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The gilets jaunes: What violence?
A critique of violence …
The gilets jaunes: Understanding the movement(s) beyond final defeat or victory
The political soothsayers and diviners will cynically proclaim the yellow vests’ movement dead: Act XXI brought less than 25,000 people into the streets this last Saturday. We however refuse to be political accountants. And rebellions and revolutions have never been … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: A movement(s) at a crossroads
On the day of Act XX … The Temps critique collective (22/03/2019), in a finely developed analysis of the yellow vests movement(s) of france, elaborates three fundamental criticisms: the movement has hitherto been unable to define itself, it has equally … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Insurrection in the midst of collapse
In the wake of Act XIX … The yellow vests insurrection offers lessons beyond or in parallel to the often celebrated insurrections of the Zapatistas in Chiapas and of the Rojava “Revolution”. In no way dismissing these latter, the yellow … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, revolution
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The gilets jaunes: The people are constrained to respond to the violence
Today we had people who tried by all of the means available … to injure the Republic, to damage, to destroy, at the risk of killing. Emmanuel Macron (Le Monde 19/03/2019) Saturday, we saw extreme violence in Paris. It was … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: An ultimatum
(Photograph: Mathias Zwick and Hans Lucas) In anticipation of Act XVIII (March 16) of the yellow vests in Paris. (From lundimatin #182, 10/03/2019)
The gilets jaunes: A question of time
A reflection on the re-appropriation of time as the revolution within the yellow vests insurrection. Words from a yellow vests newspaper. And images and words of a movement, now in its “Act XVI”.
The gilets jaunes: Jacques Rancière on the virtues of the inexplicable
Beginnings do not reach their end. they remain halfway. But this also means that they never stop beginning over again, even if this means that the actors change. This is the realism of revolt, an inexplicable realism, one that demands … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Fragments of interpretation
The yellow vests: February 9th, Act XIII … We continue to share fragments of reflections, of a movement, or movements, in motion. The yellow vests insurrection(s) is a picture of our future today: the only ethical response possible to permanent … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, Claude Lévi-Strauss, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, myth, revolution
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The gilets jaunes: Understanding the resistance of an insurrection
A further reflection on the yellow vests movement, as it continues to defy, on the occasion of Act XXIII …