Looting or arson? A reading on overt insurgent practices
Abstract
In this paper we make a reading of two insurgent practices in the context of anti-capitalist demonstrations: looting and arson. We will analyze the shadows of the official discourses of the mass media that label these actions as violent and anti-democratic. Finally, thanks to the study of situationism carried out by McKenzie Wark, we will construct a critique of today's spectacular authoritarian capitalism that silences and excludes all forms of life that do not conform to its model.
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