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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Creating Revolution: 15M through images
Documentary photography and film do not represent; indeed, no art does. It creates perspectives of worlds, worlds, openning possibilities, ways to be in world. The creation is but partially that of the director; there is also the unveiling eye of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Art and Revolution, spain, Spanish Revolution
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The insurrection of occupations
(photograph by Olmo Calvo) As the violence of State-Capital displays itself in spain – 6 million unemployed, cuts to public social services, 500 hundred daily home evictions, with their attendant tragedies of homelessness, destroyed families, suicides – the defense of … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Okupations, Olmo Calvo, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca
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Metamorphoses of Occupy: Radical Resistance Tour
Occupy was never a homogeneous or uniform movement. Nor did it, of course, create from nothing protests against State-Capital in the United States. It did however bring together and animate challenges to reigning powers in the country to a degree … Continue reading
Metamorphoses of Occupy
History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now. The awareness that they are about to make the continuum of history explode is characteristic of the … Continue reading
The presence of fascism
In a general way, our present is far from having come to terms with its recent nazi and fascist past … One is called to vigilence before possible returns – it is the motive of the "never again". … Nevertheless, … Continue reading
The resistance of bodies: The photography of Antoine d’Agata
Le désir demeure en nous comme un défi au monde même qui lui dérobe infiniment son objet. Georges Bataille … to take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. Susan Sontag … Continue reading
La rage de Keny Arkana
In celebration of the rebel music and poetry of Keny Arkana … La lutte ne suffit pas. Il faut pouvoir créer quelque chose de nouveau. Je te parle d’autogestion et de révolution des mentalités pour accéder au bonheur. Parce que c’est … Continue reading
The Drumming of Rebellion: Idle No More and Beyond
Native protesters in canada's Idle No More movement speak of responsabilities to mother earth, the spirit of the ancestors, the creator; a language which resonates poorly with a secular and atheistic left and is often celebrated hypocritically by this same left in … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indian Movement, canada, Idle No More, Indigenous peoples
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Lines of fracture, lines of conflict, lines of freedom: The war of okupations in greece
In solidarity … From greece to spain, passing through italy, okupations increasingly mark a territory of conflict between State-Capital and those who seek to create spaces and times of autonomy inside/outside the reigning regime of power. Beyond what they directly contest in capitalism, … Continue reading
Chronicles from our future present: greece
In the midst of the horrors of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg, citing Friedrich Engels’ statement that “Capitalist society faces a dilemma, either an advance to socialism or a reversion to barbarism”, posed the question, “What does a ‘reversion … Continue reading →