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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Health as autonomy
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. Hippocrates I believe it is time to state clearly that specific situations and circumstances are sickening, rather … Continue reading
South Africa: The apartheid of capitalism
From John Pilger, the documentary film Apartheid Did Not Die (1998) … In 1994 South Africa inspired the world as millions of people cued patiently to vote in the country’s first democratic elections. It was the end of apartheid, the … Continue reading
The passing of Nelson Mandela: Pursuing the promise of revolution
The death of Nelson Mandela can leave no one indifferent. His ethical passion in the struggle against apartheid is an example to all. His passing does not diminish what he remains for us all: a contemporary.
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Spain’s 15M: Doing revolution
The old revolutionary certainties have gone. John Holloway, Crack Capitalism What in our conduct, our action, makes it revolutionary? Is it a simple matter to say of one activity that it is anti-capitalist, and of another that it is not? … Continue reading
The pacifying state (cont.): the sovereignty of the police
The transformation of political issues into security matters makes explicit the relationship, if not the identity, of sovereignty and the exercise of police power. The “police – contrary to public opinion – are not merely an administrative function of law … Continue reading
The pacifying state: Spain and the laws against rebellion
The State’s power is fundamentally rooted in its ability to define the limits within which its sovereignty is exercised; a power that rests upon the State’s ability to simultaneously stand outside those very limits. This paradox is at the very … Continue reading
Anarchist interventions in brazil’s winter of discontent
Exclusion of people from the means of life is internal to capitalism. If the social relations that constitute capitalism’s fabric allow some to benefit from the domination intrinsic to those relations, the many are exploited and/or rendered superfluous as befits … Continue reading
Whither the egyptian revolution?
What follows are reflections, readings, of events in egypt of the last few months, of a revolution seemingly appropriated or hijacked by military authorities. They are testimonials, but also efforts to trace, open, paths beyond seeming failure …
For Lou Reed
“There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.” “When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put … Continue reading
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Political dissidence made criminal: Resistance from spain
Before State interdiction and oppression, how can and should resistance and opposition proceed? If public protest risks falling into spectacular re-appropriation, should the streets then be left to the authorities of pacification? And if protest is necessary, how can it … Continue reading →