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Jean-Luc Nancy: Communism, The Word
The gravest and most painful testimony of the modern world, the one that possibly involves all other testimonies to which this epoch must answer (by virtue of some unknown decree or necessity, for we bear witness also to the exhaustion … Continue reading
Jean-Luc Nancy: Of Being-in-Common
It is by no means a simple matter to choose a text which is representative of Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy. One is spoiled by an abundance of wealth. However, The Inoperative Community (1986) is a central and fundamental text in his … Continue reading
For Jean-Luc Nancy 1940-2021
… il faut dire que la démocratie implique par essence quelque chose d’une anarchie qu’on voudrait presque dire principielle. Jean-Luc Nancy, Démocratie finie et infinie The french philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy died this last August 23rd. If the ideas of philosophers … Continue reading
Afghanistan: Readings of the fall of a political regime
Without sufficient knowledge of events on the ground, or of the broader context (historical, social, economic, geo-political, etc.), we share three texts on the recent Taliban overthrow of the U.S.A.-NATO regime in Kabul, with the aim of navigating beyond the … Continue reading
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Tagged afghanistan, colonialism and anti-colonialism, Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Vijay Prashad
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Carrying the war into Africa? Anarchism, Morocco, and the Spanish Civil War
(Originally published in two parts by Freedom News (23/11/2020; 30/11/2020), we share an article by Danny Evans) I was approached by Jeff Stein to write up a summary of Abel Paz, La cuestión de Marruecos y la República española so that English-language … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-fascism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, spain
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Remembering Spain: Fascism, Revolution and Colonialism
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-fascism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, morroco, spain, State terror, the spanish revolution
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South Africa: We Carry a New World in Our Riots
From the CrimethInc. collective (13/08/2021), reflections on the looting and unrest of July 2021 in south africa … Beginning on July 9, 2021, when the Pietermaritzburg High Court upheld the conviction and sentencing of former South African president Jacob Zuma, … Continue reading
Brazil: Only Revolt Can Bring Down Bolsonaro
From the CrimethInc. collective (12/08/2021) … Ahead of the 2022 elections, Brazil is now reprising the same dramatic showdown that the United States faced in 2020. As the pandemic intensifies alongside corruption scandals and the unrestrained plundering of Indigenous lands, … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, brazil, Indigenous peoples, insurrection, revolution, State terror
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A moss-like anarchist manifesto
A legend tells us that Christian soldiers took the city of Béjar in spain from its Muslim-Arab inhabitants in the 12th century by disguising themselves with coverings of moss, enabling them thereby to enter the city gates by surprise.[1] Our … Continue reading
Jean-Luc Nancy: Populism, Democracy, and Neofascism: Two Essays
LARB – the Los Angeles Review of Books (17/02/2019) presents two recent essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, translated from the French by Sarah Clift. Populism and Democracy Populism and democracy are an odd couple. The first, populism, rejects the pejorative connotation that … Continue reading →