Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:34:33 -0400
To: lejandr-AT-hotmail.com
From: Alejandro de Acosta <br00516-AT-binghamton.edu>
Subject: already we must be feeling and thinking digest


=46riends, compa=F1eros y compa=F1eras:

This is in hopes that we can begin thinking critically about what has 
happened, and what is surely beginning to happen. These are the first 
attempts I've seen at theorizing what is going on in the U.S. and 
around the world right now. Needless to say, these texts come from 
very different perspectives and I don't agree with everything I am 
sending you.

The point is not to get over our shock or our sadness. It's to couple 
those feelings with the life-affirming activities of thinking and 
continuing to create joyful relations with each other.

Love,
Alejandro.

1. <alter-ee> Statement on Attacks in USA
2. Rick Dolphijn: 11 september 2001: treatise on nomadology-the war machine
3. Vlad Muzhesky: The Challenge of Instability in the new millenium.
4. IAC statement on events of Sept. 11, 2001
5. Yann Moulier Boutang : Apocalypse New York (french)
6. Shannon  Noble: adjust and proceed
7. Paul Virilio: Delirious New York [1993]
8.Craig Webster: message to comrades

1. <alter-ee> Statement on Attacks in USA
Statement from Polish anarchists. From -AT--infos website and list.

(en )From "Laure Akai" <cube-AT-zigzag.pl>

Innocent people never deserve to die for their country or because of their
country.

Yet, now the realities of airstrikes and mass destruction has returned to
the US. Newscasters, politicians and other shapers of public opinion all
chorus that none of them have ever seen such things, yet many people around
the world have this kind of devastation in recent memory and in fact have
suffered on a far deeper and greater level. This is the one thing that has
to be remembered above all in this situation, that airstrikes and murder are
nothing new and that although all the victims before these have been
dehumanized in the US media, people around the world have been suffering,
often at the hands of the US military, for many years.

We are quite sad that civilians are killed in incidents like this. We have
been sad for years. We've been mourning Chechens and Palestinians massacred
for resisting or just for existing, we've been mourning the victims of wars
around the world, of repression and political displacement.

The so-called terrorists, they surely must feel that they, their people or
compatriots have been victimized by the US, and it's probably true. They
probably have no hope at all that the US military will stop doing this, in
particular since it arrogantly and inhumanely refuses to address many
complaints about the plight of the Palestinians and the US role in
supporting their suffering. And for these policy choices, who knows how many
innocent american (and probably other) people have just lost their lives,
victims to US foreign policy. (Perhaps also victims to a religious-fanatic
reaction against globalization.) The State will be calling for terrorist
blood, but it will continue to enact its murderous and socially
irresponsible policies without accepting moral responsibility for their
reprecussions.

The State acts with or without the consent of the people but it cannot exist
and act in such ways without the active consent of the people or without
their passive apathy. The American populace to a large extent shares
responsibility for the deaths of their compatriots, as they share
responsibility for all deaths carried out by or in the interests of the US
military. The americans en-masse have given up their citizenship in the real
sense of the word; they act unconcerned about even the most alarming of
political events, except when it hits them at home. Then they act indignant
when the actions of their State has unwanted reprecussions. But this is not
civic responsibility, this is not global citizenship. Such a thing only
starts to happen when people think about the consequences of the State's
actions as they would think about the consequence of their own. That is,
something real, something lived, something that has its consequences and
something that each person should take responsibility for.

We call on anarchists around the world to use this opportunity to step up
the attack on the State, the institution of representative power and on all
military agression carried out in State or religious interests. People must
be made aware that by choosing a life of civic passivity instead of
self-government, they are letting their lives be run by uncountable
murderers who bring all sorts of disaster upon ordinary people. In order to
stop the killings, we have to stop the government and the wars made of
people deemed inferior by the powers of the world. We must also fight
against the reactionary jihad and all forms of resistance which threaten to
deliver equally murderous fates to their opposition.

The question in the end is a very simple one: how many people have to die
before people act decisively to take power away from the murderers? And how
many people have to die before the americans realise that they are people
not at all different than they? Now the americans may feel pain that they
are losing "some of their own", but as human beings, being been losing too
many of our own for too many senseless reasons for years.

