Holloway - Crack Capitalism.pdf - Libcom

' , 'It , lor " of th racks breaks dimensionality. Here we have
1111'111 ion 'd three dimensions: spatial, activity- or resourcen'l!\I"
I, and temporal. The aim, however, is not to establish a
typology r a classification: what is important is rather to see
Ih ' manifold forms of rebellion in everyday life. We live in a
'npitali t society, we are dominated by capital, and yet, all the
lim and in a million different ways, we try to break the logic
or 'apital. To list different dimensions may help us to think of
d, many different ways in which we do this, but perhaps to
r volt against capital is to revolt against dimensionality itself. IS
In th is sense, surrealism is an aspect of the cracks: the breaking
of dimensionality and projection into a different world, a world
b yond capitalism.16 There is a beautiful passage by John Berger
in which he suggests the other-dimensionality of cracks:
Yet it can happen suddenly, unexpectedly, and most frequently in the
half-light-of-glimpses, that we catch sight of another visible order which
intersects with ours and has nothing to do with it. The speed of a cinema
film is 25 frames per second. God knows how many frames per second
flicker past in our daily perception. But it is as if, at the brief moments I'm
talking about, suddenly and disconcertingly we see between frames. We
come upon a part of the visible which wasn't destined for us. Perhaps it
was destined for night-birds, reindeer, ferrets, eels, whales . . . . (2001: 4-5)
I am not suggesting that anti-capitalist cracks are destined only
for ferrets and whales, but that often their existence can be
d tected only by a special sensibility and that they take us into a
world that breaks with the ordinary dimensions of life. Perhaps
to rebel against capital is like walking through a looking glass
and beginning to live in a world that does not yet exist (and
rh refore exists not-yet), a world with a quite different dimensionality,
a world we are only beginning to understand.
To struggle not just against but against-and-beyond is always
10 TOSS a threshold into a beyond, a sort of counter-world,17 that
is both an experiment and a gamble, a beyond that is surreal
i 11 I h ' nse that it projects us beyond existing reality. The Free
Asso 'iation express this point clearly:
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