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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Standing with Standing Rock
“State security services in North Dakota have used tear gas and water hoses against hundreds of activists protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Protesters also reported being hit with rubber bullets and percussion grenades on a bridge just north of … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, ecology, Indigenous peoples, Okupations, rebellion
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Orhan Pamuk: “Why didn’t I become an architect?”
(All photographs by Ara Güler) As a sort of envoi for our series “Struggles for space“, we share below a short but rich reflection on the impossibility of architecture, by the turkish writer Orhan Pamuk; an envoi which could just … Continue reading
President Trump: Countdown to Apocalypse – From Crimethinc
After the Trump election, from CrimethInc …
For Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)
I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips. it is because … Continue reading
Struggles for space: Hijacking spaces of authority (6)
To momentarily conclude our series dedicated to struggles for space, we close with the work of the anarchitecture collective, Space Hijackers. A London based group, active between 1999 and 2014, it sought to sabotage architectural hierarchies of built space. The … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, revolution, Space Hijackers
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Struggles for space: Profaning architectural practice (5)
For our series, Struggles for space, we share below an essay entitled Playing in Space: Profaning Architectural Practice by a friend who has formerly published with Autonomies, Carlos Jacques. The essay originally appeared in Philosophy@Lisbon: International eJournal: Centro de Filosofia da … Continue reading
Against labour, labour capital: The right to be lazy
We close our review of anti-work and anti-capitalist literature with Paul Lafargue’s essay, The right to be lazy. With no intent to be exhaustive, and in no way considering that all has been said about the subject, the exercise was … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: The original affluent society
Marshall Sahlin’s essay, The original affluent society, is now a classic text in the critique of labour under capitalism as the path to material well being. For those not versed in the lessons of the abundance of simplicity, when jobs … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: The phenomenon of bullshit jobs
David Graeber’s essay, On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs, reflects upon the moral-disciplinary role of work in an age when contemporary capitalism renders most work redundant due to technological development and automaisation. We work not because we need to satisfy … Continue reading
Fidel Castro and the fetishism of power
Talking to us of homeland and freedom is a waste of time unless they start by guaranteeing our independence as individuals; we are not about to redeem the homeland while we are all left slaves. The measure of the homeland’s … Continue reading →