Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Giorgio Agamben: To believe and not to believe

In 1973, writing Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich predicted that the catastrophe of the industrial system would become a crisis that would usher in a new era. “The total collapse of the industrial monopoly on production will be the result … Continue reading

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Lucy E. Parsons: A Christmas Story

“Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask,” said Scrooge, looking intently at the Spirit’s robe, “but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?” … Continue reading

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Josep Rafanell i Orra: Anarchism, once again

From lundimatin #501, 15/12/2025 Everyone agrees that the current political landscape in France is frankly depressing. On the one hand, there is an obvious fascistisation of stupidity, and on the other, a kitsch revival of Leninist leftism. It’s easy to … Continue reading

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Anarchism: Last ecological hope against the violence of the State

Against a State that will never resolve the climate crisis, and its violence that force does not know how to overthrow, what remains for ecologists? Historical and present day anarchism, rich in ideas for another future.

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Giorgio Agamben: To live or to survive

Those who govern us today are trying to organise the survival of humanity, that is, they are trying to transform the living into survivors. But what survives is no longer alive; only those who do not survive their own way … Continue reading

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Marcello Tarí: Revisiting the Concept of Revolution

“A Conversation with Marcello Tarí” (Translated and Edited by Nikola García), published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 31/03/2022. This interview is part of the series Ethnographic Encounters with Destituent Power In this interview conducted by POLAR Digital Editorial Fellow Nikola Garcia, … Continue reading

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Ivan Illich: Rebirth of Epimethean Man

As yet another COP gathering closes, with no end in sight to increasing carbon emissions, to the glee of the fossil fuel industries; as the promise of a “green” energy transition unmasks its own inexhaustible demands on an expanding, violent … Continue reading

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Ian Alan Paul: What Is a Repertoire?

From Ill Will (01/12/25) Ian Alan Paul’s The Reticular Society offers a situationist-inspired critique of how the logic of optimized computation and networked calculation has expanded and deepened the capitalist project of exploitation and domination. As Paul shows, the more … Continue reading

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Tristan Lefort-Martine: The irrational springs of the support for fascism

lundimatin, #498, 24/11/2025 The title says it all: this short article addresses the problem, identified early on by Wilhelm Reich, posed by the irrationalism espoused by far-right ideology for its criticism, and draws on the work of Alice Miller and … Continue reading

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Tomà Berlanda: The Impossible Reconstruction

From the Verso Books blog (19/11/2025).

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