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Against Urbanism [[link removed]]
By Franco La Cecla
After demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book Against Architecture,
Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have
to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly
inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic,
ethnic, and environmental factors are systematically overlooked in city planning
and housing development, and anachronistic, sterile, and formalistic architecture
almost invariably prevails. Meanwhile, our cities grow out of internal impulses,
not only in slums and favelas but through the pressing needs for public spaces
which have sprung forth in great events and movements such as Istanbul's Gezi Park
and Occupy Wall Street. Never more than today has democracy played itself out in
public spaces, sidewalks, and streets. Urban planners and developers, however,
are still prisoners of an obsolete vision of passivity which betrays actual city
needs and demands. A new urban science is required which can, first of all, guarantee
a civil, dignified life for all-urban development which ensures the right to a humane
mode of daily living, which has been and still is completely ignored.
"Accustomed as we are to thinking that changes take place online or on a global
scale, we sense that they are not made of human bodies in urban spaces and that
the mere presence in the square of people claiming their right to the city is a
political fact, explosive in nature." -Franco La Cecla (from Against Urbanism)
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Building Free Life [[link removed]]:
Dialogues with
Öcalan
By Editor: International Initiative "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan-Peace in Kurdistan"
From Socrates to Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned philosophers have marked the history
of thought and changed how we view power and politics. From his solitary jail cell,
Abdullah Öcalan has penned daringly innovative works that give profuse evidence
of his position as one of the most significant thinkers of our day. His prison writings
have mobilized tens of thousands of people and inspired a revolution in the making
in Rojava, northern Syria, while also penetrating the insular walls of academia
and triggering debate and reflection among countless scholars.
So how do you engage in a meaningful dialogue with Abdullah Öcalan when he has been
held in total isolation since April 2015? You compile a book of essays written by
a globally diverse cast of the most imaginative luminaries of our time, send it
to Öcalan's jailers, and hope that they deliver it to him.
Featured in this extraordinary volume are over a dozen writers, activists, dreamers,
and scholars whose ideas have been investigated in Öcalan's own writings. Now these
same people have the unique opportunity to enter into a dialogue with his ideas.
Building Free Life is a rich and wholly original exploration of the most critical
issues facing humanity today. In the broad sweep of this one-of-a-kind dialogue,
the contributors explore topics ranging from democratic confederalism to women's
revolution, from the philosophy of history to the crisis of the capitalist system,
from religion to Marxism and anarchism, all in an effort to better understand the
liberatory social forms that are boldly confronting capitalism and the state.
There can be no boundaries or restrictions for the development of thought. Thus,
in the midst of different realities-from closed prisons to open-air prisons-the
human mind will find a way to seek the truth. Building Free Life stands as a monument
of radical thought, a testament of resilience, and a searchlight illuminating the
impulse for freedom.
Contributors include: Shannon Brincat, Radha D'Souza, Mechthild Exo, Damian Gerber,
Barry K. Gills, Muriel González Athenas, David Graeber, Andrej Grubačić,
John Holloway, Patrick Huff, Donald H. Matthews, Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Antonio Negri,
Norman Paech, Ekkehard Sauermann, Fabian Scheidler, Nazan Üstündağ, Immanuel
Wallerstein, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Raúl Zibechi.
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Beyond Crisis: After the Collapse of Institutional Hope in Greece, What? [[link removed]]

Editors: John Holloway, Katerina Nasioka, and Panagiotis Doulos
The government led by Syriza in Greece, elected in January 2015, at first seemed
to be the most radical European government in recent history. It proclaimed itself
the "Government of Hope" and throughout the world symbolized the hope that radical
change could be achieved through institutional politics. The referendum of July
2015 rejected the austerity imposed by the banks and the European Union but was
followed by a complete reversal of the government's position and its acceptance
of that austerity.
The collapse of hope that accompanied the failure of the institutional Left opened
the way to the return of the right-wing New Democracy Party, with a more aggressive
program than ever. The essays collected in Beyond Crisis, among other things, form
a case study of the "Greek experiment" that points to deeper implications concerning
the global upsurge of disillusioned anger that has spurred the rise of far-right
populism and support for strong leaders, exclusion of ethnic minorities, and greater
"racial purity."

The Syriza government's dramatic crash showed the limits of institutional politics,
a lesson apparently overlooked by the enthusiastic followers of Jeremy Corbyn and
Bernie Sanders. But it also poses profound questions for those who reject state-centered
politics. The anarchist or autonomist movement in Greece has been one of the strongest
in the world, yet it has failed to have a significant impact in opening up alternative
perspectives.
So how do we pick up the pieces? What direction should we follow from now on? How
do we understand what happened and learn from it? The essays in this collection
do not point to a single conclusion or path forward but rather raise questions that
remain open about how to move beyond the current crisis amid a darkening sky of
seeming impossibility.
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