storming heaven

"Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom."

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Citable Moments: On "Control" Societies

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The following exchange occurred between Antonio Negri and Gilles Deleuze:

Negri: In your book on Foucault, and then again in your TV interview at INA,6 you suggest we should look in more detail at three kinds of power: sovereign power, disciplinary power, and above all the control of…

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“No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.  If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses,  they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations, the fears and hopes,  the loves and hatreds engendered by the struggle. Until the movement is  marked by the joyous, defiant, singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks  one of the most distinct marks of a popular revolutionary movement; it  is a dogma of a few, and not the faith of the multitude”

“No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations, the fears and hopes, the loves and hatreds engendered by the struggle. Until the movement is marked by the joyous, defiant, singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the most distinct marks of a popular revolutionary movement; it is a dogma of a few, and not the faith of the multitude”

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