https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/urban-panics-and-black-holes-ambiguities-of-deceleration-in-the-time-of-financialization/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:50 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/urban-panics-and-black-holes-ambiguities-of-deceleration-in-the-time-of-financialization/ Continued]]> In the text I embark upon an effort to ground the possibility of a presence and new forms of fascism of our times in the process of financialization and to the ambiguities of the deceleration as a form of the tactics of resistance (or/and lines of flight) in the permanent acceleration of financialization (financialization as a procedure of permanent crisis). The work of the process of deceleration is ambiguous: on the one hand it is relates to the desire for another governmentality –“not to be govern like this” to the limit of non-governmentality, and on the other a blockage is possible, the capture of this desire in the black holes of fascism.“This temporal discontinuity of resistance, its unexpected acts, the vulnerability of its potential, and recently, its reterritorialization in parliamentary procedures, puts the critical project in a permanent starting position, or as if it is in a permanent starting position. As a result of this, the practice of critique remains constant while at the same moment it is constantly in a position of emergence. A position, which we can conceive in contiguity to the financial capital (as a “Body Without Organs”), and which is related to the production of a post-crisiac, fluctuated subject, in a position of impotent prudence and prediction of its life events. […] But we probably have to avoid this unanswered, questioning of unifying principle. Maybe it’s now time to accept the ambiguous power of the obscure position where the body as a victim of financial capital is a body of strength where capital anchors itself. Because this obscure position is the power and the weakness of the poor. Maybe now it is time to accept that the critical attitude of our time demands or presupposes inconsistency, the rupture with reasons and outcomes of action.”

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-right-to-the-city-in-athens-during-a-crisis-era-between-inversion-assimilation-and-going-beyond/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:34 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/the-right-to-the-city-in-athens-during-a-crisis-era-between-inversion-assimilation-and-going-beyond/ Continued]]> Ever since the book of Henri Lefebvre “The right to the city” was published in 1968 it served as a great inspiration for several scholars, researchers, academics and activists. Being the point of departure for various urban movements, it contributed to a wave of resistance and destabilization of sovereignty in many parts of the western world during the turbulent decades of the 60s and 70s. While it has become extremely popular or even fashionable, it often appears detached from its original meaning. Various forms of sovereignty used its revolutionary and innovative rhetoric in an attempt to grand radical contexts in their political agendas. Forty five years after the first publication of Lefebvre’s book, the Athenian metropolis, a city in the (epi)center of the crisis turmoil, is governed by a municipal authority party that goes under the name of “Right to the City”. The party adopted much of Lefebvre’s revolutionary rhetoric, such as “the city as oeuvre”, in order to form its political agenda and win the municipal elections of 2010 and 2014. Ever since, a political program is applied based on a rather distorted interpretation of “the right to the city”. In this chapter two approaches of “The right to the city” (‘TRTTC’ from now on) will be confronted. On the one hand the Lefebvrian notion of the 1960s and on the other hand Kaminis’ (the Athens mayoral candidate) appropriation of 2010 and 2014. The first approach is considered as an effort to introduce the Marxian thought in spatial thinking in order to contribute to the emerging emancipatory movements, and the second as a fine example of distortion of contexts in favor of gaining power and promoting neoliberal policies. In this direction, we unfold the political program of Kaminis and examine its applications versus its title and theoretical context. By examining urban policies and tactics that are applied under the cloak of “TRTTC” and form the everyday life in Athens we intend to demonstrate that divisions between form and content can often lead to the complete inversion of primal meanings. By lifting the veil of propaganda it becomes visible that the assimilation of radical contexts on behalf of municipal authority does not lead to emancipatory urban policies but aims to cover up sovereignty. Bringing to surface neo-interpretations of Lefebvre’s analysis, though, does not only enlighten the subversion of the original notions or highlight them as stolen contexts from sovereignty. In fact, not only is it a great opportunity to explore once again and rethink what Lefebvre was teaching and writing during the 60s but also a motive to question, think beyond and challenge it in the contemporary contexts of urban uprisings and revolts. Inspired by the work of several radical scholars like Harvey, de Souza or Pasquinelli we make an argument on the perspectives beyond the Lefebvrian notion and an attempt to approach Athens as an emerging rebel city. During the crisis years various struggles and acts of solidarity have been taking place in the city area, thus several spaces of resistance and commoning have emerged. In this regard, we deal with the transition from demanding the city to occupying the city as a contemporary space of resistance.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/crisis-and-the-resurgence-of-emigration-from-greece-trends-representations-and-the-multiplicity-of-migrant-trajectories-in-brigit-glorius-and-josefina-dominguez-mujica-eds-european-mob/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:51 +0000 http://arc.local/items/crisis-and-the-resurgence-of-emigration-from-greece-trends-representations-and-the-multiplicity-of-migrant-trajectories-in-brigit-glorius-and-josefina-dominguez-mujica-eds-european-mob/ Continued]]> In the context and conjuncture of the crisis affecting the Eurozone as whole, yet shaking mostly its “weakest links”, rising unemployment and steep decreases in salaries and welfare allowances are cited as push factors contributing to what is seen as the emergence of a new emigration wave from Southern Europe. This is especially true for Greece, the country which has been hit hardest by the crisis, recession and austerity, and their social and political consequences. In Greece, there is extended media coverage of this new emigration, which is presented as an one-way option for certain population segments, notably the young and the highly skilled, and hence a drain of the most dynamic part of the country’s labour force. Despite this media attention, however, little is known about the current intensification of emigration from Greece and its characteristics, as well as the experiences of the country’s new “crisis migrants”. This paper aims to partly fill in this gap. It begins by sketching the broad picture and identifying key trends, before moving on to explore key issues in the emerging public discourse. It then zooms into the case of recent Greek migrants to the Netherlands, providing a typology of different mobility trajectories and migration experiences. Through this, we intend to deconstruct a number of conventional assumptions. Firstly, by situating new Greek emigration in a historical continuum, whereby its structural preconditions predated the crisis. Secondly, by identifying the qualitative dimensions of rupture through which the intra-EU mobility from Greece has undergone a shift from a career choice to one largely motivated by necessity. Finally, by highlighting those aspects that problematize idealistic perceptions of life

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