STOP THE GOVERNMENT NOW!

Praska Anarchist Group
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2. Rick Dolphijn: 11 september 2001: treatise on nomadology-the war machine
=46rom deleuze-guattari list digest. Caused a lot of outrage on the 
list. I don't quite like his tone but I think he is on to something.


Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:33:57 +0200
=46rom: Rick Dolphijn <dolphijn-AT-fhk.eur.nl>
Subject: 11 september 2001: treatise on nomadology-the war machine

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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The World Trade Centre in New York, traversing America, Capitalism,
Satan, e.g.; the (double) tree, is beheaded. Though I am very sorry for all
of you somehow involved in this, since I consider the act itself horrible, it
needs thought. As D&G show in their chapter 1227: treatise on nomadology-the
war machine in ATP, the State does not coincide with the war machine, it has
to make use of it sometimes, but only in order to regain control the status
quo. America is now more than willing to tap into the war machine, yet it is
confronted with nomadology of the worst kind. No nuclear missile attack, no
chemical or biological weapons, no attack from space, but knives have injured
America in its heart (the hijackers were armed with knives). The tree logic
(the American State, the World Trade Centre) is facing the rhizome and has no
clue what to do. Bush claimed that the enemy has no face what a striking
image no subjectification, no signification It made use of a war machine, but
not in a way the State would like them to.

Rick Dolphijn

3. Vlad Muzhesky: The Challenge of Instability in the new millenium.
THE CHALLENGE OF INSTABILITY IN THE NEW MILLENIUM.


In the time of chaos, uncertainty and misleading declarations new challenges
and paradigms come clearly on the foreground. New York City, September 11. This
is the time and place where as many political analysts agree the war was
declared by =8Athe anonymous force. Around 10 am this morning we saw two
American airliners gliding into the World Trade Center towers within 20 minutes
interval. 35 min after that another plane crashed into the Pentagon building in
Washington, then yet another one near by Pittsburgh. Immediate results included
thousands of civilian victims, 30 % decrease in U.S. economic activity, as well
as federal and legislative disruptions.

Most interpretations use terrorism as an explanation of what occurred to be
precisely orchestrated disruptive economic action against U.S.  If we abstract
from political ideologies and look at this event in the context of the emerging
global processes we will see the message underlying the act of destruction of
American symbols of power. Considered to be the number one power in the world
both economically and military, U.S. was unable to prevent a deadly strike in
the heart of its economic and legislative system and left clueless as to the
subject of this action. No country or political group declared responsibility.
The names like Osama Bin Laden, radical Lumah groups, Saddam Hussein were
widely used across the reports pointing to the Middle East as the source of
what many called the ultimate evil.  Regardless of who directed the suicide
pilots and positioned trucks and boats full of explosives and (as it was stated
in 2 of NYC TV reports) potentially even used biological weapons the fact that
the global system is out of balance comes out into the open. The American
dollar is falling down on every market and all it took to achieve this was
redirecting 4 in land flights. The resources necessary to organize this
barbaric act and the damage, which it caused, are incomparable which by itself
is an indication of instability.    It is also a clear display of the
dissemination of political subjectivity in the global context.  Augmented by
the technology political subjectivity as a complex system of power and
knowledge triggered chaotic geo-political and economic processes, which as the
attack on the U.S. shows lead to its technological and economic disintegration.
Disruptions in electronic communication systems from cellular networks to
internet services which we experienced in this critical moment today in NYC
when lives were on the line were not caused by terrorists but by the
overwhelming amount of traffic which these networks aren't designed to handle.
Suddenly the magic of comfort and safety was wiped out on so many levels that
many of us are waking up from the superficial mass marketed idea of piece. It
is not panic which leads us, it is the reality of being inside the system,
which has no more resources to maintain internal balance.

