Category Archives: Commentary

Tomás Ibáñez: The irreducible, yet fecund, anarchist contradiction

BOAB Bologna Anarchist Bookfair September 5, 6, and 7, 2025 After many years of interruption of the major anarchist book fairs in Italy, such as the one that was periodically organized in Florence with its debates and book exhibitions, some … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: Where are we?

In hell. Any discussion that does not start from this awareness is simply unfounded. The circles in which we find ourselves are not arranged vertically, but scattered throughout the world. Wherever men and women associate, they produce hell. The circles … Continue reading

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Liberatory Mutual Aid

Without community, there is no liberation … Audre Lorde From scott crow, we share an important reflection on mutual aid as a liberatory practise and thought, in response to the different and multiple disasters brought on upon all of us … Continue reading

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France’s “Let’s block everything” or the will to insurrection

… the fire is not smoldering beneath the usual surface of daily acquiescence. Temps Critiques With week on from September 10, the day that coincided with a call to “Block Everything” in France, we share a critical article below from … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben – Difference and Repetition: On Guy Debord’s Films (1995)

Returning to a text that we have published before, we close our series on Guy Debord’s films with a reflection on the same by Giorgio Agamben.

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Guy Debord’s film eye

Considering the story of my life, it is obvious to me that I cannot produce a cinematic “work” in the usual sense of the term. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In the summer heat of a … Continue reading

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The spectacle of power

Official news is elsewhere. Society broadcasts to itself its own image of its own history, a history reduced to a superficial and static pageant of its rulers — the persons who embody the apparent inevitability of whatever happens. The world … Continue reading

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The flotillas to Gaza or the unfinished as a political form

Sylvain George From lundi matin #486, 01/09/2025 A few months ago, the Madleen was intercepted by the Israeli army a few kilometres off the coast of Gaza. On August 31, a flotilla of several dozen boats set sail for the … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: On False Relationships

A good definition of political power is that which characterises it as the art of placing people in false relationships. This, and nothing else, is what power does first and foremost, in order to then govern them as it wishes. … Continue reading

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Mystery and Hierarchy: On the unassimilable/incomprehensible character of anarchism

Christian Ferrer One In every city in the world, no matter how small, there is at least one person who calls themselves an anarchist. This solitary and unusual presence must conceal a meaning that transcends the order of politics, just … Continue reading

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