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Not for bread alone: Berkin Elvan
… from a friend of Autonomies “We live under an occupation, under police occupation” The Coming Insurrection “À chaque instant de son existence, la police rappelle à l’État la violence, la trivialité et l’obscurité de son origine” Introduction à la … Continue reading
Rule by murder: For Berkin Elvan
; The State and Capitalism do not kill by accident, consequence of inattention or moral failure. The domination and appropriation of human creativity can only be violent, whether it be the violence of its law, institutionalised, or the violence of securing it. … Continue reading
The dance of rebellion: brazil
Gustavo Piqueira Lá não tem claro-escuro A luz é dura A chapa é quente Que futuro tem Aquela gente toda Perdido em ti Eu ando em roda É pau, é pedra É fim de linha É lenha, é fogo, é … Continue reading
The Assault
Neoliberalism: the transfer of social wealth to private hand, enforced by the State. The lie of an expansion of free markets and free human economic activity is belied by State enforced appropriations of commons, created over generations, for private gain … Continue reading
Utopia or submission: La Corrala la Utopia
Capital is a system of social relations of extraction. Its success is based on the appropriation of nature and of the collective of creativity of all of those who labour. Whether it is land, energies housed beneath its surface, seas, … Continue reading
Amidst the art of May 68: L’Atelier Populaire de Paris
Une action revolutionaire dans la culture ne saurait avoir pour but de traduire ou d’expliquer la vie, mais de l’élargir. Guy Debord L’œuvre d’art à venir, c’est la construction d’une vie passionnante. Raoul Vaneigem A l’atelier populaire, c’est un climat … Continue reading
A first (and failed) attempt at a manifesto for a radically negative anthropology
A reflection on anthropology, on the search/need for a negative anthropology, in which all sure grounds of knowledge of the other crumble, in which all of the hierarchical theories and categories for the ordering of the other’s life are dismantled: … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: For a theory of destituent power
From a public lecture in Athens (16/11/2013), at the invitation of and organised by the Nicos Poulantzas Institute and SYRIZA Youth, and originally posted on Chronos … A reflection on the destiny of democracy today here in Athens is in … Continue reading
Dancing politics
In memory of Jean Babilée, dancer and combatant of the French resistance, and who resisted always through creation, died on Thursday, January 30, at the age of 90.
The ethics of disobedience: 22M Madrid, The March of Dignity
A state is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: “I, the state, am the people.” … Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, … Continue reading →