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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Misery amidst plenty (VI)
Abundance has always existed, but nowhere has it existed abundantly: either because everyone did not enjoy it or because, when everyone did enjoy it, they did not do so all of the time. No doubt abundance really lived can only … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Capital, capitalism, Encyclopédie des Nuisances
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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Hipercapitalism and Semiocapital
Caliban: You taught me language, and my profit on’tIs I know how to curse. The red plague rid youFor learning me your language! Shakespeare, The Tempest Historical colonialism: extractivism of physical resources The history of colonialism is a history of systematic depredation of territory. The object of colonisation is the resource-rich physical places that the colonialist West needed for its accumulation. … 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
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Tagged Andrew Carnegie, anti-capitalism, capitalism, Peter Gelderloos
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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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Covid-19: An invisible agent of catastrophe
We share below a very free and partial translation (interspersed with paraphrases and summaries) of Donatella Di Ceasare’s essay, Virus Sovrano? L’Asfissia Capitalistica (Bollati Boringhieri Editore, 2020). A forthcoming English language edition is to be published by MIT Press in … Continue reading
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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Address to those who would rather abolish harmful phenomena than manage them
The ecologists play the same role, on the terrain of the struggle against harmful phenomena, that the trade unionists play on the terrain of workers struggles: mere intermediaries interested in the preservation of the contradictions whose regulation they assure; smooth-tongued … Continue reading →