As we enter the new millennium we find ourselves in the middle of the war
field, which this world has become conditioned by excessive socio-economic
practices and trans-mutations of the lines of power. We understand that
American national crisis is merely a representation of the global dissipation
in which all of the countries, corporations and populations are involved
willingly or against their will. I have no doubt that U.S. will respond to this
action but it is also clear that whatever military actions will be taken
against the imaginary subject of evil this framework is not going to reinstate
global balance. The death of power symbols is the beginning of a confusing and
painful but vital process of reorientation and enlightenment. It is a call for
new progressive mentalities to enter the global scene and replace what Bataill
called restricted economies. Without an exegeration this challenge is critical
to our survival and prosperity.


Vlad Muzhesky

BASICRAY, NYC

September 11, 2001

THE UPDATED VIDEO VERSION OF THIS STATEMENT WILL BE AVAILABLE IN 24 HOURS
AT HTTP://WWW.BASICRAY.COM

4. IAC statement on events of Sept. 11, 2001 (english)
=46rom indymedia website

IAC statement on events of Sept. 11, 2001 (english)
by International Action Center 7:14am Wed Sep 12 '01
iacenter-AT-action-mail.org


While at this moment thousands of families are in mourning for the 
death and injuries of loved ones, the Bush administration is taking 
advantage of the tragic human toll to strengthen the forces of 
repression while intensifying the Pentagon's war drive, especially in 
the Middle East.

Statement from the International Action Center on Events of September 11, 2001

This statement was written from New York City.

Everyone here has been deeply affected by today's events. The 
International Action Center extends its most heartfelt sympathies and 
condolences to all those who have lost loved ones today as well as 
the thousands of workers who were in lower Manhattan today.

While at this moment thousands of families are in mourning for the 
death and injuries of loved ones, the Bush administration is taking 
advantage of the tragic human toll to strengthen the forces of 
repression while intensifying the Pentagon's war drive, especially in 
the Middle East.

Arab and Muslim peoples in the United States are reporting that they 
are facing racist harassment in their communities, on their jobs and 
at mosques. Anti-Arab racism is a poison that should be repudiated. 
We call on all people who oppose
racism to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Arab-American community 
in the face of this reactionary frenzy.

After the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, 
the U.S. government and media were quick to speculate that Arab and 
Islamic organizations were responsible; but as everyone now knows, 
extreme right-wing Army veteran Timothy McVeigh was to blame.

New War Danger

The International Action Center urges all anti-war activists and 
progressive people to remain on the highest alert in opposing the 
Bush administration and the Pentagon's plans to
use this crisis as the springboard for a new round of aggression in 
the Third World, especially against the people of the Middle East.

In August 1998, the Pentagon delivered murderous cruise missile air 
strikes against a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan without any evidence, 
supposedly in retaliation for the
bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. The cruise missiles destroyed 
the Al Shifa Pharmaceutical factory that provided most of Sudan's 
medicines. Thousands of African people perished as a direct result of 
the Pentagon's bombing.

President Ronald Reagan ordered the invasion of Grenada in the 
Caribbean shortly after a truck bomb exploded at a U.S. Marine Corps 
base in Lebanon in 1983. Under Bush senior, over 2,000 Panamanians 
were killed in the middle of the
night on Christmas Eve in 1989 under the pretext of the war on drugs.

In 1986, after pointing a finger at Syria, Iran and several 
Palestinian organizations for an explosion at a discoth=E8que in 
Germany, U.S. aircraft bombed Tripoli and Benzagi in Libya. Hundreds 
of civilians, including children, died in
their sleep as the U.S. Air Force carried out this nighttime sneak attack.

We ask activists and the people of this country to be ready to 
protest new Pentagon aggression in the coming period.

The Bush administration will use this current crisis as a means to 
justify a further expansion of the Pentagon's war budget at the 
expense of money for housing, education, health care, jobs and other 
human needs.

Danger of More State Repression

Throughout the country, the military, FBI and local police 
authorities are now sealing off large urban areas, blockading 
bridges, tunnels and roads, and mobilizing a massive presence of 
police and the National Guard. All this reveals an advanced stage of 
planning for domestic
repression that can be used against the progressive and labor 
movements, and the Black, Latino, Asian, Arab and other oppressed 
communities.

All the more reason to resist the current efforts to strengthen 
police measures under cover of the present crisis.

