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Tag Archives: 15M
Thinking through May 68 (to the May of 15M): Tomás Ibáñez
Our series of posts, on this, the 50th anniversary of the french May 68, began with a recent essay on the events, by Tomáz Ibáñez. And we close with an older reflection (a prologue to a larger essay on May … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, france, Invisible Committee, May 68, revolution, spain, Tomás Ibáñez
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Reimagining revolution: Amador Fernández-Savater
With the seeming proliferation and celebration of anniversaries of revolutions, “successful” or “failed”, we lose cite of the conceptual wealth and practical weight of the concept itself. The Autonomies collective has endeavoured, however modestly, to reflect upon the history and … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Amador Fernández-Savater, anarchism, Antonio Gramsci, Feminism, François Jullien, Furio Jesi, Lapo Berti, maoism, revolution, russian revolution
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Reading our times with Now: The invisible committee
Beginning by abandoning the old idea of revolution and reinventing it … Not as a new ideology but as a true praxis of an ethics of freedom to redefine the desirable and the undesirable and to create a new subjectivity … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, france, Günther Jakobs, Invisible Committee, Nuit Debout, spain, Tomás Ibáñez
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15M, appropriations and revolutions: Fragmentary visions in spain
Revolutionary change, the revolution, should begin from this moment on, beginning with the undoing of the authoritarian relations in each instant and place of daily life, breaking with the logic of obedience that power, every form of power, tries and … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Carlos Taibo, Carolina León, Octavio Alberola, spain, Tomás Ibáñez
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Jacques Rancière: The anarchy of democracy
During the French presidential campaign, the candidates and the media saturated the environment with references to the “people”. Before the final results, on the 7th of May, the journal Ballast conducted an interview with Jacques Rancière on the use and … Continue reading
Rebel neighbourhoods: Vallcarca, Barcelona
As we once wrote of Madrid’s Carabanchel neighbourhood … “There are cities where particular neighbourhoods guard a memory of past disobedience and rebellion. They were in the past often referred to as working-class neighbourhoods, or quartiers populaires, to employ the … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, anarchism, gentrification, revolution, spain
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The limits of community
We share an essay by Ruymán Rodríguez that critically evaluates the radical poltical potential of the idea of community. Without defending the need to abandon the creation of communities as part of a larger anarchist political project, Rodríguez nevertheless argues … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, anarchism, autonomy, community, Occupations, Okupations, Ruymán Rodríguez, spain
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Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (8)
But communism is not an idea; it is a process, and the only things capable of mobilizing fidelity to it are the concrete activities of which it is composed. If we want to locate the ways forward for the blocked … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Arab Spring, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, revolution
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Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (5)
Peter Gelderloos (Counter Punch 14/10/2011) analyses the spanish 15M and the north american Occupy movements, drawing comparisons and contrasts. At the heart of his reading is the contention that what is, or was, most radical in both was the creation … Continue reading
15M: From legacy to future
Spain’s 15th of May movement of 2011 marks a shift in ways of thinking and doing politics, or to borrow Amador Fernández-Savater’s expression, a shift in desire.