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The Cop-Free Zone
From the CrimethInc. Collective (02/07/2020)… The Cop-Free Zone: Reflections from Experiments in Autonomy around the US The cop-free zone is not the particular block or traffic circle or park. It is the shared commitment to defending a space and eliminating … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-racism, autonomy, insurrection, Occupations, occupy the city, Okupations, united states
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The gilets jaunes: Tracing the lines of fracture
On the one hand, then, there is antagonism, everything that contributes to our generalized dispossession, itself associated with pure and simple destruction; and on the other hand, everything that seeks to oppose it, in an ethical leap to save the … Continue reading
The ethics of revolution
With resonances of Mario Tronti and with the yellow vests in the background, a reflection on the ethics of revolution … What can, what must keep us standing: About revolutionary ethics Dietrich Hoss (lundi matin #228, 03/02/2020) Always the same … Continue reading
Frédéric Lordon: Imagining revolution and the problem of scale
To share, in translation, a critical essay of “micro” revolutionary politics, by Frédéric Lordon … Lordon may be accused of simply reenacting the old marxist-social democratic criticism of anarchism: that the latter’s anti-statism ignores the inevitable role of state power, … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, Frédéric Lordon, Giorgio Agamben, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, revolution, ZAD
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The gilets jaunes: Insurrection at the end times of capital
Walter Benjamin, in an early and originally unpublished essay, described capitalism as a religion, a purely cultic religion without dogma or theology; a religion in which things and deeds have meaning only in relation to the cult. The ends are … Continue reading
Looking back-forward at the gilets jaunes: A taking stock
We share an unfinished debate on the yellow vests’ movement, on what is or was radical within it, and where it failed, if indeed it did so. Our caution here is dictated by the different positions in the exchange below. … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, Marcello Tarì
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Raoul Vaneigem: An appeal to life
Photograph by Guillaume Amat (from the series open fields) On the occasion of Raoul Vaneigem’s most recent essay, Appel à la vie contre la tyrannie étatique et marchande, we share an interview, in translation, that he gave to the Ballast … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, gilets jaunes, Raoul Vaneigem, revolution, Situationists
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Raoul Vaneigem: A radical politics of life
From Ballast, an excerpt from Raoul Vaneigem’s most recent essay, which we present below in translation.
The gilets jaunes: A movement(s) at a crossroads
On the day of Act XX … The Temps critique collective (22/03/2019), in a finely developed analysis of the yellow vests movement(s) of france, elaborates three fundamental criticisms: the movement has hitherto been unable to define itself, it has equally … Continue reading
This is What Energy Transition Looks Like
Reflections on the struggle against the need for energy and its production under capital, reflections on the illusions of “renewable or green energy sources”, reflections on the ZAD as a model of resistance-creation, … remembering the Amassada ZAD … This … Continue reading →