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The metaphysics of capitalist radicality
From the Lundi matin collective (#308, 11/10/2021), a text-intervention by Jean-Marc Royer … La critique d’un ordre social et politique a besoin d’une perspective, d’un horizon de sens pour parvenir à problématiser les analyses; le seul point de vue qui … Continue reading
Jean-Luc Nancy: May 68
We close our overly brief and modest sharing of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy with an interview (in translation) that he gave to Carole Dely, for the journal Sens publique on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of france’s May … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, Jean-Luc Nancy, May 68
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For Samuel Luiz; with all LGBTQI people
In the early hours of the 3rd of July, 24 year old Samuel Luiz was beaten to death outside a nightclub by a dozen people in La Coruña, Galicia. The motivation would appear to be that he was gay. (The … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, LGBTQ+, patriarchy, spain
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Cesare Battisti: The Plague
From lundi matin #249, 29/06/2020 … In this text somewhere between poetry and politics, Cesare Battisti takes as a starting point Camus’ novel The Plague, to give us his contribution to the work barely started since the beginning of the … Continue reading
Revolution born of exhaustion
More than tiring, the capitalist world exhausts possibilities; indeed, through fatigue, it blinds to our exhaustion. What lies before us is a repetition of the same. But that repetition can not entirely cover over the meaningless of our lives divorced … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, Gilles Deleuze, Mark Fisher, Tiqqun
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Of trees and of men
From lundi matin #209 (23/09/2019): further reflections on Capital’s ecocide (in translation) … Two weeks ago, lundi matin published a beautiful text by Alessi Dell’Umbria on the subject of extractivism in general and the Amazon fires in particular:La terre brûlée … Continue reading
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Tagged Agustin Garcia Calvo, capitalism, ecology, State and Capital
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For Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019)
It amazes me that people are surprised when underclasses rebel. The surprising thing is that they do not do it more often. The combination of the oppressiveness of poverty and racism and the lack of short-term, or even medium-term hope … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, capitalism, Immanuel Wallterstein, May 68, Occupy Wall Street
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The gilets jaunes: Giving colour to suffering
Writing within the marxist critique of value tradition (e.g., the Krisis group), Benoit Bohy-Bunel offers a theoretically rich reading of the yellow vests movement. Without completely sharing the views of the author, the essay remains important.*
Tourism: The spectacle of travel
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust A celebration of the Left Hand Rotation’s documentary film, “Fascínio”. Tourism is the highest form of alienation in our time. The modern traveler is divorced from all relations to place and … Continue reading
Beware the wealthy who speak of changing the world
On the even of summit called The New Global Financing Pact, an open letter to the world appears … We are urgently working to deliver more for people and the planet. … We are urgently working to fight poverty and … Continue reading →