Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Giorgio Agamben: Regarding the coming time

Regarding the coming time (Quodlibet) What is happening on a planetary scale today is certainly the end of a world. But not – such as for those who seek to govern it according to their interests – in the sense … Continue reading

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Notes on the state of the plague

From the autonomous media collective, Bruxelles Dévie (and also posted on lundi matin), a reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic through the words of Michel Foucault. The english language translation follows. This enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in which … Continue reading

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Mutual aid will help us survive the Biden presidency

From Roarmag magazine (20/11/2020), a reflection on practices of mutual aid by Dean Spade …

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Raoul Vaneigem: … the best reading, the most difficult and enthralling, remains the reading of oneself

Again, we thank the not bored collective for sharing their translation of the following interview with Raoul Vaneigem and published with the Belgian newspaper Le Soir. Humanity is in the process of dying so that an economy in which mad … Continue reading

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Witness to a revolution: May 68

To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability… All photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. Susan Sontag, On Photography For Bruno Barbey (1941-2020) The illusion of photography lies in its apparent immediacy, in its … Continue reading

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The wind blows where it wills

A further exercise in reading events with Giorgio Agamben, this time a short reflection by Jeanne Casilas, published by lundi matin #263 (15/11/2020). The wind blows where it wills L’art est comme l’incendie, il naît de ce qui brûle/Art is … Continue reading

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Amador Fernández-Savater: Like lost children

The maturity of man – that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil A fragment from the prologue to Amador Fernández Savater’s recently published essay, Habitar y … Continue reading

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Santiago López Petit: The political construction of the emergency

The social malaise spreads moment by moment. The endless sequence of confinement – de-confinement – re-confinement – is the rope that slowly asphyxiates us. It is the rope that a State, incapable and seized by panic, holds to, to try … Continue reading

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“Destruam et ædificabo”: The anarchist proposal

From acracia.org (24/10/2020) … The Latin expression is a biblical quotation that Pierre-Joseph Proudhon put on the cover of his fundamental work, The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty (1846), and it reflects very well the dual … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: Love has been abolished

Si è abolito l’amore Si è abolito l’amorein nome della salutepoi si abolirà la salute. Si è abolita la libertàin nome della medicinapoi si abolirà la medicina. Si è abolito Dioin nome della ragionepoi si abolirà la ragione. Si è … Continue reading

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