Build Solidarity

The people of New York City and the country cannot allow the Bush 
administration and the Pentagon to play on their genuine feelings of 
shock and disbelief to stir reaction and
strengthen the forces of repression. This will not help the working 
and oppressed people of this or any country.

The only way to respond to today's events is to extend solidarity to 
the families and friends of those who perished or who were injured at 
the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; build global solidarity with 
people around the world struggling against war, poverty and 
exploitation; and deepen the movement to protest new Pentagon 
aggression.

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5. Yann Moulier Boutang : Apocalypse New York (french)
from multitudes-infos list


Ch=E8res et chers

Le débat sur G=EAnes se trouve singuli=E8rement surdéterminé par 
l'apocalypseYork , Oldtrade Center

J'avais déj=E0 exprimé lors des débats sur cette liste =E0 propos de 
G=EAnes que la th=E8se de la militarisation du pouvoir impérial per=E7ue =E0 
G=EAnes manquait un peu  de subtilité. A moins de développer l'idée 
tres parano=EFaque que les Etats-Unis, mandataires de la puissance 
impériale, ne montent le spectacle du terrorisme =E0 l'échelle mondiale 
pour justifier une répression militaire et une gestion 
anti-terroriste contre le mouvement naissant, il faut considérer au 
vu de la guerre simulée réellement, de l'hyper-terrorisme contre la 
super-puissance, qu'il y a =E0 l'oeuvre une autre structure. Laquelle? 
je vous propose d'inclure cela dans nos réflexions samedi.

Mon idée est la suivante.

La reprise de la formation d'un mouvement mondial 1995 =E0 Seattle 
perturbe totalement le scénario néo-libéral d'une absorption linéaire 
du deuxi=E8me et troisi=E8me monde apr=E8s la disparition du socialisme 
réel comme alternative globale =E0 la globalisation.

L'anti-globalisation capitaliste s'est développée =E0 une tr=E8s grande 
vitesse sur une absence totale d'alternative idéologique, 
conceptuelle et dirais-je charnelle , au sens d'un corps sans organe 
( donc impossible =E0 terrasser par une destruction d'un organe 
vital)et pas simplement d'affect ou d'organes.

Le non =E0 la globalisation dispose avec la rationalité écologique 
d'une contre-projectualité  sérieuse mais elle est non articulée avec 
une force politique sauf institutionnelle ( le début de l'ascencsion 
électorale des écologistes qui rel=E8vent la composante communiste)

Il en résulte une situation dangereuse qui s'était déj=E0 produite =E0 
l'échelle italienne et européenne vers la fin des années soixante-dix.

Je dis dangereuse car le mouvement est capable de casser l'embrayage 
des changements de vitesse que le nouveau capitalisme voudrait 
imposer, mais il n'embraye pas encore sur  l'augmentation de la 
puissance constituante.

Et depuis un ou deux sommets la propulsion du mouvement continue =E0 
gagner en extension en capacité d'atteindre durement les objectifs 
stratégiques du capitalisme cognitif ( en particulier ses exigences 
de nouvelles clotures) mais la violence du pouvoir l'appelle un 
attracteur.

J'appelle un attracteur la réduction de la notion de pouvoir impérial 
=E0 un ressassé de la th=E8se de la superpuissance impérialiste 
américaine, la mesure de la radicalité ou de la puissance du 
mouvement =E0 sa capacité de répondre au pouvoir global capitaliste.

Ce sont ces phases o=F9 la surdétermination terroriste intervient 
presque systématiquement.

Chaque fois que le mouvement exprime potentielle puissance de 
multitude, et le virtuel est le miroir de ce futur, le chantage =E0 
l'expression  du pouvoir immédiat, intervient et repousse dans les 
limbes cette actualisation de la puissance multiple.

Apocalypse New York enregistre la formidable poussée contestatrice 
de la puissance impériale d'une fa=E7on catastrophique ( comme dans les 
films d'Hollywood qui se sont trouvés réalisés en direct, écart 
vertigineux avec la guerre du Golfe qui n'avait pas eu lieu selon 
Saint Baudrillard)  mais de fa=E7on compl=E8tement faussée, détournée au 
sens o=F9 les Palestiniens y deviennent  des Talibans, ou la 
contestation de la mondialisation qui exécre le World Trade Center et 
le Pentagone ( le marché et le sabre) se trouve sommée d'adhérer =E0 
cette réalisation de la destruction.

