Back in fashion
In the introduction to Radical thought in Italy: a potential politics, Michael Hardt writes something about how Italian political theory has the feel of having been written late at night after tremendous political activity. The Revelli piece I linked to below has this quality in spades; it’s also something that Indymedia ought to be encouraging, although unfortunately it’s not all that common (I suppose we need to have the tremendous political activity first; certainly, Indymedia is at its best covering large, innovative, exciting, protests).
The Cambridge Indymedia cadre are at least having a go, with good articles recently from yossarian, on opposing Bush in Brussels and manos on the Cottenham Residents’ Association (a meeting of which another friend of mine described as one of the most frightening things he’d ever witnessed).
This precarity stuff really seems to be picking up momentum (check the latest issue of Mute), with some great actions at Milan fashion week; are we seeing a new stage in the alter-globalisation movement, with the western sections refashioning themselves to adopt some of the focus on local struggle we’ve seen recently in the global south?
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