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Giorgio Agamben: Political power and anarchy

In a series of four short essays – in some sense, a summary of much more extensive earlier work -, Giorgio Agamben unveils the anarchy that lies at the centre of sovereign, political power, split between the constitution/state and the … Continue reading

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Édouard Jourdain: The savage and the political

Over a series of video recorded interviews, the lundimatin collective has recently engaged with a number of writers to explore the relationships between philosophy, anthropology and anarchism. The series began with Catherine Malabou and her critical reflection on the fragility … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: On Anarchy Today

Below, we share Giorgio Agamben’s recent essay On Anarchy Today, whose english language translation by the ill will collective was generously shared with us by the same. Giorgio Agamben conceives the “place” of anarchy as lying and maintaining the distance … Continue reading

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Mujeres Libres: A genealogy of anarchist feminism

Celebrating March 8, International Women’s Day … Mujeres Libres was born from a genealogy that came from the First International, but it fully flourished at a time of social revolution and civil war. Marginalised from the social revolution modeled and … Continue reading

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Alfredo Cospito: “I am ready to die”

From Organise Magazine (05/03/2023) … For a year, Alfredo Cospito has been isolated and tortured under the Italian state’s 41-bis prison regime, in violation of his human rights to a fair trial, private life and correspondence. In the face of this criminal denial of life, Cospito had … Continue reading

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For René Schérer (1922-2023): An anarchist/ic life

For René Schérer, who died this last February 1st. The work of René Schérer, anarchist and philosopher of anarchy, is sadly little known in the english speaking world. In a modest effort to fill this lacunae, we publish below an … Continue reading

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For Alfred Cospito

After Supreme Court Confirmed 41Bis, Anarchist Comrade Alfredo Cospito Returned to Opera Prison in Milan We have learned that the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike for 131 days, today, on February 27, was moved by … Continue reading

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War in Ukraine: An anarchist debate

A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command mighttransform them into our friends. At some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows, and then for years together … Continue reading

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Simon Critchley: Mystical Anarchism

Exploring the facets of the desire to smash time, through “mystical anarchism … It is not enough for us to reject conditions and institutions; we have to reject ourselves. “Do not kill others, only yourself” – such will be the … Continue reading

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Jacques Rancière: Between anarchy and anarchism

We do not gain from the working operations of history that comprehensive understanding which would reveal the true solution. At best we rectify errors which occur along the way, but the new scheme is not immune to errors which will … Continue reading

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