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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Government by executive order: A lesson in contemporary authoritarianism
If Trump’s electoral success is due in part to the far right’s ability to create a lifeworld shaped around his persona, the left must pursue a countervailing project. Its aim should be to transform the world people organically experience through … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Only a god can save us now
Heidegger’s abrupt statement in the 1976 “Spiegel” interview: “Only a God can save us” has always been perplexing. To understand it, we must first put it into context. Heidegger had just spoken of the planetary domination of technology, which nothing … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: A political allegory
We are all in hell, but some seem to think that there is nothing to do here but to study and describe in detail the demons, their horrible appearance, their ferocious behaviour, their infamous machinations. Perhaps they delude themselves into … Continue reading
Ursula k. Le Guin: A War Without End
From Jacobin Magazine (26/01/2018) Some thoughts, written down at intervals, about oppression, revolution, and imagination. Slavery My country came together in one revolution and was nearly broken by another. The first revolution was a protest against galling, stupid, but relatively mild social … Continue reading
Ursula K. Le Guin: Is Gender Necessary? Redux
“Is Gender Necessary?” first appeared in Aurora, that splendid first anthology of science fiction written by women, edited by Susan Anderson and Vonda N. McIntyre. It was later included in The Language of the Night. Even then I was getting uncomfortable with some of … Continue reading
“I Believe in an Anti-Systemic Feminism.” A Conversation with María Galindo
Si el feminismo deja de incomodar, no sirve absolutamente para nada. Por eso es que yo reivindico mucho ese feminismo intuitivo, que es un feminismo que quizás no se llama a sí mismo como feminismo, o sí, pero que básicamente … Continue reading
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“The anti-feminism of the far right is not just a cultural war.”
From lundi matin #459, 14/01/2025 Interview with Argentine philosopher Veronica Gago Philosopher, feminist activist and member of the Ni Una Menos collective. “How has neo-liberalism managed to make the logic of sacrifice part of the common language?” she asks in … Continue reading
A brief update on capital
We publish below a text from the Temps critiques collective, the English translation of which was generally shared with us. The essay is available in the original French, as well as Spanish and English, on the collective’s website. The essay … Continue reading
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Ursula K. Le Guin: A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be
A reflection on the desire for utopia, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Introduction to “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place To Be” John Clark Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010 Ursula Le Guin’s works typically recount the story … Continue reading
Amador Fernández-Savater: Brutalism, the highest stage of neoliberalism
From Lobo Suelto (09/03/2025) What is significant is not what ends and consecrates, but what initiates, announces and prefigures. Achille Mbembe What time are we living in? How can we describe our time? For critical thinking, something decisive is at … Continue reading →