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“Magical thinking”: Beyond the violence of the two state solution for Palestine-Israel
Reaching for a Palestine-Israel beyond the nation state, with Mohammed A. Bamyeh. From the early 1990s, global applause for peace talks abounded. But what ultimately happened is that endless calls for a “two-state solution” that evaded explicit realization of Palestinian … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-nationalism, anti-statism, israel, Mohammed A. Bamyeh, nationalism, palestine
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Ghassan Salhab: The Alter
From lundimatin #490, 01/10/2025 I am nothingand my words are fleetinglike me,among people but passing through, that is whyI speak of you. Bassam Hajjar Is it absolute madness that has taken hold of Zionism, driving this ideology born in the … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, Ghassan Salhab, israel, palestine
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Sébastien Charbonnier: Power and potentiality
Pouvoir et puissance – Refuser de parvenir: une joie pure/Power and potentiality – To refuse to reach for a goal: a pure joy[1] Sébastien Charbonnier lundi matin #487, 09/09/2025 The philosopher Sébastien Charbonnier has just published his remarkable book Pouvoir … Continue reading
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
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
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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Tagged anarchism, insurrection, mutual aid, revolution, scott crow
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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
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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Tagged Art and Revolution, Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Situationists
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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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Tagged Art and Revolution, Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Situationists
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For Gianfranco Sanguinetti (1948-2025)
The theory of the revolution certainly does not depend on the sole area of properly scientific ideas, and still less on the construction of a speculative achievement, or on the aesthetic of that fiery manner of speech that contemplates itself … Continue reading →