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Tag Archives: france
Judith Butler: A letter from paris
The philosopher Judith Butler was in Paris on the 13 of November and wrote the letter that we share below on the following day. (Originally posted at Verso) I am in Paris and passed near the scene of killing on … Continue reading
Visions of a november paris
One way of posing the question of who “we” are in these times of war is by asking whose lives are considered valuable, whose lives are mourned, and whose lives are considered ungrievable. We might think of war as dividing … Continue reading
Paris: Seeing beyond pain and fear
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. … Continue reading
Defending the ZAD, creating autonomy: Notre-Dame-des-Landes
On the 20th of October, the french prime minister, Manuel Vals, speaking before the country’s national parliament, reaffirmed “the engagement of the government and thus of the State to advance with the project and to put an end the challenges … Continue reading
Not fighting for nature, but nature fighting back: Okupying trees in the ZAD of Roybon
The okupation of forests, river valleys, peasant farm lands through the constitution of autonomous, self-managed self-defense communities, as resistance to capitalist infrastructure development, have become emblematic of france’s ZADs. If the ZADS of Notre-Dames-des-Landes and Testet call forth memories of … Continue reading
Fighting capitalism on every front: A lesson from france
We share below a review by Paul Cudenec of a book on the resistance to the building of the Sivens dam project in southern France, a resistance that came to be known as the ZAD of Testet. And we do … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, france, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, rebellion, Tarn-Testet, ZAD
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Laughing with Charlie Hebdo
We vomit on all these people who suddenly say they are our friends. Bernard Holtrop The killings at Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere, over the course of the last week in france, have become spectacle, culminating in the multitudinous demonstrations throughout … Continue reading
For Charlie Hebdo
Profanation … neutralises what it profanes. Once profaned, that which was unavailable and separate loses its aura and is returned to use … [It] deactivates the apparatuses of power and returns to common use the spaces that power had seized. … Continue reading
Natural autonomies: The ZAD of Testet: For Rémi Fraisse
Nous avons perdu le monde … Michel Serres Le libéralisme économique, c’est la liberté de tuer. La liberté de tuer le climat, donc de tuer les hommes, les femmes et les enfants. René Dumont On the night of Saturday to … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, france, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, rebellion, Tarn-Testet, ZAD
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Paris-france: A letter from the zone of exception
Further thoughts on the november 13th attacks in Paris (from CrimethInc) … We received the following report from the group that produced the French version of To Change Everything, Pour Tout Changer. They describe the situation in Paris before and … Continue reading →