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Autonomy!

by Ashley Dawson

Autono­mia: Post-Political Pol­i­tics Edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Chris­t­ian Marazzi
book_AD_Street Party on Meinzer Strasse, 1990_source

Before the book, a place and time: Berlin, sum­mer, 1990. Or actu­ally, the road to Berlin. I’d spent the last two days on the move, hitch­hik­ing with­out sleep to get from Ams­ter­dam to Berlin. I was deliri­ous, hav­ing spent hours talk­ing to a Dutch busi­ness­man who spewed a stream of racist bile about Mus­lims tak­ing over his coun­try and an even longer time with an Ital­ian truck dri­ver who insisted that he was car­ry­ing a large con­sign­ment of weapons for the Sicil­ian mafia.

Written on November 27, 2009 | Posted in Books that Changed the Way we Think | No comment | Read More »