Leaving passivity behind: Notes on social war

To those who deride the radical ecstasy in a moment of friendship or a c-clamped pushbar, we propose nothing less than to shatter their homogenous totality, by any means necessary. Our need to riot is less the realization of a concept than the articulation of an event. This is a call to indifference, not an insistence on fossilization of our desires. We must reject all banality—in secret.

It is necessary to commence absolutely; not to dream of new ways to negotiate, but to make manifest the subterranean becomings in the heart of each smashed window. Confronted with those who refuse to recognize themselves in our orgies of destruction, we offer neither sympathy nor criticism but only our derision. The compulsive activism proposed to us is like a bad joke, and instead of laughter we respond with insurrection. In the construction of desiring-bodies, we negate those who would have us give up the immanent joy of rupture for the catastrophe of absence.

What's needed is not normalization, and even far less representation, but a putting-into-practice of inoperative zones of indistinction which need no justification, a rejection in all forms of the temporality of impotentiality. Every burning dumpster is a refusal to make demands, a blow against the logic of the mileu, a recognition of the singular structure inherent in the articulation of encounters.