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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
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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Tagged Albert Einstein, colonialism and anti-colonialism, Hannah Arendt, israel, palestine
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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
Zosia Brom: Anarchism in the Mainstream
Love, sympathy and self-sacrifice certainly play an immense part in the progressive development of our moral feelings. But it is not love and not even sympathy upon which Society is based in mankind. It is the conscience — be it … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The End of Judaism
One cannot understand the meaning of what is taking place in Israel today if one does not understand that Zionism constitutes a double negation of the historical reality of Judaism. Not only does it in fact transfer to the Jews … Continue reading
Annie Le Brun on Surrealism
… the worst thing would be for surrealism, turned on its head, would be to make us forget the extent to which “the flora and fauna of surrealism are unmentionable”, but also that the quality of the air we breathe … Continue reading
Surrealism as seen by the other: Walter Benjamin
Since Bakunin, Europe has lacked a radical concept of freedom. The Surrealists have one. They are the first to liquidate the sclerotic liberal-moral-humanistic ideal of freedom, because they are convinced that ‘freedom, which on this earth can only be bought … Continue reading
The surrealist film-eye
In the hands of a free spirit the cinema is a magnificent and dangerous weapon. . . . The creative handling of film images is such that, among all means of human expression, its way of functioning is most reminiscent … Continue reading
When the “surrealist object” becomes a “surrealist self”: Claude Cahun
I’m an asocial rebel and a revolutionary dreamer,” she writes, “and do not fit any political party; my religion is paganism, including inspired figures such as Socrates, Buddha, and Kropotkin; and my (dialectical) method of thinking is taken from Heraclitus, … Continue reading
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 →