Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Giorgio Agamben: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad

It is worth reflecting on a fact so incredible that attempts are made at all costs to sweep it under the carpet: the state that claims to be the most powerful in the world has for years been governed by … Continue reading

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Élisée Reclus: To My Brother the Peasant

In 1873, Reclus wrote an article entitled “Quelques mots sur la propriété” for L’Almanach du peuple. He later revised and expanded it, publishing it as a pamphlet under the title A mon frère le paysan (1899). In his “Biographie d’Elisée Reclus” in Les … Continue reading

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Israel, Apartheid, and the Death Penalty: When Law Becomes a Tool of Ethnic Cleansing

By Rezgar Akrawi, from libcom.org (10/04/2026) The Death Penalty for Terrorists Law was formally passed on 30 March 2026, with a 62–48 vote. Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, during a session of the Knesset’s National Security Committee. He and … Continue reading

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Hands Off Prosfygika: Eviction Threat Sparks Hunger Strike and Mass Mobilization

From Unicorn Riot, by Camilla Donzelli (02/04/2026) Athens, Greece — On March 14, more than 4,000 people joined a march organized by the Community of Squatted Prosfygika, a historic occupation in Athens now facing an eviction threat due to a … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: Adam’s childhood

One cannot understand our culture’s conception of the human being unless one remembers that at its foundation lies a man without a childhood: Adam. According to the account in Genesis, the man whom the Lord creates and places in the … Continue reading

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An Orgasm of History: 1977 in Italy – Digression on the Thread of Memory by a former Situationist

by Gianfranco Sanguinetti We share below a new translation of “An Orgasm of History: 1977 in Italy,” a text Gianfranco Sanguinetti wrote in 2017, on the 40th anniversary of the 1977 insurrectionary movement in Italy, about which little is known … Continue reading

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Déjà vu and the Horizontal Reinstitution of Future

by Yavor Tarinski We become epigones or spectators, but epigones or spectators of our very own potential-to-be. Paolo Virno[1] Within bureaucratic settings time seems to simultaneously rush and stay frozen – an endless cycle of past-presentism that shrinks leisure and … Continue reading

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“understand that fascism is already here”*

I want to try to urge you to think about the historical system of slavery and the prison, the institution of the prison together. And specifically, I want us to think about the extent to which the vast global apparatus … Continue reading

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Manifeste du parti grumaliste (continued)*

From lundimatin #513 (23/03/2026) The network society connects everything it can. As a result, it tends to exclude class struggles. A number of us oppose this – in practical terms.[1] 2- Relays and Grumeaux In the network society, homes are junctions, hubs – … Continue reading

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Happy birthday, Dario

“At the root of everything I write, … is tragedy. One must never forget that Accidental Death involves a man who has been thrown out of a window, and that Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! hinges on a man who is … Continue reading

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