Comments on: Can the August days of 2011 be considered in terms of “moments of excess”? /2011/08/can-the-august-days-of-2011-be-considered-in-terms-of-moments-of-excess/ THE FREE ASSOCIATION Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:17:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.3 By: Let England Shake: The Connection Between Media Narratives and State Repression During the Riots | Orchestrated Pulse /2011/08/can-the-august-days-of-2011-be-considered-in-terms-of-moments-of-excess/#comment-1709 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:19:29 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/?p=1016#comment-1709 […] At the moment, there is a struggle to frame this historical moment as being criminal or political.  One thing is for certain, this moment is not completely one or the other.  I think Freely Associating does a good job of describing this tension as the writer answers whether the riots fall into what he and the organization call a “Moment of Excess”. […]

]]> By: We are all over the place /2011/08/can-the-august-days-of-2011-be-considered-in-terms-of-moments-of-excess/#comment-1707 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:08:15 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/?p=1016#comment-1707 Is it excess though? Is it not more a completion, a filling out a lack? We experience collective action as euphoric and sparkly, but it is immediately understood, a revealed already possible way of relating- a filling out the emptiness, a flooding the desert of ourselves we’d mistakenly identified with as the everything, experiencing re-growth rather than over-growth. Austerity is nothing new, kicking the glass just an appropriate instance of completion desired by enough to make it current.

Zombie Liberalism. Great metaphor. Only problem-its a metaphor and we need to break out of metaphor because it chains us to the contingent real. We all like a metaphoric description because it feels like we break that chain. But do we? Do we not make that chain more secure? Are we Zombie prey? last standing fighters against the zombie mass? Are we the audience willingly suspending disbelief watching the prey get eaten because we know that a good character (us really) will overcome the horror and survive?

Is there any more chance the audience will rise up out of their seats, stop the projector and replace the reel with one they made earlier, than the UK population taking to the town hall squares until parliament falls? Or if a few of us get a different film together and overcome the cinema staff and replace the ree(a)l, will we be able to switch the projector back on before the rest of the audience rises up to demand the old film back? What will the new film be? Sorry, I’m removing the seats, I’m moving in a sound system, I’ve already facebooked the party. A sparkly party- no zombies!

Their cracks are theirs. The best was Hugh Orde’s, calling the Thursday Recall of Parliament an “irrelevance”. Nice one Hugh, welcome to the movement!
But we can’t wait for the neo-liberal edifice to crumble. We have to get a better movie out Now! Where is the left? Have the Zombies eaten them? Are they waiting for a happy ending only to come out of the cinema to find the street under new management? and not us, the pretty ones!

When is the next Height Gate Gathering and can I propose item 1? We establish The National Transitional Council of these islands currently known as the uk. That this national council is actually a hub of federated communities mobilised in assemblies we put a call out for. This Council is for Transitional purposes only and serves only to Nationalise every private enterprise and redistribute their capital holdings to their relevant communities whether workers or local residents for approproate disposal. We produce a document at the next gathering, outlining the steps to free assembly of a mobilised opposition. And if this is all too whacky we at least propose the nationalisation of every corporation with a PFI contract and all banks, and a recall of parliament for recieving their redundancy notice? If not us… pint of bitter then?

]]> By: riot pron and readings « Dan Cull Weblog /2011/08/can-the-august-days-of-2011-be-considered-in-terms-of-moments-of-excess/#comment-1702 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:23:04 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/?p=1016#comment-1702 […] Can the August days of 2011 be considered in terms of ‘Moments of Excess’? The Free Association. Aug 17, […]

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