Leaving totality behind: Notes on crisis

This is a call to rupture, not an insistence on banality. The compulsive absence proposed to us is like a bad joke, and instead of laughter we respond with indifference. In the realization of desiring-bodies, we destroy those who would have us give up the radical ecstasy of insurrection for the misery of representation. Confronted with those who fail to recognize themselves in our orgies of destruction, we offer neither sympathy nor dialogue but only our contempt.

Our need to riot is less the elaboration of a concept than the articulation of an event. To those who deride the immanent joy in a burning dumpster or a c-clamped pushbar, we propose nothing less than to negate their pathetic passivity, with every weapon at our disposal. It is necessary to commence absolutely; not to dream of new ways to make demands, but to make manifest the subterranean multiplicities in the heart of each car set aflame. What's needed is not mobilization, and even far less humanism, but a putting-into-practice of inoperative zones of indistinction which need no justification, a rejection in all forms of the being of normalization.

Every moment of friendship is a refusal to be productive, a blow against the temporality of the bureaucrats of revolt, a recognition of the singular teleology inherent in the articulation of communes. We must shatter all impotentiality—in secret.