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The ZAD: an autonomous zone in the heart of france
From Roarmag collective (26/01/2017), a reflection on the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes by Martin Legall, a pre-figuarative struggle for autonomy …
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Tagged anarchism, france, Nuit Debout, Occupy, revolution, ZAD
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Anarchist myths
We share below a reflection by Ruymán Rodríguez of the Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria on the limits of an anarchism exclusively thought in terms of anti-statism and anti-capitalism.
Economies beyond capitalism: Anarchist reflections and practices
What is anti-capitalism? What distinguishes anarchist anti-capitalism from other “competing” social-political projects? Whatever answers are forthcoming to such questions, at the heart of any anti-capitalism is an “alternative economy”. What this in turn amounts to has been a matter of … Continue reading
Transgressing the threshold between art and revolution
What is art and what relation there is between it and revolutionary politics, anarchism, is a uniquely modern question born of the alienating social divisions of capitalism. To address the matter fully would require a reflection well beyond our present … Continue reading
Freedom against the freedom of speech
With the expansion of neo-fascist and neo-nazi groups in the shadows of ever more racist, xenophobic and sexist “traditional” conservative right-wing political parties, confusion over the significance of the liberal freedom of speech can paralyse radical political criticism and action. … Continue reading
Architecture beyond truth and falsity: Radicalising feminist interventions in the creation of spaces
Better to live in the provisional than in the definitive. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space All dissidence, rebellion, revolution has a location, a place. The relationship between the two has been the subject of an ongoing reflection on the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, Donna Haraway, Feminism, Henri Lefebvre, LGBT, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir
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Trump and everyday anti-fascism beyond punching Nazis
From roarmag (23/01/2016), and in the wake of the anti-Trump and anti-fascist protests on January 20th, we share a reflection on anti-fascism by Mark Bray (for other parallel reflections, click here) …
Jaime Alekos: Scenes from other refugee worlds … our world
Jaime Aleko, as video journalist working with such media collectives as Periodismo Humano, has covered and denounced the ravages of contemporary capitalism and recorded the many resilient and courageous forms of resistance to it, with a visual language, can one … Continue reading
I don’t want to be strong. I want to be vulnerable.
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “[A]ll public assembly is haunted by the police … Continue reading
Donald Trump and the limits of populism
Political scientists, commentators, journalists tell us that we live in an age of renewed nationalist populism; that against the rational, geopolitical management of global economic agencies, conservative-reactionary political movements threaten to upset the conditions of economic and social progress with … Continue reading →