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The gilets jaunes: The people are constrained to respond to the violence

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Today we had people who tried by all of the means available … to injure the Republic, to damage, to destroy, at the risk of killing. Emmanuel Macron (Le Monde 19/03/2019) Saturday, we saw extreme violence in Paris. It was … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: An ultimatum

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

(Photograph: Mathias Zwick and Hans Lucas) In anticipation of Act XVIII (March 16) of the yellow vests in Paris. (From lundimatin #182, 10/03/2019)

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The gilets jaunes: A question of time

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

A reflection on the re-appropriation of time as the revolution within the yellow vests insurrection. Words from a yellow vests newspaper. And images and words of a movement, now in its “Act XVI”.

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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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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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The gilets jaunes: Between horizontal autonomies and vertical unity

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

A journalist, seemingly sharing the illusions of politicians, writes “it’s time for the gilets jaunes to decide who and what they want to be”. (The Guardian, 29/01/2019) The politicians of france (and of everywhere, faced by a similar insurrection) are … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: Fractures and lines of escape

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Saturday, January 19, Act 10: The blocking of motorways weakens, occupations of roundabouts are increasingly cleared away by force (unless negotiated with local authorities), the marches in different cities appear more ordered, confined by marshals, Macron’s promises and his “great … Continue reading →

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