Are the only two options “pure criminality [implied pejorative]” or “communicative acts”? Is not this understanding of looting as the communication of a “message” not a perfect example of it’s political capture?
The concern of recuperation, reduction into politics or turning into a "pure image" is a serious one, and one that is discussed in the conversation. I attempted to push against this particular possibility by arguing that it is both a perfect direct action and a gesture against the language of domination, but we always risk wrenching anti-political gestures into the dead sphere of politics when we describe them. It's an important problem!
I also hope that the description of 'pure criminality' can be recognized as emerging from the voice/standpoint of the fascists and the pigs described in that para, as, hopefully needless to say, I do not believe in any of the three concepts ('purity' 'crime' 'pure criminality') except as forms of white-supremacist fantasy that justify the continuation of race, police and property. If you haven't read it, I write about both the "transition from enslavement to crime" as a modality of USian white supremacist domination in the wake of emancipation and against the concept of innocence and purity in chapters 4 and 5 (I think? the chapters about white rioting lol) in my book which is available for perusal at anarchist library
Well, this sounds interesting. I myself have approached looting from a historical (and materialist) point of view, tying it with the birth of "Democratic" "Liberalism" in the French Revolution. Here is the paper I gave on the topic a few years back in Rome: https://www.macroasilo.it/media/paul-werner-elogio-del-vandalismo-000
Are the only two options “pure criminality [implied pejorative]” or “communicative acts”? Is not this understanding of looting as the communication of a “message” not a perfect example of it’s political capture?
The concern of recuperation, reduction into politics or turning into a "pure image" is a serious one, and one that is discussed in the conversation. I attempted to push against this particular possibility by arguing that it is both a perfect direct action and a gesture against the language of domination, but we always risk wrenching anti-political gestures into the dead sphere of politics when we describe them. It's an important problem!
I also hope that the description of 'pure criminality' can be recognized as emerging from the voice/standpoint of the fascists and the pigs described in that para, as, hopefully needless to say, I do not believe in any of the three concepts ('purity' 'crime' 'pure criminality') except as forms of white-supremacist fantasy that justify the continuation of race, police and property. If you haven't read it, I write about both the "transition from enslavement to crime" as a modality of USian white supremacist domination in the wake of emancipation and against the concept of innocence and purity in chapters 4 and 5 (I think? the chapters about white rioting lol) in my book which is available for perusal at anarchist library
Well, this sounds interesting. I myself have approached looting from a historical (and materialist) point of view, tying it with the birth of "Democratic" "Liberalism" in the French Revolution. Here is the paper I gave on the topic a few years back in Rome: https://www.macroasilo.it/media/paul-werner-elogio-del-vandalismo-000
! סאָלידאַרישקייַט / انسجام / Solidarity / Freundschaft / Solidarité / Solidarietà /Solidariedade !
Cool, looking forward to taking a read! Thanks!