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Breaking ranks: desertion as a crisis of meaning

A reflection on desertion, by Amador Fernández-Savater … It grabs your guts and won’t let go; restlessness, a background noise, a discomfort. The thing, far from disappearing, is growing. Despite distractions, narcotics, stubbornness; until you can’t stand it anymore. And … Continue reading

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The Man Who Died, following D.H. Lawrence

“I don’t know what I shall do,” he said. “When I am healed, I shall know better. But my mission is over, and my teaching is finished, and death has saved me from my own salvation. Oh, Madeleine, I want … Continue reading

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Amador Fernández-Savater: Notes on the unconscious and politics (summer 2022)

A patchwork reflection on psychoanalysis and politics, by Amador Fernández-Savater, published in Lobo Suelto (17/09/2022). Reading Freud is an experience of great intensity. Not only because of what he brings to light, against everything and everyone (he, a bourgeois from … Continue reading

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Amador Fernández-Savater: The apocalypse has already happened

From Lobo Suelto (22/09/2022) … And yet, here we are back at the millennium. Each morning, we shall be on the eve of the end of time … Jean-Paul Sartre, The End of War Discourses of collapse proliferate everywhere. The … Continue reading

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Amador Fernández-Savater: Having superpowers – Reading as an experience of emancipation

For N al-K … The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. … Continue reading

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Amador Fernández-Savater: To rethink war

From Lobo Suelto! (15/03/2022) … To rethink war, what does it mean? To learn to look at the world strategically. The news, rights, the laws, the speeches, the images… To take them as operations, as forces (of occupation or resistance): … Continue reading

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Amador Fernández-Savater: “The weak are wrong if they use the force and methods of the strong”

Amador Fernández-Savater has written the book La fuerza de los débiles with the desire to understand what happened to 15M and after 15M and to thereby analyze the current world, to continue looking for ways to understand politics. For this, … Continue reading

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Amador Fernández-Savater: 15M in the spanish labyrinth

A reflection on spain’s 15M, a reflection whose resonances extend beyond the limits of that country. (Lobo suelto! – 14/05/2021) I see no point in remembering 15M if it is not to try to prolong its energy, its power of … Continue reading

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La ofensiva sensible: a somatic reading of the present moment

A body’s persistence in letting a single form-of-life affect it, despite the diversity of situations it passes through, depends on its crack. The more a body cracks up—that is, the wider and deeper its crack becomes—the fewer the polarizations compatible … Continue reading

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Amador Fernández-Savater: Like lost children

The maturity of man – that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil A fragment from the prologue to Amador Fernández Savater’s recently published essay, Habitar y … Continue reading

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