan nor a long-term prospect: just take all the wood necessary to keep the machine running. Capitalism has gone completely punk: &amp;quot;no future&amp;quot;.&lt;/div&gt;
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	Deep down, something is broken. We act as if nothing has happened, but we know it. The general feeling is that &amp;quot;everything has become possible&amp;quot;: for the EU to expel Spain from the euro, a bank run, a &amp;lsquo;&lt;em&gt;corralito&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rsquo; or an insurrection. Just anything. But we cling to the more remote possibility: that things just stay the same, that we return to &amp;quot;normal.&amp;quot; Capitalism is improvising, but so are the movements that oppose it. No compass is of any use now, the maps that we have are falling from our hands and we have no idea where we are heading. The only thing that we can do &amp;ndash; or so it seems &amp;ndash; is to follow the events of the day: the King&amp;rsquo;s speech yesterday, Repsol&amp;rsquo;s troubles today, and tomorrow we&amp;#39;ll see. &lt;em&gt;Time is out of joint&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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	&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Amador Fernandez-Savater</dc:creator>
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 <title>Piccolo saggio sulla diserzione</title>
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	&lt;em&gt;Quando non pu&amp;ograve; lottare contro il vento e il mare per seguire la sua rotta, il veliero ha due possibilit&amp;agrave;: l&amp;#39;andatura di cappa che lo fa andare alla deriva, e la fuga davanti alla tempesta con il mare in poppa e un minimo di tela. La fuga &amp;egrave; spesso, quando si &amp;egrave; lontani dalla costa, il solo modo di salvare barca ed equipaggio. E in pi&amp;ugrave; permette di scoprire rive sconosciute che spuntano all&amp;#39;orizzonte delle acque tornate calme. Rive sconosciute che saranno per sempre ignorate da coloro che hanno l&amp;#39;illusoria fortuna di poter seguire la rotta dei carghi e delle petroliere, la rotta senza imprevisti imposta dalle compagnie di navigazione. Forse conoscete quella barca che si&amp;nbsp;chiama&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;desiderio&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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			Henri Laborit, &lt;em&gt;Elogio della Fuga&lt;/em&gt;, 1976.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Paolo Mossetti</dc:creator>
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 <title>Scacco (matto?)</title>
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	&amp;nbsp;Il pensiero politico contemporaneo manca del senso del tragico, e si sforza di interpretare la realt&amp;agrave; in base a categorie discorsive che non riescono ad agire sugli automatismi tecnici, linguistici, finanziari, e psichici che sempre pi&amp;ugrave; spesso conducono al suicidio: il suicidio collettivo della devastazione ambientale, e il suicidio individuale che inghiotte un numero crescente di vite umane. Occorre invece comprendere la tragedia e parlare il suo linguaggio, se si vuole entrare in sintonia con la mutazione profonda che sta attraversando la societ&amp;agrave;. E se si vuole cercare, ammesso che esista, una via d&amp;rsquo;uscita dall&amp;rsquo;abisso cui il capitalismo ha destinato la storia dell&amp;rsquo;umanit&amp;agrave;.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Franco Berardi Bifo</dc:creator>
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 <title>Io brucio: da un’inchiesta in Tunisia</title>
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	In Tunisia, partire dal paese si dice &amp;laquo;&amp;nbsp;bruciare&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo; la frontiera.&lt;/div&gt;
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	Nel mese di maggio 2011,&amp;nbsp; un gruppo di compagne e compagni venuti da Italia, Francia, Germania ed altri paesi europei vanno a fare inchiesta militante nella Tunisia post-insurrezionale, dalle citt&amp;agrave; autorganizzate del sud alle spiagge del nord da dove partono i migranti per raggiungere Lampedusa, liddove si va a &amp;laquo;&amp;nbsp;bruciare&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;. La realt&amp;agrave; &amp;egrave; che, in seguito allo sconvolgimento del 14 gennaio, la caduta di Ben Ali susseguitasi all&amp;rsquo;occupazione della Kasbah I - l&amp;rsquo;esplosione delle forze - il governo di transizione cos&amp;igrave; come i media nazionali ed internazionali, cercano di dare della situazione una visione pacificata. Di contro, numerosi gruppi ci parlano della necessit&amp;agrave; di portare avanti il processo rivoluzionario, di approfondirlo, spingerlo oltre la caduta dei simboli. Oltre l&amp;rsquo;ordine imposto. Oltre la normalizzazione. Torna la repressione. Questa volta, attraverso una strategia di guerra a bassa intensit&amp;agrave;, fatta di poliziotti in borghese che pestano i manifestanti alla minima mossa. Le tensioni politiche si acuiscono, si d&amp;agrave; la caccia all&amp;rsquo;attivista, giovane soprattutto, cio&amp;egrave; i diplomati disoccupati, studenti e provenienti da ogni parte delle campagne, rimasti a Tunisi dopo la fine dell&amp;rsquo;occupazione della Kasbah, proseguendo la protesta.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/martinez-tagliavia-ita/io-brucio-da-un%E2%80%99inchiesta-tunisia" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Francesca Martinez Tagliavia</dc:creator>
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 <title>Tame Beasts: on obedience</title>
