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Parrhesia: To speak freely, with courage, to the tyrant

From Michel Foucault and Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde: The courage to speak the truth to power. To begin with, what is the general meaning of the word parrhesia? Etymologically, parrhesiazesthai means “to say everything” – from pan … (everything) … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: Good and Evil

The old doctrine that evil is merely the deprivation of the good, and therefore does not exist in itself, needs to be corrected and supplemented in the sense that it is not so much the deprivation as the perversion of … Continue reading

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Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull the Plug on AI Fascism

From It’s Going Down (26/01/2025) On January 20th, at a ceremony attended by both far-Right and neo-fascist leaders from around the globe and some of the richest tech billionaires in the world, including the heads of Apple, Google, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and Amazon, … Continue reading

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Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi: Introduction to the Twenty-First century

From Freedom News (10/01/2025). Agents of chaos and agents of the automaton in the horizon of mutation A South African racist named Elon Musk, whom newspapers call the richest man in the world, recently earned another, more interesting, nickname: “an … Continue reading

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Gaza as extermination camp

Part of our existence lies in the feelings of those near to us. This is why the experience of someone who has lived for days during which man was merely a thing in the eyes of man is non-human. Primo … Continue reading

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Duane Rousselle: Georges Bataille’s Post-anarchism

Pushing against the limits of anarchism, with George Bataille, as read by Duane Rousselle. [Source: The Anarchist Library] Abstract Post-anarchist philosophy has widely been regarded as an attempt to challenge the ontological essentialism of the traditional anarchist discourse. The problem … Continue reading

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We Are Not Pawns, We Are the People Who Rose Against the Regime

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation (18/12/2024). This article by Syrian writer Jwana Aziz reflects on the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Jwana examines the conditions that precipitated the 2011 uprising, the years of civil war, and the difficulties that now … Continue reading

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Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen: Class Struggle in What Society?

From Ill Will (17/12/2024). 1. Any analysis of the re-election of Trump must depart from the George Floyd revolt, which remains the most important “political,” or rather anti-political, event in recent American history. In Minneapolis and other cities in 2020, … Continue reading

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Syria: The dictator has fled, long live the revolution

In less than two weeks, the Bashar al-Assad regime of Syria collapsed, with his flight to Russia, in the face of a military offensive conducted by a coalition of armed groups led by Hay?at Tahrir al-Sham. If we count his … Continue reading

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For Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)

and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knowsthat i know that touching was and still is and will alwaysbe the truerevolution Nikki Giovanni, When I Die (1972) … a poem is pure energyhorizontally containedbetween the mindof … Continue reading

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