This talk will discuss recent Greek wall-writings as well as the ‘hologram protest’ in Spain in 2015 as linguistic and visual grammars of resistance to the dominant crisis-rhetoric in Europe. Countering hegemonic accounts of the ‘crisis’ as judgment and distinction (κρίσις) between perpetrators and disempowered victims, or as a one-way street without alternatives, these interventions recast crisis as decision between multiple options. By mobilizing the middle voice, they seek grammars that can accommodate voices of the dispossessed and generate alternative narratives of the present.