La catastrophe la plus sérieuse de tient pas seulement  aux 
conséquences que le terrorisme promu =E0 l'échelle étatico-impériale 
aura en termes de répression "militaire" des mouvements 
contestataires écrasés entre la soumission au consensus 
anti-terroriste (repentir, dissociation etc..) et le basculement du 
c=F4té de la rébellion absolue, démoniaque et démonisée. Donc 
concr=E8tement une diminution ou un rétrécissement que le mouvement 
avait recommencé =E0 conquérir apr=E8s les années d'hiver Elle tient 
surtout =E0 cette projection au plus haut niveau, =E0 ce défi-pi=E8gé o=F9 
l'on ne peut plus dire comme =E0 G=EAnes que seule la police crée la 
provocation.

Apocalypse New York est une puissante surdétermination sur G=EAnes, 
c'est un appel (d'offre) sur et =E0  tous les black blocks. Que p=E8se la 
taxe Tobin face =E0 la tentation d'en finir physiquement avec le 
quartier général-symbole du capitalisme mondialisateur et son bras 
armé et gendarme du monde. Dans les deux cas la comparaison est 
fausse car le WTCenter et le Pentagone sont beaucoup plus que des 
symboles, et ce n'est pourtant pas le quartier-général effectif du 
capitalisme mondial qui est surtout sans divisions et enterré vers le 
Nebraska ou carrément abstrait insaisissable.

La vraie provocation au regard de quoi les agissements de la police, 
de l'Etat italien ne sont que de minables amuse-gueule, c'est cette 
sur-détermination.

C'est un ennemi beaucoup plus redoutable. Comme un virus, il clone le 
mouvement anti-modialisation. Et bient=F4t nous aurons des 
manifestations contre les bombardements de
Kaboul.

Alors face =E0 ce premier événement du XXI=B0 si=E8cle, =E0 cette situation 
radicalement nouvelle, nous ne pouvons pas nous contenter des 
vieilles rengaines de la provocation, de la manipulation.
Quelle politique pour les multitudes dans un décor mi-cartoon, mi 
réalité ( avec des effets spéciaux, une superproduction digne de 
l'Empire Romain et de vrais morts) ?

Yann

6. Shannon Noble: adjust and proceed.
=46rom nettime list

Greetings,

Let me describe what I do for financial gain:

I am a digital efx artist working in the film industry. By default.

I've been doing this type of work for ten years.

I work in what we call "cliented sessions" often where those involved in
production sit at my side as I coax and prod them as they coax and prod me
to produce digitally manipulated film images. Fairly standard.

I had been working on the opening title sequence for a Michael Douglas film
called "Don't Say a Word" on and off for the past six months. We had finally
"finalized" the opening title sequence last week. There is an emergency
session tomorrow morning. I will be coaxed and prodded to digitally remove
the World Trade Center towers from two sequences within this main title
opening. It will take me about the same time to do it as it did two jet
planes to do it in real time for real.

I am despondent.


shannon


7. Paul Virilio: Delirious New York [1993]
=46orwarded to nettime list by John Armitage.

"With the New York bomb [in the World Trade centre, 1993], we thus 
findourselves faced with the latest escalation in the kind of 
military-political action that is based simultaneously on a limited 
number of actors and guaranteed media coverage. It has reached the 
point where soon, if we don't look out, a single man may well be able 
to bring about disasters that were
once, not long ago, the province of a naval or air force squadron."

"Indeed, for some time the miniaturisation of charges and advances in 
the chemistry of detonation have been promoting a previously 
unimaginable equation: One man = Total war."

Paul Virilio, "Delirious New York", 30 March 1993.

