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“understand that fascism is already here”*
I want to try to urge you to think about the historical system of slavery and the prison, the institution of the prison together. And specifically, I want us to think about the extent to which the vast global apparatus … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Davis, anti-prison, George Jackson, Peter Kropotkin, united states
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For Frederick Wiseman (1930 – 2026)
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Simone Weil, Grace and Gravity Frederick Wiseman died this last Monday, February 16, and whatever words we could share to celebrate his work we thought should be his. And as for … Continue reading
For Béla Tarr (1955-2026)
“I still consider myself an anarchist. But there’s an old saying, that goes, “If you’re not a communist by 30, you have no heart. But if you’re a communist after 30, you have no brain.” This is quite an old … Continue reading
For Peter Watkins (1935-2025)
History is the object of a construction whose place is formed not in homogenous and empty time, but in that which is fulfilled by the here-and-now [Jetztzeit]. For Robespierre, Roman antiquity was a past charged with the here-and-now, which he … 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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In girum imus nocteet consumimur igni (1978)
In the present film, for example, I am simply stating a few truths over a background of images that are all trivial or false. This film disdains the image-scraps of which it is composed. I do not wish to preserve … Continue reading
The Society of the Spectacle (1973)
In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false. … Continue reading
Critique of Separation (1961): “One of the greatest antifilms of all time!”
Until the environment is collectively dominated, there will be no real individuals — only specters haunting the objects anarchically presented to them by others. In chance situations we meet separated people moving randomly. Their divergent emotions neutralize each other and … Continue reading
On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959)
The appearance of events that we have not created, of events that others have in fact created against us, now obliges us to be aware of the passage of time and its results, to assess the transformation of our own … Continue reading
Sabina Guzzanti: How Tiring Democracy Is!
Embrace diversity.Unite-Or be divided,robbed,ruled,killedBy those who see you as prey.Embrace diversityOr be destroyed. Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower We propose to risk making a statement of the basic and interrelated principles of anarchism (basic principles from which all … Continue reading →