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Common Objectives, series 2 (2013)

31 October 2012
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Why ask what is to be done when it is already happening? Why write, when all around us the streets are filled with words anticipating the future? We can’t capture the essence of rebellion, only anticipate it. If the collective struggles of the recent past – from Tahir Square to Occupy, to the mass student and workers’ movements that stretch from Quebec to Chile and beyond – offer us anything more than images of resistance – more than the anger of the streets, more than the replacement of one puppet with a future stool-pigeon – they offer a challenge for art and writing to similarly shatter the codes and norms of production, to ceaselessly pour scorn on those who feed off others, and for words to celebrate the potential for the unimaginable.

Here, we announce series two: we call upon collective subjectivities, engaged in art, writing and action. We want the tears of groups smeared across the page; the blood of collectivity in every word, and the surging desire for the destruction of the status quo to gush off the page. You are the graffito that reads ACAB. You are the ruins of prisons. You are the overcoming of atomisation. You are the end of the society of control, and the beginning of self-organisation. You are the free university. You are the commune. You are the justice without which there will never be peace.

Write like the riot that dreams through you.

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