Tag Archives: Carl Schmitt

Christian Laval: Total war as a neo-fascist mode of government

Posted on February 16, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

From the Verso Books Blog (03/02/2026) Christian Laval, co-author of The Choice of Civil War, on the escalation of the neoliberal order through the Trump administration’s total war. Trump is carrying out a protracted coup d’état right before our eyes, making … Continue reading →

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Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The law of fire

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

From Ficción de la razón (21/01/2026) 1. In a short text dedicated to his daughter Anima entitled Land and Sea, the German jurist Carl Schmitt proposed the term nomos of the land to refer to the “original appropriation of space” … Continue reading →

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Simon Critchley: Mystical Anarchism

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Exploring the facets of the desire to smash time, through “mystical anarchism … It is not enough for us to reject conditions and institutions; we have to reject ourselves. “Do not kill others, only yourself” – such will be the … Continue reading →

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Now and the anarchy of destituent power: Reading politics with the invisible committee

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

… they wanted to reinvent everything, each day; to make themselves masters and possessors of their own lives. Guy Debord If to constituent power corresponds revolutions, uprisings and new consititutions, that is, a violence that lays down and constitutes new … Continue reading →

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Time, revolution and historical subjectivity

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

(Photographs by Alexey Titarenko) In revolution, everything happens incredibly quickly, just like in dreams in which people seem to be freed from gravity. Gustave Landauer, Revolution We have merely to tear down the Bastilles of the future, restructure the past … Continue reading →

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