Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

La vie appelle la vie: The animated poetry of Frédéric Back

Libérer la vie, libérer la vie des prisons … c’est ça resister. Gilles Deleuze, Abécédaire  Art for me is just a natural reaction. I just try to share this reaction to what I love, and want to share. The pleasure is … Continue reading

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The state as an agent of murder: Turkey

Over thirty people have died, and over seventy are injured, in a bomb attack in Suruç, turkey, on the turkish-syrian border accross from Kobane.  The target was a gathering of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) meeting at the … Continue reading

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In solidarity: Wafaa Charaf

Wafaa Charaf was arrested and placed in preventative detention on the 9th of Januray 2014 in Tangier.  Earlier she had made a formal legal complaint against unknown individuals for kidnapping, sequestering and threats on the 27th of April 2014, after … Continue reading

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Paul Beatriz Preciado: Feminism beyond humanism, ecology beyond the environment

We share a text by Paul Beatriz Preciado, in translation, that was originally published in the french newspaper Liberation (26/09/2014): a critical reflection on feminism and more broadly on what Preciado calls “animalism” …

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From “Out of the woods”: Cyborg ecology, cyborg agriculture

  Following on the recent posting of an essay by Bruno Latour on post-environmentalism, we join to it a reflection on cyborg ecology and agriculture from the excellent blog “Out of the Woods” that is carried on libcom.org (17/07/2015), as … Continue reading

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Landscapes of oppression, gestures of resistance: Istanbul

Sunday Today is Sunday. Today they led me out into the sun for the first time. And for the first time in my life I stood immovable Amazed at how distant the sky was How vast, How blue Respectfully I … Continue reading

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Post-environmentalism: Love your monsters

We share below a text by Bruno Latour that originally appeared in Next Nature (07/09/2014) and that was also posted on libcom.org (15/06/2015), as an invitation to critically think through a radical ecological politics …

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Not fighting for nature, but nature fighting back: Okupying trees in the ZAD of Roybon

The okupation of forests, river valleys, peasant farm lands through the constitution of autonomous, self-managed self-defense communities, as resistance to capitalist infrastructure development, have become emblematic of france’s ZADs.  If the ZADS of Notre-Dames-des-Landes and Testet call forth memories of … Continue reading

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The kratia against the demos: Lessons from greece

Our refrain becomes repetitive: capitalism cannot be reformed because a system of oppression, appropriation and exploitation cannot be fundamentally altered by state authorities that are not only beholden to it, but are an expression of it.  The illusion to the … Continue reading

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Hobbesian reflections in times of elections: Giorgio Agamben

The recent electoral successes of political parties rooted in “citizens movements” in spain’s municipal and regional elections (and this in the wake of the Syriza victory in greece) may give some reasons for hope that social movements, especially the “occupy” … Continue reading

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