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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
The Other Shore: Mutual Aid and Autonomous Infrastructure after Hurricane Ian
I had no time to hate, becauseThe Grave would hinder meAnd life was not so ample ICould finish enmity. Nor had I time to love; but sinceSome Industry must beThe little toil of love, I thoughtWas large enough for me. … Continue reading
Left Electoralism, Fascist Direct Action, and Anti-Fascist Resistance – The Brazilian Elections of 2022
From the CrimethInc. collective (06/11/2022) … The 2022 elections pitted the authoritarian nationalism of Jair Bolsonaro against the institutional leftism of Workers Party candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Each of these rival strategies for governance presented itself as the … Continue reading
The urgent need to eat the rich!
What follows was inspired by a short newspaper article on the enormous discrepancy in energy consumption and CO2 emissions between the rich and the poor, in the UK. Recalling Jonathan Swift’s brilliant essay, “A Modest Proposal” of 1729, we took … Continue reading
For Mike Davis (1946-2022)
I’m a fatalistic Celt, and I have the example of my mother and older sister, who died like Russian soldiers at Stalingrad. Thanks to California’s aid-in-dying law, I have control over the final act. But I guess what I think … Continue reading
The critique of the school in post-’68 French thought: Interview with Jacques Rancière
There aren’t two sorts of mind. There is inequality in the manifestations of intelligence, according to the greater or lesser energy communicated to the intelligence by the will for discovering and combining new relations; but there is no hierarchy of intellectual capacity. Emancipation is … Continue reading
Anarchism for termites: A manifesto
For Bruno Latour (1947-2022) When we began to write this “Manifesto”, it was to compliment an earlier exercise in manifesto writing – A moss-like anarchist manifesto – and to continue the sceptical exercise of distilling images and concepts from parallel … Continue reading
Brazil: Between election rounds
Reflections on the Brazilian elections and anarchism, from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation … Anarchism in the Face of Fascism and the Electoral Debate 05/10/2022 By Rafael V. Da Silva, Kauan Willian and Victor Khaled Translated by S Nicholas Nappalos … Continue reading
Amador Fernández-Savater: Notes on the unconscious and politics (summer 2022)
A patchwork reflection on psychoanalysis and politics, by Amador Fernández-Savater, published in Lobo Suelto (17/09/2022). Reading Freud is an experience of great intensity. Not only because of what he brings to light, against everything and everyone (he, a bourgeois from … Continue reading
Resistance to war in russia
From the CrimethInc. collective (26/09/2022) … Russia: Mobilization and Resistance Can the Russian Anti-War Movement Rise to the Challenge? On September 21, following the Ukrainian counteroffensive of early September, Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of the Russian population to support the … Continue reading
Ukraine: Trying to see beyond our myths
In response to a recent text by anarchists entitled Anarchist Antimilitarism and Myths About the War in Ukraine (antimilitarismus.noblogs.org and the Anarchist Library) and continuing with an earlier reflection on “revolutionary defeatism“, we share an interview below with Antti Rautiainen … Continue reading →