Leaving mobilization behind: Notes towards rupture

In the construction of desiring-bodies, we negate those who would have us give up the inoperative ecstasy of social war for the misery of activism. We must reject all fossilization of our desires—without illusions. This is a call to indifference, not an insistence on impotentiality. To those who deride the immanent joy in a c-clamped pushbar or a barricaded hallway, we propose nothing less than to destroy their pathetic banality, without looking back.

What's needed is not representation, and even far less absence, but a putting-into-practice of singular crisis, a rejection in all forms of the temporality of totality. Our need to desire is less the articulation of a project than the elaboration of a state of exception. Every moment of friendship is a refusal to be productive, a blow against the structure of anarcho-liberalism, a recognition of the radical being inherent in the articulation of encounters. The compulsive humanism proposed to us is like a bad joke, and instead of laughter we respond with zones of indistinction which need no justification.

Confronted with those who refuse to recognize themselves in our festivals of negation, we offer neither criticism nor dialogue but only our contempt. It is necessary to commence in secret; not to dream of new ways to organize, but to make manifest the subterranean multiplicities in the heart of each car set aflame.