Category Archives: Commentary

Gérard Granel: Modern sovereignty as the loss of limits

… the essence of Modernity seems to me to consist of a logic of the infinite, aiming to determine more and more sovereignly the finite, without having to base itself anywhere or upon anything – a foundation it has needed … Continue reading

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Rhiannon Firth: Disaster Anarchy

From Void Network (09/01/2024) … The growth of autonomous disaster relief efforts, grassroots anarchist initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, and collective responses to climate change, both in the UK and in the US. Written by Rhiannon Firth, author of Disaster Anarchy: Mutual … Continue reading

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Peter Gelderloos: Ecosystems of Revolt

From Ill Will (29/07/2022) … As the struggle to defend the Atlanta forest against the construction of a new police training facility stages its fourth week of action, we are publishing an excerpt from Peter Gelderloos’s recent book, The Solutions … Continue reading

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For a revolution of values

For Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) … Reflection On Doctor King Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin I am not one of a number of persons and commentators who come merely to hypocritically give salutations to Dr. King, … Continue reading

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For Klee Benally 1975-2023

Ours is a continually emergent world, our existence and our future is continuous manifestation, and we are always in the process of becoming. Klee Benally In memory of Klee Benally, a eulogy, an interview and an essay authored by him.

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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

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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

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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

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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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