What they failed to understand is that those too were destituent revolts that, although they were ultimately defeated in the streets, were laboratories for developing destituent practices and repertoires that we now see being elaborated upon and developed further today. [7/11]

These destituent gestures have become popular precisely at the historical moment that it's also become impossible to imagine any form of power ever being divorced from precaritization, debt, and poverty, from climate catastrophe, and thus from escalating state violence. [8/11]

The wager of these revolts, then, is that destituent practices may eventually render power inoperative, to unravel power's constitution (as the military, as a corporation, as the police, as a politician, etc.) in order to avoid losing what is at stake, which is everything. [9/11]

To fail is to be condemned to be born, to live, and to die under forms of power that, no matter how they are constituted or reconstituted, aim to perpetuate themselves at any cost, even as that cost approaches the loss of most life on Earth. [10/11]

To win is to entirely destitute power, to cancel out all of the ways power presently ab/uses life, and in so doing to create breathing room for diverse and novel forms of living to emerge beyond the capture of domination. [11/11]