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		In 1959, Dr. Dimitriy Belyaev and his colleagues of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia, started a long-term experiment in the domestication of the silver fox (&lt;em&gt;Vulpes&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;vulpes&lt;/em&gt;). From an original population of 130 farm-bred foxes, the research team&amp;nbsp; progressively selected those who showed the least avoidance behaviour towards humans and separated them from the rest of the group. By allowing them to breed only amongst themselves &amp;ndash; while avoiding interbreeding &amp;ndash; by 1985 the researchers had managed to have 18% of the tenth generation of foxes showing extremely tame behavior. Their experiment was interrupted in that year, but other, more recent experiments have shown very similar results. Foxes, some of the least domesticable animals in nature, can be tamed as a species.&lt;a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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		Let&amp;rsquo;s compare the transformation of the &lt;em&gt;Vulpes vulpes&lt;/em&gt; over the relatively short time-span of ten generations, with the evolution of humans over the vastly longer period of History, which we presume began in 3200 BC, with the first written records in Mesopotamia. That is, over 200 generations ago.&lt;/div&gt;
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		&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Federico Campagna</dc:creator>
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 <title>A Reading List for #Occupy - Part IV</title>
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	Edited by Paolo Mossetti&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
	&lt;em&gt;After the Occupy Wall Street &amp;quot;People&amp;#39;s Library&amp;quot; was brutally dismantled by the police, last November, I asked&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;some of my favourite writers, activists, and academics to help me compile a list of books that would recreate, though only virtually, the library&amp;#39;s shelves.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://th-rough.eu/reading-list-occupy-part-iv" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Paolo Mossetti</dc:creator>
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 <title>A Reading List for #Occupy - Part III</title>
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	Edited by Paolo Mossetti&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;em&gt;After the Occupy Wall Street &amp;quot;People&amp;#39;s Library&amp;quot; was brutally dismantled by the police, last November, I asked&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;some of my favourite writers, activists, and academics to help me compile a list of books that would recreate, though only virtually, the library&amp;#39;s shelves.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
	&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
	&lt;i&gt;This is the third selection of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;i&gt;answers I collected.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Paolo Mossetti</dc:creator>
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 <title>Squandering: the case for disrespectful opportunism</title>
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	&lt;em&gt;Hitherto you have believed there were tyrants. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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	&lt;em&gt;Well, you are mistaken: there are only slaves. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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	&lt;em&gt;When nobody obeys nobody commands.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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	Anselme Bellegarigue, 1850&lt;/div&gt;
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	&lt;strong&gt;Promises&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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	Why do people work? If they are not insane, they do it for the money. And what do they need this money for? To buy freedom from work. At the same time, money seems to be necessary to escape from the money-obsession of the poor, just like work seems to be necessary to escape from the work-obsession of the unemployed. The apparent non sequitur of these connections is the description of the logical loop in which most humans live and function in today&amp;rsquo;s society. Strangely enough, the very origin of their endless tail-chasing seems to be their desire to achieve a state of freedom, that is, an escape form the loop itself.&lt;/div&gt;
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	&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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	How could the human desire for freedom turn into a self-perpetuating and enslaving mechanism? Within the contemporary landscape, the answer lies in the way capitalism, as it always does, manages to take our requests to the letter, and to return them to us realized, if slightly modified. That slight modification, as we all know, is the tiny poison pill that turns all our &amp;lsquo;realized&amp;rsquo; demands into even stricter chains. This is how, over the years, capitalism realized the requests for flexible work, sexual liberation, democracy, and so on. Capitalism always gives us what we want, but it does so in such a way that brings to reality the darkest warnings of the old saying, &amp;lsquo;be careful what you wish for&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/div&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Federico Campagna</dc:creator>
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 <title>A Reading List for #Occupy - Part II</title>
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	Edited by Paolo Mossetti&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;em&gt;After the Occupy Wall Street &amp;quot;People&amp;#39;s Library&amp;quot; was brutally dismantled by the police, last November, I asked&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;some of my favourite writers, activists, and academics to help me compile a list of books that would recreate, though only virtually, the library&amp;#39;s shelves.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
	&lt;i&gt;This is the second part of the answers I collected.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Paolo Mossetti</dc:creator>
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