-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Commentary (1,738)
- Discussion (6)
- Film (130)
- Interview (73)
- News blog (856)
- Poiesis (134)
- Review (3)
- Uncategorized (4)
Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Carlo Levi: A witness to freedom
… all history unfolds in every individual life. Of course this only happens when history does unfold, because it can also stop, or turn backward or spin emptily on its own axis like a mechanical top. Carlo Levi, The Watch … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged anarchism, anti-fascism, autonomy, Carlo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, italy
Leave a comment
Giorgio Agamben: Our task is to think, together
I believe that it is not certain that we can continue to do as we have done so far, that is, to fight or act in the name of principles and concepts such as democracy, the constitution, law, which perhaps … Continue reading
Lessons of the Covid mutual aid projects
Whatever may be the shortcomings of my study, it will make [any revolutionary who reads it] reflect on the necessity of bringing to the next revolution a set of constructive ideas (as well as destructive ones), of thinking them through carefully and … Continue reading
David Berry: Kropotkin’s Great French Revolution
From Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog, reflections on Peter Kropotkin’s newly published The Great French Revolution, by David Berry … PM Press is publishing a new edition of Peter Kropotkin’s The Great French Revolution (originally published in 1909), with an introduction by David … Continue reading
Toni Morrison: Racism and fascism
A recent article in The Guardian by the north american philosopher, Jason Stanley, offers an informed reading of the emerging fascism in the united states. If we do not embrace Stanley’s liberal politics, what this latter lacks is made up … Continue reading
For bell hooks (1952-2021)
Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that’s been a place of hope. bell hooks bell hooks … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Interview
Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, bell hooks, Feminism, patriarchy, united states
Leave a comment
Viva l’anarchia: Lina Wertmüller (1928-2021)
In grotesque realism… the bodily element is deeply positive. It is presented not in a private, egoistic form, severed from other spheres of life, but as something universal, representing all the people. As such it is opposed to severance from … Continue reading
Posted in Film, News blog
Tagged anarchism, anarchist film, Art and Revolution, Lina Wertmüller
Leave a comment
Fascism as the “reconquest”: Éric Zemmour’s political crusade
A breath of African air sweeps them [the Visigoths] from the Peninsula (…) I will be told that, despite this, we knew how to complete our glorious eight centuries of Reconquest. And to this I naively reply that I do … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, News blog
Tagged anti-fascism, france, Jacques Rancière, Ugo Palheta
Leave a comment
The anarchy of a music: Niño de Elche
El Grito La elipse de un grito, va de monte a monte. Desde los olivos, será un arco iris negro sobre la noche azul. ¡Ay! Como un arco de viola, el grito ha hecho vibrar largas cuerdas del viento. ¡Ay! … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Interview, Poiesis
Tagged Art, Art and Revolution, flamenco, folk music, Niño de Elche, spain
Leave a comment
Travis Wilkerson: An Injury to One (film)
It may be said that the “working class”, in political struggles throughout the emergence and expansion of capitalism, was epochal. We use the word here in its ancient Greek sense. The Greek word epokhe meant “stoppage, fixed point of time,” from epekhein “to … Continue reading →