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Yazan Alloujami: Gaza-on-the-Rhine, a history lesson
From lundimatin, #418, 04/03/2024 … To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was’ (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. Historical … Continue reading
Alberto Toscano: Notes on late fascism
This is the “last” of a short series of essays (with earlier pieces by Gerard Granel and Simone Weil) exploring dimensions of fascism, as the latter seemingly closes in about us. We share below an essay by Albert Toscano, a … Continue reading
The Movement of Refusal
From ill will (03/10/2023), an essay by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen on the “politics” of contemporary protest movements/insurrections. Other languages: Deutsch The last decade and a half has been a time of unrest. As the French political anthropologist Alain Bertho has … Continue reading
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Tagged Colectivo Situaciones, Dionys Mascolo, gilets jaunes, Maurice Blanchot, revolt, revolution
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Occupy as Rupture
We share an interview with Matt Peterson, by Amogh Sahu, published with The Institute of Anarchist Studies (August 24, 2023). The decade we have left behind, the 2010s, was described by the British journalist Paul Mason as a time where … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, Occupy Wall Street, revolution, united states
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Thinking with Mario Tronti
We continue to share material by and about the work of Mario Tronti, in the wake of his recent death. We share a short but excellent essay by Mårten Björk on the trajectory of Tronti’s thought (from NLR/Sidecar 25/08/2023). Embracing … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Mario Tronti, religion, revolution, socialism
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Mario Tronti: On destituent power
For Mario Tronti, from the Ill Will collective (22/05/2022) … In his influential 2008 interview with Adriano Vinale, Mario Tronti provides some of the earliest speculations on the possibility of a destituent power. Below we present the first English edition … Continue reading
For Mario Tronti (1931-2023)
For Mario Tronti, who died this last August 7th, we share a short text by Diego Sztulwark and Mario Tronti’s Thesis on Benjamin. Today Mario Tronti passed away. His 92 years were many, but he will surely remain the author … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomism, italy, Mario Tronti, marxism
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Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The ashes of the Republic
Reflections on the French police murder of Nahel Merzouk and the country’s July riots, by Rodrigo Karmy Bolton. (Lobo Suelto! 11/07/2023) What does it mean when France burns under barricades? Perhaps, that not only France but also the Republic, as … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-racism, france, Immanuel Kant, Rodrigo Karmy Bolton, State terror
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On the desire to smash time
The consciousness of exploding the continuum of history is peculiar to the revolutionary classes in the moment of their action. The Great Revolution introduced a new calendar. The day on which the calendar started functioned as a historical time-lapse camera. … Continue reading
Walter Benjamin: Messianism and Revolution – Theses on History
The essay that we share below, by Andrew Robinson, bears the virtue of clarity; like a collector, he assembles the bits of Walter Benjamin’s work on messianism and revolution. And yet because he writes as a collector of ideas, Benjamin’s … Continue reading →