Category Archives: Commentary

Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Hipercapitalism and Semiocapital

Caliban: You taught me language, and my profit on’tIs I know how to curse. The red plague rid youFor learning me your language! Shakespeare, The Tempest Historical colonialism: extractivism of physical resources The history of colonialism is a history of systematic depredation of territory. The object of colonisation is the resource-rich physical places that the colonialist West needed for its accumulation. … Continue reading

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“Shake in Your Boots Bureaucrats!”: Resistance, Recuperation, and the Legacy of the Situationists

From the It’s Going Down podcast and Bill Brown of the Not Bored journal, reflections on the Situationists.

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Giorgio Agamben: Science and Happiness

In spite of the usefulness we think we derive from them, the sciences cannot make us happy, because man is a speaking being, who needs to express in words joy and pain, pleasure and affliction, while science, in the last … Continue reading

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Done and to be done: For a manifesto of positive anarchy

From Lundi Matin, #443 (16/09/2024), we share a text by Maria Kakogianni – a manifesto of anarchy -, which by coincidence comes in the wake of our last post, the article by Miguel Amorós, “What is anarchism?”. The contrast between … Continue reading

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Miguel Amorós: What is anarchism?

From a las barricadas (02/09/2024). We share Miguel Amorós’ essay, “What is Anarchism?”, not because we are entirely in agreement with it – that has never been an exclusive criterion of selection for us -, but because of the forcefulness … Continue reading

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Uri Gordon: Anti-fascism and the Gaza genocide

From Freedom News (09/09/2024). When the far right perpetrates mass murder on the cusp of world war, comparing is not a provocation but a duty Netanyahu seems greyer every day. A face caked in makeup, with dull eyes that sometimes … Continue reading

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Yellow Vests, One More Effort in Favor of the Living!

The NOT BORED! journal collective has once again generously shared with us their tireless work of translating situationist and situationist inspired texts, for which we are grateful. On this occasion, it is a very recent piece (July 2024) by Raoul Vaneigem, dedicated to … Continue reading

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Ghassan Salhab: Trompe-l’œil

From Lundi Matin #441, 02/09/2024. What if old words like ‘genocide’ (and why not ‘colonisation’) were false friends? What if the new technologies that subjugate our emotions when we think we’re expressing them were also betraying us? And what if … Continue reading

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Not just sex: Talking about Alex Comfort with Eric Laursen

From Freedom News (30/08/2024). When I discovered the Freedom Press collection of Alex Comfort’s anarchist and anti-militarist writings, I’d already known him for 15 years as the author of The Joy of Sex. This pioneering couples’ manual, which featured ‘aesthetic’/’tasteful’ illustrations … Continue reading

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Anti-war statement

From avtonom.org (29/08/2024). We have stated from the very start that the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 is an imperialist aggression of the Russian state. That is still true. Our position on the war … Continue reading

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