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A first (and failed) attempt at a manifesto for a radically negative anthropology
A reflection on anthropology, on the search/need for a negative anthropology, in which all sure grounds of knowledge of the other crumble, in which all of the hierarchical theories and categories for the ordering of the other’s life are dismantled: … Continue reading
Anarchist interventions in brazil’s winter of discontent
Exclusion of people from the means of life is internal to capitalism. If the social relations that constitute capitalism’s fabric allow some to benefit from the domination intrinsic to those relations, the many are exploited and/or rendered superfluous as befits … Continue reading
The Free Voice of Labor/Freie Arbeiter Stimme: The Jewish Anarchists
“The Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists” traces the history of a Yiddish anarchist newspaper (Fraye Arbeter Shtime – The Free Voice of Labor) publishing its final issue after 87 years. Narrated by anarchist historian Paul Avrich, the story … Continue reading
The ecstasy of revolution: Gustav Landauer
Only when anarchy becomes, for us, a dark, deep dream, not a vision attainable through concepts, can our ethics and our actions become one. We want to be everything though: humans, animals, and Gods! We want to be heroes! In … Continue reading
The metamorphoses of walls
Walls, structures of division and separation, systems of confinement, markers of property, obstacles to movement, channels of passage; walls trace lines of sovereignty and frame the government of populations. They are, along with the paths that they trace, the most … Continue reading
Anarchy and 15M
As 15M approaches its second anniversary, it is an occasion to reflect on its young and yet rich history, on its present, and possible future. Far be it from us however to suggest any kind of omniscient or final judgement … Continue reading
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Revolutions of desire: The Wingnut Anarchist Collective
There is no desire for revolution, as there is no desire for power, desire to oppress or to be oppressed; but revolution, oppression, power, etc., are the actual component lines of a given assemblage. Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues II David Graeber … Continue reading
Consumption
It was once remarked (by Guy Debord) that a society whose members are fully born within the spectacle will not have any other reference point than the spectacle itself making the prospects of a revolution unlikely. We would like to … Continue reading
In defence of Direct Action
From Solidarity Federation, the British section of the International Workers Association, an article that originally appeared in the Occupied Times of London (30/10/2012). Direct Action, as typically understood within anarchism, is not an apology for violence, which is what it is often reduced … Continue reading
An anarchism of the vernacular: James C. Scott’s “Two Cheers for Anarchism”
To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it “the way it really was”. … It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. Walter Benjamin, Thesis on the Philosophy … Continue reading →