Tag Archives: Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben: Normalising the state of exception under the Covid-19 epidemic

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

What follows is an interview with Giorgio Agamben by Nicolas Truong for Le Monde (24/03/2020), where he analyses “the very serious ethical and political consequences” of the security measures applied to curb the pandemic. As Le Monde reserves full access … Continue reading →

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Reflections on a virus: Trying to see the catastrophe where it is not said to be

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

Power is domination: all it can do is prohibit, and all it can command is obedience. Michel Foucault Human societies have become like devouring and insatiable mono-cultures, and as such, the viruses multiply. Made therefore fragile, we turn to the … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben: The coronaviris and the state of exception

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

Before the frenzied, irrational and totally unjustified emergency measures taken for a supposed epidemic due to the coronavirus, it is necessary to start with the declarations of the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), according to which “there is no epidemic … Continue reading →

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Frédéric Lordon: Imagining revolution and the problem of scale

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

To share, in translation, a critical essay of “micro” revolutionary politics, by Frédéric Lordon … Lordon may be accused of simply reenacting the old marxist-social democratic criticism of anarchism: that the latter’s anti-statism ignores the inevitable role of state power, … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben: Challenging the anarchy of power through the anarchy of forms-of-life

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Smettetela di pensare ai vostri diritti, smettetela di chiedere il potere. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Pci ai giovani We return to the work of Giorgio Agamben, in the translation of a lecture from 2013, dedicated to the concept of destituent power.  … Continue reading →

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Sabotaging gender, feminism and capital

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

We share below an essay by a friend of Autonomies, a conference paper presented at the CIEG II International Congress: Gender, Feminist and Woman’s Studies: Reflexivity, Resistance and Action (July 24-26), at the ISCSP – Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais … Continue reading →

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Amador Fernández-Savater: Reaching for a politics of pure potentiality, or trying to keep power at bay

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

One never takes power, it is power which takes us. Tomás Ibáñez We follow Peter Gelderloos’ critical evaluation of spain’s “radical” municipalism with a more theoretical reflection, by Amador Fernández-Savater, on the political cycle in the country that began with … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: A revolution of the revolution

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

The resonances of the gilets jaunes movement(s), as captured by Jacques Fradin. It is a reading of the insurrection that does not hold back or step away from criticising the “Left”, and beyond. The essay was already published in English … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: Those who walk away from capital

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

While the politicians and the media scrutinise the weekly accounting of the number of demonstrators with each Act of the yellow vests’ movement, closely seconded by sociologists and political scientists, the movement persists, defying all predictions. And even if it … Continue reading →

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In the realm of violence: The State and law

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Overlapping analyses of State violence, with greece as the laboratory …

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