'Take over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy.' https://xitter.cf/t.co/TMpuU6rEIS
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New book available for pre-order. It simultaneously spatialises autonomist Marxism and utilises the categories of operaismo for a renewed Marxist urban theory. Read for surveys of class/spatial composition, 'the tendency' and the social factory in the midst of urban revolt.⤵️
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Sırbistan'da öğrenciler doğrudan demokrasi yöntemini seçim siyasetine taşıdılar.
Liderlere dayalı, yukarıdan aşağıya bir örgütlenme yerine, herkesin söz alabildiği öğrenci genel kurulları (plenum) oluşturdular. Kararlar tartışılarak, mümkün olduğunca uzlaşmayla alındı.
Bu yöntemi üniversitelerin dışına da taşıdılar. Mahallelerde, kentlerde ve köylerde yurttaş meclisleri (zborovi) kuruldu. İnsanlar kendi sorunlarını tartışmak, çözüm önermek ve birlikte karar almak için toplandı.
250 kişilik milletvekili aday listesini de şöyle oluşturdular:
1- Önce 250 adaylık kontenjanı, öğrenci sayılarına göre altı üniversite kenti arasında paylaştırdılar. Belgrad'ın listeye hâkim olmaması için diğer kentlerin de üst sıralarda temsil edilmesini sağladılar. Ardından her kentin kontenjanını fakülteler arasında dağıttılar.
2- Ülke genelinde 80'den fazla fakültede öğrenci genel kurulları toplandı. Öğrenciler kendileri aday olmadı ama her biri aday önerebildi ve neden o kişiyi önerdiğini açıkladı. İsimler tartışıldı, önce uzlaşma arandı, gerektiğinde oylama yapıldı.
3- Mevcut siyasi kadrolara kapıyı kapattılar. İktidar partilerinin mevcut ve eski üyelerini, iktidar adına görev yapmış siyasetçileri ve bürokratları, muhalefet partilerinin üst düzey yöneticilerini aday göstermediler. Böylece hem iktidardan hem de yerleşik muhalefetten bağımsız bir liste oluşturdular.
4- Fakülteler birbirlerinin adaylarını da denetledi. Önerilen bütün isimler ortak bir listede toplandı ve tüm fakültelerin incelemesine açıldı. İtirazlar öğrenci kurullarında tartışıldı. Adayın elenmesi için kurulların yarısından fazlasının veto etmesi gerekiyordu. Tek bir fakültenin itirazı yeterli değildi.
5- Elenen veya çekilen adayların yerine yedekler getirildi. Böylece profesörlerin, doktorların, bilim insanlarının, işçilerin, sanatçıların ve aktivistlerin yer aldığı 250 kişilik liste ortaya çıktı.
"The students have been careful to avoid association with Serbia’s official opposition, which is itself tainted by venality and easily smeared by pro-government media. Their aim is not to swap one patronage network for another. It is to transform the entire political culture."
I wrote this about the student protests in Serbia at the beginning of last year, for @NewLeftReview Sidecar. Re-sharing because a few people have asked about the background and because it's my favorite thing I wrote about the protests newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
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Everything through a series of mediations plays back into it but it is quite jarring to consider how the US has not seen a social movement upheaval spurred and motivated around basic cost of living and explicitly thinking of itself as such for over 15 years.
Very pleased to have my new book included in this excellent list of Fall reading recommendations from @Metropolitics_
In case you missed it: our Editorial Board shared reading (and listening) recommendations, pulled together from the titles we enjoyed over the summer and those on our desks this fall: metropolitics.org/Fall-Readi…
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We welcome @JohnSwinney's announcement that all buses in Scotland will be brought under public control👏
It's vital this pledge supports the work @WeareSPT are already doing to progress bus franchising, and enables other regions to follow their lead👇
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Another nine HMOs housing asylum seekers were smashed up in Manchester last night and daubed with 'Send them back'.
This must be a bit like how it felt in Nazi Germany during Kristallnacht (the Night of the Broken Glass) when Jews were targeted.
Where will it end?
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International AI Summit takes place in Dublin tomorrow and this is how organisers want it perceived.
Reality is deepening relations between state actors & monopoly tech, as latter comes to depend on former to create markets for deeply unpopular, anti-social technologies.
Cheeky Pint is back! Mark Zuckerberg @finkd and Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang came to the pub to discuss their new frontier model, Muse Wonder.
00:00:24 Muse’s breakout use cases
00:07:28 The model is the product
00:14:35 Muse Wonder
00:24:56 How frontier models are built
00:48:26 Betting $100B
01:07:21 Agentic commerce
01:19:34 OpenRouter
01:20:06 Beyond the smartphone
01:27:00 Funding
01:34:06 Why AI won’t be winner-take-all
01:40:46 Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
02:08:11 Working for Mark Zuckerberg
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Disgusting scenes in Glasgow yesterday evening as a group of 40 masked-up, far-right thugs took to the streets on a racist rampage through the east end to target and intimidate any one who wasn’t white.
Far-right activists claim the protest was peaceful and have denied it..
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Great to meet @NeilGray00 again @LSEsociology where he's been talking about his new book, "Take Over The City", about post-war urban struggles in Italy, but feels very relevant (if different from) today in Spain and France.
Looking forward to this tomorrow night @LSEsociology . First public talk after the publication of 'Take Over the City'. Hope to see some London friends there!
How do class struggle and urban development shape one another?
Drawing on critical urban theory and strands of 1970s Italian Marxism, Neil Gray explores this relationship in "Take Over the City".
📅 8 October | 6pm
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I read The Brothers Karamazov when I was about 16. It was great but not easy and in my working class punk milieu it was something. Before I got to the end my brother and his mate ripped out the last pages just to annoy me. I had to finish the book in the library. Chew on that AI.
Looking forward to discussing Jacopo and Steve's new book on the the "Movement of '77" at HM this year.
@SteveWright1958
Since this is "often missing from standard streaming platforms" it's definitely worth a repost here.
Quite long for a short story, but 'Soul' by Andrei Platonov.
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I've created a link of active camps centred around housing issues should be editable.
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What's happening in Madrid just now is amazing but I'm too long in the tooth to hear people saying that the far right is dead and that the housing question is being dealt with overnight. Let's see what can be forced by these huge numbers and what happens from here.