8. Craig Webster: message to comrades

=46rom: Craig Webster <cwebster-AT-alumni.princeton.edu>
Reply-To: cwebster-AT-alumni.princeton.edu
To: bodhati-AT-hotmail.com
Subject: 8.5
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:08:58 -0800 (AKDT)

=46ellow lovers and workers and dreamers and strugglers of the world,

In this (almost) overwhelming moment of shock and fear and raw magnitude,
we are squarely faced with the urgent need for courage in love and
healing.  Everything is different, now.  We desire change; but we are
suddenly in overwhelming danger of deadly acceleration.  We may be on the
brink of a descent into barbarism, into retributive testosterone, into
paralysis, into fascism.  The nightmare of the world may become a living
horror.

Right away, I would like to suggest that as a nascent movement for life
and hope we have a responsibility to ourselves, to the world, and to
America to speak and act effectively with love and wisdom.  And to be
effective, I think we need to come together.  Will the IMF/WB meetings
occur?  Will the city be shut down?  I suggest these are not the most
important questions.  I suggest we must decide what to do in this
unprecednted moment based on our internal needs as a movement, and on the
image we present to the country and the world.  Already, many thousands
of us plan to arrive in DC to resist the horror of global political and
economic entities that enforce suffering around the world.  Perhaps it
would be wise to transform what was to be (yet another) demonstration
into a self-conscious moment of togetherness as a multitude; an
opportunity to assemble, to experience ourselves, to discuss and
deliberate where we are and what may lie forward.  To be serious and
honest about our grief and our fear and our undying hope.  And perhaps to
assemble in a collective funeral, a funeral for the victims of this
insane war between oppression and life that goes on and on and on, around
the world and (now) so palpably here, in this country.  I know I, at
least, will come to DC to mourn and to continue the struggle for life.

Before, during, and beyond DC, what can we do to build healing rather
than reactionary hatred and despair?  One aspect, the "easiest" one for
many of us, is analysis.  I have been proud to hear the wise and
courageous voices around our movement.  Fort it's worth, my opinion is
that the most damaging result of yesterday's events is the tendency
people have to identify with the American state and the structures of
(corporate) power.  But doing so makes it impossible to recognize that
what was attacked today was not "the American people" nor "the heart of
democracy" but the structures of American Empire: the Pentagon and the
World Trade Center.  Those who died were people, innocent as the ordinary
soldiers and civilians of other wars.  Their death is tragic, horrific,
agonizing; as is all war.  But this is a war, not between "us" and some
"faceless cowards" but between the structures of (largely American)
global power and the whole achingly beautiful planet.  Today's attacks
happen in the context of that war, a war without easily visible lines and
battalions and battles, but no less horrifying for all that, and one that
has been ongoing for a very long time.  Today, the American people feel
the cost of that war in a shockingly obvious way; more obvious than
pollution or distant death, ecocide or imperialism, despair or hunger.
But to rally around the "generals," and especially these "generals," will
only prolong the needless carnage.

But we all know that reason and facts are not the whole of truth and
wisdom.  At least in this country, it may not be the time to point out
how the Pentagon and the WTC as institutions caused the circumstances of
their own destruction, and the deaths of the many inside the buildings.
People are suffering.  Hearts and souls are rent; fear and anger must be
healthfully borne, not denied or ignored or repressed.  (And, certainly,
as a movement, we are in danger of guilt by association; like the Germans
in WWI and the Japanese in WWII.)

Nonetheless, in this moment of grief and danger of hatred, we cannot sit
back.  We have a responsibility to work for love and understanding and
healing.  In every circumstance the response will be different.  Perhaps
in one situation it will be by suggesting how this experience of terror
allows us an empathy with the chronic terror around the world, a fear for
safety and security that many live continuously.  Perhaps it will be by
showing how rash decisions and violent retaliations can only worsen the
situation, drag us into a cycle of death.  Perhaps it will be by
debunking the already growing myth that "freedom" must be defended by
limiting or suspending civil liberties.  Always, it will be by giving and
asking for love; by building networks of care and relationships to
strengthen us in the coming days and years ahead.  Mutual aid, a praxis
of empathy; as always, we must build the revolution in the fabric of our
lives.

Now, more than ever before, our love and courage and wisdom must somehow
learn to subvert and distract and repel and undermine the violence of
domination.  We stare into the abyss.  Let us come together, in
solidarity.

In struggle (and love and hope).

PS: forward as appropriate
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