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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)
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
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
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
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
Taming a hybrid: The COVID-19 pandemic
… 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
The ecology of a virus
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
María Galindo: Giving form to a local anarcho-feminism
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
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 →