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Giorgio Agamben: The old and the new
Why are we able to describe and analyse the old that is fading away, but we are unable to imagine the new? Perhaps because we believe, more or less unconsciously, that the new is something that arrives – we don’t … Continue reading
New Order?
From Side Car/New Left Review (10/04/2025) New Order? Steve Maher & Scott Aquanno On 2 April, Donald Trump announced the imposition of sweeping tariffs on countries across the world, hitting allies and enemies alike with massive trade barriers, in what amounted to … Continue reading
Disposable
From Side Car/New Left Review (11/04/2025) Disposable JoAnn Wypijewski I’ve seen disposable razors on mountaintops outside San Diego. I’ve seen plaid flannel shirts caught on the branches of low trees, trembling in the breeze near Bisbee. I’ve watched a pink … Continue reading
Plenums in the post-Yugoslav space
We publish an article by Yavor Tarinski, published in the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (23/03/2025) and generously passed onto to us by the author, about recent protests in various Balkan countries and the centrality of peoples “assemblies” or “plenums” … Continue reading
Endeavouring to think Gaza
Every house that the Israelis destroy, every life that they murder on a daily basis, and even every school day that they make the children of Palestine lose, take with them a part of the immense deposit of truth and … Continue reading
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Tagged Hannah Arendt, israel, palestine, Primo Levi, René Schérer
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Amador Fernández-Savater: Brutalism, the highest stage of neoliberalism
From Lobo Suelto (09/03/2025) What is significant is not what ends and consecrates, but what initiates, announces and prefigures. Achille Mbembe What time are we living in? How can we describe our time? For critical thinking, something decisive is at … Continue reading
Government by executive order: A lesson in contemporary authoritarianism
If Trump’s electoral success is due in part to the far right’s ability to create a lifeworld shaped around his persona, the left must pursue a countervailing project. Its aim should be to transform the world people organically experience through … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Only a god can save us now
Heidegger’s abrupt statement in the 1976 “Spiegel” interview: “Only a God can save us” has always been perplexing. To understand it, we must first put it into context. Heidegger had just spoken of the planetary domination of technology, which nothing … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: A political allegory
We are all in hell, but some seem to think that there is nothing to do here but to study and describe in detail the demons, their horrible appearance, their ferocious behaviour, their infamous machinations. Perhaps they delude themselves into … Continue reading
Peter Gelderloos: Betrayed by Green Capitalism, Here’s How We Can Build a Livable Future
Imagining an anarchist-ecological possibility from our shared, collective past, with Peter Gelderloos. From In These Times (03/02/2025) The mainstream climate framework is utterly failing to solve the climate crisis. What could a real solution look like? In one way of … Continue reading →