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Alejandro de Acosta: Against teaching, against pedagogy (and against politics as teaching)
For Jacques The teacher can be (must be) hated. … It is not only the space of the classroom that bestows upon the teacher authority, it is not only the legislation that concentrates in his person the characteristics of a police officer … Continue reading
Imagining feral revolution in times of carnival
The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit on which the grotesque is based destroys this limited seriousness and all pretense of an extratemporal meaning and unconditional value of necessity. It frees human consciousness, thought, and imagination for new potentialities. … Continue reading
The State unveiled: Spain’s anarchist hunt comes to a temporary end
Spain’s Audiencia Nacional tribunal has closed the legal proceedings and State driven persecution of anarchists known as Operación Piñata. (Wednesday, January 31st, 2018) Once again, everything has ended in nothing. Almost three years after the arrests of fifteen people under Operación Piñata … Continue reading
For Ursula K. Le Guin
A Few Words to a Young Writer: Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking … Continue reading
With and beyond anti-fascism (3): Georges Bataille and the anarchy of life
Fascism is not to be debated. It is to be smashed… Buenaventura Durruti It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, Georges Bataille
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Revolution in the end time: A reflection
We are writing to answer the question we ask and are asked daily: “But really, what should we be doing?” Posted on the anarchist library, and anonymous reflection on radical anti-capitalist politics in our time of permanent crisis.
With and beyond anti-fascism (1)
… to make use of the weapons created by fascism, which has been allowed to use the fundamental aspirations of people for affective exultation and fanaticism. But we affirm that the exaltation… must be placed in the service… of a … Continue reading
For Katarina Gogou
… we convalescents still need art, it is another kind of art – a mocking, light, fleeting, divinely untroubled, divinely artificial art that, like a bright flame, blazes into an unclouded sky! Above all: an art for artists, only for artists! Friedrich … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Art and Revolution, greece, Katarina Gogou
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On popular power in venezuela: A statement by uruguayan anarchists
From the anarchist federation of uruguay (and posted, in english translation, by the black rose anarchist federation – 14/12/2017), reflections on popular power in venezuela’s “bolivarian revolution” …
Alejandro de Acosta: Anarchy as thinking in which anything goes
Whatever becoming anarchist entails, it is ultimately neither the subject of a pedagogy nor the object of an ideology. One can’t say that anarchist philosophy is merely a decision concerning the concepts, theories, intuitions, books, and thinkers that are to … Continue reading →