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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
The complete domination of time: Raúl Zibechi
We share below, in translation, a reflection by uruguayan essayist and activist Raúl Zibechi (La Jornada 07/08/2015) on the contemporary political paradigm of the concentration camp. With references to historian Josep Fontana and philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the short essay serves … Continue reading
The continuing reign of debt: Greece
As greece’s Syriza government finalises the details of a third austerity/debt repayment package with the Troika (under the threat of financial destruction from its creditors and their police), the government’s former finance minister Yanis Vaoufakis, who resigned in opposition to … Continue reading
Days of infamy in northern syria
We publish below an article by Andrew Flood published on the website of the Workers Solidarity Movement and also recently posted on Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog. We share Graham’s urgency in diffusing this reflection and his own introduction to the … Continue reading
1915 to 2015 – A Century of Genocide
Jansem, Desolation We share below an article that was written by Devrim Valerian (09/07/2015) on the occasion of the anniversary one hundred years ago of the armenian genocide at the hands of the turkish leaders of the Ottoman Empire. However it does not … Continue reading
Hiroshima is everywhere
We have become Titans, wrote Gunther Anders in 1956, in the wake of the development of nuclear weapons and their use in japan on the 6th of August, 1945. Lost children of an earlier humanity who could see in Faust … Continue reading
Migrants as border rebels
… we actually live in a world in which human beings as such have ceased to exist for quite a while; since society has discovered discrimination as the great social weapon by which one may kill men without any bloodshed; … Continue reading
Children of the new Earth – Deleuze, Guattari and anarchism
We share below an essay by Aragorn Eloff reflecting upon the multiple and consequent relations between the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and anarchism. Originally presented as a talk at the 2015 Deleuze and Guattari and Africa conference … Continue reading
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A permanent war without borders: Turkey
It is often said that the first victim of war is the truth. What is ignored in this common sense wisdom is that all war is, among other things, a war between truths, a war for the creation of truth. … Continue reading
Between seeing like a man and seeing like an animal: Sebastião Salgado’s “Genesis”
Sebastião Salgado’s most recent photographic work turns away from his now more traditional themes – e.g. labour, migration, war and genocide … what may be summarised as a concern with the violent dramas of the human condition – to capture … Continue reading
Rethinking Anarchism: Carlos Taibo (6)
What follows below is the 6th Chapter of Carlos Taibo’s Rethinking Anarchy: Direct Action, Self-Management, Autonomy (La Catarata, Madrid, 2013). Largely concerned with the history of spanish anarchism, Taibo also considers, in this chapter, the complex relationship between anarchism and marxism, … Continue reading →