The ZAD: an autonomous zone in the heart of france

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

From Roarmag collective (26/01/2017), a reflection on the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes by Martin Legall, a pre-figuarative struggle for autonomy … 

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Anarchist myths

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

We share below a reflection by Ruymán Rodríguez of the Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria on the limits of an anarchism exclusively thought in terms of anti-statism and anti-capitalism.

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Economies beyond capitalism: Anarchist reflections and practices

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

What is anti-capitalism?  What distinguishes anarchist anti-capitalism from other “competing” social-political projects?  Whatever answers are forthcoming to such questions, at the heart of any anti-capitalism is an “alternative economy”.  What this in turn amounts to has been a matter of debate and struggle.  We share below a reflection, published in the Seville based newspaper El Topo, on anarchism as an anti-capitalism that endeavours to surpass economics as such.

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Transgressing the threshold between art and revolution

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

What is art and what relation there is between it and revolutionary politics, anarchism, is a uniquely modern question born of the alienating social divisions of capitalism.  To address the matter fully would require a reflection well beyond our present intentions.  Instead, we share what amounts to an introductory  reflection authored by Tatiana Mikhaila, entitled “Dedans Nous, le Déluge: The Flood Within Towards an Aesthetics of Risk” (24/01/2017) and published on the CrimethInc collective’s website; a first contribution to a new concern with art and politics on the website.

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Freedom against the freedom of speech

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

With the expansion of neo-fascist and neo-nazi groups in the shadows of ever more racist, xenophobic and sexist “traditional” conservative right-wing political parties, confusion over the significance of the liberal freedom of speech can paralyse radical political criticism and action.  We share below a timely analysis from CrimethInc on the limits of free dialogue when politics must be conceived of as war, as a conflict between ways of life.

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Architecture beyond truth and falsity: Radicalising feminist interventions in the creation of spaces

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Better to live in the provisional than in the definitive.

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

All dissidence, rebellion, revolution has a location, a place.  The relationship between the two has been the subject of an ongoing reflection on the politics of space and architecture, here, as elsewhere.  The essay that follows, preceded by an abstract in the form of aseries of theses, is authored by a friend of Autonomies, Carlos Jacques, and was originally presented at the III International Conference on Gender and Architecture “MORE: Expanding architecture from a gender-based perspective”, which took place at the School of arcitecture of the University of Florence, Italy, on the 26-28th of January 2017. 

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Trump and everyday anti-fascism beyond punching Nazis

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

From roarmag (23/01/2016), and in the wake of the anti-Trump and anti-fascist protests on January 20th, we share a reflection on anti-fascism by Mark Bray (for other parallel reflections, click here) …

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Jaime Alekos: Scenes from other refugee worlds … our world

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Jaime Aleko, as video journalist working with such media collectives as Periodismo Humano, has covered and denounced the ravages of contemporary capitalism and recorded the many resilient and courageous forms of resistance to it, with a visual language, can one dare say it, of silent, poetic eloquence.

Without narration, some of his most recent work captures the moments and spaces of of refugee communities in eastern europe.  In solidarity, we modestly share some of this work below … 

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I don’t want to be strong. I want to be vulnerable.

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“[A]ll public assembly is haunted by the police and the prison.”  The words are Judith Butler’s, words through which she invites us to think anew the relationship between vulnerability and resistance.
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Against Trump: J20 Disrupting the taking of power

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as president of the united states, and in solidarity, we share the calls for protest …  

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