i-Revolt Manifest [English]

1.  We want the collective body to reactivate and reanimate, we want it to feel again, to get out of its emotive, affective and performative anesthesia. We want to construct us with graceful light bodies, throwing away the burden of injected indolence, of conformity with all what is dying and the existential indebtedness that financial capitalism imposes.

2.  We oppose the repressive device of States and debt-production-machines with collaborative nomadic assemblies for a no-Knowledge, utopia, ucronia and hospitalities production.

3.  We vindicate the access to all sources, data bases and products of the collective intelligence before the imminent creativity privatization and in reaction to financial expropriation of university spaces.

4.  Because of the huge quantity of infotoxicity, we mean the hyperpropagation of publicity, of marketing that goes through and parasites our bodies (including their psychic dimension), distorting desire, directing it towards a consumable object and binding it with Continuous Lack, we demand the withdrawal of all company billboards and State apparatus promotional campaigns out of our universities. For if we who generate wealth, also paying for it and for the access to itself, if we are those who definitely support the university, we are directly and within our rights those who must decide about the use of university spaces and not allow (despite euphemisms like “managing”, “organizing” or “administrating”) appropriation of both the money and the non-material wealth of this university, be the ones who appropriate high government employees or members of the bank directive groups.

5.  We consider inadmissible and unacceptable here, in the Universidad de Valencia, the existence of a “university office” propriety of Banco Santander Central Hispano. This office is only the sign that those who direct, officiate, order, organize, pollute and get the university into debt are banks. Then we claim the okupation of this office in order to build or enable a classroom for poetic, literary, theater creation workshops, etc.

6.  We join the fight waged in many other European cities against financial capitalism that fiercely invades every living space, saturating semiotic and materially our lifes, making them almost worthy.

7.  Like virtual cognitive workers, role that is already reserved to us according the dynamic of labor markets and pedagogic-business logic, we appeal to the collective intelligence like our weapon, calling the enormous cultural and esthetic-affective richness, willing to reduce sad passions that conform and penetrate the actual hegemonic epistemes.

8.  We assume insurrection like pacific, okupational and inventive insurrection. Pacific because obviously we don’t have weapons, and those who have them only use them to kill or wound everything that place in front of them. This way, our pacifism is not hippie, it is a tactic, active and mutant pacifism. It relies on the full conviction that weapons, which in fact are ours, are those from collective intelligence and from common creativity. We can reach the secrets of banks and governments, their data, we can hack their webs, create virus and block their communicational circuits. We know how to do it, because it’s our net.

9.  We wish a human, warm and compressive relation, by both sides, between professor and students, without preferences, based in academic curriculum, favoritism or grades elements, for the class finally to become an open community.

10.  In the financial protest context we propose different activities, starting by a series of literature, poesy, philosophy, etc, lectures, different workshops and spaces of discursive feedback inside diverse bank offices or, by defect, in different public sites or cafeterias. Activities information will be available at www.i-revolt.blogspot.com and www.universidadutopica.cjb.net