Category Archives: News blog

Rebellion in the city: brazil

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

Seuls des groupes, classes ou fractions de classes sociales capables d’initiatives révolutionnaires peuvent prendre en charge et mener jusqu’à plein accomplissement les solutions aux problèmes urbains ; de ces forces sociales et politiques la ville rénovée deviendra l’œuvre. Henri Lefebvre, Le … Continue reading →

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The revolution as trans/queer

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

(poster by Javi Larrauri) … only those who find themselves in opposition to the institutionalised Norm can play a fully critical role. In other words, only feminist self-consciousness and homosexual awareness [29] can give life to a vision of the … Continue reading →

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Gezi/Taksim: So that memories are not erased, and the future is not closed

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

Video that gathers the lived experience of the occupations of Gezi Park/Taksim square, and beyond …

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Gezi/Taksim: The rebellion of one-many, or a figure of Bartleby

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

From Occupied Taksim …

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Gezi/Taksim: From the margins

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

Il y a une figure universelle de la conscience minoritaire, comme devenir de tout le monde, et c’est ce devenir qui est création.  Ce n’est pas en acquérant la majorité qu’on y atteint.  Cette figure, c’est précisément la variation continue, … Continue reading →

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Gezi Park/Taksim Square: The festival of revolution

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

Le premier geste pour que quelque chose puisse surgir au milieu de la métropole, pour que s’ouvrent d’autres possibles, c’est d’arrêter son perpetuum mobile. comité invisible, L’insurrection que vient The faces and voices of Gezi Park of Taksim Square, Istanbul, … Continue reading →

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Vio.Me: Self-Organization in Greece

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

An excellent video report from Global Uprisings and Brandon Jourdan of the Vio.Me. factory occupation in greece.  Any revolutionary movement will inevitably confront the issue of production.  In radically changing capitalist society, how can the basic needs of people be … Continue reading →

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The chimera of revolution: Travels through 15M’s spain

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

Chimaera … breathed awful fire, Three-headed, frightening, huge, swift-footed, strong, One head a bright-eyed lion’s, one a goats, The third a snake’s, a mighty dragon-head. Hesiod, Theogony Monsters have always defined the limits of community … Donna Haraway, A Manifesto … Continue reading →

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Diagnosing the city under crisis: Athens

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

A multimedia research collective, The City at a Time of Crisis, has inaugurated a rich project to cartograph and analyse the changing dimensions of urban life in the city of Athens, under the regime of crisis.  The endeavour is noteworthy … Continue reading →

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Year 02: 15M’s spain

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

For the so many whom 15M has brought forth, for the enormous passion and creativity that this movement has engendered, for the extraordinary generosity and love that so many show as they build together, for its beauty and its freedom, … Continue reading →

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