#livewithoutdeadtime

[contratrax]

1991: Swans: Song for Dead Time

[psychoanalysisandcivilization]

"TO LIVE WITHOUT DEAD TIME

means to embody a great refusal, to find pleasure in struggle, to transform every moment of existence into a repudiation of the consumerist nightmare and an affirmation of revolutionary possibility. A semester, a year, a decade without Big Macs, Frappucinos and World of Warcraft but overflowing with midnight adventures of blackspotted billboards, guerrilla gardening and spectacular synchronized global memewar actions. Imagine if a huge number of us started living in this way, turning daily life istelf into a form of resistance that re-enchants the city and reawakens the promise of a people's insurrection. The way forward is through this kind of radical play." -Micah White via Adbusters

[mollierodriguez]

Looking back now on “the good old days,” as the era before S11.2 is endearingly referred to, it sure feels like we activists did protest too much. We were always anti-everything and pro very little. We kept on saying, “A New World Is Possible,” but we didn’t have the vision and guts to build it. I remember how just about every “progressive” magazine I read before the crash was stuffed full of lefty whining, without a single action or solution proposed.

(Kalle for Adbusters)