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With and beyond anti-fascism (1)
… to make use of the weapons created by fascism, which has been allowed to use the fundamental aspirations of people for affective exultation and fanaticism. But we affirm that the exaltation… must be placed in the service… of a … Continue reading
Like a thief: Slavoj Žižek and the illusions of hope
Alex Colville, Horse and Train To be contemporary is to respond to the appeal that the darkness of the epoch makes to us. In the expanding Universe, the space that separates us from the furthest galaxies is growing at such … Continue reading
For Katarina Gogou
… we convalescents still need art, it is another kind of art – a mocking, light, fleeting, divinely untroubled, divinely artificial art that, like a bright flame, blazes into an unclouded sky! Above all: an art for artists, only for artists! Friedrich … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Poiesis
Tagged anarchism, Art and Revolution, greece, Katarina Gogou
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On popular power in venezuela: A statement by uruguayan anarchists
From the anarchist federation of uruguay (and posted, in english translation, by the black rose anarchist federation – 14/12/2017), reflections on popular power in venezuela’s “bolivarian revolution” …
Scenes from the class struggle: Argentina
The popular defense of State controlled social welfare is not in itself anti-capitalist. However, the State driven privatisation of social welfare, if placed within the context of broader forms of violent accumulation (e.g., land and resource dispossession, the imposition of … Continue reading
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Tagged argentina, Indigenous peoples, State and Capital, State and terror
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Catalonia after the storm: Tomás Ibáñez
El Roto The debate among anarchists around the Catalan independence movement continues unabated. From a distance, as always, it is difficult to follow events, to grasp all that is at stake, to draw reasonably clear conclusions. It is however our … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, catalonia, nationalism, Octavio Alberola, Santiago López Petit, spain, Tomás Ibáñez
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Catalonia as a political laboratory: Santiago López Petit
The rebellion of Catalonia, falsely presented as a mere exercise in institutional and national self-determination, and its repression, demands reflection. What was lived and continues to be lived, resonates well beyond judicial decisions, constitutional debates or future regional elections (scheduled … Continue reading
The shifting territories of the body
But what is a body? … For Spinoza, the individuality of a body is defined by the following: it’s when a certain composite or complex relation (I insist on that point, quite composite, very complex) of movement and rest is … Continue reading
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Tagged Beatriz Preciado, Feminism, LGBTQI, Paul B. Preciado, the politics of the body
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An anarchist primer
For those of us born into a captivity gilded by the blood and sweat of less fortunate captives, the challenge of leading a life worth living of stories worth telling is a lifelong project, and a formidable one; but all … Continue reading
Revolution in the end time: A reflection
We are writing to answer the question we ask and are asked daily: “But really, what should we be doing?” Posted on the anarchist library, and anonymous reflection on radical anti-capitalist politics in our time of permanent crisis.