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When ‘never again’ becomes a war cry
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a … Continue reading
Fred Moten: Thinking with Palestine
Angela Davis recently described “Palestine as a moral litmus test for the world”. (Al Jazeera English-Up Front, 27/10/2023) And however much we may sympathise with the statement, it also begs reflection, for what is the test evaluating precisely? What morality … Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism and anti-colonialism, Fred Moten, israel, palestine
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For Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
On the occasion of Italo Calvino’s birthday … Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. To a psychoanalyst it is not so important whether you tell the truth or a lie because lies are … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Political consciousness, today
What defines political consciousness today? A subtle conjugation of renunciation and hope. When God ordered Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah, he gave up his son without hesitation and yet – at least this is what Kierkegaard suggests in … Continue reading
Josep Rafanell i Orra: Short treatise on cosmo-anarchism
From lundi matin #400, (24/10/2023) … It could be a question of characterising the collapses that we are experiencing; the collapse of living environments, of the social world and its prisons: its institutions; the collapse of the idea of a … Continue reading
Alberto Toscano: The War on Gaza and Israel’s Fascism Debate
From the Verso Books Blog (19/10/2023) … Western critics of Israel’s apartheid policies and far-right government are frequently accused of antisemitism, but leftist and left-liberal Israelis have been decrying the country’s descent into fascism for years. In this article, Alberto Toscano … Continue reading
Ian Alan Paul: Between the Sea and the Security Fence
Stretching our imaginaries, our desires, for a different Palestine-Israel. We share an essay originally published with Ill Will (18/10/2023). Across Gaza’s fragmented collage of architectures and ruins, the abstraction of life rivals life itself. Subsumed by social technologies that densely … Continue reading
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From the Galilee to Gaza: A Voice from Palestine
From the CrimethInc. collective, 17/10/2023 … Right now, the Israeli military is raining bombs onto people trapped in Gaza. They have already killed almost 3000 people and displaced over a million more. This is just the latest chapter in over a century … Continue reading
Maria Kakogianni: Pour une lutte maîtresse
T.N. “maîtresse”: the french word for teacher, or for that which teaches; “l’idée maîtresse” or “la lutte maîtresse”: the key idea or struggle, but not in the sense of essential (and exclusively so), but that idea or struggle which “teaches”. … Continue reading
Conflagrations
From lundi matin #402 (06/11/2023) … Profanations and barbarisms The Israeli government, by fanatically bombing Gaza, is profaning the deaths of October 7. And it is profaning those who died long before, under the bullets of the Nazis and in … Continue reading →