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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959)
The appearance of events that we have not created, of events that others have in fact created against us, now obliges us to be aware of the passage of time and its results, to assess the transformation of our own … Continue reading
Howls for Sade (1952)
The arts of the future can be nothing less than disruptions of situations. Film by Guy Debord
The spectacle of power
Official news is elsewhere. Society broadcasts to itself its own image of its own history, a history reduced to a superficial and static pageant of its rulers — the persons who embody the apparent inevitability of whatever happens. The world … Continue reading
The flotillas to Gaza or the unfinished as a political form
Sylvain George From lundi matin #486, 01/09/2025 A few months ago, the Madleen was intercepted by the Israeli army a few kilometres off the coast of Gaza. On August 31, a flotilla of several dozen boats set sail for the … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: On False Relationships
A good definition of political power is that which characterises it as the art of placing people in false relationships. This, and nothing else, is what power does first and foremost, in order to then govern them as it wishes. … Continue reading
Mystery and Hierarchy: On the unassimilable/incomprehensible character of anarchism
Christian Ferrer One In every city in the world, no matter how small, there is at least one person who calls themselves an anarchist. This solitary and unusual presence must conceal a meaning that transcends the order of politics, just … Continue reading
Free Atoms: Refractory Lives
Christian Ferrer What will remain of the word “anarchists” in a future dictionary? A footnote, the conceptual definition of a sect of conspirators, the cardiogram that recorded the historical ups and downs of an extreme idea, the silhouette of an … Continue reading
Christian Ferrer: Essays on the ungoverable
Christian Ferrer’s work on anarchism is among the most erudite and eloquent that we know. Refusing to limit himself to merely describing anarchist acts of militancy, or to fruitless ideological debates, he unearths what we could call the “longue durée” … Continue reading
The Dialectics of Exile
As a complementary text to our last post by Noah Brehmer, we share a further essay by him, again with his generosity and the kind permission of the journal Alienocene (18/08/2025) exploring the concept of “exodus” as an ontological and … Continue reading
Guy Debord’s film eye
Considering the story of my life, it is obvious to me that I cannot produce a cinematic “work” in the usual sense of the term. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In the summer heat of a … Continue reading →