Category Archives: Commentary

Félix Guattari: We Are All Groupuscules

We are almost tempted to call this and our next post – two short essays by Félix Guattari written in the wake of May 68 in france – “lessons for anarchists”. However we do not pretend to teach anyone, for … Continue reading

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Alain Badiou: Thirteen theses and some comments on politics today

What is the communist hypothesis? In its generic sense, given in its canonic Manifesto, ‘communist’ means, first, that the logic of class—the fundamental subordination of labour to a dominant class, the arrangement that has persisted since Antiquity—is not inevitable; it can … Continue reading

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Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto

…This is a transmission from a future that will not happen. From a people who do not exist… Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto “The end is near. Or has it come and gone before?” An ancestor Why can … Continue reading

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Gáspár Miklós Tamás: On Post-Fascism

On Post-Fascism: How citizenship is becoming an exclusive privilege Gáspár Miklós Tamás (Boston Review, Summer 2000) I have an interest to declare. The government of my country, Hungary, is–along with the Bavarian provincial government (provincial in more senses than one)–the … Continue reading

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Gáspár Miklós Tamás: Between Rousseau and Marx

… what happens if one seriously tries to complete Marx’s project of developing, as he put it in an early essay, a “ruthless critique of everything that exists.” The likely result is a picture of the world so relentlessly bleak … Continue reading

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For Gáspár Miklós Tamás (1948-2023)

The Romanian-born Hungarian philosopher and political activist Gáspár Miklos Tamás died this last January 15th. In three posts, we celebrate his discernment, his wisdom and his ethical-political engagements, regardless of whatever differences we may have with his work. Below, a … Continue reading

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January 8, the Brazilian January 6

From the CrimethInc. collective (10/01/2023) … Tracking the Rise of Fascism from the United States to Brazil On January 8, 2023, far-right supporters of defeated former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasília, apparently in grotesque imitation of … Continue reading

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Utopia?

Words of Ghassan Salhab, lebanese filmmaker and writer (from lundi matin #365 09/01/2023) … What remains to be said or done once everything has been said, analysed, dissected of the humiliation that power and its mechanisms represent for everyone? From … Continue reading

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For Pelé (1940-2022)

To describe a sport as an art may appear to be exaggerated. And yet the mastery of sporting technique married to creative imagination does engender moments of artistry.  And while this may not be analogous to the art of painting … Continue reading

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Sabotage: Stories and lessons from france

Sabotage as a form of revolt is as old as human exploitation. Emile Pouget, Sabotage Sabotage is to this class struggle what the guerrilla warfare is to the battle. The strike is the open battle of the class struggle, sabotage … Continue reading

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