https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:17 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/beyond-hope-prospects-for-the-commons-in-austerity-stricken-greece/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:17 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/beyond-hope-prospects-for-the-commons-in-austerity-stricken-greece/ Continued]]> From 2009 on, Greece has become a laboratory of implementation of neoliberal austerity policies but has also seen fierce resistance and a surge of creative alternatives. In the ensuing years of strife, “hope” has been the notion around which political movements attempted to rally their supporters against the neoliberal restructuring. “Hope” in the blochean sense of evoking the “not-yet” existing through prefigurative politics (apud Dinerstein 2014:59) but also “hope” as an empty signifier (Laclau 2000: 56, 84) a catch-all term to unify all different aspirations for overcoming the crisis under the common hegemonic project of Syriza (Katsambekis 2015:158). This article aims to outline the central political imaginaries of overcoming austerity that arose in this period –Plan A of reform and redistribution, Plan B of national economic reconstruction outside the Eurozone and Plan C of a bottom-up reorganisation of politics and economy around the commons– and the interplay between the three in the context of anti-austerity politics. It especially focuses on the abandonment of Plan A by the political forces that expressed it and the challenges faced by adherents of the third imaginary (“Plan C”) in subverting the capitalist market and in addressing the question of power and the state.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/communities-of-crisis-ruptures-as-common-ties-during-class-struggles-in-greece-2011-2012/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:28 +0000 http://arc.local/items/communities-of-crisis-ruptures-as-common-ties-during-class-struggles-in-greece-2011-2012/ Continued]]> The movement against austerity—the movement of occupied squares—in Greece in 2011 displayed little or no homogeneity. Rather than project an alternative proposal, it unveiled the contradictions existing in the field of labor. The essay traces the movement’s contradictory trajectory, situating it in the wider context of proletarian revolt and rupture in post-2008 Greece. Amid a social reality that is being rapidly, radically, and painfully overturned, it is through the indisputable contradictions of the struggle that these ruptures constitute antitotalizing practices directed against the capitalist totality.

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