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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
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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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, Feminism, LGBT
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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
Struggles for space: Architecture and anarchy, a mismatched couple (2)
This is the second post of a series of essays that we share exploring the troubled relations of anarchism and architecture, or, stated differently, the possibilities of an anarchic dismantling of the masters’ command of space. In the instance, … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (5)
Peter Gelderloos (Counter Punch 14/10/2011) analyses the spanish 15M and the north american Occupy movements, drawing comparisons and contrasts. At the heart of his reading is the contention that what is, or was, most radical in both was the creation … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (2)
Text from a flier produced by US anarchist group Crimethinc (07/10/2011), for participants of the Occupy movement. Support and solidarity! We’re inspired by the occupations on Wall Street and elsewhere around the country. Finally, people are taking to the streets … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (1)
If Occupy Wall Street began with the occupation of Zuccotti Park in New York City on September 17th, 2011, it quickly spread to other cities in north america and beyond, making it the largest “anti-capitalist” protest movement on the continent … Continue reading
Struggles for space: Anarchism, architecture and anarchitecture (1)
If there is no art without architecture (for are not most of what we call the “fine arts” housed?) and if architecture is the arkhi-chief-master tekhne-art and the architect the master tekton-artist-artisan-builder, then the anarchist should find little affinity with … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, Colin Ward
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Nuit Debout: To live the commune – Interventions by the revolutionary erotic committee
France’s Nuit Debout movement may be the first of the post-2011 “movements of occupation” that dissipates almost entirely due to its own democratic self-delusions.
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Tagged anarchism, autonomy, city, democracy, friendship, occupy the city, revolution
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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 →