Monthly Archives: March 2020

Marcello Tari: A letter to friends from the desert

From lundi matin #235 (23/03/2020) … Dear friends, There are few things more comforting in life than writing letters to one’s dearest friends at a time like this. I hope that this one will find you healthy and beautiful, as … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: Normalising the state of exception under the Covid-19 epidemic

What follows is an interview with Giorgio Agamben by Nicolas Truong for Le Monde (24/03/2020), where he analyses “the very serious ethical and political consequences” of the security measures applied to curb the pandemic. As Le Monde reserves full access … Continue reading

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Raoul Vaneigem: Coronavirus

We share an essay by Vaneigem(1) that was shared generously with us by notbored.org, to which we owe the translation. Challenging the danger posed by the coronavirus is surely absurd. But, on the other hand, isn’t it just as absurd … Continue reading

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Who is the enemy? The Thing

A reflection on the coronavirus, the enemy within, by Amador Fernández-Savater. (lobo suelto! 19/03/2020) My friend Jun Fujita, passing through Madrid on his return to Japan from Argentina, has been trapped by the quarantine at my house. For me, a … Continue reading

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The coronavirus as a declaration of war

An essay by Santiago López Petit … (el critic 18/03/2020; comite disperso 19/03/2020; lobo suelto 19/03/2020)

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The coronavirus: Politics in times of catastrophe (9)

In all the representations disseminated by catastrophism, in the way they are elaborated as well as in the conclusions they inspire, we see above all an astonishing accumulation of denials of reality. The most obvious is the one that refers … Continue reading

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Mapping a virus: China and beyond

The Chuang journal-blog dedicates itself to studying and analyzing chinese capitalism, or in the groups own words: Chuang will publish a journal analyzing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it. … Continue reading

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Monologue of the virus

From lundi matin #234, 16/03/2020 … (At the request of the lundi matin collective, we have replaced our original translation with that now posted on the collective’s site.) What the virus said You’d do well, dear humans, to stop your … Continue reading

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Viruses and Separation

From the journal Inhabit … Viruses and Separation: Frédéric Neyrat on political virality and competing separatisms (15/03/2020) Originally published in Terrestres on March 5, 2020 Translated from the French by an anonymous friend “Our enemy is separatism,” President Macron recently declared. Hearing … Continue reading

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Wrestling with a virus

From the journal Inhabit … Crisis and Control: Resisting the end of the world by proliferating new worlds COVID-19 is the culmination of a decade of contagion movies, the beginning of the worst. Every little anxiety baked into the liberal … Continue reading

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