Category Archives: Commentary

Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Michel Foucault

In my opinion, as important as it may be, tactically speaking, to say at a given moment, ‘I am a homosexual,’ over the long run, in a wider strategy, the question of knowing who we are sexually should no longer … Continue reading

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Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Mario Mieli

To come over to our side means, quite literally, to be fucked in the ass, and to discover that this is one of the most beautiful of pleasures. It means to marry your pleasure to mine without castrating chains, without … Continue reading

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Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini interviewed by Louis Valentin (1970) A 1970 interview with Pier Paolo Pasolini, on the youth revolt of the sixties, culture, love, his film “Oedipus Rex”, the heterosexual couple, homosexuality, and more. LV: You have often been accused … Continue reading

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Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Guy Hocquenghem

To speak of reflections after Stonewall is not to suggest any logical chronology in which thought follows practice. But the Stonewall Riots do express a moment of intensity in the practice and thought of the radical gay rebellion of the … Continue reading

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Anarchism and philosophy

Discussing anarchism and philosophy with Catherine Malabou (in french), by Lundi Matin (#343, 13/06/2022). Can we think anarchism?This Monday we wanted to know if anarchism was thinkable. We didn’t ask the question. We didn’t know that perhaps it had not … Continue reading

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Statement of the ABC Belarus on the war in Ukraine

From the anarchist black cross belarus (10/06/2022) … A full-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for over three months now. The anarchist movement has responded to the Russian invasion in different ways during these three months – some … Continue reading

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Jesse Cohn: Demodernizing Anarchism

Decolonising anarchism, according to Jesse Cohn, amounts to freeing it from its modernist assumptions: that culture is opposed to nature, that human culture progresses by an expanding autonomy from the heteronomy of nature, a progress grounded in the technological dominion … Continue reading

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The folly of grande illusions

Once again, by way of Lundi Matin (#341, 30/05/2022), we share below the third episode of Diamant Palace, with Alain Damasio et Vinciane Despret, from Le Biais Vert (available with english language subtitles). For the first episode, click here. “A robot may not … Continue reading

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Peter Lamborn Wilson: Communities of Resistance

We share, once again, an excellent video interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson/Hakim Bey dedicated to communities of resistance; a rich summary of Wilson’s work, keeping alive a non-ideological, open anarchism.

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For Peter Lamborn Wilson/Hakim Bey (1945-2022)

… the TAZ is in some sense a tactic of disappearance. Hakim Bey Peter Lamborn Wilson or Hakim Bey coined the phrase “Temporary Autonomous Zone” to refer to autonomous communities of conviviality, of freedom and equality, creating thereby a different … Continue reading

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