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Tag Archives: Alain Badiou
Anarchism: Giving form to autonomy
This post was born of an exchange of letters between John Holloway and Michael Hardt that focused on the issue of “anti-capitalist social movements” and their “organisation” and “institutionalisation”. The letters date from 2011, but their subject remains contemporary, as … Continue reading
Reading the times with Alain Badiou
Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternally creative source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too. Mikhail Bakunin, The Reaction in Germany (1842) … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Badiou, anti-capitalism, Georges Bataille, Giorgio Agamben
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Refusing to forget a revolution: The Arab Spring
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why … Continue reading
Nuit Debout: At the banquet of intellectuals
Revolution is not ‘showing’ life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Badiou, autonomy, Chantal Mouffe, democracy, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Miguel Benasayag, Nuit Debout, rebellion, revolution
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Shards of time amid spaces of rebellion
This essay is the child of an earlier reflection on time and revolution, as well as of work on the 15th of May movement in spain, Pasolini and anti-fascism, and other essays posted on Autonomies, from which it borrows generously. … Continue reading
The refusal of sovereignty; An anarchist reading of “occupy” movements
(El Roto) The “occupy” movements that emerged in 2011 in different parts of the world continue to merit reflection as the most radical challenge to State forms and Capitalism in recent memory. We share below an essay by a friend … Continue reading
15M: A Philosophical Concerto in Three Unfinished Movements
An exercise in philosophical reflection on 15M in spain …
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Tagged 15M, Alain Badiou, Cornelius Castoriadis, Edgar Morin, Giorgio Agamben, May 68, Michael Hardt, revolution, Slavoj Žižek, spain, Spanish Revolution, Toni Negri
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Alain Badiou: Thirteen theses and some comments on politics today
What is the communist hypothesis? In its generic sense, given in its canonic Manifesto, ‘communist’ means, first, that the logic of class—the fundamental subordination of labour to a dominant class, the arrangement that has persisted since Antiquity—is not inevitable; it can … Continue reading →