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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Kristin Ross: A Common Horizon for Situated Struggles
The great social measure of the Commune was its own working existence. Karl Marx, The Civil War in France The French people seem to have understood this need wonderfully well, and the something new, which was introduced into the life … Continue reading
Miguel Amorós: Anti-developmentalism: what it is and what it wants
A 2014 restatement of the meaning of “anti-developmentalism” by the Spanish activist and author, Miguel Amorós, which he defines as the new form of the “modern class struggle”. Anti-developmentalism: What It Is and What It Wants In one respect, anti-developmentalism … Continue reading
Address to those who would rather abolish harmful phenomena than manage them
The ecologists play the same role, on the terrain of the struggle against harmful phenomena, that the trade unionists play on the terrain of workers struggles: mere intermediaries interested in the preservation of the contradictions whose regulation they assure; smooth-tongued … Continue reading
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Giorgio Agamben: The exile and the citizen
It is good to reflect on a phenomenon that is both familiar and unfamiliar to us, but which, as often occurs in such cases, can provide us with useful indications for our life among others: exile. Legal historians continue to … Continue reading
George Orwell: The Prevention of Literature
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging … Continue reading
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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Environmentalism unto death (VII)
Abracadabrant – Encyclopédie des Nuisances (Encyclopédie des Nuisances, Nº 15, 1992) Everything that used to be part of the sphere of knowledge, its transmission and its acquisition, has disappeared into the hands of those who confiscated it. The consequences of … Continue reading
Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Misery amidst plenty (VI)
Abundance has always existed, but nowhere has it existed abundantly: either because everyone did not enjoy it or because, when everyone did enjoy it, they did not do so all of the time. No doubt abundance really lived can only … Continue reading
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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Energy and/or Death (V)
… we feel confident in asserting that henceforth this world can contain only two kinds of seriousness: the seriousness of the extremists of domination, as obvious as the means at their disposal for perpetuating it any price — and ours, … Continue reading
A Letter to Our American Cousins
From the Ill Will collective (06/11/2025). In the days following Donald Trump’s first presidential victory friends in France sent us a letter that treats his ascendency to power as a moment of truth that needs to be confronted. As we … Continue reading
Miguel Amorós: The likely causes of the rise of the extreme right in the capitalist world
The most striking political phenomenon of our recent era, which some rightly call the era of authoritarian leaders, is the rise of the extreme right in the partycratic/party-dominated capitalist countries. Some prefer to call it the radical, ultra-nationalist or populist … Continue reading →