Comments on: Moments of excess THE FREE ASSOCIATION Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:17:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.3 By: Clock time and life-time saving | freely associating /moments-of-excess/#comment-6472 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:27:13 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/moments-of-excess/#comment-6472 […] Moments of excess […]

]]> By: 3 years on… 7 fragments on the latest winter rebellions | Novara Wire /moments-of-excess/#comment-3226 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:25:18 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/moments-of-excess/#comment-3226 […] to the storming of Millbank, 9th December 2010 arguably saw the most notable ‘moment of excess’ of the Coalition-era student movement. Over the course of about ten hours, thousands of young […]

]]> By: A neo-anarchist vampire bites back: Mark Fisher and neoconservative leftism | Automatic Writing /moments-of-excess/#comment-3157 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:01:30 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/moments-of-excess/#comment-3157 […] I think, no coincidence that Mark Fisher chose this historic moment of deficit (the opposite of a “moment of excess”) to dust off an old and conservative discourse, give it a new psychoanalytical gloss, and to use it […]

]]> By: Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible: How #OccupyWallStreet is Redefining Expectations | Orchestrated Pulse /moments-of-excess/#comment-2418 Sun, 05 May 2013 00:19:53 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/moments-of-excess/#comment-2418 […] Free Association in their book “Moments of Excess” explain that “compositional” tactics are a promising strategy for transforming impossibility […]

]]> By: WALTHAMSTOW 2 EDL NIL. WHAT NEXT FOR ANTI-FASCISM AFTER THE ‘RETURN TO WALTHAMSTOW’? « Anti-Fascist Network /moments-of-excess/#comment-1999 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:31:37 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/moments-of-excess/#comment-1999 […] idea of ‘moments of excess’ applies to the far-right as well as to the left. RTS brought a whole load of people into contact […]

]]> By: Walthamstow 2 EDL Nil. What next for anti-fascism after the ‘return to Walthamstow’? « while rome burns /moments-of-excess/#comment-1991 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:08:54 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/moments-of-excess/#comment-1991 […] idea of ‘moments of excess’ applies to the far-right as well as to the left. RTS brought a whole load of people into contact […]

]]> By: How to generate a generation. /moments-of-excess/#comment-1548 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:45:50 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/moments-of-excess/#comment-1548 […] Free Association want to call these moments, when we collectively gain some traction on the world, moments of excess. What Marx is noting above is the tendency within such moments to draw on, and repeat the […]

]]> By: N30 + 10 « Dan Cull Weblog /moments-of-excess/#comment-1527 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:05:29 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/moments-of-excess/#comment-1527 […] or did we make significant gains? Was this more than simply a ‘moment of excess’? (The Free Association/Leeds May Day Group 2004) Importantly a few things have changed, corporate globalization would no longer been seen as the […]

]]> By: Surrealist games /moments-of-excess/#comment-460 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:26:45 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/moments-of-excess/#comment-460 […] Anyway Gaz’s talk really got me excited as he talked about surrealist games as the combination of collectivity and chance and called surrealism the communism of genius. You can read all that for yourselves but I was struck by how that resonates with our own concerns and indeed one of the central concerns of contemporary theory and indeed social movement practice, namely how do we get a politics adequate to the event. We have tried to think this through in terms of moments of excess. […]

]]> By: Activists for austerity /moments-of-excess/#comment-231 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:45:53 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/moments-of-excess/#comment-231 […] few years ago we commented (in Moments of Excess) that tactics of militant protest and direct action seemed to have spread, been usurped or hijacked […]

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