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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Literacy, memory and the past (III)
The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. … Continue reading
Encyclopédie des Nuisances: The means of miscommunication (II)
What news! how much more important to know what that is which was never old! Henry David Thoreau, Walden For anyone who has not renounced the desire for authentic communication, for anyone who is not an impotent intellectual, the real … Continue reading
Encyclopédie des Nuisances: A cartography of alienation (I)
… the reality that we start from is ignorance. This appears to us to be a human faculty whose exercise must be truly familiar and an everyday experience for all our contemporaries; thus, it is a more solid and more … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Encyclopédie des Nuisances, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Zionism as a politics of everyday violence
With the generous permission of Nika Dubrovsky and the David Graeber Institute, we share an article by David Graeber on his experience and reflection on daily life under Israeli state occupation. Hostile Intelligence: Reflections from a Visit to the West … Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism and anti-colonialism, David Graeber, israel, palestine
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Ghassan Salhab: This name
PalestinianThis nameToday more than ever we must pronounce it, articulate it, utter itchant it, shout it, whisper it, sing itUntil our last breathThis name, this witnessBefore the night swallows it up forever I am writing these few words from Beirut, … Continue reading
Zionism: Voices of Cassandra
In Gaza, the death is so constant, the devastation so relentless, the intention so explicit, there can be no acceptance – only rupture, withdrawal, disorientation. There can be no accommodation with what is happening. And as Israel reaches another sickening summit, … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, colonialism and anti-colonialism, Hannah Arendt, israel, palestine
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Fell in Love with Fire
A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile, from the CrimethInc. collective (21/10/2024). Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months … Continue reading
Zosia Brom: Anarchism in the Mainstream
Love, sympathy and self-sacrifice certainly play an immense part in the progressive development of our moral feelings. But it is not love and not even sympathy upon which Society is based in mankind. It is the conscience — be it … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The End of Judaism
One cannot understand the meaning of what is taking place in Israel today if one does not understand that Zionism constitutes a double negation of the historical reality of Judaism. Not only does it in fact transfer to the Jews … Continue reading
Universal Declaration of the Right(s)-Wing of Man
From lundi matin #450, 04/11/2024. Lahoucine Duvaast sent us this document from Fresnes, where he has been interned since a certain event. He points out that the signatories mentioned at the end of the document are completely fictitious. Déclaration universelle … Continue reading →