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Ghassan Salhab: The Dawn?
From lundimatin, #409, December 27, 2023 … Do not believe that man grows up. No: he is born suddenly – a word, in an instant, penetrates his heart with a new pulse. It takes but one scene to make him … Continue reading
Merry Christmas and Happy War Years
A modest reflection born in a fleeting moment of Yuletide … When the world comes to us, instead of our going to it, we are no longer “in the world”, but only its consumers … Günther Anders, The Obsolescence of … Continue reading
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Catherine Malabou: Being an Anarchist
From Ill Will (23/12/2023) … The government of man by man (under whatever name it be disguised) is oppression. Society finds its highest perfection in the union of order with anarchy. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? (1840) The question I … Continue reading
Antonio Negri: A Communist Life
I was a communist throughout.Justly though, the other communistslooked askance at me. I was a communistdespite their certainties, despite my doubts.Justly they did not see themselves in me.They would not admit my discipline.My centralism seemed anarchy to them.My self-criticisms contradicted … Continue reading
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Remembering Antonio Negri
We share below texts by Giorgio Agamben, Alex Foti and by Antonio Negri. In memory of Toni Negri Giorgio Agamben Two nights before I received the news of Antonio, – of Toni Negri’s – death, I dreamed about him for … Continue reading
Ian Alan Paul: Anaesthetic Violence
Ill Will has published the second part of an earlier reflection on the current Israeli violence against Palestinians, by Ian Alan Paul, this time offering an analysis of the politics of death in Palestine. Both essays are excellent and as … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-racism, anti-statism, Ian Alan Paul, israel, palestine
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Argentina: “So-Called Neoliberalism and Its False Critics”
From the CrimethInc. collective (15/12/2023) … Argentine Anarchists on the Election of Javier Milei On December 10, the self-described “anarcho”-capitalist Javier Milei took office as president of Argentina, having campaigned on a promise to eliminate the Central Bank of Argentina … Continue reading
After the Social Explosion: An Interview with the Anarchist Federation of Santiago
In the wake of the rejection by Chilean voters of the proposed “right-wing” constitution (17/12/2023) – the country’s second constitutional referendum in just over a year, with the previous referendum (04/09/2022) ending with the rejection of a “left-wing” constitution, thereby … Continue reading
Antonio Negri: Marx Beyond Marx
To sum up Negri’s exposition of Marx’s line of argument in the Grundrisse: capitalism is a social system with two subjectivities, in which one subject (capital) controls the other subject (working class) through the imposition of work and surplus work. … Continue reading
Leo Tolstoy and the resistance to war
A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced two men to years in prison for taking part in the recital of verses against the Ukraine campaign during an anti-mobilisation protest last year. Artyom Kamardin, 33, received a seven-year sentence for reciting a poem, and … Continue reading →