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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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The anarchist critique of democracy (9): CrimethInc.
The anarchist collective CrimethInc. initiated in the month of May a critical analysis and discussion of “democracy”, promising a series of reflections. What follows is the ninth essay, by Uri Gordon, in which he discusses the attractions and risks of … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, autonomy, democracy, Murray Bookchin, revolution, Uri Gordon
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Nuit Debout: Interventions by the revolutionary erotic committee
We believe, without any doubt, that it is when each anonymous being gains consciousness of her/his pure potential and capacity to act, it is then when the wheel of dissidence begins to turn. It is then that it is unstoppable. … Continue reading
The anarchist critique of democracy (8): CrimethInc.
The anarchist collective CrimethInc. initiated in the month of May a critical analysis and discussion of “democracy”, promising a series of reflections. The series gains in significance with events in france around the movement Nuit Debout. What follows is the … Continue reading
The anarchist critique of democracy (7): CrimethInc.
The anarchist collective CrimethInc. initiated in the month of May a critical analysis and discussion of “democracy”, promising a series of reflections. The series gains in significance with events in france around the movement Nuit Debout. What follows is the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, autonomy, bosnia and herzegovina, democracy, revolution
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The anarchist critique of democracy (6): CrimethInc.
The anarchist collective CrimethInc. initiated in the month of May a critical analysis and discussion of “democracy”, promising a series of reflections. The series gains in significance with events in france around the movement Nuit Debout. What follows is the … Continue reading
Nuit Debout: At the banquet of intellectuals
Revolution is not ‘showing’ life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Badiou, autonomy, Chantal Mouffe, democracy, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Miguel Benasayag, Nuit Debout, rebellion, revolution
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Nuit Debout: Reading an occupation
The principal function of politics is the configuration of its proper space. It is to disclose the world of its subjects and its operations. Jacques Rancière, Ten Theses on Politics The occupation of the Place de la Republique of Paris by “Nuit … Continue reading
Dissonant okupations: The Klinika squat in Prague
Autonomies has insistently defended a politics of okupations/occupations, as a means of both contesting the legal regime of private property and of generating spaces and times for experiments in autonomous, self-managed social relations. In the panorama of okupied spaces, self-managed … Continue reading
A revolution remembered: Hungary 1956
Notre heritage n’est précédé d’aucun testament. René Char It is a strange and sad story that remains to be told and remembered. What the councils challenged was the party system as such, in all its forms, and this conflict was … Continue reading →