Category Archives: Commentary

Josep Rafanell i Orra: Anarchism, once again

From lundimatin #501, 15/12/2025 Everyone agrees that the current political landscape in France is frankly depressing. On the one hand, there is an obvious fascistisation of stupidity, and on the other, a kitsch revival of Leninist leftism. It’s easy to … Continue reading

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Anarchism: Last ecological hope against the violence of the State

Against a State that will never resolve the climate crisis, and its violence that force does not know how to overthrow, what remains for ecologists? Historical and present day anarchism, rich in ideas for another future.

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Giorgio Agamben: To live or to survive

Those who govern us today are trying to organise the survival of humanity, that is, they are trying to transform the living into survivors. But what survives is no longer alive; only those who do not survive their own way … Continue reading

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Marcello Tarí: Revisiting the Concept of Revolution

“A Conversation with Marcello Tarí” (Translated and Edited by Nikola García), published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 31/03/2022. This interview is part of the series Ethnographic Encounters with Destituent Power In this interview conducted by POLAR Digital Editorial Fellow Nikola Garcia, … Continue reading

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Ivan Illich: Rebirth of Epimethean Man

As yet another COP gathering closes, with no end in sight to increasing carbon emissions, to the glee of the fossil fuel industries; as the promise of a “green” energy transition unmasks its own inexhaustible demands on an expanding, violent … Continue reading

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Ian Alan Paul: What Is a Repertoire?

From Ill Will (01/12/25) Ian Alan Paul’s The Reticular Society offers a situationist-inspired critique of how the logic of optimized computation and networked calculation has expanded and deepened the capitalist project of exploitation and domination. As Paul shows, the more … Continue reading

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Tristan Lefort-Martine: The irrational springs of the support for fascism

lundimatin, #498, 24/11/2025 The title says it all: this short article addresses the problem, identified early on by Wilhelm Reich, posed by the irrationalism espoused by far-right ideology for its criticism, and draws on the work of Alice Miller and … Continue reading

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Tomà Berlanda: The Impossible Reconstruction

From the Verso Books blog (19/11/2025).

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Mario Tronti: Towards a Critique of Political democracy

Democracy has problems with freedom. if it is true that real democracy is configured as liberal-democracy and that in the end this has been the winning solution, it is precisely  this  conjunction,  binding  together freedom  (or  liberty)  and  democracy,  that … Continue reading

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Luca Salza: Philosophy on a boat

“The history of philosophy is buried in Gaza, but philosophy lives on in the gesture of the Global Sumud Flotilla.” In this article, historian and philosopher Luca Salza[1] reflects on what he sees as the political, philosophical and strategic significance … Continue reading

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