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OWS (4): As Tina Turner propounded: “We don’t need another hero.”—in response to Vincent

Berardi states “[m]oney (i.e. economics) and the State (i.e. politics) are no longer able to govern or discipline the world of production, now that its center is not a de-brained force, a uniform and quantifiable time of manual work. That center is now occupied by mind flows, by the ethereal substance of intelligence, which eludes [...]

OWS (3): The Secret Recipe of the Occupy Franchise—in response to Vincent.

When it comes to language and creative clearing, and more importantly the “idea of order,” Vincent and I have a bit of recent history. It is in the spirit of clearing that I am thinking my response.   First, the creative clearing, the “destructive character” in relation to pure force beset by ‘power’ or a [...]

The Destructive Character: A Transcontinental Presentation

  The following presentation was held by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and A. Staley Groves at the presentation of the publication ‘The Destructive Character’ by Dick Raaijmakers, accompanied by Groves’s poetry ‘Étui’ at Onomatopee on June 10, 2011.