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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Giorgio Agamben: Where are we?
In hell. Any discussion that does not start from this awareness is simply unfounded. The circles in which we find ourselves are not arranged vertically, but scattered throughout the world. Wherever men and women associate, they produce hell. The circles … Continue reading
Liberatory Mutual Aid
Without community, there is no liberation … Audre Lorde From scott crow, we share an important reflection on mutual aid as a liberatory practise and thought, in response to the different and multiple disasters brought on upon all of us … Continue reading
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France’s “Let’s block everything” or the will to insurrection
… the fire is not smoldering beneath the usual surface of daily acquiescence. Temps Critiques With week on from September 10, the day that coincided with a call to “Block Everything” in France, we share a critical article below from … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben – Difference and Repetition: On Guy Debord’s Films (1995)
Returning to a text that we have published before, we close our series on Guy Debord’s films with a reflection on the same by Giorgio Agamben.
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In girum imus nocteet consumimur igni (1978)
In the present film, for example, I am simply stating a few truths over a background of images that are all trivial or false. This film disdains the image-scraps of which it is composed. I do not wish to preserve … Continue reading
The Society of the Spectacle (1973)
In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false. … Continue reading
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
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
Howls for Sade (1952)
The arts of the future can be nothing less than disruptions of situations. Film by Guy Debord
Tomás Ibáñez: The irreducible, yet fecund, anarchist contradiction
BOAB Bologna Anarchist Bookfair September 5, 6, and 7, 2025 After many years of interruption of the major anarchist book fairs in Italy, such as the one that was periodically organized in Florence with its debates and book exhibitions, some … Continue reading →