23 quotes
By abolishing the ethic of production you enter revolutionary reality directly.
Armed Joy (1977)
Physical death, so much a preoccupation in the death world, is less mortifying than what is peddled as life.
Armed Joy (1977)
If production is at the root of capitalist exploitation, to change the mode of production would merely change the mode of exploitation.
Armed Joy (1977)
A transitory acceptance of the guillotine leads to its institutionalisation.
Armed Joy (1977)
Remunerated joy, weekends off or annual holidays paid by the boss is like paying to make love. It seems the same but there is something lacking.
Armed Joy (1977)
Courts and sentences are always part of the spectacle of capital, even when it is revolutionaries who act them out.
Armed Joy (1977)
Capital accepts the clash in the quantitative field, because that is where it knows all the answers.
Armed Joy (1977)
Anyone who decides to organise my life for me can never be my comrade.
Armed Joy (1977)
In order to break out of the magic circle of the theatricals of commodities we must refuse all roles, including that of the ‘professional’ revolutionary.
Armed Joy (1977)
We aren’t afraid, just stupidly full of prefabricated ideas we cannot break free from.
Armed Joy (1977)
No real joy can reach us from the rational mechanism of capitalist exploitation. Joy does not have fixed rules to catalogue it.
Armed Joy (1977)
What madness the love of work is!
With great scenic skill capital has succeeded in making the exploited love exploitation, the hanged man the rope and the slave his chains.
Armed Joy (1977)
The way capital is physically organised at the present time makes it vulnerable to any revolutionary structure capable of deciding its own timing and means of attack.
Armed Joy (1977)
Liberation is seen as setting right a balance that has been upset by the wickedness of capitalism, not as the coming of a world of play to take the place of the world of work.
Armed Joy (1977)
When the whole of reality is spectacular, to refuse the spectacle means to be outside reality. Anyone who refuses the code of commodities is mad. Refusal to bow down before the commodity god will result in one’s being committed to a mental asylum.
Armed Joy (1977)
In the illusory world of commodities, play is also an illusion. We imagine we are playing, while all we are really doing is monotonously repeating the roles assigned to us by capital.
Armed Joy (1977)
Only joy will be uncontrollable. A force unknown to the civilised larvae that populate our era. A force that will multiply the creative impulse of the revolution a thousandfold.
Armed Joy (1977)
Many things can be done ‘playfully’ yet most of the things we do, we do very ‘seriously’ wearing the death mask we have borrowed from capital.
Armed Joy (1977)
We are all concerned with the revolutionary problem of how and what to produce, but nobody points out that producing is a revolutionary problem. If production is at the root of capitalist exploitation, to change the mode of production would merely change the mode of exploitation.
Armed Joy (1977)
The neutralisation of the individual is a constant practice in capital’s reified totality. The flattening of opinions is a therapeutic process, a death machine. Production cannot take place without this flattening in the spectacular form of capitalism.
Armed Joy (1977)