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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Simon Springer: I, Dirty Anarchist
There are essays that in a few words can sometimes capture the spirit of an idea better than any long, drawn out monograph. Simon Springer’s “I, Dirty Anarchist” (2018) is one such essay: an apology for a Tolstoian anarchism.
Jacques Rancière: Reading freedom through Anton Chekhov
Jacques Rancière, in his most recent essay, explores through Anton Chekhov’s fiction the unpredictable yet ever possible and disruptive appearance of freedom in the everyday lives of his characters; in our lives. We share below an excerpt from Rancière’s essay, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Chekhov, Art and Revolution, Jacques Rancière
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Anarchists on the Wave of Protest in Indonesia
From the CrimethInc. collective (23/09/2024). In August 2024, a wave of protests rocked Indonesia, ostensibly in response to political machinations aimed at anointing a successor to President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi. Very little information has circulated about these protests in the English-speaking world. … Continue reading
Reflecting on Occupy Wall Street, Thirteen Years Later
From the CrimethInc. collective (17/09/2024). Thirteen years ago, a thousand demonstrators descended on Wall Street, occupying Zuccotti Park and kicking off what came to be known as the Occupy movement. Revisiting that moment today, we can see how dramatically the … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, revolution, united states
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Azad: The Revolution in Myanmar
From Ill Will (13/09/2024). The following is an interview with Azad, an American currently fighting for the revolution in Myanmar. Conducted via email over several weeks between August and September of 2024, Azad’s responses cover a wide range of issues … Continue reading
Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Hipercapitalism and Semiocapital
Caliban: You taught me language, and my profit on’tIs I know how to curse. The red plague rid youFor learning me your language! Shakespeare, The Tempest Historical colonialism: extractivism of physical resources The history of colonialism is a history of systematic depredation of territory. The object of colonisation is the resource-rich physical places that the colonialist West needed for its accumulation. … Continue reading
“Shake in Your Boots Bureaucrats!”: Resistance, Recuperation, and the Legacy of the Situationists
From the It’s Going Down podcast and Bill Brown of the Not Bored journal, reflections on the Situationists.
Giorgio Agamben: Science and Happiness
In spite of the usefulness we think we derive from them, the sciences cannot make us happy, because man is a speaking being, who needs to express in words joy and pain, pleasure and affliction, while science, in the last … Continue reading
Done and to be done: For a manifesto of positive anarchy
From Lundi Matin, #443 (16/09/2024), we share a text by Maria Kakogianni – a manifesto of anarchy -, which by coincidence comes in the wake of our last post, the article by Miguel Amorós, “What is anarchism?”. The contrast between … Continue reading
Surrealism: The unfinished revolution
Surrealism is not, has never been, and will never be a literary or artistic school but is a movement of the human spirit in revolt and an eminently subversive attempt to reenchant the world: an attempt to reestablish the “enchanted” … Continue reading →