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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Exarchia: Remembering what has been created, living what is at stake
For the rebels of Exarchia, for Notara 26 (from Yannis Youlountas) … Tomorrow evening, we will celebrate the 4th birthday of Notara 26, the first squat of the “refugee crises” in the centre of Athens, opened on the 25th of … Continue reading
Exarchia: State evictions of squats continue
From Yannis Youlountas (23/09/2018) …
The gilets jaunes: Resonances
We no longer wish to live as before. From lundi matin#207, 09/09/2019 … Une juste colère – Interrompre la destruction du monde/A just anger – Interrupting the destruction of the world, by the historian and anthropologist Jérôme Baschet, will appear … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Insurrection at the end times of capital
Walter Benjamin, in an early and originally unpublished essay, described capitalism as a religion, a purely cultic religion without dogma or theology; a religion in which things and deeds have meaning only in relation to the cult. The ends are … Continue reading
In solidarity with Rojava: A call for boycotts
From roarmag (12/09/2019) …
For Robert Frank (1924-2019)
To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. Friedrich Nietzsche *** … photographs become standard evidence for historical occurrences, and acquire a hidden political significance. Walter Benjamin *** Photography is the process of rendering observation self-conscious. … Continue reading
The burnt earth: Capital’s colonisation
Reflections on our burning forests: an essay by Alèssi Dell’Umbria (lundi matin #207, 09/09/2019) …
Eduardo Colombo: The political space of anarchy (1)
We return to our series grouped under the title of “writers of May 68”, within which we have included Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós, Eduardo Colombo and Amedeo Bertolo. The reference to “May 68” is a political metaphor in this instance, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anarchism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, May 68, Miguel Amorós
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For Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019)
It amazes me that people are surprised when underclasses rebel. The surprising thing is that they do not do it more often. The combination of the oppressiveness of poverty and racism and the lack of short-term, or even medium-term hope … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, capitalism, Immanuel Wallterstein, May 68, Occupy Wall Street
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Hong Kong: A phenomenology of permanent insurrection
This struggle has played a pedagogical role for everyone who has participated in it. It is a phenomenological pedagogy in which the city that we inhabit has acquired an entirely new significance through the process of the struggle—every aspect of … Continue reading →