Category Archives: Commentary

Antti Rautiainen: On the Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale war

From avtonom (29/05/2024) … Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact … Continue reading

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Louise Michel in New Caledonia

From the CrimethInc. collective (29/05/2024) … In honor of Louise Michel’s birthday [29/05/2024] and the ongoing anticolonial resistance in New Caledonia, we offer an account of her time in exile there, beginning from her arrival in November 1873. This story illustrates how … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: The snail’s shell

A snail, after adding a number of widening rings to the delicate structure of its shell, suddenly brings its accustomed building activities to a stop. A single additional ring would increase the size of the shell sixteen times. Instead of … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: God, man, animal

From Quodlibet … When Nietzsche, almost one hundred and fifty years ago, formulated his diagnosis of the death of God, he thought that this unprecedented event would fundamentally change the existence of men on earth. ““Where are we headed? Are … Continue reading

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For Daniel Blanchard

A refrain, for Daniel Blanchard. […] And this will be the limit of the impasse, a dead end. Beyond that, one does not go; beyond that nothing happens anymore, all that passes is time and bad weather – and it … Continue reading

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Daniel Blanchard: Imposture

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

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

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

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

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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