Monthly Archives: March 2020

Taming a hybrid: The COVID-19 pandemic

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

… coronavirus gives a new chance to communism. Slavoj Žižek, Spectator USA, 14/03/2020 In James C. Scott’s telling of the rise of early Neolithic states, sedentism, farming, the domus, irrigation and urbanisation precede the creation of state power. “All of … Continue reading →

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The ecology of a virus

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

What might “collapse” mean, anyway—as in the phrases “the collapse of Ur III,” around 2,000 BCE; “the collapse of the Old Kingdom Egypt,” around 2,100 BCE; “the collapse of the Minoan Palatial Regime” on Crete, around 1,450 BCE? At the … Continue reading →

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María Galindo: Giving form to a local anarcho-feminism

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

The logic of the struggle is not the final victory, but permanent and tenacious sabotage. María Galindo For the 8th of March, in solidarity with the calls for a feminist strike, an interview with María Galindo, anarchist, feminist, psychologist, from … Continue reading →

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The chilean insurrection: Chronicles and lessons

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. Collective (02/03/2020) … March is Coming: The Next Phase of Revolt in Chile The Lay of the Land Ahead of Round Two Since October, the territory nominally controlled by the Chilean government has seen massive demonstrations against capitalism and the … Continue reading →

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Reflections on a virus: Trying to see the catastrophe where it is not said to be

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

Power is domination: all it can do is prohibit, and all it can command is obedience. Michel Foucault Human societies have become like devouring and insatiable mono-cultures, and as such, the viruses multiply. Made therefore fragile, we turn to the … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben: The coronaviris and the state of exception

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

Before the frenzied, irrational and totally unjustified emergency measures taken for a supposed epidemic due to the coronavirus, it is necessary to start with the declarations of the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), according to which “there is no epidemic … Continue reading →

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March 8: Calls for a feminist strike

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

From spain, from the 8M organising committee of the strike, from spain’s CNT anarcho-syndicalist labour union, from an anarcho-feminist collective in south america, and from an anarchist feminist collective in mexico …

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Silvia Federici: The joyful militancy of feminism

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

To share, the first of a series of reflections on contemporary feminism, in interviews, essays and so on, with the eighth of March, international women’s day as a feminist strike, in the foreground. What follows is an interview with Silvia … Continue reading →

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