Social Europe

“To take leave while constituting means to act under conditions of the most extreme deterritorialization: in postmodernity, this deterritorialization is that experienced by the bodies of the multitude. It is a case then of hybridizing in a cosmopolitan fashion the world of life, that is, appropriating global mobility through the generation of new bodies. ‘Proletarians of all  countries, unite!’ is an injunction that today means: mix up races and cultures, constitute the multicoloured Orpheus who generates the common from the human. Break down all the transcendental barriers that prevent the singular from becoming common and that block the innovation of the eternal: that is what it means to take leave while constituting.”

- Antonio Negri, Kairos, Alma Venus, Multitude

Students en grève:

• Paris en grève!: video of CPE protests and interviews with students (Part 1) (Part 2), as well as analyses by Carlo Vercellone and Leo Elicio
• Analisi sulle lotte contro CPE in Francia
• Giuseppe Cocco and Toni Negri: The Work of Mourning: Beyond Employment

Banlieus – Cités:

• Sans papiers: http://pajol.eu.org/
• Mouvement de l’immigration et des banlieus (MIB): http://mib.ouvaton.org/
• An interview with Angela Davis on the banlieus
• Judith Revel in Il Manifesto : Il divenire-banlieue della politica, il divenire politico della banlieue
• Yann Moulier Boutang: The Old New Clothes of the French Republic

Related Articles:

• Guy Debord on the Watts Riots: The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy
• Toni Negri: Response to Pierre Macherey
  On November 19th, 2004, Pierre Macherey presented an extended critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s book, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, on the occasion of Citéphilo at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille. Toni Negri, who was invited to speak at the seminar, responded orally to Macherey’s critiques. The text that here is a more detailed and developed version of Negri’s response. Pierre Macherey’s text in French is available at the following web address: www.univ-lille3.fr/set/machereynegri.html.