ReCoCo - Life Under Representational Regimes

Link: The Internet destroyed the middle class (and democracy)

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:51:44 +0200

Link: The Internet destroyed the middle class (and democracy):

Salon interview with Jaron Lanier on his new book Who Owns the Future?

Opening at MoBY Friday May 3, noon

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:58:13 +0200

Opening at MoBY

Friday May 3, noon

Coming soon: From Sustaining Democracy to the State of the Civic 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York City

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:12:49 +0200

Coming soon: From Sustaining Democracy to the State of the Civic 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York City:

Friday 17 May 2013 10.00am-5.30pm

New Jacobin issue with Bhaskar Sunkara’s Fellow Travelers

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:11:46 +0200

New Jacobin issue with Bhaskar Sunkara’s Fellow Travelers

Live! from desktop to print. ReCoCo exhibition book (design: Avi...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:39:00 +0200

Live! from desktop to print. ReCoCo exhibition book (design: Avi Bohbot) is being printed now.

To be found in a few weeks in select art bookstores worldwide.

You can also pick up a copy at the opening at MoBY Friday 03.05.13, noon.

With the 10M GBP Thatcher, this is what Slavoj Žižek wrote on...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:15:00 +0200

With the 10M GBP Thatcher, this is what Slavoj Žižek wrote on her in The Newstatesman.

Link: Giorgio Agamben on a Latin Empire versus German Hegemony

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:04:08 +0200

Link: Giorgio Agamben on a Latin Empire versus German Hegemony :

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has revived the idea of a union of Southern European countries, a proposal first launched by another philosopher, Alexandre Kojève, just after World War II. This “Latin Empire” could act as a counter weight to the dominant role played by Germany in the European Union.

Strike Debt: Freedom from Debt: The New American Dream on...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:03:47 +0100

Strike Debt: Freedom from Debt: The New American Dream on Creativetime Reports

Link: Slavoj Žižek on Capitalism without Democracy, of Why the free market fundamentalists think 2013 will be the best year ever

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:13:00 +0100

Link: Slavoj Žižek on Capitalism without Democracy, of Why the free market fundamentalists think 2013 will be the best year ever

Austerity needs Fascism: Costas Lapavitsas reports for...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:50:00 +0100

Austerity needs Fascism: Costas Lapavitsas reports for therealnews.com - Lower wages, high unemployment, taxation and slashing of services, creating situation like 1930’s with a dangerous rise of the extreme right

The new OWS initiative of Rolling Jubilee - buying up distressed...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:26:48 +0100

The new OWS initiative of Rolling Jubilee - buying up distressed debt, bailing out the people not the banks.

Here is an article from The Nation by Andrew Ross and Astra Taylor, two members of Rolling Jubille

Read also Anna Altman for The New Yorker

Link: Slavoj Žižek on how the Left lost the argument

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:45:35 +0100

Link: Slavoj Žižek on how the Left lost the argument

Oliver Ressler’s Elections are a Con posters which were to...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:13:04 +0100

Oliver Ressler’s Elections are a Con posters which were to be displayed over a period of two weeks in Innsbruck, Austria as a series of city-light posters or on large billboards, have been censored by the Cultural Department of the Tyrolean Provincial Government last year. Especially for the US Presidential Elections tomorrow, here are 11 Excellent Reasons Not To Vote by Errol Morris.

This is Democracy: Sheldon Adelson - from the US elections, to Israeli right-wing domination to a new Las Vegas in Spain

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 11:53:19 +0100

Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who supports Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu financially - gave more than 44 Million USD for Republican Presidential campaign, and started a newspaper campaigning for Israeli Prime Minister, Israel Hayom - now plans a mini-Las-Vegas in austerity stricken Spain.

The Spanish September 25th Manifesto

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:52:57 +0200

We, ordinary people are fed up to live with the consequences of a system conditioned by and forced to adapt itself to the markets, which is in every respect insupportable, and has led us to be victims of a large scale scam which has caused this crisis. We unify in order to edit this manifesto. We invite every citizen to unify themselves with the claims we are making in this manifesto.

We perceive that the current situation has exceed all tolerable limits and that we are victims of an attack without former precedents from the side of economical powers, who are using the crisis as an excuse. This is ruining our lives and those to blame are them who present themselves as an untouchable oligarchy. This with the complicity of all political forces represented in the parliament, who are manipulating the powers of the State by maintaining their privileges and excessive and illegitimate enrichment.

