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A meeting between Ubu kings
we seek beyond historyfor a new and more possible meeting. Audre Lorde The image of two men aspiring to absolute national power and imperial expansion meeting to discuss the parcelling out of a country invaded by one of them, with … Continue reading
Counter-Utility: Ideas for avoiding the trap of useful things
A reflection on the necessary uselessness of radical thought-practice, published with Lobo suelto! (11/08/2025) Produce or die is the motto of the West. Pierre Clastres They want to force us to govern, but we will not fall for that provocation. … Continue reading
New Fascisms and the Reconfiguration of the Global Counterrevolution
From Ill Will (11/08/2025) and Colapso y desvio (07/04/2025), by Nueva Icaria. The present essay, written by friends in Chile, argues that the new fascisms of our day are not only generated by crises of capital, but must be understood … Continue reading
Zoe Baker: Anarchism as a Way of Life
In 1925 the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta wrote that, Anarchy is a form of living together in society; a society in which people live as brothers and sisters without being able to oppress or exploit others and in which everyone … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Christopher Boehm, Errico Malatesta, Pierre Clastres
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Shawn P. Wilbur: An exercise in theoretical synthesis-distillation of anarchist thought and practice
This is the first opportunity that we have had, as a collective, to celebrate and acknowledge the very impressive work by Shawn P. Wilbur of translating, publishing (into English) and reflecting upon – with others – “classical” anarchist theory and … Continue reading
Horacio González: Half a scarf or an unfinished song
There is no need to ask what remains of the revolution. Nothing remains of the revolution, because the revolution is always what remains. Remnant, excess, surplus: the revolution is not what first exists and then leaves a halo that its … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: On identity
Kojève once expressed a warning in the form of a critique of identity that is worth reflecting on: “Be what you can never become”. The mistake of those who seek identity is to want to become what they already are. … Continue reading
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For Octavio Alberola (1928-2025)
The abandonment of utopia and the ethical concept of revolution has led revolutionary ideologies to sclerosis and ruin. Octavio Alberola Turning anarchism into a routine, a habit, which is only expressed on certain days and in a sectarian intimacy in … Continue reading
The End of Biopolitics: Giorgio Cesarano and the Biological Revolution
Revolution is not, to put it in Benjaminian terms, the telos of historical dynamis, the intentional object of a revolutionary politics. Rather, it is a “state of the world,” a mode of being. Outside the sphere of separate politics, revolution is now the … Continue reading
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Tagged biopolitics, ecology, Giorgio Cesarano, Lorenzo Mizzau, revolution
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Uri Gordon: Anarchism and Nationalism
Continuing from our previous post: “A meeting between Ubu kings“. Anarchism and Nationalism: On the Subsidiarity of Deconstruction Uri Gordon Anarchists are against nationalism; everyone knows that. Instead of solidarity across borders and anti-hierarchical antagonism within them, nationalism engenders loyalty … Continue reading →