Francesco Sebregondi

FYI I’m taking a break from Twitter to focus on some writing. Email me?

ok maybe just the first glimpse of it.

2018 gave us the radicalised middle class.

Might regret saying this in a couple of months but: perhaps this a time to suspend strategic thinking and rational political calculus as to where this could lead, and to embrace the rupture, the ongoing disruption of business as usual — to venture into the breach that is opening.

As reluctant as I was – and still am – to supporting a movement initially triggered by a fuel tax, my gut feeling is that this may be the best shot we’ll have in a while at redrawing the rules of the game re: the climate and political economic emergency of the present.

‘They did not know it was impossible so they did it’ – comes to mind a lot these days.

Living in Paris, what I find most interesting is the staggering level of popular support that this ambiguous, undetermined movement of contestation already enjoys, and how quickly it has been gaining support (it’s only been a month)

... my feeling is there’s something genuinely new going on in France at the moment: a highly-decentralized, logistically savvy, collective intelligence of contestation has erupted. For better of for worse, it is already redrawing the horizon of the possible.

(Geo-)politically, this could go terribly wrong: popular anger with no common agenda seems like the highway to Marine Le Pen — a likely ‘coup de grace’ to an already dying European Union. But...

Now this in when it gets exciting: Climate protesters and #GiletsJaunes beginning to converge around eco+social justice demands – rather than being pitted against each other (‘end of the world’ vs. ‘end of the month’ argument). #MarchePourLeClimat #Paris

Sincere congrats to a sincere artist #TurnerPrize 2018

go and co-conspire https://twitter.com/trust_support/status/1069936791690625025 …

My retweet of Pamela Anderson lead the actual Johan Galtung to follow me this is only getting better

Why referencing Galtung or Debord when you can quote Pamela Anderson?https://twitter.com/pamfoundation/status/1069559265713668096 …

In London this week — what shows, talks, and other good stuff should I try to go to and fail due to time slipping into the micro black hole that this city is clearly built upon?