Category Archives: Commentary

Covid and “the great resignation”

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Refuser de parvenir, ce n’est ni refuser d’agir ni refuser de vivre : c’est refuser de vivre et d’agir pour soi et aux fins de soi. Albert Thierry Tant que notre triomphe ne sera pas en même temps celui de tous, … Continue reading →

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Occupy Wall Street/Occupy, ten years on

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

As a project, yes. Projection, planning and programming have never done anything but project what it was possible to calculate at a given moment. And consequently, they block the image of a future already hemmed in. Of course, it is … Continue reading →

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Acapatzingo: An autonomous community in resistance

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Societies change from daily local practice, in defined autonomous spaces, because autonomy is the perimeter that protects counterhegemonic practices. Autonomy is the means by which other worlds can exist, worlds that need protection by virtue of being different. When and … Continue reading →

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The existential communism of Jean-Luc Nancy

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Même le chaos n’est pas entièrement chaotique ;même le compact laisse passer la lumière ;même l’individu contient encore une part de nuit Frédéric Neyrat, Le communisme existentiel de Jean-Luc Nancy, éditions Lignes. From Lundi matin (#302, 30/08/2021, in translation), a reflection on … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy: May 68

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

We close our overly brief and modest sharing of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy with an interview (in translation) that he gave to Carole Dely, for the journal Sens publique on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of france’s May … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy: Populism, Democracy, and Neofascism: Two Essays

Posted on August 28, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

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 →

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Jean-Luc Nancy: Communism, The Word

Posted on August 28, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

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 →

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Jean-Luc Nancy: Of Being-in-Common

Posted on August 28, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

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 →

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For Jean-Luc Nancy 1940-2021

Posted on August 28, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

… 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 →

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Afghanistan: Readings of the fall of a political regime

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

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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