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Giorgio Agamben: The exile and the citizen
It is good to reflect on a phenomenon that is both familiar and unfamiliar to us, but which, as often occurs in such cases, can provide us with useful indications for our life among others: exile. Legal historians continue to … Continue reading
George Orwell: The Prevention of Literature
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging … Continue reading
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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Environmentalism unto death (VII)
Abracadabrant – Encyclopédie des Nuisances (Encyclopédie des Nuisances, Nº 15, 1992) Everything that used to be part of the sphere of knowledge, its transmission and its acquisition, has disappeared into the hands of those who confiscated it. The consequences of … Continue reading
Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Misery amidst plenty (VI)
Abundance has always existed, but nowhere has it existed abundantly: either because everyone did not enjoy it or because, when everyone did enjoy it, they did not do so all of the time. No doubt abundance really lived can only … Continue reading
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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Energy and/or Death (V)
… we feel confident in asserting that henceforth this world can contain only two kinds of seriousness: the seriousness of the extremists of domination, as obvious as the means at their disposal for perpetuating it any price — and ours, … Continue reading
A Letter to Our American Cousins
From the Ill Will collective (06/11/2025). In the days following Donald Trump’s first presidential victory friends in France sent us a letter that treats his ascendency to power as a moment of truth that needs to be confronted. As we … Continue reading
Anarchism on the periphery: struggle under conditions of emigration and war
In the article that follows (from Pramen, 06/11/2024), the “introduction” closes with the following statement: “… despite any discomfort you may have in reading this, we ask you to focus on the essence of what’s written, and encourage you to … Continue reading
Palestine’s Lessons for the Left:Theses for a Poetics of the Earth
Published, in translation, by the Ill Will collective (03/11/2024), we share below a fundamental reflection on the significance of the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle against Israel and the Gaza genocide by the Chilean writer, Rodrigo Karmy Bolton.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
From the CrimethInc. collective (06/11/2024). Why the Democrats Are Responsible for Donald Trump’s Return to Power Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But … Continue reading
Address to those who would rather abolish harmful phenomena than manage them
The ecologists play the same role, on the terrain of the struggle against harmful phenomena, that the trade unionists play on the terrain of workers struggles: mere intermediaries interested in the preservation of the contradictions whose regulation they assure; smooth-tongued … Continue reading →