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The gilets jaunes: A rebellion against the totalitarians
How can one not but feel pride in being French? Emmanuel Macron, Letter to the French Act IX, Saturday January 12: the yellow vest insurrection continues. In response to french president Macron’s invitation for a “great national debate” on the … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Giving colour to suffering
Writing within the marxist critique of value tradition (e.g., the Krisis group), Benoit Bohy-Bunel offers a theoretically rich reading of the yellow vests movement. Without completely sharing the views of the author, the essay remains important.*
Finding our way through the yellow vests insurrection
Reflecting on the yellow vests rebellion with the CrimethInc. collective …
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The yellow vests: A chronicle
From the CrimethInc. collective … How the Yellow Vest Movement Survived into 2019: A Chronicle from December 8, 2018 to January 5, 2019 (09/01/2019) Since November 2018, the yellow vest movement has created a political crisis in France and posed thorny questions … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Towards a permanent insurrection
We are approaching a critical moment. We are approaching a historic moment. We are approaching a tipping point of history. We are nearing the end. For several months, we have been fighting on the ground, together, to block the suicidal … Continue reading
Gilets Jaunes: Signs of the times / Images from the future
… from a distance, every judgment, praise and critique are easy. However, because many of us have found ourselves in a similar position, the question faced by the politicized minorities that still raise red and black flags remains: can we participate in something … Continue reading
The specter of chaos
The fairest Cosmos is merely a rubbish-heap poured out at random. Heraclitus, Fragment 124 To share, from lundi.am (#171, 29/12/2018) …
A yellow costume that creates community
Photograph by Rémy Soubanère The movement of yellow vests seems to confirm a break of the historical thread of class struggles. If we stubbornly insist on sharing articles on the “gilets jaunes” of france, it is because they embody a number … Continue reading
From the gilet jaunes of Commercy: A call to generalise the assemblies
Among the polyphony of the gilets jaunes, we shared a first communique from the Commercy. Today, we share a second statement, in translation, from the Commercy assembly that retains all of its political importance, pointing as it does potentially to a … Continue reading
Elements for a cartography of belonging to a group
An essay ostensibly concerned with theatre becomes the occasion for a Spinozan and Deluzian inspired reflection on human community beyond the opposing, formal conceptions of community as an accidental aggregate of individuals or as a fusional collectivity bound by a … Continue reading →