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Viruses and Separation
From the journal Inhabit … Viruses and Separation: Frédéric Neyrat on political virality and competing separatisms (15/03/2020) Originally published in Terrestres on March 5, 2020 Translated from the French by an anonymous friend “Our enemy is separatism,” President Macron recently declared. Hearing … Continue reading
Wrestling with a virus
From the journal Inhabit … Crisis and Control: Resisting the end of the world by proliferating new worlds COVID-19 is the culmination of a decade of contagion movies, the beginning of the worst. Every little anxiety baked into the liberal … Continue reading
Taming a hybrid: The COVID-19 pandemic
… coronavirus gives a new chance to communism. Slavoj Žižek, Spectator USA, 14/03/2020 In James C. Scott’s telling of the rise of early Neolithic states, sedentism, farming, the domus, irrigation and urbanisation precede the creation of state power. “All of … Continue reading
The ecology of a virus
What might “collapse” mean, anyway—as in the phrases “the collapse of Ur III,” around 2,000 BCE; “the collapse of the Old Kingdom Egypt,” around 2,100 BCE; “the collapse of the Minoan Palatial Regime” on Crete, around 1,450 BCE? At the … Continue reading
María Galindo: Giving form to a local anarcho-feminism
The logic of the struggle is not the final victory, but permanent and tenacious sabotage. María Galindo For the 8th of March, in solidarity with the calls for a feminist strike, an interview with María Galindo, anarchist, feminist, psychologist, from … Continue reading
The chilean insurrection: Chronicles and lessons
From the CrimethInc. Collective (02/03/2020) … March is Coming: The Next Phase of Revolt in Chile The Lay of the Land Ahead of Round Two Since October, the territory nominally controlled by the Chilean government has seen massive demonstrations against capitalism and the … Continue reading
Reflections on a virus: Trying to see the catastrophe where it is not said to be
Power is domination: all it can do is prohibit, and all it can command is obedience. Michel Foucault Human societies have become like devouring and insatiable mono-cultures, and as such, the viruses multiply. Made therefore fragile, we turn to the … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The coronaviris and the state of exception
Before the frenzied, irrational and totally unjustified emergency measures taken for a supposed epidemic due to the coronavirus, it is necessary to start with the declarations of the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), according to which “there is no epidemic … Continue reading
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Silvia Federici: The joyful militancy of feminism
To share, the first of a series of reflections on contemporary feminism, in interviews, essays and so on, with the eighth of March, international women’s day as a feminist strike, in the foreground. What follows is an interview with Silvia … Continue reading
Monologue of the virus
From lundi matin #234, 16/03/2020 … (At the request of the lundi matin collective, we have replaced our original translation with that now posted on the collective’s site.) What the virus said You’d do well, dear humans, to stop your … Continue reading →