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Struggles for space: Hijacking spaces of authority (6)

To momentarily conclude our series dedicated to struggles for space, we close with the work of the anarchitecture collective, Space Hijackers.  A London based group, active between 1999 and 2014, it sought to sabotage architectural hierarchies of built space.  The … Continue reading

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Struggles for space: Profaning architectural practice (5)

For our series, Struggles for space, we share below an essay entitled Playing in Space: Profaning Architectural Practice by a friend who has formerly published with Autonomies, Carlos Jacques.  The essay originally appeared in Philosophy@Lisbon: International eJournal: Centro de Filosofia da … Continue reading

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Against labour, against capital: Against the totalitarianism of capital, the destruction of work

Life unbridled, a venture into the absolute other, requires the total destruction not only of ‘my’ work, but of the very concept of work and economy as the basis of human relations. Everything that led to the possibility of workers … Continue reading

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Against labour, against capital … play!

In the domain of our life excess manifests in itself in so far as violence wins over reason. Work demands the sort of conduct where effort is in a constant ration with productive efficiency. It demands rational behaviour where the … Continue reading

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Against labour, against capital: Anti-politics against capitalism

A precondition for reestablishing the perspective of action is to make a final and clear break with all “politics” in the institutional sense. Today, the only possible form of “politics” is radical separation from the world of politics and its … Continue reading

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The illusions/delusions of electoral politics: From Crimethinc

From the CrimethInc collective, a reflection on the pitfalls of electoral politics for radical challenges to Capital and the State, by ret marut … Could there be any better illustration of the shortcomings of representative democracy than this year’s Presidential … Continue reading

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Sebastien Faure: “Anarchy”

From Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog … Some time ago I posted Sébastien Faure’s definition of “anarchist” from the Encyclopédie Anarchiste. Shawn Wilbur has now translated an excerpt from Faure’s definition of “anarchy”from the Encyclopédie. Faure was a French anarchist who … Continue reading

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Carlos Taibo: Collapse

Photographs by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre from the series Ruins of Detroit 2005-2010 Carlos Taibo’s most recent monograph is a sustained and detailed study of the probable and imminent collapse of contemporary capitalism, its causes and the possible consequences that … Continue reading

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Struggles for space: Queering straight space: Thinking towards a queer architecture (4)

We share an essay below by Carlos Jacques, a friend of Autonomies.  The essay, entitled “Queering straight space: Thinking towards a queer architecture” was presented as a paper at the conference, Matrices: 2nd International Congress on Architecture and Gender, Universidade Lusófona … Continue reading

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Struggles for space: Architecture Without Architects—Another Anarchist Approach (3)

Le Corbusier. Structural skeleton of Maison Dom-ino, 1914-15. In essence, Modern city planning has always been bound to colonialism and imperialism—many large-scale technical developments were even tested and realized on colonial ground. Colonial modernity not only created global political and … Continue reading

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