Riding the Storm

About dogs

Resistance or emancipation? The Invisible Committee calls on us not to use the weapon of criticism in the service of our own disarmament and not to let the struggle in the streets turn into a farewell to thinking about how we can hold on in the long run, because building autonomous structures is the necessary basis for any serious attack on this system.

The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. It is also called the domestic dog and is descended from an ancient, extinct wolf, and the modern wolf is the dog's closest living relative.

The dog was the first animal species to be domesticated by hunter-gatherers more than 15,000 years ago, before the development of agriculture. Because of their long association with humans, dogs have evolved into a large number of domestic animals and have acquired the ability to thrive on a starchy diet that would be inadequate for other canids.

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Sources of courage

It is an act of invisibility to escape the prevailing geopolitical divide and constant surveillance. An act that stems from the invincible desire to follow free and unexpected paths beyond borders and oppressions. The desire to build one's own integrity as an autonomous individual and thus be able to build and protect society. This requires social bonds with other individuals and a free circulation of ideas that promote these notions of a free society.

Invisibility can be a more important tool than visibility.

The use of invisibility is an active choice.

Dreams can offer sources of inspiration, motivating us to change the circumstances of our lives. Similarly, storytelling and other approaches to narrative forms offer ways of examining and affecting reality.

The power of powerlessness

It is the individualisation of all conditions - of life, of work, of unhappiness, that alienates and disempowers us.

"Diffuse schizophrenia. Creeping depression. Atomisation into fine paranoid particles. Hysterisation of contact. The more I want to be me, the more I have a feeling of emptiness. The more I express myself, the more I dry up. The more I run after myself, the more exhausted I am. I run, you run, we run our "I" like a busy switch. We have become the agents of ourselves - this strange trade, the guarantors of a personalisation that ultimately resembles an amputation. In more or less hidden clumsiness, we make it to bankruptcy.
Until that happens, I manage, I get it done."
The invisible committee, The Coming Insurrection

A powerful form of action is omission. Doing nothing becomes the most important act.
"We call on you to refrain from doing anything in your power!"
Bazon Brock, fluxus artist, Germany
(Quote from Action: Civilising Cultures, 2006-2009)

This is the crisis of Western paradigms

Our lives cannot go on as they are, but we do not know what is in store for us. The convergence of an ecological, geopolitical and democratic crisis worries and frightens. The confluence of this ecological, geopolitical and democratic crisis is disturbing and frightening. Because we see it as a big Gordian knot - we see the crisis as a whole.

It would be more advisable to tackle the things that have to do with one directly. Make the small, individual decisions.

The idea of linearity and progress is an important matrix of Western thought. Particularly crucial to the foundation of capitalism was the idea of linear time and the accompanying notion of continuous progress.

What if our thinking were receptive to complex temporal entanglements and interdependencies? In this temporality, imagination and change would each be essential components of a present that would no longer be hindered by the inert debris of the past, but where the knowledge of the past could instead live on in the now through adaptations and incorporations.

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The Individual

About dogs

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This is the crisis of Western paradigms

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