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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
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
Ecstacies of Occupy: St. Louis
I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate to see that evening sun go down St. Louis Blues … the question of ethics is always a question of an ethical relation, that is the question of what … Continue reading
A (not) last goodbye to Mick Farren
What I’m saying is that I don’t want a grey world. Or rather, because this is the way it’s going, a grey world that’s painted day-Glo wild colours. Fuck that, it’s just disguising the real situation. I’m wanting a world … Continue reading
What revolutions in the americas?
On the 15th of August, president Rafael Correa of ecuador announced the authorisation of the extraction of petroleum from Yasuni National Park. The decision will have to be voted on by the country’s congress, but should it agree, it brings … Continue reading
Autonomy at the limit: Playing with Deleuze and Guattari around contemporary rebellions
(This text is born of an experiment, an experiment in progress, that of thinking through our contemporary rebellions with the tools of contemporary philosophy. Spain´s 15M is the example considered here and the hypothetical conclusion arrived at is that the … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, revolution, spain
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The spreading of okupations: Chronicles from 15m´s spain
To okupy, to appropriate, to re-appropriate that which was claimed by theft; a theft paid for with public monies. Today, in spain, okupation has become the central strategy of anti-capitalist politics, a politics that is not only opposed to State-Capital, … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Occupations, Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, spain, Spanish Revolution
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Plastic bodies: Queering walls, Queering life
(Yves Klein) Our creativity is potentially boundless; the limits that it encounters are of our own making, rooted in our fears and our oppressions. Nowhere perhaps is this more evident than in/with our bodies. Our freedom extended to them violates, stretches, confounds what … Continue reading
The metamorphoses of walls
Walls, structures of division and separation, systems of confinement, markers of property, obstacles to movement, channels of passage; walls trace lines of sovereignty and frame the government of populations. They are, along with the paths that they trace, the most … Continue reading
Mapping the state of exception: greece
Sharing the interventions of the collective The City at the time of Crisis … Landscapes of Emergency is a brief glance over the undeclared state of emergency that casts its shadow over the functions and the phenomena of public space … Continue reading
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 →