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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Giorgio Agamben: Thought and imagination. More on artificial intelligence
The issue of artificial intelligence, which is debated today not always with natural intelligence, has had a precursor in the history of Western philosophy — as we have already had occasion to demonstrate here —: the single, separate intellect of … Continue reading
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Kojin Karatani: The Spectres of Sovereignty
On Kojin Karatani’s 85th birthday, publisher Maikel da Silveira reflects on his writings on and the current US imperial project. Maikel da Silveira, Verso Books Blog, 06/08/2026 The philosopher and literary critic Kojin Karatani turns 85 today. His latest book, The End of … Continue reading
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Giorgio Agamben: When the house is on fire
With fires literally raging across the world, we return to a 2020 essay by Giorgio Agamben. Other languages: Italiano, Español, Français, Nederlands, Português, Russian, Deutsch, Greek, Magyar, Türkçe “Nothing I’m doing makes any sense if the house is on fire.” … Continue reading
Reflections on a decade of UK Black Lives Matter
From Freedom News (09/08/2026) This racist violence we experience is an active race?making project serving the interests of capital Kojo Black Lives Matter UK was founded by activists who had worked together on previous deaths in police custody, both in … Continue reading
Italy’s war on occupied social centres
In early June, we shared news about and a documentary film dedicated to “Spin Time”, an occupied social centre in the heart of Rome. On the 29th of July, a small fire in the social centre’s building provided the occasion … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: State and anomie II
If we refer to the doctrine set out in Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians, we can then say, as we have already done in this section, that the katechon—the power that restrains and delays the end, which the Church … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben – The State and anomie: Reflections on the Antichrist
The term “Antichrist” (antichristos) appears in the New Testament only in the First and Second Epistles of John. The context is certainly eschatological (paidia, eschate hora estin, vulg. filioli, novissima hora est, “little children, it is the last hour”), and … Continue reading
For Raoul Vaneigem (1934-2026)
Democracy is on the streets, not at the ballot box. … I am committed to the expansion of the right to happiness; I am committed to a form of “insurrectionary pacifism” that would make of life an absolute weapon, a … Continue reading
Susan Buck-Morss: Planetary Politics Now
We are at the end of the era of neo- and post-. No neoliberalism, no postcolonialism. Only a planetary imagination, propagated trans-locally, will move us forward. Verso Books Blog (23/07/2026) The meteoric speed with which planetary realities expose themselves today … Continue reading
Martin Sostre: Follow the Principles that Won My Freedom
The following speech, “Follow the Principles that Won My Freedom,” was delivered by Sostre in 1976 shortly after his release from prison and offers a message of revolutionary optimism about how collective action can succeed—as it did for him—in freeing … Continue reading →