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La ofensiva sensible: a somatic reading of the present moment
A body’s persistence in letting a single form-of-life affect it, despite the diversity of situations it passes through, depends on its crack. The more a body cracks up—that is, the wider and deeper its crack becomes—the fewer the polarizations compatible … Continue reading
This is What Energy Transition Looks Like
Reflections on the struggle against the need for energy and its production under capital, reflections on the illusions of “renewable or green energy sources”, reflections on the ZAD as a model of resistance-creation, … remembering the Amassada ZAD … This … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Regarding the coming time
Regarding the coming time (Quodlibet) What is happening on a planetary scale today is certainly the end of a world. But not – such as for those who seek to govern it according to their interests – in the sense … Continue reading
Mutual aid will help us survive the Biden presidency
From Roarmag magazine (20/11/2020), a reflection on practices of mutual aid by Dean Spade …
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
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
Freeing space, creating autonomies
We would object to the use of the Lenin’s expression “dual power” to characterise the creation of autonomous, free spaces; an always relative autonomy and taking multiple forms. For Lenin, the expression captured a transitional moment in the Russian revolution … Continue reading →