COMMUNE part 1

COMMUNE: A Film About Olympia

A certain kind of perspective on [the terrible community] has to be taken up, a "thief's gaze," which from the interior of the apparatus materializes the possibility of escaping it. Sharing this gaze, the most lively bodies will bring about that which the terrible community, even in spite of itself, blindly exudes: its own dissolution.

-Tiqqun, Theses On The Terrible Community

COMMUNE is a film about Olympia, Washington, and was a gift to the denizens of that small city. It's a street-level exploration of the Olympia social commons—a shifting space that erupts on street corners and bubbles up from an underground well of potential. Through casual interviews with strangers, the film dives into the depths of desire and unveils new uses of the spaces Olympians all share. It was meant to be a looking glass, a lens, and a thief's gaze directed at Olympia's own terrible community.

A terrible community constitutes itself in opposition to an opponent and, in that opposition, closes in on itself and begins to rot. Olympia, once home to ELF cells, the diffuse network of Port Militarization Resistance, and a broad community of anarchists, has become little more than a stale, dusty closet, a cafe-to-show circuit, a green-washed, gentrifying haven of the left. In short, a terrible community. COMMUNE exposes that Olympia runs business as usual despite its high activist-per-capita ratio and radical reputation. But the film also reveals the existence of different communes, spreading on their own, outside of anarchist or radical circles.

We are now ready to share this film with you. Even if you do not live in Olympia, COMMUNE is a lens through which you can look at your own terrible community and what lies just outside of it. You think you're alone, but there are people all around who share your angers and desires. If you don't know that it's because you haven't yet spoken to them. Go find them.

There is magic in Olympia.

It is bottled.

http://utopiaorbust.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/commune-a-film-about-olympia/

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[musicalidea]

But Industrial Society DOES transform the world around it continuously: into slums, shanties, sweatshops, strip malls, landfills, toxic waste dumps, poisoned watersheds & food chains, and lots and lots of bare, windowless cubes - which rise & are eventually deserted so that the next group of CHEAPER slaves in whatever rare tract of self-respecting virgin land remains can be rounded up & put into submission & then dependence. Progress indeed - & what a beautiful, edifying brand of it!

[musicalidea]

Stop buying into the down payment version of distributed life and start realizing that Global Bureaucratic Informatic Industrial Capitalism is a giant prison mgmt system based on 4 principles: extraction, depletion, destruction & desertion. Since it began, it has & is rapidly continuing to destroy all authentic forms of self-determination, natural beauty, indigenous character, skilled artisanship, interpersonal allegiance, human liberty, health, dignity and any sense of purposeful continuity.

[musicalidea]

@ymp5000 But remember, Corporations are state backed and legitimized "legal fictions" - as are the artificial monopolies of copyrights, leasing rights, trademarks, int. property and the rest. The state is a necessary mediation - however we can change it's nature! (or can we - given the seemingly invincible power of Global Bureaucratic Informatic Industrial Capitalism?) Maybe it's just slaves, slums and sewage at an ever increasing and terrifying rate from here on out.

[ymp5000]

Its not the governments job to provide people with a home. It would be nice to consolidate government agencies so that everyone whos ass needs kicked are all in one spot.

[SLACKER614]

@AnarchoSyndicalistt very true indeed...i think the current capitalist elite are doing everything to keep people apart, because they know if people unite, their rule is over...from-isolated in FL