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Category Archives: Commentary
The wind blows where it wills
A further exercise in reading events with Giorgio Agamben, this time a short reflection by Jeanne Casilas, published by lundi matin #263 (15/11/2020). The wind blows where it wills L’art est comme l’incendie, il naît de ce qui brûle/Art is … Continue reading
Amador Fernández-Savater: Like lost children
The maturity of man – that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil A fragment from the prologue to Amador Fernández Savater’s recently published essay, Habitar y … Continue reading
Santiago López Petit: The political construction of the emergency
The social malaise spreads moment by moment. The endless sequence of confinement – de-confinement – re-confinement – is the rope that slowly asphyxiates us. It is the rope that a State, incapable and seized by panic, holds to, to try … Continue reading
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“Destruam et ædificabo”: The anarchist proposal
From acracia.org (24/10/2020) … The Latin expression is a biblical quotation that Pierre-Joseph Proudhon put on the cover of his fundamental work, The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty (1846), and it reflects very well the dual … Continue reading
When voting to change the guard, imaging anarchy
From The floodgates of anarchy, by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer … Is a free society possible? (Libcom.org) Mutual aid is the over-riding principle in human existence. It is greater than that of class struggle, which is the result of … Continue reading
Let empire collapse
From Roarmag (02/11/2020) … Repatriating Indigenous land and organizing anti-state Indigenous-Black-POC Power alternatives is better than pouring resources into the liberal-progressive vote. Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution Mohamed Abdou I am part of a We that … Continue reading
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Giorgio Agamben: Becoming faceless
Returning to our loss of face in pandemic times … A country without a face Giorgio Agamben, Quodlibet The face and the mask … although she [nature] made all other animate creatures face the earth for grazing,she made the human … Continue reading
Reading events with Giorgio Agamben
“ … All we want to do is keep the knowledge we think we will need, intact and safe. We’re not out to incite or anger anyone yet. For if we are destroyed, the knowledge is dead, perhaps for good. … Continue reading
Beyond the liberation of desire
With the Earth still spinning around, with the Sun still shining bright,Oh Lord, grant everyone’s wishes to make both ends meet:To the wise man give a wisdom, to the coward give a horse,To the happy man give some money … … Continue reading
Raoul Vaneigem: … the best reading, the most difficult and enthralling, remains the reading of oneself
Again, we thank the not bored collective for sharing their translation of the following interview with Raoul Vaneigem and published with the Belgian newspaper Le Soir. Humanity is in the process of dying so that an economy in which mad … Continue reading →