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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
The fascist face of capitalism: In memory of Pavlos Fyssas
The death of one at the hand of fascists is the death of all. It testifies to a failure, the failure of our ability to resist, and possibly to understand how to resist. Fascism is not a simple political irrationality; … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street, two years on …
(poster from the Brooklyn Artist's Alliance) Anniversaries are always problematic. While celebratory, they lend themselves to nostalgia, nostalgia for past feats, glories, passions, which may mask present poverty and paralyse action in the present. They also lend themselves to accountings … Continue reading
The Sirens of representation: 15M before the seduction of elections
… all power is derived from the people, they possess it only on the days of their elections. After this it is the property of their rulers. Benjamin Rush … we are confronted even in the midst of the French … Continue reading
The poetry of a revolution: In memory of chile
Forty years ago (11/09/1973), chile’s revolution was brought to a violent close by the intervention of the country’s military, with the support and connivance of local and international capitalist interests. Thousands would die, and many more would be imprisoned, tortured … Continue reading
Capital’s cracks are everywhere: romania
For over a week, squares and streets in dozens of cities and towns throughout romania have been occupied in an effort to stall or stop resource extraction that threatens the loss of homes, land, even whole villages. Poetry takes the … Continue reading
Performing the government of crisis: greece
The permanent state of emergency/exception that characterises the government by crisis continues unabated in greece. To eliminate the reality-memory of resistance, squats are brought an end to throughout the country (29/08/2013: the eviction of the squat Antiviosi in Epirus; 02/09/2013: … Continue reading
Ofelia Nieto 29: The ethics of resistance
… what we are waiting for can only come from ourselves, from our own being. It will come once we force the unknown, the unconscious, up into our spirit; it will come once our spirit loses itself in the spiritless … Continue reading
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The excesses of okupations: Reading events in spain and greece with the Free Association
What we need are cheerful voices; voices that remind us that the few will turn into many! Gustave Landauer In order to be happy I’ll have to change the whole world! The Free Association The text that follows borrows freely … Continue reading
The Gezi-Taksim Utopia
(All the paintings in this post are by the turkish artist Yuksel Arslan) La poésie ouvre le vide à l’excès du désir. Georges Bataille For ten days, from the 1st to the 11th of June, Taksim became … a free … Continue reading
Rebelling against debt: examples from spain
… discourses of crises become a way to governmentally produce and manage (rather than deter) the crisis. “Crisis” becomes a perennial state of exception that turns into a rule and common sense and thus renders critical thinking and acting redundant, … Continue reading →