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Giorgio Agamben: The first friend and the first enemy
As a scientist friend of mine, who likes to reflect on such matters, writes to me, the fundamental event in the history of living beings was the emergence of a microorganism capable of feeling pain. This thesis must, of course, … Continue reading
A new hunting season has been declared
Trump and Rubio convene international summit against “anarchists, antifa and the far-left” Osservatorio repressione, July 10, 2026 Washington convenes sixty countries to coordinate the fight against alleged far-left terrorism. Amid political trials, blacklists, and new anti-terrorism strategies, the Trump administration … Continue reading
Genoa G8 remembered
From Freedom News (18/07/2026) and the CrimethInc. collective (20/07/2026) Genoa G8 remembered 25 years since I was almost killed in the Diaz School raid, I am returning to the city as the Mayor’s guest of honour Mark Covell, Freedom News, … Continue reading
Tomás Ibáñez: Anarchisms at the crossroads
Redes Libertarias (06/06/2026) Tomás Ibáñez’s essay, “Anarchism at the crossroads”, is an intervention in a debate in the Spanish anarchist milieu, but the controversy is neither uniquely Spanish nor novel. What kind of organisation does anarchist politics call for? Must … Continue reading
Forms of Attention
by Eli Zaretsky, Sidecar/New Left Review (12/06/2026) In recent years the concept of attention has garnered considerable – well – attention. It has become, we are told, a commodity within the ‘attention economy’, a limited resource over which advertisers, social … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: A way out
Often, in the widespread awareness that we are living through the end of a culture, arises the demand—or the hope—for a new beginning, that is, that after the collapse of a long tradition, a new and more vibrant one will … Continue reading
Tariq Anwar: Without a future
From Ficción de la razón (02/07/2026) What can a world be that cannot imagine its own future? Far from being mere empty rhetoric, this question touches the very core of our condition. For what has been exhausted is not simply … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Where are the just?
Who are the just? What does it mean to be just? Certainly, it is not a quality of a subject, an attribute of this or that man, this or that woman. Justice—Benjamin wrote—is a state of the world, a dimension … Continue reading
Herbert Read: The philosophy of anarchism (1940)
Ts’ui Chii said to Lao Tzu, “You say there must be no government. But it there is no government, how are men’s hearts to be improved?” “The last thing you should do,” said Lao Tzu, “is to tamper with men’s … Continue reading
The 90th anniversary of the spanish revolution, today
Manel Aisa Pàmpols, Redes Libertarias, 20/07/2026 Trying to understand the anarchist movement in Barcelona, Catalonia, and the surrounding area in the early 20th century is by no means easy, but ultimately it is a phenomenon that is by no means … Continue reading →