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Gérard Granel: Modern sovereignty as the loss of limits
… the essence of Modernity seems to me to consist of a logic of the infinite, aiming to determine more and more sovereignly the finite, without having to base itself anywhere or upon anything – a foundation it has needed … Continue reading
Italy: Autonomia (9) – Antonio Negri
Today the process of constituting class independence is first and foremost a process of separation. … I am emphasising this forced separation in order to clarify the overall meaninglessness of a capitalist world within which I find myself constituted in … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomism, italy, revolution, Toni Negri
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Gáspár Miklós Tamás: Between Rousseau and Marx
… what happens if one seriously tries to complete Marx’s project of developing, as he put it in an early essay, a “ruthless critique of everything that exists.” The likely result is a picture of the world so relentlessly bleak … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, marxism, revolution
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Colectivo Situaciones: Complete works
The posting by the online website lobo suelto! of an archive of the writings the argentine based Colectivo Situaciones, is the occasion to return to the “theoretical” work of this group and its “reflection” in the 2001-3 insurrection in the … Continue reading
COVID-19: Translating a pandemic politically (3)
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis I If political sovereignty is defined by the decision on the exception (Carl Schmitt), on what is to be excluded from and … Continue reading
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
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
The gilets jaunes: Giving colour to suffering
Writing within the marxist critique of value tradition (e.g., the Krisis group), Benoit Bohy-Bunel offers a theoretically rich reading of the yellow vests movement. Without completely sharing the views of the author, the essay remains important.*
Jaime Semprun: The end of critical theory
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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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, capitalism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Against labour, against capital: The Krisis Group
The eulogists of work. Behind the glorification of ‘work’ and the tireless talk of the ‘blessings of work’ I find the same thought as behind the praise of impersonal activity for the public benefit: the fear of everything individual. At … Continue reading →