Posted December 3rd, 2006 by surplus
One of our soundbites is: “We’re wearing the white overall so that other people wear it. We’re wearing the white overall so that we can take it off someday”.
The white overall is not a “uniform” […] It hasn’t got militaristic origins. Back in Autumn 1994 the Mayor of Milan evicted the Leoncavallo squatted centre and [...]
Posted December 2nd, 2006 by surplus
Again and again and again, capitalism consumes every possible alternative to itself that emerges. This represents a phenomenon that will continue to occur as long as such supposed “alternatives” continue to be invented. What needs to be made clear to those who seek to challenge capitalism is that capitalism relies on otherness to itself [...]
Posted December 1st, 2006 by surplus
In the world where the master signifier is removed, authority haunts us as an invisible and omnipresent form.
Zizek explains, “The suspension of the Master, which reveals impotence, in no way gives rise to liberating effects: the knowledge that “the Other doesn’t exist” (that the Master is impotent, that Power is an imposture) imposes on [...]
