19 and 20 - Notes for a New Insurrection (Updated 20th Anniversary Edition)

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Foreword

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“19 & 20 is a book-event that has become a key for social movements around the world. In it, Colectivo Situaciones practice militant research as an act of listening (escucha) and experimentation that translates the powerful mobilizations that took the streets to end neoliberal plundering (saqueo) into an inspiring and crucial praxis of thinking. Learning from the events instead of imposing old categories on their singularities, this book is a crucial source of inspiration on militant research and situated thinking. A singular work of pedagogy from below, this new edition comes in a timely moment where the deepening of the neoliberal expropriation of life that the pandemic has made so explicit meets with the tenth anniversary of the global uprisings of 201. Today, once again, 19 & 20 offers a crucial map for experimenting in the situated praxis of political thought.” —Susana Draper, coeditor of Femincide and Global Accumulation and author of Afterlives of Confinement and 1968 Mexico

“Assemblies may become thinking machines. And experiments of resistance may give rise to alternative experiences of sociability. Colectivo Situaciones develops out of these findings, that emerged within the 2001 resurrection in Argentina, a powerful reflexive research: a truly magnificent effort to explore the potentialities of a future beyond capitalism.”—Stavros Stavrides, author of Towards the City of Thresholds

“This is a book born in the barricades, neighborhood assemblies, and factory occupations of Argentina’s 2001 uprising against neoliberalism. Written by movement participants, it’s an inspiring account of the rebellion and a grassroots model of how to research and theorize a movement that forged a new way of doing politics from below. The English translation of such a classic book that’s been passed around revolutionary circles for decades is a cause for celebration and hitting the streets!”—Benjamin Dangl, author of The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia

“Twenty years ago, Argentina erupted in blockades and assemblies, occupations, demonstrations, and communal kitchens. In both its circumstances and forms, the 2001 uprising presaged the protests of 2011 and the struggles of our time. Colectivo Situaciones’ 19 & 20 provided both the sharpest analysis of that moment and a model of theoretical practice: nimble, dialogical, embedded in the movements with whom it thought, made in common. To rediscover it today is to do more than reconnect with the recent past; it is inevitably also to ask how it illuminates what we have lived since, and how we can continue to extend its lessons into the future.”—Rodrigo Nunes, author of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization

“A long decade before Occupy Wall Street, Argentineans poured into the streets to reject austerity and short the circuits of neoliberal capitalism, proving that state violence was no match for popular refusal. But this is not a book about Argentina or even Latin America as a whole, a brutal laboratory where neoliberalism was imposed in blood and fire. It's about a way of thinking that is also a doing, about what the concrete experience of rebellion teaches us about how the world moves, and how to turn that movement into thought. Find yourself in this book.”—Geo Maher, author of Building the Commune and A World Without Police 

The 2001 uprising in Argentina is a major flashpoint in a wave of popular struggles that repudiated the neoliberal capitalist order and authored new forms of non-capitalist social construction. Colectivo Situaciones gives us important analyses of the uprising and its legacies, the roots of Argentina’s financial and political crisis, and changes in contemporary forms of anticapitalist mobilization and resistance. Their close attention to grassroots practices of resistance, political organizing, and world-making is emblematic of their method of militant research, which itself has been an inspiration to so many. Those interested in contemporary social movements, political theory, and the history of Argentina and the region will find much to appreciate in this wonderful new edition.—Jennifer S. Ponce de León, author of Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War

Product details

• Authors: Colectivo Situaciones
• Assisted by: Michael Hardt (Foreword), Nate Holdren (Translation), Sebastian Touza (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 23.11.2021, delayed
• EAN: 9781942173489
• ISBN: 978-1-942173-48-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism