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The Reinvention of Planets By John Moore Green Anarchist #67 1. I am not willing to be a slave to my maxims (Stirner A radical transformation of life in the direction of anarchy - a condition of generalised spontaneous free creativity informed by a reflexive practice of freedom - requires the whole consent of the whole being and hence a comprehensive revision of the maxims that shape forms of creative spontaneity The creative act aims at a total renewal of the world (Sartre But left unexamined the maxims structuring subjectivity master me deform creativity stifle renewal a warp spontaneity into banality and conformity Everyone is in a state of creativity 24 hours a day Spontaneity is the mode of existence of creativity the unmediated experience of subjectivity the precondition for poetry the impulse to change the world in accordance with the demands of radical subjectivity (Vaneigem Radical subjectivity demands a conscious transformation of social maxims a revolution at the roots of subjectivity a revolution at the roots of everyday life a revolution that reaches out from within to transform life Unregenerate subjectivity remains incompatible with individual autonomy and revolutionary social transformation everything must be rewritten then (Beck If one is to be a rebel in the total experience of life if practices of self-realisation and creative insurgency are to emerge then a transvaluation of values remains fundamental in order to re-establish a foundation for identity in contexts where technosocial alienation severs immediacy of experience and contact with reality and perception of what-is and thus obscures who one is and hence enslaves one A reversal of the process of dispossession A disentanglement from confusion which enables a return to source A vital foundation for the recovery of original self The unrepresentable ground through nonconceptual consciousness of all self-representation Techniques of technosocial deprogramming The expulsion of internalised power relations Self-realisation in conjunction with others realising themselves And the creative revolutionary abandonment of power in all its forms 2. As capital power becomes representation becomes autonomous through domesticating humanity: humans integrate capital capital integrates humans humans interiorise the representation of capital the representation of capital interiorises humans and this representation comes to be taken for reality - the only possible reality - but one which can only exist as long as people collectively consent to accept it as real Revolutionary conflict thus essentially remains a conflict over representations (Representation is the human appropriation a conflict of representations of reality and our means of communication a conflict between and in this case it can never be abolished the dominance of representation (Camatte - representation autonomised - and creative insurgent self-realisation (Before a powerful shock is produced a union of revolutionaries must be realised there must be a new solidarity a new sensibility but especially a new representation If not, the shock will merely give rise to a blind resistance incapable of emerging in the affirmation of another mode of life Human beings will have to undergo a profound revolutionisation to be able to oppose capital (Camatte A new representation but especially a new form of representation Not political representation Not the old narratives that wield such cultural authority that they have become invisible Not the old myths nor the old maxims that silently structure identity and activity without our even being aware of it Not politics at all No ideology No doctrine No dogma But a new mode of life (not a mode of production but a new mode of being (Camatte a new dynamic of life a lived poetry (Poetry is the organisation of creative spontaneity an act which engenders new realities: it is the fulfilment of radical theory the revolutionary act par excellence (Vaneigem A total renewal through generalised creativity (This is a revolution of life itself a search for another way of living (Camatte |