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Free Palestine/Free Israel (III)
Imagining freedom and justice beyond state sovereignty, with Hannah Arendt. Politically, this identification of freedom with sovereignty is perhaps the most pernicious and dangerous consequence of the philosophical equation of freedom and free will. For it leads either to a … Continue reading
Free Palestine/Free Israel (II)
Thus, in some form, the constitutive process of a land-appropriation is found at the beginning of the history of every settled people, every Commonwealth, every empire. This is true as well for the beginning of every historical epoch. Not only … Continue reading
Free Palestine/Free Israel
“Genocide”: … any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of … Continue reading
Strategizing for Palestinian Solidarity: Expanding the Toolkit
“US weapons ship to Israel blocked by peace activists at port of Tacoma. Peace activists have staged a standstill at the Port of Tacoma, blocking the departure of a US ship believed to be carrying weapons destined for the state … Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism and anti-colonialism, direct action, israel, palestine
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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
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
Roundabouts, Against Solitude
Remembering and resisting the erasure of the rebellion of the Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests with a piece published with lundi matin (#400, 24/10/2024) and with an excellent documentary film dedicated to the same, entitled Les Magnifiques Sauvages (in french). November 17 … Continue reading →