Category Archives: Commentary

Daniel Blanchard: Imposture

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

For Daniel Blanchard, the third part of an essay preceded by the “Crisis of words” and “Regarding what poetry does“. The text entitled “Imposture”, which is summarised here, aims to examine the transformations that the present conditions of social life provoke … Continue reading →

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Daniel Blanchard: Regarding what poetry does

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

For Daniel Blanchard, the second part of an essay that began with the “Crisis of words“. To men who discover the world by looking for a rhyme. Italo Svevo Thus, throughout this “crisis of words” – which I evoked in … Continue reading →

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A Global War Regime

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From Sidecar/New Left Review (09/05/2024), we share the following piece by Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra. We seem to have entered a period of war without end, extending across the globe and unsettling even the central nodes of the world … Continue reading →

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The Seattle Anarchists go to Mexico

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From the Transmetropolitan Review (06/05/2024). In the interests of fostering physical media, the full pamphlet is print only. Introduction As it turns out, anarchists can get things wrong. Not only can they get things wrong, they can be dumb shit morons … Continue reading →

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Ahead of Another Summer of Climate Disasters, Let’s Talk about Real Solutions

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (08/05/2024) … In cooperation with Freedom, we present a short text from Peter Gelderloos exploring why the strategies that mainstream environmental movements are currently employing to halt industrially-produced climate change are failing—and what we could be doing … Continue reading →

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Daniel Blanchard: Crisis of words

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

At the social level, when a gigantic corporate, media and political engineering imposes, demands and expropriates at the same time the word, have not the silent majorities been for years an ambivalent black hole that express in their own way … Continue reading →

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For Daniel Blanchard (1934-2024)

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

I think that radical, revolutionary critical theory is not a science; its purpose is not to provide a comprehensive, neutral account of reality. It is a political act carried out in order to transform the world and seeks to reveal … Continue reading →

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The Gaza Solidarity Movement

Posted on May 6, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Why the State Can’t Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement, And What That Means for Us From the CrimethInc. collective (03/05/2024) … On April 17, students at Columbia University initiated an on-campus encampment in solidarity with Gaza. After the administration called in the … Continue reading →

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A B [Cinétract/Film-tract]

Posted on May 6, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Gilles Deleuze, revolution, Palestine and stereoscopy From Lundi Matin #427, (06/05/2024) … What follows is an extract from Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire/The ABC Primer, over a series of images of stereoscopic photographs of Palestine dating from the 19th century. We have … Continue reading →

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Leftist rhetoric, leftist despair

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From Freedom News (28/04/2024) … If a contest were held for who publishes the most effective posters in my city, it would undoubtedly go to the Trotskyites because whatever is in the news that week they engage with and their … Continue reading →

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