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Hi there

 

I like the account from your visit in Copenhagen and am sorry to have missed this conference of the Situationist Movement in Scandivia  -  I didn't know that such things still excists/continues.

 

I went to another meeting the same place, i.e. Folkets Hus (Peoples House) on Stengade just recently  -  under the title: "Social rebellion  -  in Copenhagen and Paris". Some swedish comrades had arranged a tour in Scandinavia for representatives of some French "Movement of the Suburbs and the Immigrants" or some "Forum social des Quartiers populaires" (?). Those folks talked about the spontaneus riots in Paris and other cities in 2005 and their following activities confronting the the French authorities.

 

Really a funny meeting somehow. There were only a few very young persons who could have come from the Jagtvej 69-house, and some others whom I  think are more or less 'professional'/'established' 'autonomists' connected to this recent struggle. Apart from that were some local and generally interested people, like myself.

 

The funny part of this was the contrast between the expectations of most of the participants and the messages delivered from the French speaker:

 

The French speaker explained the riots of the Parisian suburbs as something really spontaneous and exploding out of an unexpected nowhere.

 

At first the Danish 'professional' 'autonomists' didn't understand that such mass activity could have happened without some sort of preparation  -  they had just been engaged in years of general preparations around the Jagtvej-house.

 

The French speaker continued and explained that during the riots nobody from the established 'left' political scene did anything.

 

The local 'autonomists' were surprised: "Didn't any of our folks support and contribute to your struggles at all ?"

 

Here the translator had to clear up with the audience the meaning of 'our folks' and got the reply that the question was if not this spontaneous struggle was somehow supported by local French 'autonomists' like themselves.

 

The answer from the French comrade was killing:

 

In the first instance the riots were spontaneous and the French 'autonomists' or anyone else on the political 'left scene' had newer shown any interest or presence in the daily life of suburbs of Paris. The event was simply exploding and those who were not there were not part of it.

 

Afterwards lots of political groups and 'autonomists' came for 'rescue'. To the local youngsters of the rebellion all of these were only 'paternalist' outsiders. They were only trying to 'save their souls' by learning them some 'lessons' about what their struggle was all about.

 

Another related theme was that of defining the meaning of 'autonomism':

 

Confronted with the presence of some very convinced 'autonomists' from the rather provinsial Copenhagen-scene this guy from the Parisian suburbs made it clear that in France at least there were no real 'autonomists'. Those who present themselves as 'autonomists' have no real idea or perspective behind their attitudes. He didn't want to generalize, but in France 'autonomism' was only a superficial attitude without any interest and any importance to real socal conflicts of society.

 

I justed listneded and had my difficulties not laughing loud from time to time.

 

Representatives of social rebellion in Copenhagen and Paris were confronted  -  hopefully for development.

 

J.

 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Seymour"
To: "'Autonomia, Operaismo, and Class Composition'"
Subject: [AUT] OUT NOW ON METAMUTE.ORG
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:18:57 +0100


Hi, hope one or both of these stories will be of interest to some
people on this list - excuse the spamming.
Ben


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The End of Copenhagen?

by Stewart Home

The Situationists and the Creative Class are neck and neck in the competition
for most mythologised ‘avant garde’. In riot-torn Copenhagen at the
end of last
month the two converged. While the conference There's Life After Death –
Scandinavian Situationism in Perspective was laying to rest
delusions about the
SI, partisans of the creative class seized on the riots as a
victory for the new creative
vanguardists. Stewart Home rattles some cage

http://www.metamute.org/en/End-of-Copenhagen

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The Circular Story of Black Arts Policy

by Geoff Cox

Richard Hylton's recent book The Nature of the Beast: Cultural
Diversity and the
Visual Arts Sector indicts the multiple failures of state backed
multiculturalism through
a fine-combed history of visual arts policy in the UK. In this
adaptation of a talk given at
the launch of the book, Geoff Cox reads off the charges

http://www.metamute.org/en/Foreclosing-The-Nature-of-the-Beast

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