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Anarchy against autarchy: Levinas and anarchism
Over and beyond capitalism and exploitation what was contested were their condition: the person understood as an accumulation of being, by merits, titles, professional competence, an ontological tumefaction weighing on others and crushing them, instituting a hierarchized society maintained beyond … Continue reading
In solidarity with the Asilo Occupato of Turin: To occupy, to squat is to resist
Across europe, driven by the desire and need to extract maximum profit from urban spaces, authoritarian handmaidens of capital, in the guise of State-democratic authority, turn their violence on those people who are nothing but obstacles to the management of … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, italy, Molotov & Confetti, Okupations
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The gilets jaunes: Jacques Rancière on the virtues of the inexplicable
Beginnings do not reach their end. they remain halfway. But this also means that they never stop beginning over again, even if this means that the actors change. This is the realism of revolt, an inexplicable realism, one that demands … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Fragments of interpretation
The yellow vests: February 9th, Act XIII … We continue to share fragments of reflections, of a movement, or movements, in motion. The yellow vests insurrection(s) is a picture of our future today: the only ethical response possible to permanent … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, Claude Lévi-Strauss, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, myth, revolution
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The gilets jaunes: Creative violence against State brutality
Fear! How long has it been since the ruling classes (of a “developed” country) have feared their poor? The forced gymnastics of the french government’s “great national debate”, supported and secured by a militarised police apparatus whose only red line … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, Security State, State terror, Violence
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The gilets jaunes: The war of images
Everything must be done to preserve the sense of this movement, the originality of the action that is outlined within it, the new freedom that it has already conquered for everyone. No organisation can today pretend to represent alone the … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: A movement that is not a movement
Movement is the impossibility, indefiniteness and imperfection of every politics. It always leaves a residue. In this perspective the motto I cited as a rule for myself might be reformulated in ontological terms as this: ‘the movement is that which … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, marxism, revolution
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The gilets jaunes: Between horizontal autonomies and vertical unity
A journalist, seemingly sharing the illusions of politicians, writes “it’s time for the gilets jaunes to decide who and what they want to be”. (The Guardian, 29/01/2019) The politicians of france (and of everywhere, faced by a similar insurrection) are … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Fractures and lines of escape
Saturday, January 19, Act 10: The blocking of motorways weakens, occupations of roundabouts are increasingly cleared away by force (unless negotiated with local authorities), the marches in different cities appear more ordered, confined by marshals, Macron’s promises and his “great … Continue reading
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Tagged france, gilets jaunes, Gilles Deleuze, insurrection
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The state against autonomy: In defence of Fraguas
On the 23rd of February, thousands marched through Madrid in solidarity with and in defence of the Fraguas rural occupation. (Kaos en la red) Six of the accused-defendants involved in the occupation were sentenced to 1 year and 9 months … Continue reading →