And since I am refusing to mourn the passing of particular fantasies of student movements or, probably even worse, student unions - which still, if only in unconvincing simulation, are operating in this society of the spectral - I think the following is quite nice from AZ, whose admirable blog can also be accessed through the URL below.

And this is still the question to ask — what space is possible when you refuse to be the zombie of capitalism, not only in your working life but in thought and spirit and deed? What destructions are possible? What new forms can we make?

http://goingsomewhere.blogsome.com/2006/03/22/

people-refusing-everywhere/

The refusal to be useful in any way to the project of my employers does not seem like a strategy designed for long life of employment, but does constitute the core of my exit strategy.

What is clear to me is that, beyond propaganda, there has been precisely zero serious or honest discussion anywhere of what student unions actually are, of the interests at stake or the social relations constituting these institutions, or of their nature as contradictory bodies in several senses, of their relations to the changing nature of universities or of the political economies into which universities and students are intregrated. Neither supposed Left nor Right in studentworld has been interested or capable of serious examination - let alone of what might be thought of as a radical critique, a critique that attempts to actually understand the processes at work. And these facts, these failures, emerge directly from precisely the contexts that remain occluded but operative, in which people function every day but the nature of which does not provoke reflection: a micropolitics of somnambulistic privilege on the whole.