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all who watch it. And now we must live a different film, or
rather a multiplicity of films that we will create in the process of
living them. We make capitalism by creating and re-creating the
social relations of capitalism: we must stop doing so, we must
do something else, live different social relations. Revolution is
simply that: to stop making capitalism and do something else
instead. The struggle' is not a struggle for survival (that is the
genuine struggle of abstract labour) but a struggle to live.9
4. OUR STRUGGLE IS THE PURSUIT OF ABSOLUTE INTENSITY.
REVOLUTION IS APOCALYPTIC RATHER THAN UTOPIAN.
We tend to think of revolution in spatial terms, as the capture
and transformation of spaces, those spaces being understood in
traditional theory as states. Perhaps, in the first place, we should
think of revolution rather as the capture and transformation of
time. We should think not just of taking a space (state, town, or
social centre) and transforming the relations within it, but rather
(or also) of taking a time and transforming the relations within
it. Breaking duration means to see each moment as distinct,
as full of possibilities: the realisation of these possibilities can
mean driving each moment beyond its limits, beyond all limits,
to the point where it sheds time itself and blends with eternity.
This would break the instrumentalisation of time. Traditional
theory sees each moment in terms of its utility for constructing
a future. Acts of rebellion are judged in terms of whether they
contribute to the construction of a lasting revolution. But if we
break duration and each moment is distinct, then there is no need
for acts of rebellion to stand before the tribunal of instrumental
time. Each moment is its own justification: each moment of
rebellion stands proud in its own dignity.
Revolution, then, is the pushing of each moment beyond all
instrumentality and beyond all limits. It is apocalyptic rather
than utopian. Utopias tend to define the perfect society in
spatial terms, apocalyptic thought locates it in time, or rather,
apocalyptic thought focuses on the breaking and transformation
of time. The time of apocalypse is not a time-in-which,
but a time-as-which:10 'Time exists only as the rhythm and the
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