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Ursula K. Le Guin: Is Gender Necessary? Redux
“Is Gender Necessary?” first appeared in Aurora, that splendid first anthology of science fiction written by women, edited by Susan Anderson and Vonda N. McIntyre. It was later included in The Language of the Night. Even then I was getting uncomfortable with some of … Continue reading
A brief update on capital
We publish below a text from the Temps critiques collective, the English translation of which was generally shared with us. The essay is available in the original French, as well as Spanish and English, on the collective’s website. The essay … Continue reading
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Ursula K. Le Guin: A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be
A reflection on the desire for utopia, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Introduction to “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place To Be” John Clark Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010 Ursula Le Guin’s works typically recount the story … Continue reading
T. J. Clark: For a left with no future
The British art historian and writer Timothy James Clark published an essay in 2012 with the New Left Review (74, March/April, 2012) that we believe remains as relevant today as it did then. Writing in the wake of the 2008 … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Clément Rosset, Jacques Ellul, revolution, T.J. Clark, tragedy, utopia
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Against the behemoth
The scandal that is Donald Trump’s administration – from the gutting and/or paralysing of federal government agencies, justified in the name of eliminating and controlling government waste of public monies due to indulgent, corrupt government workers and government policies, to … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-statism, Gustav Landauer, united states, Walter Benjamin
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Giorgio Agamben: The remnant of Israel
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy … Continue reading
The Day the Émigrés Struck Back
From the CrimethInc. collective (05/02/2025) Remembering the General Strike of May Day 2006 In 2006, students around the United States engaged in spontaneous walkouts protesting the repression of undocumented people, culminating on May Day in the first great general strike to take … Continue reading
Parrhesia: To speak freely, with courage, to the tyrant
From Michel Foucault and Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde: The courage to speak the truth to power. To begin with, what is the general meaning of the word parrhesia? Etymologically, parrhesiazesthai means “to say everything” – from pan … (everything) … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Good and Evil
The old doctrine that evil is merely the deprivation of the good, and therefore does not exist in itself, needs to be corrected and supplemented in the sense that it is not so much the deprivation as the perversion of … Continue reading
Ursula k. Le Guin: A War Without End
From Jacobin Magazine (26/01/2018) Some thoughts, written down at intervals, about oppression, revolution, and imagination. Slavery My country came together in one revolution and was nearly broken by another. The first revolution was a protest against galling, stupid, but relatively mild social … Continue reading →