Citizens of nowhere: how Europe can be saved from itself PDF
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Further praise for Citizens of Nowhere ‘This is a book for our time. An illuminating, coherent and gripping story of what we are living through, with a hopeful ending.’ Mary Kaldor, founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament and the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly ‘Sharp, short and unshackled, Marsili and Milanese show that if the EU is ever to become a genuine democracy, it will be because ordinary citizens have understood that we need a refresher course in the practice of liberté, egalité, and fraternité, and are coming together everywhere to ensure it.’ Susan George, author of Shadow Sovereigns and Whose Crisis, Whose Future? About the authors Lorenzo Marsili has degrees in philosophy and sinology. He is the co-founder of European Alternatives, one of the initiators of the pan-European movement DiEM25, and founding editor of the independent quarterly journal Naked Punch Review. Niccolò Milanese is a poet and philosopher and co-founder of European Alternatives. He has been involved in the founding of numerous political and cultural organisations, magazines and initiatives on several sides of the Mediterranean. Citizens of Nowhere How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself Lorenzo Marsili and Niccolò Milanese Citizens of Nowhere: How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself was first published in 2018 by Zed Books Ltd, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR, UK. www.zedbooks.net Copyright © Lorenzo Marsili and Niccolò Milanese 2018 The right of Lorenzo Marsili and Niccolò Milanese to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Typeset in Adobe Caslon Pro and Haarlemmer by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon Cover design by Clare Turner All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of Zed Books Ltd. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-78699-369-4 pb ISBN 978-1-78699-371-7 pdf ISBN 978-1-78699-372-4 epub ISBN 978-1-78699-373-1 mobi Contents Foreword by Tania Bruguera xi Introduction: Citizens of Nowhere 1 News from nowhere 3 What is Europe the name of? 6 Time travel, eternal returns and other utopias 8 European alterities 13 1 Broken Clocks 19 The Greek spring 19 A Chinese encounter 23 Is it the economy, stupid? 27 No, you can’t 30 A revolution from above 33 The story of the two Europes 35 A cure for impotence? 40 Interregnum 41 Underlying symptoms 44 Enter depression 49 All change 50 Clocks of land and clocks of sea 52 vviiii Citizens of Nowhere 2 The Wizard of Oz 55 The mechanical Turk 55 The birth of the disembedded market 57 The return of the illusion of natural markets 59 Market machine gun 61 The double movement 64 Who does a home belong to? 66 No state is an island 72 Stop the ride, we want to get off 81 The European archipelago 84 We are the lions, Mr Manager 91 Striking a light 97 We don’t want your charity 101 Putting out the lights 102 The pirate federation 105 Europe as metaphor for the world to come 109 3 If Europe Is a Fortress We Are All in Prison 118 Face to face with the unbearable inequality of free movement 118 Schizophrenia 121 The official European response: a denial of reality 126 The best hotel in Europe 129 Open access 132 The rights of man and of the citizen 136 First they came for the Roma 149 Citizenship out of the prison 153 vviiiiii Contents 4 Beyond Internationalism: A Transnational Interdependence Party 159 The power of nobody 159 Nationalism and internationalism 162 The International 165 Beyond anarchy, state and class 173 Of forums social and unsocial 175 The world’s colony 180 A party with a new worldview 184 Who does the party belong to? 189 A party beyond and between the institutions 194 Starting in Europe 206 Citizens of Nowhere: A Rallying Cry 213 Afterword by Yanis Varoufakis 217 Notes 223 Bibliography and Further Reading 241 Index 247 iixx
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