Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Looking Back at the End of Times: Cockroaches, Fire, Monsters

We share below an essay by Iman Ganji, which he very generously passed onto us and for which we are grateful. It is a powerful and eloquent reflection on what may be called the passions of revolution for our time.

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Universal Declaration of the Right(s)-Wing of Man

From lundi matin #450, 04/11/2024. Lahoucine Duvaast sent us this document from Fresnes, where he has been interned since a certain event. He points out that the signatories mentioned at the end of the document are completely fictitious. Déclaration universelle … Continue reading

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Literacy, memory and the past (III)

The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. … Continue reading

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: The means of miscommunication (II)

What news! how much more important to know what that is which was never old! Henry David Thoreau, Walden For anyone who has not renounced the desire for authentic communication, for anyone who is not an impotent intellectual, the real … Continue reading

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: A cartography of alienation (I)

… the reality that we start from is ignorance. This appears to us to be a human faculty whose exercise must be truly familiar and an everyday experience for all our contemporaries; thus, it is a more solid and more … Continue reading

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C.P. Cavafy/Laurie Anderson: Waiting for the Barbarians

The force of Constantine Cavafy’s poetry continues to resonate in our times.

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Zionism as a politics of everyday violence

With the generous permission of Nika Dubrovsky and the David Graeber Institute, we share an article by David Graeber on his experience and reflection on daily life under Israeli state occupation. Hostile Intelligence: Reflections from a Visit to the West … Continue reading

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Ghassan Salhab: This name

PalestinianThis nameToday more than ever we must pronounce it, articulate it, utter itchant it, shout it, whisper it, sing itUntil our last breathThis name, this witnessBefore the night swallows it up forever I am writing these few words from Beirut, … Continue reading

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Zionism: Voices of Cassandra

In Gaza, the death is so constant, the devastation so relentless, the intention so explicit, there can be no acceptance – only rupture, withdrawal, disorientation. There can be no accommodation with what is happening. And as Israel reaches another sickening summit, … Continue reading

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Fell in Love with Fire

A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile, from the CrimethInc. collective (21/10/2024). Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months … Continue reading

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