Copyediting day.

"The atomized individual experience of the city gives way to a power of collective attention, expressed both through a (tracking) of the enemy as well as a sensitivity to the rhythms, flows, and qualitative relations that populate the places we inhabit."
illwill.com/revolts-with...

Our refusal of the present order must first and foremost be ethical: a rejection of all that impoverishes and indignifies our lives, a struggle for all of what makes our lives meaningful and worth living.

“Power, by definition, is only a means ... But power-seeking, owing to its essential incapacity to seize hold of its object, rules out all consideration of an end, and finally comes, through an inevitable reversal, to take the place of all ends.” -Simone Weil

«Para Virno, el capitalismo no solo se naturaliza al hacerse pasar por el régimen de producción más adecuado a la naturaleza humana, sino, sobre todo, por querer dar una forma capitalista, o sea, histórica, a la naturaleza humana.»
zonaestrategia.net/la-ultima-cl...

The only Vitalism appropriate for our times: The State? Death. The Economy? Death. Their destruction? Life.

Liberal Democracy: For every constitution, there is a detention camp that will never close; for every equality, an economy imposing its cruel hierarchies upon every area of life; for each civic norm, police marching through the streets drunk on power."
illwill.com/liberal-infe...

A printable zine version of Phil Neel's recent article, "Theory of the Party," is now available in our PDF library.
illwill.com/print/theory...

As someone who has abandoned electoral politics as a way forward, I don't think there's any use in criticizing DSA members or others who have chosen that path. History will rather reveal what works and what doesn't, and in this way all of what must be done and undone.

“There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable.” -Ferrante

​The global present should be understood as being shaped by two complementary movements, one characterized by expulsion, abandonment, and containment, and the other by succession, privation, and fortification.

La semana que viene voy a participar en un debate sobre «La prueba de la anarquía» en Anònims, una librería en Granollers. Si estáis por la zona, venid 🔥

"The idea is not to realize the possible ... but to make the real possible, to find a way out of the inevitability of the facts that the dominant ideology seeks to impose in every sphere — first and foremost in politics."
illwill.com/where-are-we

ChatGPT is so enthralling, only because social life has been impoverished so totally. Amazon shopping is so gratifying, only because our last remaining freedom is to spend as we will. Trump's power is so exhilarating, only because of how pacified everything else has come to be.

The French edition of The Reticular Society will be coming out with lundimatin in October with a nice postface from Frédérique Neyrat 🔥🔥🔥
lundi.am/La-societe-r...

“What must be confronted in our fascist moment then is not simply the proximity between subjectivity and subjugation, but rather the degree to which ... domination itself has been embraced as the foundation of social life.”
thefrozenseainside.com/subjectivity...