There is no way to hide that we live in a gigantic social fraud, with governments systematically betraying us by doing exactly the opposite as promised in their electoral statements, just as there isn’t any justice in the tribunals against bankers, politicians and business men who are guilty of the current situation. We just have to look in order to see how this structure of vicious and immoral power creates policies that end our rights and destroy our lives, and in order to see how we are victims of an unfair repression when demanding a change of the situation.

We believe that the problem is of such a big seize and the roots such profound that any solution will not be founded in reforms based in the actual political system. Therefore we demand:

– The dismissal of the entire government, as well as the dismissal of the Court and the Leadership of the State, because of betraying the country and the whole community of citizens. This was done in premeditation and is leading us to the disaster.

– The beginning of a constitutional process in a transparent and democratic way, with the goal of composing a new Constitution. We want to do this with the participation of the whole community of citizens, in such a way that the result will be their own, because we don’t recognize any democratic character in the actual constitution and laws. On the contrary these are drawn by a selected group behind the people’s back and confirm the domination of the heirs of the Franquismo era (the period during dictator Franco ruled) and those agreeing with them. It has to be the people who determine the model of social organization in whom they desire to live – not the opposite way.

– The audit and control of the public debt of Spain, with moratorium (delay) of debt’s payment until there is a clear demarcation of the parts which not have to be paid by the nation, because they have been served private interests using the country for their own goals, instead the well being of the whole Spanish community. Equally we demand the prosecution of all this persons who show and present themselves as suspicious of such moves, and we demand that they guarantee and pay with their own goods in the case they appear to be guilty.

– The reform of the electoral law, with the design of a new electoral process, in order to really represent the people’s will before any election which will be necessary to supply the development of a constitutional process of democracy.

– The immediate abolition of all cuts and all reforms taken against the well fare state with the excuse of the crisis, which set up limits to the population’s rights and freedoms, not only because they mean a disaster for the country, but also because they have been consisting out of taxes betraying the will of the people.

– A profound tax reform, which is making to pay more by those gaining more benefits of society. We equally demand the abolition of the fiscal amnesty ordered by the government, since these injustice is a real mockery for those who pay honestly.

– The abolition of all the privileges of those holding a political or public position, and the introduction of efficient mechanisms controlling the performance of those positions.

– The immediate paralysis of all forced evictions (forced leaving of homes), and to put at the population’s disposal those houses belonging to the banks and companies who have been helped by public funds.

– The creation of new jobs, which first premise will be the sustainability, and whose goal will be the development of humanity, as well as a form of management appropriate and adapted to the disposable jobs such that populations can work in order to live – instead of being forced to live in order to work. It is a tremendous hoax when over and over saying we have to work more, a fallacy supported by the greed of the big interests but contrary to the interests of the ordinary people.

For all this above explained we make a call to the population on the 25 of September 2012 to manifest in an undefined form at the gates of the Congress in order to obtain the dismissal of the Government and to make the beginning of a Constitutional Process, by making this call of unification of all the fights, strives and wrestling for a more fair Society.

We are the overwhelming majority, we are the people, we are right, we will not tolerate this and we will not be walked all over.

Link: The Debt Resistors' Operations Manual

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:39:00 +0200

Link: The Debt Resistors' Operations Manual:

Occupy Judaism: Occupy Rosh Hashanah

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:30:59 +0200

Occupy Judaism: Occupy Rosh Hashanah:

occupyjudaism:

Sunday, September 16, 2012
7:30pm–11:00pm
In or near Zuccotti Park, NYC (TBD)
RSVP Online

September 17, the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, is rapidly approaching. The S17 Day of Action, which commemorates this anniversary, by chance or by fate, fortuitously falls on the…

14.08.12 - civilian airplanes are re-directed by the Tel Aviv...

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:58:00 +0200

14.08.12 - civilian airplanes are re-directed by the Tel Aviv Airport control to make strange shapes above the Tel Aviv metropolitan. A Star-of-David-like route was created.

With the Israeli Prime Minister preparing for a war with Iran to end all wars, more and more evidence presents itself for this buildup for war to be one big conspiracy.

Video source: planefinder.net

Thanks to haemori.wordpress.com for the reference

Batman strikes again! this time it’s the anti-war demo in...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:11:00 +0200

Batman strikes again! this time it’s the anti-war demo in front of Israeli Defense Minister penthouse in protest of the war mongering of Israeli government. Above he is with Dov Khenin, Member of the Israeli Knesset for the Communist Party. Under attack by its own government, the desperate need for a super-hero is telling of the current state of civil society in Israel.

Link: Immanuel Wallerstein on The World Class Struggle and The Geography of Protest

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:41:39 +0200

Link: Immanuel Wallerstein on The World Class Struggle and The Geography of Protest