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Jaime Semprun: The end of critical theory

Posted on October 21, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

  Revolutionary theory is now the enemy of all revolutionary ideology and knows it. Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle   … since the theoreticians are in reality, as I have pointed out, just as defenseless as ordinary people when … Continue reading →

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Jaime Semprun: For a ruthless criticism of all that exists

Posted on October 20, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

  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 … Continue reading →

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Jaime Semprun: The abyss repopulates itself

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

  Among the things that people do not want to hear, and that they do not want to see, when in reality they are displayed right before their eyes, are the following: the fact that all the technological improvements that … Continue reading →

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Misery amidst plenty (VI)

Posted on November 10, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Abundance has always existed, but nowhere has it existed abundantly: either because everyone did not enjoy it or because, when everyone did enjoy it, they did not do so all of the time. No doubt abundance really lived can only … Continue reading →

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: A cartography of alienation (I)

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

… the reality that we start from is ignorance. This appears to us to be a human faculty whose exercise must be truly familiar and an everyday experience for all our contemporaries; thus, it is a more solid and more … Continue reading →

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Amedeo Bertolo: An apology for anarchism

Posted on August 11, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

In a 1983 article for Volontà that we share below, Amedeo Bertolo endeavoured to critically diagnose the anarchist movement of his time in a remarkably direct and lucid manner; a diagnoses which we may help us to see through our … Continue reading →

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The Ecological Crisis and the Rise of Post-Fascism

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From Ill Will, an essay authored by the Antithesi collective (18/02/2024) … Other languages: Türkçe, Español The ecological crisis profoundly impacts the material conditions of social reproduction, extending beyond “natural disasters” to encompass a deepening of the contradictions inherent in … Continue reading →

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Amedeo Bertolo: The Utopian Function in the Anarchist Imaginary

Posted on May 2, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, … Continue reading →

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Amedeo Bertolo: The subversive weed

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

In the 1970s, Amedeo Bertolo engaged with newly emergent political concepts and movements which seemed both to recuperate older anarchist thought and practice, as well as to leave anarchism behind. For Bertolo, the concern was not to dismiss the new … Continue reading →

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Amedeo Bertolo: A life in anarchy

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

In this way, an iridescent and multiform anarchism is invented in which the militant but also the poet is recognised, which includes struggle, struggle but also life. Amedeo Bertolo [Anarchy is] neither a means, nor an end … it is … Continue reading →

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