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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
The politics of football
As a complement to our last post on the spectacle of football …
The spectacle of football: A somnambulist’s reflections on a man called Neymar
As long as necessity is socially dreamed, dreaming will remain a social necessity. The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian … Continue reading
The order of the urban: “Metropolis: A film”
Universal history was born in cities, and it reached maturity with the city’s decisive victory over the country. For Marx, one of the greatest revolutionary merits of the bourgeoisie was the fact that it “subjected the country to the city,” … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, city, Security State, State and terror, State terror, united states
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Jacques Rancière: Reflections on equality and emancipation
“Autonomy” has been a key concept in modern emancipatory politics. But it must be understood correctly. It does not mean the autonomous power of a subject as opposed to external forces: it means a form of thinking, practice and organization … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, capitalism, democracy, Jacques Rancière, revolution
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Insurrectionist or organisational anarchism?: A false dilemma
We cannot conceive that anarchists establish points to follow systemically as fixed dogmas. Because, even if a uniformity of views on the general lines of tactics to follow is assumed, these tactics are carried out in a hundred different forms … Continue reading
The politics of cruelty: Hostis and the apology for insurrection
In an eloquent defense of insurrectionist politics, the Hostis journal critically dismisses all moralising forms of anarchism, eulogising of democracy and pacifism. Caught in a religious-theological past, anarchists fall far too quickly into self-mutilating performances of virtuous and moral superiority … Continue reading
This life is shit and you choose to burn it up: Get rid of yourself
We can truly understand this society only by negating it. Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle Capitalism, as with any form of social organisation, is a mode of creating human subjectivities. Its radical nature lies in its aspiration to do so … Continue reading
Autonomous well-being: Self-organising health care in Exarcheia
It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. Hippocrates Revolution begins in the everyday, in the constitution-resistance of autonomous, self-managed social relations in the many spheres of life that make … Continue reading
The passions of revolution
Society is always pushing you to turn into something other than what you want to be. Society attempts to make you someone else, a copy, a simulacrum. It is necessary to realize that we are not here to fulfill the … Continue reading
Guy Debord and Giorgio Agamben – Dialogues I: The Prologue to The Uses of the Body
To bring to light—beyond every vitalism—the intimate interweaving of being and living: this is today certainly the task of thought (and of politics). Giorgio Agamben In an intensely rich dialogue, Giorgio Agamben has engaged with the work of Guy Debord … Continue reading →