Prof. Costas Douzinas, director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, talks about struggle, common strategies, and the idea of Europe during an session at the 5th annual Subversive Festival in Zagreb (2012)

"The difference between our age, epoch, and society from what was happening in '68, or earlier with the anti-colonial movement, is this: in biopolitical neoliberal capitalism what the system - capitalism, let's call it now - creates is subjectivities; what it really controls is conduct, comportment, behaviour. Ideas in a sense are free. You can be be free to be fascist, fascist ideas are everywhere - we've heard here about Hungary, Greece, Croatia and so on - but once you are fully in agreement, you accept a way of behaving and acting, basically, unless you become a terrorist, you are accepted. So, that is the importance to me of the squares, which for me - the occupy movement, and the indignados - are different from the '68 movement, or the anti-vietnam war protests, because today disobedience means, for ordinary people that they find this split in themselves between what elites, and the law, and the power systems tell, and a certain sense of ethics which, however, in order to operate must first disengage you, disarticulate you, from that kind of comportment or behaviour "