{"id":7379,"date":"2014-02-23T18:14:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2014-02-23T18:14:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:14:04","slug":"mission-accomplished-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/02\/23\/mission-accomplished-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission accomplished… not"},"content":{"rendered":"

UKR-TAZ<\/a> announces a new mission<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The concept of the TAZ, or\u00a0temporary autonomous zone<\/a>, comes from \u201contological anarchist\u201d writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson). It is intended to indicate a space of liberation, a space which is at once physical and real, if temporary, and metaphysical \u2014 a space of consciousness outside of the mental frames of social structure, from which a reimagination of the world may proceed.<\/p>\n

To put a Buddhist spin on it, the TAZ is a space that is always accessible, present at the initiation of every moment, every drop of consciousness, yet always elusive \u2014 so quickly\u00a0claimed<\/a>,\u00a0enclosed<\/a>, \u00a0captured<\/a>,\u00a0encircled and encompassed<\/a>\u00a0within the projects of a clingy (individual or collective) subjectivity.<\/p>\n

With the fall of the Yanukovych regime, Ukraine has arguably become a TAZ, a space that is suddenly free of many of its orbital striations, the ordered sets of relationships regulating what can be done, how, and by whom. Suddenly a great deal more can happen than is usual, and the way in which this new opening gets rearranged and repatterned is difficult to predict. But it will rearrange itself quickly, and then a new TAZ will need to be invoked and spun into presence.<\/p>\n

With the fall of that regime, this blog \u2014 formed to share statements about the Maidan movement \u2014 can move to a different task. Thus the new subtitle, \u201cAnalysis of the Maidan and Its Aftermath.\u201d<\/p>\n

The time has come to critically analyze<\/p>\n