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The art of the violence of sovereignty: The refugee as the face of exception of our time
Francisco Goya, Saturn devouring his son (1819-1823) If Theodor Adorno could once state that after Auschwitz, to write poetry is barbaric, how much greater the violence of pictorially and plastically representing the horrors of the same event, and of nazi … Continue reading
The power of the anonymous: Santiago López Petit
We publish below, in translation, an essay by Santiago López Petit of the Espai en Blanc collective. Originally published in 2010, it remains a central text in Petit’s and Espai en Blanc’s reflection on contemporary politics, or their failure; in turn, … Continue reading
Defending the ZAD, creating autonomy: Notre-Dame-des-Landes
On the 20th of October, the french prime minister, Manuel Vals, speaking before the country’s national parliament, reaffirmed “the engagement of the government and thus of the State to advance with the project and to put an end the challenges … Continue reading
Anarchist Federation Forming In Greece … Echoes From Another Time Across The Ocean
We are reprinting the English translation of the text announcing and providing a background to the creation of a federation of anarchist groups in Greece. The comments that follow are my own brief personal reflections on this in the context … Continue reading
The illusions of yet another “new” left: Syriza and Podemos
With national elections forthcoming in spain, and the recent election of Jeremy Corbyn to the head of the Labour Party in britain, enthusiasm for “leftwing governments” survives, even with the debacle of Syriza in greece. In one more effort at … Continue reading
Shards of time amid spaces of rebellion
This essay is the child of an earlier reflection on time and revolution, as well as of work on the 15th of May movement in spain, Pasolini and anti-fascism, and other essays posted on Autonomies, from which it borrows generously. … Continue reading
When the state massacres its own: Ankara, Turkey
Over 100 people were murdered, and well over 200 wounded, in a bomb attack against a peace demonstration in Ankara on the 10th of October. However the turkish government proclaims loudly that ISIS is the principal suspect, it cannot hide … Continue reading
Understanding the kurdish resistance: From Crimethinc
In the continuing concern to diffuse testimonials and analyses of the kurdish effort at creating autonomous forms of local democracy in the rojava region and the parallel resistance to ISIS, and now the more general resistance to the turkish state’s … Continue reading
Rebellious graffiti, testimonial photography: Art against austerity in greece
Greece … is a laboratory in which the resistance of a population to authoritarian governance can be measured. Maurizio Lazzarato, Governing by Debt The task of art is not to change reality but to show and evoke it. The mimetic … Continue reading
A parable of our oppression: Santiago López Petit
We share below, in translation, a reflection by Santiago López Petit on our times, on our voluntary servitude and our fear of rebellion. (Originally published in Periodico Diagonal 5/11/2015). His final question is ours, that is, of anyone who aspires … Continue reading →