19 and 20 () von Colectivo Situaciones

Notes for the next insurrection. A renewed reflection on and a return to the militant research of Colectivo Situaciones twenty years after the Argentinian insurrection.

Translator’s Preface by Nate Holdren & Sebastian Touza
Preface by Michael Hardt
The Ballad of Buenos Aires by toni negri
Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition by Marcello Tarì 
Introduction by Colectivo Situaciones

The Great Transformation
From the Market as Utopia to Biopower
The New Social Protagonism: An Ethical Operation

December 19th and 20th, 2001: A New Type of Insurrection
Insurrection Without a Subject
Words and Silences: From Interpretation to the Unrepresentable
Rupture of the Chain of Terror
De-instituent Insurrection
Problems and Challenges
The Positive “No”
Irreversibility
Insurrectional Violence
In the Streets

Situational Thought in Market Conditions
Thought and Consciousness
Knowing and Thinking
Questions of Visibility

Multiplicity and Counterpower in the Piquetero Experience
The Roadblock as Precedent
The Conjuncture and the Options of Thought
Representation
The Inclusion of the Excluded ... As Excluded
Piqueteros as a Political Illusion
From Multiplicity to Counterpower
Thinking the Radicality of Struggle
The Case of the MTDs (Unemployed Workers’ Movement)
Identity as Creation
The 19th and 20th

Looting, Social Bond, and the Ethic of the Teacher-Militant
Liberation and Dependency?
Looting
At School

Expression and Representation
Another Logic: Expression
That Obscure Object of Desire
A Paradoxical Situation: the Negation of Representation from Representation
Shortcuts

Neighborhood Assemblies
From 19th and 20th to the Assembly
The Neighborhood as Space of Subjectification
Political Desperation
Being There
Assemblies and Piquetes
Memory and Nation

The Diffuse Network: From Dispersion to Multiplicity
Consensus and Hegemony
The Neoliberal Revolution
Explicit Network and Disconnection (The Barter Club)
The Norm and the Ethic of Self-Affirmed
Marginalization
From Dispersion to Multiplicity
Diffuse Network
Situational Knowledges (The Escraches)
Counterpower

Epilogue

Appendix 1: On the Barter Club

Appendix 2: Causes and Happenstance: Dilemmas of Argentina’s New Social Protagonism
The Surprise (Rupture, De-institution and Visibility)
Phenomenology of an Apparent Reconstruction
The Ballot Boxes and the Streets
Phenomenology of Counterpower

Appendix 3: That December Two Years from the 19th and 20th

Afterword: Disquiet in the Impasse
Impasse: Time Suspended
Governmentality and New Governance
New Governance and Good Government
Latin America: Traversing the Crisis
Mythologiques the Crafts of Politics