Category Archives: Commentary

The Revolution is Dead, Long Live the Revolution: Reflections on the Quebec Student Movement

As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history.                                                           Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History As Quebec universities … Continue reading

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Archipelagos of resistance/autonomy

… l’organisation autonome des sans-pouvoir peut en exercer une multiplicité qui, tout simplement, permettent de vivre mieux, et cela précisément parce que le pouvoir des sans-pouvoir n’est pas un autre pouvoir, « égal et opposé » au pouvoir ennemi, mais un ensemble … Continue reading

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Making worlds with casseroles: The quebec student movement

A collection of essays (Wi: Journal of Mobile Media: Out of the mouths of “casseroles”: textes qui bougent au rythme du carré rouge) speaks of the radical possibilities emergent within the Quebec student movement.  The perspectives and positioning on/in the … Continue reading

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The Tyranny of Debt

  Capitalism is an economic-political system of dependency and wage slavery.  Debt is one of the system´s instruments for the domestication and domination of human beings.  It constrains freedom and creativity, it generates fear, it discplines and shapes, through a … Continue reading

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Thinking 15M

The spanish edition of Le Monde Diplomatique (July/2012) carries a very good analysis/evaluation of 15M.  the text follows in spanish …

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Os quiero, os respeto, os necesito … 15M´s spain

Becoming "wild" is always an erotic act, an act of nakedness.                                Hakim Bey, The Temporary Autonomous Zone The days and weeks of the white heat of summer bring illusions and hallucinations in their wake, visions of metamorphoses.  Our dreams … Continue reading

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Governing for freedom: Werner Bonefeld on the Bourgeois State

Werner Bonefeld’s work on the role of the state in the creation of a liberal economic order, that is, capitalism, is of great value.  Often understood as a simple tool of the bourgeoisie, anti-capitalist politics is then conceived of as … Continue reading

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Resonances of Temporary Autonomous Zones … for Hakim Bey

“…the demand for the eruption of the marvellous into the ordinary will become the most ringing, poignant & tumultuous of all political demands …”             Hakim Bey, Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy   The politics of the marvellous, … Continue reading

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And protests rain upon the government of spain

Between the coal miners’ strike and protests, spontaneous and organised, against the spanish government’s most recent efforts to reduce spending (increase in sales tax, reduction in the salaries of civil servants, reduction in unemployment insurance, and the like, adding up … Continue reading

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Scenes from the class struggle in spain: The Coal Miners’ Strike … and questions

“We do not struggle as working class, we struggle against being working class … .  Our struggle is not the struggle of labour: it is the struggle against labour. …There is nothing good about being members of the working class, … Continue reading

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