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Tourism: The spectacle of travel
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust A celebration of the Left Hand Rotation’s documentary film, “Fascínio”. Tourism is the highest form of alienation in our time. The modern traveler is divorced from all relations to place and … Continue reading
An experiment in cartography: Mapping the gilets jaunes
From the Crimethinc. Collective, reflections on and testimonials of the gilets jaunes … The Yellow Vest Movement: Showdown with the State: Reports from the Clashes in Paris, around France, and across Europe (14/12/2018) Since November, France has been shaken by … Continue reading
Amidst the polyphony of the gilets jaunes
In the occupied roundabouts of france, occupations which are the most emblematic expression of the gilets jaunes or “yellow vest movement”, the word or speech has been freed. Individuals, people, who would formerly never have encountered each other, find themselves protesting, … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: How the ground moves beneath our feet
What an insurrectional moment shows is the return of life to visible social space. The uprising has no existence of its own, if not by an abuse of language. It is meshed with a thousand little stories, the smaller the … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Smashing habits in insurrection
Protests succeed and overlap each other, without a single centre or orientation. The territory is claimed, even if only momentarily, regular movement is disrupted, sabotage becomes common, while the rebellious are themselves divided … but the insurrection continues. From the … Continue reading
Paris is burning: The gilets jaunes
What is happening is not a “movement” in the political sense of the term, it can become so, structure itself, make emerge its leaders, but for now, it is rather a matter of understanding this “movement” in the sense … Continue reading
Insurrection in the end times: The gilets jaunes
When all that remains is the prospect of misery and death, then the only fitting response is to create, out of the destruction of what is killing life …
The uncertain tides of insurrection: The yellow vest protests of france
The symbolic use of the yellow vest is clear: what was first imposed as a security device is transformed into social force. The horrible yellow clothing that should normally be worn at the time of a forced stop on … Continue reading
The anti-fascist front has never been the proof of anything other than the imminence of defeat
From Paris-luttes.info, a reflection from france on the necessity of anti-fascism as anti-capitalist.
Miguel Amorós: The seductions of “History”
How foolish it would be to suppose that one only needs to point out the origin and this misty shroud of delusion in order to destroy the world that counts for real, so-called “reality.” We can destroy only as creators. – But let us … Continue reading →