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Tag Archives: france
Scenes from the class struggle in france: From Crimethinc
Left to their own devices, the police found themselves for the first time in a troublesome quandary. Suddenly stripped of the compass of the law, unable to decide which of the emergent governments should be considered lawful, and realizing the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, france, insurrection, Security State
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Notes on the Bure ZAD and the politics of eternity/death
Un grand sommeil noir Tombe sur ma vie : Dormez, tout espoir, Dormez, toute envie ! Je ne vois plus rien, Je perds la mémoire Du mal et du bien… O la triste histoire ! Je suis un berceau Qu’une … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, ecology, france, Gunther Anders, Hannah Arendt, revolution, ZAD
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The many ZAD of Bure, france: Autonomy before nuclear power
A convivial society should be designed to allow all its members the most autonomous action by means of tools least controlled by others. People feel joy, as opposed to mere pleasure, to the extent that their activities are creative; while … Continue reading
A Paris Autumn
The 12th of September marks the beginning of protests against the new (yet again!) french government’s proposed labour law reforms. Exit the socialists François Hollande and Manuel Valls, enter the golden boy, “I belong to no political party!”, politician as … Continue reading
The reign of the police
This so perfect democracy itself constructs its inconceivable enemy, terrorism. It wants, in effect, to be judged by its enemies rather then by its results. The history of terrorism is written by the State: it is therefore enlightening. The spectator … Continue reading
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Tagged france, Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, spain, State and terror, united states, Walter Benjamin
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Reading our times with Now: The invisible committee
Beginning by abandoning the old idea of revolution and reinventing it … Not as a new ideology but as a true praxis of an ethics of freedom to redefine the desirable and the undesirable and to create a new subjectivity … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, france, Günther Jakobs, Invisible Committee, Nuit Debout, spain, Tomás Ibáñez
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Now: The Invisible Committee
It’s useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, france, Invisible Committee, revolution
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France: Insurgent Thought in a Fragmented World
From Ill Will editions and anarchist news, a quick and dirty english translation of a review of The Invisible Committee’s Now from yesterday’s Le Monde, along with an interview with Julien Coupat and Mathieu Burnel with Le Monde (20/04/2017) …
France: Resistance and rebellion under a state of emergency without end
On the eve of the french presidential elections, we share from the Crimethinc collective (20/04/2017), the second of two reflections on french politics, that is, on the only politics that matters, that which comes from below …
I love Paris in the springtime: Tomás Ibáñez and the anarchy of May 68
VI. To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. For historical materialism it is a question of holding … Continue reading →