-
Recent Posts
- Giorgio Agamben: Give us this day our daily nothingness
- The Forbidden Deleuze: For Palestine, Against Genocide
- Ghassan Salhab: And the world falls
- Solidarity Collectives Ukraine: Four years of anti-authoritarian resistance
- Solidarity Without Submission: Nestor, Ulysses, Ukraine and the Glory of Heroes
Categories
- Commentary (1,736)
- Discussion (6)
- Film (129)
- Interview (73)
- News blog (854)
- Poiesis (134)
- Review (3)
- Uncategorized (4)
Category Archives: Commentary
Mapping our dystopia
We continue to share translations from the not bored collective which are generously forwarded to us. Ongoing reflections on the politics of a pandemic …
Santiago López Petit: Coronavirus as theatre of truth
Humanity is entering a phase of its history in which truth is reduced to a moment in the movement of the false. True is that false speech that must be kept true even when its untruth is proven. But in … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged anti-capitalism, Santiago López Petit, State and Capital
Leave a comment
Achille Mbembe: The necropolitics of a pandemic
… the ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die. Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics From a brazilian newspaper, an interview with Achille Mbembe … Mbembe … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: A Question
A further contribution for the understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic from Giorgio Agamben. We again thank the not bored! collective for this translation. This is a text which we partially shared in an earlier post. A Question Giorgio Agamben(1) For … Continue reading
Gianfranco Sanguinetti: A virus removes the veil of bourgeois democracy
Sanguinetti proposes a reading of the COVID-19 pandemic which argues that the coronavirus has brought the pretensions of liberal, bourgeois democracy to an end. We now enter upon an age of open despotism. However problematic such a division of epochs … Continue reading
COVID-19: Translating a pandemic politically (2)
Arundhati Roy, in an eloquent article on the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in india, concludes by writing … Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. … Continue reading
Raoul Vaneigem: Life against capital and its pandemics
With gratitude to the notbored collective for sharing their latest translation of a very recent text by Vaneigem with Autonomies, we in turn share the same … People of the World, One More Effort! Raoul Vaneigem(1) The world changes from … Continue reading
Reading the coronavirus with Ivan Illich
Autonomies welcomes a text generously shared by David Cayley (www.davidcayley.com), Canadian writer and radio host (Toronto), and author for many years of the Ideas program for the CBC Radio programme “Ideas”. Questions about the current pandemic from the point of … Continue reading
Pandemic Visions
With the generosity of the author, we share a “fiction” which is threateningly and increasingly indistinguishable from “reality”. The Pandemic Community Nil Mata Reyes, 2020 01. Welcome to the pandemic community, a form of social belonging structured by the participatory … Continue reading
COVID-19: Translating a pandemic politically (3)
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis I If political sovereignty is defined by the decision on the exception (Carl Schmitt), on what is to be excluded from and … Continue reading →