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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Notes on the Bure ZAD and the politics of eternity/death
Un grand sommeil noir Tombe sur ma vie : Dormez, tout espoir, Dormez, toute envie ! Je ne vois plus rien, Je perds la mémoire Du mal et du bien… O la triste histoire ! Je suis un berceau Qu’une … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, ecology, france, Gunther Anders, Hannah Arendt, revolution, ZAD
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The many ZAD of Bure, france: Autonomy before nuclear power
A convivial society should be designed to allow all its members the most autonomous action by means of tools least controlled by others. People feel joy, as opposed to mere pleasure, to the extent that their activities are creative; while … Continue reading
A Paris Autumn
The 12th of September marks the beginning of protests against the new (yet again!) french government’s proposed labour law reforms. Exit the socialists François Hollande and Manuel Valls, enter the golden boy, “I belong to no political party!”, politician as … Continue reading
The Chicago Conspiracy: A film memory of chile’s 9/11 and beyond
From subversive action films …
Ruymán Rodríguez: Neighbourhood anarchism. A surmounting thesis
If you struggle you can lose If you don’t struggle you are lost On a wall in Cordoba Ruymán Rodríguez‘s “neighbourhood anarchism” is the child of his militant experience in the Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria (FAGC). It is an effort … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Federación de anarquistas Gran Canaria, Ruymán Rodríguez
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The russian revolution of 1917: Victor Serge
Bolshevik thought takes it for granted that truth is its peculiar possession. To Lenin, to Bukharin, to Trotsky, to Preobrajensky, to many another thinker I could mention, the materialist dialectic of Marx and Engels was at one and the same … Continue reading
Anarchism, geography and the politics of space IV: Simon Springer’s postfraternal embrace of David Harvey
For anarchists, as the insurrectionary ethos moves through a community, it mobilizes political power by circulating ideas and making room for voluntary association. Such a view of power isn’t actually individualist, but rather it’s necessarily a relational assemblage, where the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, David Harvey, geography, marxism, Simon Springer
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Anarchism, geography and the politics of space III: David Harvey and anarchist geography
… let radical geography be just that: radical geography, free of any particular “ism”, nothing more, nothing less. David Harvey We have little or no interest in polemics. But differences of perception, thought, forms of life, when they happen or … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, David Graeber, David Harvey, geography, marxism, Murray Bookchin, Simon Springer
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Anarchism, geography and the politics of space II: Simon Springer
As a political philosophy, anarchism fully appreciates the processual nature of space, where the politics of waiting—for the revolution, for the withering away of the state, for the stages of history to pass—are all rejected in favor of the realism … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, David Harvey, geography, insurrection, marxism, revolution, Simon Springer
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Anti-capitalism as the creation of desire: From Eukariot
What is important right now is to twirl in a cheerful danse macabre on the grave of bourgeois enjoyment. Eukariot A speculative, provocative and experimental intervention, from Eukariot (Issue 1) … Firm Statements (Soon To Be Proven Wrong) I. – There are, … Continue reading →