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Migrants as border rebels
… we actually live in a world in which human beings as such have ceased to exist for quite a while; since society has discovered discrimination as the great social weapon by which one may kill men without any bloodshed; … Continue reading
Children of the new Earth – Deleuze, Guattari and anarchism
We share below an essay by Aragorn Eloff reflecting upon the multiple and consequent relations between the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and anarchism. Originally presented as a talk at the 2015 Deleuze and Guattari and Africa conference … Continue reading
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A permanent war without borders: Turkey
It is often said that the first victim of war is the truth. What is ignored in this common sense wisdom is that all war is, among other things, a war between truths, a war for the creation of truth. … Continue reading
Between seeing like a man and seeing like an animal: Sebastião Salgado’s “Genesis”
Sebastião Salgado’s most recent photographic work turns away from his now more traditional themes – e.g. labour, migration, war and genocide … what may be summarised as a concern with the violent dramas of the human condition – to capture … Continue reading
Paul Beatriz Preciado: Feminism beyond humanism, ecology beyond the environment
We share a text by Paul Beatriz Preciado, in translation, that was originally published in the french newspaper Liberation (26/09/2014): a critical reflection on feminism and more broadly on what Preciado calls “animalism” …
From “Out of the woods”: Cyborg ecology, cyborg agriculture
Following on the recent posting of an essay by Bruno Latour on post-environmentalism, we join to it a reflection on cyborg ecology and agriculture from the excellent blog “Out of the Woods” that is carried on libcom.org (17/07/2015), as … Continue reading
Landscapes of oppression, gestures of resistance: Istanbul
Sunday Today is Sunday. Today they led me out into the sun for the first time. And for the first time in my life I stood immovable Amazed at how distant the sky was How vast, How blue Respectfully I … Continue reading
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Post-environmentalism: Love your monsters
We share below a text by Bruno Latour that originally appeared in Next Nature (07/09/2014) and that was also posted on libcom.org (15/06/2015), as an invitation to critically think through a radical ecological politics …
Not fighting for nature, but nature fighting back: Okupying trees in the ZAD of Roybon
The okupation of forests, river valleys, peasant farm lands through the constitution of autonomous, self-managed self-defense communities, as resistance to capitalist infrastructure development, have become emblematic of france’s ZADs. If the ZADS of Notre-Dames-des-Landes and Testet call forth memories of … Continue reading
Hiroshima is everywhere
We have become Titans, wrote Gunther Anders in 1956, in the wake of the development of nuclear weapons and their use in japan on the 6th of August, 1945. Lost children of an earlier humanity who could see in Faust … Continue reading →