https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:06:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 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.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/squares-in-movement/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:15 +0000 http://arc.local/items/squares-in-movement/ Continued]]> What has been called the squares movement is characterized by practices of commoning that reinvent public space as commons. People in the recent square occupations were not only demanding justice and direct democracy but were also creating ad hoc new forms of solidarity and egalitarian organization. Focusing especially on the Syntagma Square occupation in Athens, this essay explores the importance of a decentralization–recentralization dialectics both for the construction of a shared feeling of belonging to communities in movement and for the emergence of new forms of political subjectivation. Analysis attempts to compare discourses and manifestos to acts of coordination and mutual support in an effort to show that the “occupy the squares” phenomenon is multifarious and dynamic and that it challenges many of the certainties of oppositional movement (Left or anarchist).

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