Tag Archives: friendship

Giorgio Agamben: The first friend and the first enemy

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

As a scientist friend of mine, who likes to reflect on such matters, writes to me, the fundamental event in the history of living beings was the emergence of a microorganism capable of feeling pain. This thesis must, of course, … Continue reading →

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Love and revolution

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

… hunger and continual necessity are the greatest enemies of love. Cervantes, Don Quixote   An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, … Continue reading →

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On friendship and happiness: Reflections on joyful militancy

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Yue Minjun But in much of Ionia and elsewhere in the Persian Empire the rule is that love-affairs are wrong.  In Persia, it is because of their tyrannical government that they condemn them, as well as intellectual and athletic activities.  … Continue reading →

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Nuit Debout: To live the commune – Interventions by the revolutionary erotic committee

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

France’s Nuit Debout movement may be the first of the post-2011 “movements of occupation” that dissipates almost entirely due to its own democratic self-delusions.

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