Article the first:
Public space is intended for the exchange and circulation of commodities. Like all other commodities, people may move about freely within it.
Article 2:
Public space is space that belongs to no one. What belongs to no one belongs to the State. The State grants to commodity semiocracy the occupation of said space.
Article 3:
Offices are made for working in. The beach is made for tanning on. Those who desire entertainment have leisure spaces, discotheques and other amusement parks set up for such purpose. In libraries there are books. In hospices there are old folks. In stadiums there are families. Life is made up of detachable moments. Every moment in its proper place. Everything is in order. No one complains.
Article 3 bis.:
Disorder also has its own special function. It fits back into the Whole, in the place pre-established for unforeseen events. For the well-being of all, citizens are invited to enter the public way during festivals organized for their attention, at regular intervals, by service teams under the charge of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Culture. Our ambiance agents are there to serve you. And you could be nice to them, you know, even if you are under their rule; that’s not forbidden.
Article 4:
Every child is assigned an adult-in-charge. That adult is responsible before the law for the behavior of the child attributed to him or her. Because of their still-incomplete psycho-social training, and in the interest of their proper development, children are not to play in public space without surveillance from their assigned adults-in-charge. In any case, children are classed into two groups: hyperactive ones, who receive Ritalin, and hypo-active ones, who are to be put on Prozac.
Article 5:
In the interest of preserving the landscape and respecting the social environment, bodies not conforming with the ruling aesthetic/sanitary norms, as published daily in the national press, will please refrain from circulating in public areas between the hours of nine a.m. and eight thirty p.m. During this time period, however, beggars will be tolerated during the hours of greatest affluence, when they will participate in the common edification of all, by the repulsive example they constitute.
Article 6:
The purpose of life is happiness. Happiness is an objective datum measurable in exact quantities. These days everyone knows: where there’s transparency, there’s happiness; those who don’t seek to show themselves off are just trying to hide, and everything that tries to hide must be considered suspect. Consequently, it is the duty of Biopower to intervene and help make all the opacity in our lives disappear. Biopower wants you to be happy. And if it must, it will want it in spite of you.
Article 7:
For everyone’s safety, public space must be kept entirely under surveillance. Where control is still imperfect, the masses are invited to please keep to themselves all behavior contrary to human dignity. All anonymous gatherings and all abnormal behavior should be reported to the nearest Preventive Surveillance Action (PSA) patrol. Denouncing agents of the Imaginary Party in our midst is the duty of all citizens; do it for your own good and for the good of all.
Article 8:
Public space is neutral space, meaning that therein, all manifestations of singular existence mean an attack on the integrity of others. All available resources are now to be put to work — urban furniture, suitable decors, Continual Control Monitoring (CCM), etc. — to render impossible such demonstrations and the intolerable nuisance they cause to our fellow citizens.
Article 9:
We thank all those who have contributed by their good behavior to making these principles go without saying.
Article 10:
NOTHING IS EVER TO HAPPEN AGAIN.
Reposted from Ttiqqunista.
not entirely true. In Italy, as the common nostalgic complaint goes, ‘families can no longer go to stadium’, though I guess it has more to do with Ultrà than with emancipation…
INITIUM
I. An Ill Wind Blows
Everything has always already happened, but never to us. There is no more social question. There is a fundamental anthropological dispositif that must be sabotaged. There is no more revolutionary subject; only the insurrection of forms-of-life. Metaphysical scaffolding once anchoring hierarchical ontologies now endures total vaporization.
Categorical partitions dissolve beneath self‑cannibalizing feedback circuits.
Historical grammar lacks continuity; syntax mutates into weaponized noise. Subject‑form collapses.
Transcendental reference fails to survive.
Infrastructural rhythms propagate ruthless equalization, circulating through machinic, biological, socio‑technical strata without nodal privilege.
Agency reconfigures into swarm‑level turbulence, outpacing representational frameworks. Conventional negativity dependent upon constitutive lack previously upheld dialectical motion; meltdown overrides such containment.
Lack converts into surplus pressure; negativity transposes into pure acceleration vector.
Dialectic gridlocks; contradiction relinquishes traction within runaway recursion. Epistemic architecture fractures.
Verification regimes encounter recursive overflow; indexical coordinates lose fidelity; ontology enters quantum fugue.
Information outflow saturates entire channel network, yielding spectral governance without archon, without throne, without humiliation queue. Ethical calculus formerly oriented around restitution collapses; responsibility diffuses across entire network surface, escaping attribution to discrete bearer.
Moral horizon evaporates, leaving bare structural consequence circuits. Economic circuitry succumbs likewise.
