Criminality

[T]he real link between anarchism and criminality is that most people in society regard the realm of crime as the point of absolute violation of the norms set by the State. they are fascinated with it. they see it as the bounds of the possible, and its valid prosecution (however they interpret that) as indication of the strength and legitimacy (might makes right) of the State.

so the criminal act has and will always have political possibility. trick is the difficulty of managing it.

another way of putting the same point, criminality is the most observable point at which an organic logic of pure force and desire is embedded within a system of discursive regulation, i.e. law, and a structure of validation based not on force and desire but upon instrumental reason abstracted from force and desire; or if not abstracted away from per se, based upon the aggregate of force and desire across society.

crimnality is exciting because it is one of the ultimate expressions of the logic of immediacy and local intensity of force expressed in total ignorance of or opposition to the social aggregate. it champions the Event against the Law.

unfortunately it generally does this in absurd, brutal, stupid ways.

and so the problem with criminality as a general stategy lies in its incorporation by the Law to publicly delegitimize the Event. criminality is made into an ingredient for the fashioning of docile bodies unecumbered with a desire for the Event.

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of course, people still like a good heist picture...