(Désolé, pour l'instant c'est en anglais seulement)
Against a tyrannical psuedo-academic discourse - so thoroughly
enmeshed with capital that its become indistinguishable from the crass
ideological pronouncement of bourgeois functionaries, dripping with
sterile privilege and bleeding money, it is necessary to posit not an
alternative but, rather, to suggest the total destruction of a
totalizing system that dominated and precludes the emancipation of
autonomous subjectivities.
The university is not (and, let's face it, never was) a site of "free
exchange of ideas", of "social progress". Rather, it is an economic
machine geared towards the development of techniques aimed at
perfecting the indefinite expansion of mechanisms to extract relative
surplus value; looking to students not as subjects realizing a
collective knowing but objects through which accumulated knowledges
are realized and against whom their practical repressive functions are
field tested. To clarify, these knowledges are not just those
immediately present in curricula, research, and various archives, but
they also encompass the whole of student life, insofar as it serves as
a controlled environment in which the contractions and controls of a
larger society can be boiled down and distilled.
Though by no means unique to the milieu of student politics, this
necessarily presents itself as a limit to student politics as such,
the terrain of student-being emerges not as a site of potential
emancipation but rather as field that encloses - that subsumes - any
action taken within; rather than prefiguring revolt, let alone forms
of life, these limits ensure that student "movements" remain
irrelevant. It is only in their collective overcoming that any
emancipatory potentiality could be realized; that what was student may
constitute itself as a body rendered unintelligible - outside of (and,
therefore, in revolution against) the discourse that orders their
being. The student - blinded by the realms of academia in which they
sequester themself - cannot engage in a project of active
world-making, in the necessary act of creating new discourse, new
manners, new of ways of existing in and understanding the terrain on
which we find ourselves.
It is on the basis that we manifest our opposition to the capitalist
totality at the geographical and temporal site of the
juridico-political apparatus that represents students, SSMU. This is
not only because we oppose SSMU in particular, but because student
politics - and the student as the locus of political activity -
present themselves as among the immediate barriers to a liberatory
projectuality.
Thursday, March 28
6PM SHARP.
Shatner Building parking lot
(
http://ssmu.mcgill.ca/about-us/building/directions-parking/)
BYOB
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