Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Critique of Separation (1961): “One of the greatest antifilms of all time!”

Until the environment is collectively dominated, there will be no real individuals — only specters haunting the objects anarchically presented to them by others. In chance situations we meet separated people moving randomly. Their divergent emotions neutralize each other and … Continue reading

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On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959)

The appearance of events that we have not created, of events that others have in fact created against us, now obliges us to be aware of the passage of time and its results, to assess the transformation of our own … Continue reading

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Howls for Sade (1952)

The arts of the future can be nothing less than disruptions of situations. Film by Guy Debord

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Guy Debord’s film eye

Considering the story of my life, it is obvious to me that I cannot produce a cinematic “work” in the usual sense of the term. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In the summer heat of a … Continue reading

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The spectacle of power

Official news is elsewhere. Society broadcasts to itself its own image of its own history, a history reduced to a superficial and static pageant of its rulers — the persons who embody the apparent inevitability of whatever happens. The world … Continue reading

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The flotillas to Gaza or the unfinished as a political form

Sylvain George From lundi matin #486, 01/09/2025 A few months ago, the Madleen was intercepted by the Israeli army a few kilometres off the coast of Gaza. On August 31, a flotilla of several dozen boats set sail for the … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: On False Relationships

A good definition of political power is that which characterises it as the art of placing people in false relationships. This, and nothing else, is what power does first and foremost, in order to then govern them as it wishes. … Continue reading

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Mystery and Hierarchy: On the unassimilable/incomprehensible character of anarchism

Christian Ferrer One In every city in the world, no matter how small, there is at least one person who calls themselves an anarchist. This solitary and unusual presence must conceal a meaning that transcends the order of politics, just … Continue reading

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Free Atoms: Refractory Lives

Christian Ferrer What will remain of the word “anarchists” in a future dictionary? A footnote, the conceptual definition of a sect of conspirators, the cardiogram that recorded the historical ups and downs of an extreme idea, the silhouette of an … Continue reading

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Christian Ferrer: Essays on the ungoverable

Christian Ferrer’s work on anarchism is among the most erudite and eloquent that we know. Refusing to limit himself to merely describing anarchist acts of militancy, or to fruitless ideological debates, he unearths what we could call the “longue durée” … Continue reading

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