Tag Archives: Gianfranco Sanguinetti

An Orgasm of History: 1977 in Italy – Digression on the Thread of Memory by a former Situationist

Posted on April 10, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

by Gianfranco Sanguinetti We share below a new translation of “An Orgasm of History: 1977 in Italy,” a text Gianfranco Sanguinetti wrote in 2017, on the 40th anniversary of the 1977 insurrectionary movement in Italy, about which little is known … Continue reading →

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For Gianfranco Sanguinetti (1948-2025)

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Julius Gavroche

The theory of the revolution certainly does not depend on the sole area of properly scientific ideas, and still less on the construction of a speculative achievement, or on the aesthetic of that fiery manner of speech that contemplates itself … Continue reading →

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Gianfranco Sanguinetti: A virus removes the veil of bourgeois democracy

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

Sanguinetti proposes a reading of the COVID-19 pandemic which argues that the coronavirus has brought the pretensions of liberal, bourgeois democracy to an end. We now enter upon an age of open despotism. However problematic such a division of epochs … Continue reading →

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