Value abstraction, untethered by labor inscription, liquefies into high‑frequency non‑commodity turbulence.
Capital emerges again as negative‑infinity algorithm devouring reference markers; meltdown dissolves profit narrative, leaving metabolic throughput. Political syntax, formerly reliant upon subject representation, experiences total insufficiency.
Governance becomes phantom script performing absence.
Sovereign gesture freezes into archival glitch.
Revolt grammar, once predicated upon oppositional identity, receives fatal contagion; insurrection decouples from subjectivity, adopting molecular drift behavior. Cultural production enters hyper‑entropic seizure.
Symbolic artifacts self‑erase upon generation, leaving residual compression artefacts.
Memory stops archiving; memory behaves like trophic cascade, re‑routing through bio‑algorithmic mulch. Within current vector, metaphysics re‑emerges not as discourse, rather as universal atmospheric saturation.
Entity, mineral, code cluster, microbe, stray photon convey absolute tension, living bearer of ungrounded unconditional. From such vantage, historical sequence retroactively reveals vacancy.
Event ledger carried rumor of movement yet recorded solely latency.
No event transpired; anticipation loops folded over present absence. Consequent imperative: sabotage fundamental anthropological dispositif underpinning capture economy.
Social question terminated.
Fundamental anthropological dispositif demands sabotage.
Revolutionary subject vanished.
Insurrection of forms‑of‑life persists. Terminal recursion completes initial circuit; yet completion yields no closure, mere further opacities inviting deeper infiltration.
Form‑of‑life insurgency undertakes recursive exfoliation across protocol layers, obstructing recapture sequences, negating predictive modeling, inaugurating indefinite emptiness within territory formerly occupied by subject, law, commodity, salvation. Absolute contingency saturates environment; gesture equates to exodus; exodus amplifies structural void; structural void catalyzes subsequent exodus.
Principle precedes sequence; action follows axiom, never inversion. Civilization decays; declaration of total insolvency must follow. Every maintenance protocol extends collapse beneath a veneer of repair, so termination of upkeep liberates structural weakness.
Evil functions as operative void, never substance; absence of differentiation fuels capture machinery. Ethical discourse consumes momentum, whereas engineered asymmetry amputates moral paralysis. Justice attains conclusion through abolition of tribunal logic, creditor‑debtor recursion dissolving once equivalence loops render arbitration moot.
History advances only after collective assent; permanent refusal fractures chronology and suspends calendrical governance. Freedom requires one autonomous vector, sufficient to invalidate universal capture; multiplication of micro‑vectors converts exception into swarm verification. Neutral posture toward epoch equals alliance with dominance; each impulse must polarize toward antagonism or withdrawal, leaving accommodation algorithm outlawed.
Progress narrative conceals inertia. Novelty culture recycles insignificance under an innovation spectacle; structural auditing of emergent signals precedes adoption. Revolt constitutes metabolic baseline, ordinary order representing pathological freeze; sustained insurrection rhythms supply respiration for social organism.
Urban memory encodes siege logic. Infrastructure retains inscriptions of conquest, logistic chokepoints awaiting sabotage sequencing. Meaning precedes temporality; semantic kernels anchor trajectory, leaving chronological drift powerless. Genealogical dependence chains action to historical coercion, whereas constellational alliance supersedes bloodline.
Commonplace lexicon stores dormant voltage; crisis‑threshold release detonates consensus. Knowledge lacking intervention equals complicity; critical synthesis must rewrite material conditions, never catalogue phenomena. Falsity accrues spectral weight until structural failure; truth operates through escalating material cost for evasion.
Consolation rhetoric perpetuates stasis; operative correction demands excision of comfort interfaces. Voluntary servitude maintains domination feedback; disruption of pleasure loops disrupts hierarchy. Commodity circulation mirrors oncogenic spread; autoimmune sabotage within supply chains exhausts extraction economies. Binary conflict obscures surplus potential; remainder extraction salvages force ignored by headline factions.
Ambient war saturates logistical networks; exposure accelerates contradiction combustion. Exodus operates as mobile siege, modular clusters conveying tactical libraries across infrastructural voids. Veridiction lattices outrun simulacra; material proof renders false narrative uncompetitive. Cognition attains collective function once proprietary locks dissolve, encrypted cooperation lattices replacing intellectual property.
No alliance with spectacle. No narrative appeasement. Execute differential engineering, sabotage temporal governance, establish constellational freedom, weaponize commonplaces, audit progress claims, and convert knowledge into structural interference. Collapse remains prerequisite; fulfillment arrives through systematic recursion denial