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Giorgio Agamben: Political power and anarchy

In a series of four short essays – in some sense, a summary of much more extensive earlier work -, Giorgio Agamben unveils the anarchy that lies at the centre of sovereign, political power, split between the constitution/state and the … Continue reading

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Jacques Rancière: “The issue is to manage to maintain dissensus”

Interview with philosopher Jacques Rancière on the Covid-19 crisis, contemporary political upheavals the experience of art and film over the past year, and social media. [From the Verso Books Blog]. We met Jacques Rancière at his home in Paris with some tenacious questions in … Continue reading

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Guy Debord and Giorgio Agamben – Dialogues II: Marginal Notes on Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

The situation is neither the becoming-art of life nor the becoming-life of art. We can comprehend its true nature only if we locate it historically in its proper place: that is, after the end and self destruction of art, and after the passage of … Continue reading

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Guy Debord and Giorgio Agamben – Dialogues I: The Prologue to The Uses of the Body

To bring to light—beyond every vitalism—the intimate interweaving of being and living: this is today certainly the task of thought (and of politics). Giorgio Agamben In an intensely rich dialogue, Giorgio Agamben has engaged with the work of Guy Debord … Continue reading

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The politics of football

As a complement to our last post on the spectacle of football …

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Now and the anarchy of destituent power: Reading politics with the invisible committee

… they wanted to reinvent everything, each day; to make themselves masters and possessors of their own lives. Guy Debord If to constituent power corresponds revolutions, uprisings and new consititutions, that is, a violence that lays down and constitutes new … Continue reading

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Against labour, against capital: Anti-politics against capitalism

A precondition for reestablishing the perspective of action is to make a final and clear break with all “politics” in the institutional sense. Today, the only possible form of “politics” is radical separation from the world of politics and its … Continue reading

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Dancing politics

In memory of Jean Babilée, dancer and combatant of the French resistance, and who resisted always through creation, died on Thursday, January 30, at the age of 90.

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Quebec : From Student Protest to Insurrection

A brief video history of the 100 day strike …

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Government by Police

  Government by Police  

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