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Upcoming: A series of writings on biopolitics,
destituent power, ontology and anarchism.
Breathing, Together, Conspiracy
The word ‘conspirator’ derives from the Latin verb
conspīrāre – a word that, while evoking 'conspiracy' in
the modern sense, also means ‘in harmony.’ Con-
means 'with' or 'together,' and spīrāre, 'I breathe': to
conspire is, quite literally, to breathe together with
others.
If the conspiratorial for us proposes a drift – an
indeterminate steering of the world’s anarchic
tendencies toward a communism of civil war,
then historical references, such as the clandestine
communists of the 19th century are instructive
only up to a point. Head-on war is a mistake
‘classical anarchists’ make.
Decentralised Or Not, This Is The Panopticon
We feel less and less willing to speak of this,
but here I am. Once again, there remains a fidelity,
among some, to the liturgies of democratic
governance. That those few who ‘brand’ voting as
solidarity marks another triumph of subjectivation,
the point where the management of bodies passes
itself off as their liberation. In that gesture, which is
a tactic of entryism, the voter becomes the
paradigmatic subject of this democracy, the
docile-yet-sovereign subject of bourgeois politics.
‘Real Change’
Voting is not revolt, nor is it change, it is what
precludes both. If their alliances depend on
legitimacy to the state apparatus, and so, its
electoral rhythms, they were never about a
difference to begin with. To those that need to
hear it, even a ‘decentralised’ political party is
one that says we can take control of the state
apparatus and do it ‘better’. To remember:
within the central tower of this panopticon,
there is another tower, and inside that, another.
So, ‘once again, blind experimentation, with no
protocol or almost none.’
‘Civil enforcement’