Tag Archives: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

Refusing to forget a revolution: The Arab Spring

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why … 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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Miguel Amorós: The seductions of “History”

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

How foolish it would be to suppose that one only needs to point out the origin and this misty shroud of delusion in order to destroy the world that counts for real, so-called “reality.” We can destroy only as creators. – But let us … Continue reading →

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Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (7)

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Theorising social movements is a hazardous adventure; even more so when these movements reject “representation”, which can be taken to include “theoretical representation”.  Without anyone being able to speak “for” or “on behalf of” Occupy, for it lacks leaders or … Continue reading →

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Autonomy at the limit: Playing with Deleuze and Guattari around contemporary rebellions

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

(This text is born of an experiment, an experiment in progress, that of thinking through our contemporary rebellions with the tools of contemporary philosophy.  Spain´s 15M is the example considered here and the hypothetical conclusion arrived at is that the … Continue reading →

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The Revolution is Dead, Long Live the Revolution: Reflections on the Quebec Student Movement

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Julius Gavroche

As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history.                                                           Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History As Quebec universities … Continue reading →

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