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Reflections on a decade of UK Black Lives Matter
From Freedom News (09/08/2026) This racist violence we experience is an active race?making project serving the interests of capital Kojo Black Lives Matter UK was founded by activists who had worked together on previous deaths in police custody, both in … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: State and anomie II
If we refer to the doctrine set out in Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians, we can then say, as we have already done in this section, that the katechon—the power that restrains and delays the end, which the Church … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben – The State and anomie: Reflections on the Antichrist
The term “Antichrist” (antichristos) appears in the New Testament only in the First and Second Epistles of John. The context is certainly eschatological (paidia, eschate hora estin, vulg. filioli, novissima hora est, “little children, it is the last hour”), and … Continue reading
For Raoul Vaneigem (1934-2026)
Democracy is on the streets, not at the ballot box. … I am committed to the expansion of the right to happiness; I am committed to a form of “insurrectionary pacifism” that would make of life an absolute weapon, a … Continue reading
Susan Buck-Morss: Planetary Politics Now
We are at the end of the era of neo- and post-. No neoliberalism, no postcolonialism. Only a planetary imagination, propagated trans-locally, will move us forward. Verso Books Blog (23/07/2026) The meteoric speed with which planetary realities expose themselves today … Continue reading
Franco “Bifo” Berardi: An apocalyptic left-wing culture must emerge
We should have learnt long ago to think with two minds: the mind of the inevitable and that of the unpredictable. It is from this dual perspective that we should consider the spring of 2027, when the countries of Mediterranean … Continue reading
The origins of Black anarchism in Brazil
From Freedom News (23/07/2028) A brief historical overview of Black anarchist militance in the early Brazilian labour movement (1906-1930) Carlos Junior Although only a few pages have been dedicated to Black libertarian militants in Brazil, they were at the forefront … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Truth and opinion
For it is necessary to learn … at the same time the falsehood and truth of the whole of being. Plato, Seventh Letter By leading him astray, errancy dominates man through and through. But, as leading astray, errancy at the … Continue reading
A new hunting season has been declared (pt. 2), or the normalisation of fascism
On the 16th of July, at the invitation of Marco Rubio and the US State Department, representatives of over 60 countries gathered to hear Rubio annonce that “the counterterrorism architecture of the free world, built over a generation against jihadist … Continue reading
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Giorgio Agamben: When the house is on fire
With fires literally raging across the world, we return to a 2020 essay by Giorgio Agamben. Other languages: Italiano, Español, Français, Nederlands, Português, Russian, Deutsch, Greek, Magyar, Türkçe “Nothing I’m doing makes any sense if the house is on fire.” … Continue reading →