<nettime> Hypothesis 891. Beyond the Roadblocks

[Stevphen Shukaitis <stevphen@autonomedia.org>]

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Hypothesis 891. Beyond the Roadblocks
Colectivo Situaciones & MTD Solano
Translated by Dina Khorasanee & Liz Mason-Deese

Important collective theorization on the meaning of the 2001 Argentinean 
uprising

In 2001 a mass popular uprising overthrew the neoliberal government in 
Argentina: thousands upon thousands of people, both in organizations and 
on their own, took to the streets, defying the government’s curfew, 
shouting “they all must go” until the president was forced to flee by 
helicopter. The uprising, a response to years of economic and political 
crisis, cannot be understood without understanding the broader ecology 
of movements and what Colectivo Situaciones defined as “new social 
protagonists”: the unemployed blockading highways, neighborhood 
residents coming together in assemblies, vast segments of the country 
surviving through alternative currencies and barter networks.

This work, translated into English for the first time, brings together 
the conversations and theorizations of two key participants in that 
environment: militant research collective Colectivo Situaciones and the 
Movement of Unemployed Workers of Solano. The encounter and writing in 
common constituted a formidable experience for all those who 
participated, bringing to life a novel form of relation between thinking 
and doing, subject and object of research and political action.

Bio: Colectivo Situaciones is a collective of militant researchers based 
in Buenos Aires. They have participated in numerous grassroots 
co-research activities with unemployed workers, peasant movements, 
neighborhood assemblies, and alternative education experiments.

PDF available freely online: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1172
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Release to the book trade May 1st, 2023.

Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing 
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
everyday life.

Release to the commercial book trade May 1st, 2023
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