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Category Archives: Commentary
Queer desire and revolution
If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy. Jean Genet, The Balcony Limited by the world, … Continue reading
Creating other worlds: Defending the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Creation takes place in bottlenecks . . . A creator who isn’t grabbed around the throat by a set of impossibilities is no creator. A creator’s someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities . . . it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, Land Okupations, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Occupations, revolution, ZAD
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The call of anarchism: An identity made in practice
I believe that if those who feel called upon to act as guardians of the anarchist movement once realized how little it is in need of their guardianship, what a trifle each individual contribution is, even theirs, they would be … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, anarchism, Federación de anarquistas Gran Canaria, Ruymán Rodríguez, spain
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The loss of consciousness
(James Rosenquist, House of Fire) The Suicide’s Defense (Of all the stupidities wherewith the law-making power has oignaled its own incapacity for dealing with the disorders of society, none appears so utterly stupid as the law which punishes an attempted suicide. … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Capital, capitalism, Krisis Group, Robert Kurz
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Reflections on the ongoing prison strike
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of the social problems that burden people who are ensconced in poverty. These problems often are veiled by being conveniently grouped together under the category “crime” and by … Continue reading
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Tagged prison strike, Security State, State and terror
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The limits of capitalism: Challenging the fetishism of labour and money
Capital is nothing more than value that must be valorized, which is to say augmented. Value empirically takes the form of money and in that sense its valorization can be illustrated in Marx’s famous formula M–C–M’ [M prime], that is … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Capital, capitalism, Krisis Group, Norbert Trenkle
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Lessons from argentina: The FORA and Emilio López Arango
Emancipation isn’t a problem of mechanics nor an issue that can be resolved through technical means. A worker may be able to run a factory or put in motion all the machinery of an industry, but there isn’t in … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, argentina, Emilio López Arango, FORA
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The swelling of leeches
Over the course of the lifetime of Green Anarchy, the collective behind it elaborated a intense criticism of “civilisation”, and it is above all the passion that they brought to this task that we wish to celebrate in sharing the … Continue reading
Between means and ends, between reflection and vision
(Charles Burchfield, The Builders (House Wreckers in June), 1931) If the idea of “Revolution” is to retain any meaning, it needs to be situational in orientation, rooted in the personal desires for liberation, and also be relating to the … Continue reading
Jaime Semprun: The abyss repopulates itself
Among the things that people do not want to hear, and that they do not want to see, when in reality they are displayed right before their eyes, are the following: the fact that all the technological improvements that … Continue reading →