Monthly Archives: February 2019

In solidarity with the Asilo Occupato of Turin: To occupy, to squat is to resist

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Across europe, driven by the desire and need to extract maximum profit from urban spaces, authoritarian handmaidens of capital, in the guise of State-democratic authority, turn their violence on those people who are nothing but obstacles to the management of … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: Jacques Rancière on the virtues of the inexplicable

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Beginnings do not reach their end. they remain halfway. But this also means that they never stop beginning over again, even if this means that the actors change. This is the realism of revolt, an inexplicable realism, one that demands … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: Fragments of interpretation

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

The yellow vests: February 9th, Act XIII … We continue to share fragments of reflections, of a movement, or movements, in motion. The yellow vests insurrection(s) is a picture of our future today: the only ethical response possible to permanent … Continue reading →

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For Tomi Ungerer: A smiling anarchist

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

I think I would have been the perfect anarchist. We have too much discipline. You know my triangle of life? It’s very important. It took me years to do it. It’s a triangle with variable angles and one is for … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: Creative violence against State brutality

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Fear! How long has it been since the ruling classes (of a “developed” country) have feared their poor? The forced gymnastics of the french government’s “great national debate”, supported and secured by a militarised police apparatus whose only red line … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: The war of images

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Everything must be done to preserve the sense of this movement, the originality of the action that is outlined within it, the new freedom that it has already conquered for everyone. No organisation can today pretend to represent alone the … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: A movement that is not a movement

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Movement is the impossibility, indefiniteness and imperfection of every politics. It always leaves a residue. In this perspective the motto I cited as a rule for myself might be reformulated in ontological terms as this: ‘the movement is that which … Continue reading →

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