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The limits of capitalism: Challenging the fetishism of labour and money
Capital is nothing more than value that must be valorized, which is to say augmented. Value empirically takes the form of money and in that sense its valorization can be illustrated in Marx’s famous formula M–C–M’ [M prime], that is … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Capital, capitalism, Krisis Group, Norbert Trenkle
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To destroy work
Continuing a reflection that began with our last post on David Graeber’s criticism of “bullshit jobs” (and with an earlier series of articles posted under the collective title “Against labour, against capital“), we share below an article that was originally … Continue reading
Terror’s Atomization of Man: Leo Löwenthal
Horror and fears contain us in a world that we do not want, and impede us from acceding to interruptive encounters that regenerate our existence. To participate in the exercise of clearing obstructions means first to not offer up our … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, capitalism, Frankfurt School, Leo Löwenthal, State and Capital, State and terror
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The subjects of capital: A critique of narcissism
Capitalism produces human subjectivities, as it produces commodities. Without this capacity, its underlying social relations would be unsustainable. Motivated by our own reflections, we share below an essay that was recently posted on the french based palim-psao website (a site … Continue reading
The politics of ecstasy: From Eukariot
The eukariot counter-propaganda cell has released a second issue of reflections-interventions. If we share the essays that follow, it is exclusively because of how much we share with them …
The time of revolution: Reflections with Uri Gordon
In a richly argued essay, Uri Gordon critically evaluates the notion of “prefigurative politics”, an expression that has become popular with social movements, including anarchist groups, eager to maintain the ethical unity between means and ends. What has gone unnoticed however is what … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, capitalism, revolution, time, Uri Gordon
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Revolution imagined outside history
Utopia of a Tired Man Borges story Illustration by Federico Abuyé The chronicler, who recounts events without distinguishing between the great and small, thereby accounts for the truth, that nothing which has ever happened is to be given as … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, Jorge Luis Borges, revolution, time, Walter Benjamin
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For May 68 as a permanent possibility, for a May 2018
Numerous calls have been made in france not to celebrate May 68, but to have it burn again in 2018. These calls have in turn been circulated beyond france. From lespaves.net, an invitation for a beautiful May in Paris …
The winds of May 68 in France: the Larzac
An often forgotten or ignored dimension of May 68 were france’s peasant movements, which preceded 1968 and would continue after the student movement and general strike came to an end. The Larzac protest and land occupation against government plans to … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, Joseph Bové, Larzac, May 68, Occupy the Land
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The loss of consciousness
(James Rosenquist, House of Fire) The Suicide’s Defense (Of all the stupidities wherewith the law-making power has oignaled its own incapacity for dealing with the disorders of society, none appears so utterly stupid as the law which punishes an attempted suicide. … Continue reading →