Breaking the Social Contract

Ahmet Ögüt, Oscar William Sam, single channel video, 4 min., 2012

"In Infinitely Demanding I was thinking about the anti-globalization movement. I think there has been a shift from libertarian 1960s anarchism to something else, an anarchism of responsibility, an anarchism that is about the identification of a wrong, of an injustice, and then an attempt to respond to that. There are libertarian elements in Occupy for sure, but I think a more powerful strand is this idea of what I call a neo-anarchism ethic of responsibility. Often, liberation in the ‘60s was sexual liberation, which ended disastrously in my view. It ended with online pornography. But I remain resolutely optimistic. If you are interested in politics then life is not simply a boot in the human face forever, right? If you have the wrong model for thinking about politics you might end up in the wrong place". Interview with philosopher Simon Critchley: Breaking the Social Contract
Source: E-Flux Journal 38: Structural Violence