Temporary Autonomous Zone – Hakim Bey (1985)

1946-1989, Alternative Spaces, Authority, Date, Defining the Enemy, Disruptive Spaces, Evasion, History/Theory, Occupation, Patriarchy, Sabotage/Ecotage, Self Institution, Tactics of Disruption, Theory, Uncategorized, Urban Spaces

Classic anarchist text by Hakim Bey about creating temporary spaces that elude formal structures of control. From Pirate Utopias to Nomadic Bands, Poetic Terrorism to Ontological Anarchy, Hakim Bey draws on history and philosophy to think through spatial and mental liberation.

"The TAZ springs from the historical development I call “the closure of the map.”
The last bit of Earth unclaimed by any nation-state was eaten up in 1899.
Ours is the first century without terra incognita, without a frontier."

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The Political Invention of the Feminist Strike – L. Cavallero & V. Gago (2021)

2011-Present, Authority, Date, Defining the Enemy, Disruptive Spaces, Patriarchy, Strike, Subjectives of Refusal, Subjects Redefined, Tactics of Disruption, The Home, The Workplace, Urban Spaces, Women

Luci Cavallero and Verónica Gago discuss the March 8th feminist strike in Argentina in both global and historical context. They argue that the strike disrupts multiple domains of patriarchal society – weaving together judicial power as a gear in patriarchal violence, financial-economic power, and the urgency of demands for economic autonomy as an indispensable part of any confrontation with sexist violence.

The feminist strike enables other meanings capable of responding to pain, but without becoming trapped in victimism.

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Lets Spit on Hegel – Carla Lonzi (1970)

Defining the Enemy, Patriarchy, Time Interrupted, Women

Carla Lonzi, leading member of the Italian feminist collective Rivolta Femminile, 1970 pamphlet against patriarchal thought, history, and time. In this text Lonzi attacks Hegel (and Marx’s) notions of antagonism, progress, and historical development and calls for a subaltern history of women through the recovery of her perishable traces.

We consider incomplete any history which is based on nonperishable traces.

The future of the world does not lie in moving continually forwards along a path mapped out by man’s desire for overcoming difficulties.

Not being trapped within the master-slave dialectic, we become conscious of ourselves; we are the Unexpected Subject.

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