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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Louisiana and the era of disasters
In this era of disaster, one of the most difficult tasks will be to move beyond continuously reacting to one crisis after another in order to plan more ambitiously for an uncertain future. This already feels overwhelming, and it is … Continue reading
The existential communism of Jean-Luc Nancy
Même le chaos n’est pas entièrement chaotique ;même le compact laisse passer la lumière ;même l’individu contient encore une part de nuit Frédéric Neyrat, Le communisme existentiel de Jean-Luc Nancy, éditions Lignes. From Lundi matin (#302, 30/08/2021, in translation), a reflection on … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Communism, existentialism, Frédéric Neyrat, Jean-Luc Nancy
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Jean-Luc Nancy: May 68
We close our overly brief and modest sharing of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy with an interview (in translation) that he gave to Carole Dely, for the journal Sens publique on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of france’s May … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, Jean-Luc Nancy, May 68
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Jean-Luc Nancy: Populism, Democracy, and Neofascism: Two Essays
LARB – the Los Angeles Review of Books (17/02/2019) presents two recent essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, translated from the French by Sarah Clift. Populism and Democracy Populism and democracy are an odd couple. The first, populism, rejects the pejorative connotation that … Continue reading
Jean-Luc Nancy: Communism, The Word
The gravest and most painful testimony of the modern world, the one that possibly involves all other testimonies to which this epoch must answer (by virtue of some unknown decree or necessity, for we bear witness also to the exhaustion … Continue reading
Jean-Luc Nancy: Of Being-in-Common
It is by no means a simple matter to choose a text which is representative of Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy. One is spoiled by an abundance of wealth. However, The Inoperative Community (1986) is a central and fundamental text in his … Continue reading
For Jean-Luc Nancy 1940-2021
… il faut dire que la démocratie implique par essence quelque chose d’une anarchie qu’on voudrait presque dire principielle. Jean-Luc Nancy, Démocratie finie et infinie The french philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy died this last August 23rd. If the ideas of philosophers … Continue reading
Afghanistan: Readings of the fall of a political regime
Without sufficient knowledge of events on the ground, or of the broader context (historical, social, economic, geo-political, etc.), we share three texts on the recent Taliban overthrow of the U.S.A.-NATO regime in Kabul, with the aim of navigating beyond the … Continue reading
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Tagged afghanistan, colonialism and anti-colonialism, Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Vijay Prashad
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Carrying the war into Africa? Anarchism, Morocco, and the Spanish Civil War
(Originally published in two parts by Freedom News (23/11/2020; 30/11/2020), we share an article by Danny Evans) I was approached by Jeff Stein to write up a summary of Abel Paz, La cuestión de Marruecos y la República española so that English-language … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-fascism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, spain
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Acapatzingo: An autonomous community in resistance
Societies change from daily local practice, in defined autonomous spaces, because autonomy is the perimeter that protects counterhegemonic practices. Autonomy is the means by which other worlds can exist, worlds that need protection by virtue of being different. When and … Continue reading →