Tag Archives: Georges Bataille

Duane Rousselle: Georges Bataille’s Post-anarchism

Posted on December 25, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Pushing against the limits of anarchism, with George Bataille, as read by Duane Rousselle. [Source: The Anarchist Library] Abstract Post-anarchist philosophy has widely been regarded as an attempt to challenge the ontological essentialism of the traditional anarchist discourse. The problem … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille: The Psychological Structure of Fascism

Posted on July 21, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Fascism attempts to organise the newly proletarianised masses while leaving intact the property relations which the masses strive to abolish. Fascism sees its salvation in granting these masses not their rights, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille: Popular Front in the Street

Posted on July 19, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

The opium of the people in the present world is perhaps not so much religion as it is accepted boredom. Such a world is at the mercy, it must be known, of those who provide at least the semblance of … Continue reading →

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Reading the times with Alain Badiou

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternally creative source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too. Mikhail Bakunin, The Reaction in Germany (1842) … Continue reading →

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Elements for a cartography of belonging to a group

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

An essay ostensibly concerned with theatre becomes the occasion for a Spinozan and Deluzian inspired reflection on human community beyond the opposing, formal conceptions of community as an accidental aggregate of individuals or as a fusional collectivity bound by a … Continue reading →

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With and beyond anti-fascism (3): Georges Bataille and the anarchy of life

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Fascism is not to be debated. It is to be smashed… Buenaventura Durruti It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator … Continue reading →

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With and beyond anti-fascism (1)

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

… to make use of the weapons created by fascism, which has been allowed to use the fundamental aspirations of people for affective exultation and fanaticism. But we affirm that the exaltation… must be placed in the service… of a … Continue reading →

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