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Tag Archives: Giorgio Agamben
Now and the anarchy of destituent power: Reading politics with the invisible committee
… they wanted to reinvent everything, each day; to make themselves masters and possessors of their own lives. Guy Debord If to constituent power corresponds revolutions, uprisings and new consititutions, that is, a violence that lays down and constitutes new … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Invisible Committee, Nuit Debout, politics, revolution
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Nuit Debout: What next and how?
We need to keep open not only our ways of thinking, but also the related methods of organising, the tactics, techniques and technologies we use – it’s a constant battle to ward off institutionalisation. That sense of openness and movement … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, france, Giorgio Agamben, Nuit Debout, revolution
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From Apoyo Mutuo: An anarchist political program
Over the course of the last year or two, numerous initiatives have emerged in spain (and more recently in greece) to organise and federate anarchist groups into larger, more embracing and therefore, it is assumed, more effective political agents. Among … Continue reading
From the state of law to the security state: Giorgio Agamben on the state of emergency in france
Giorgio Agamben‘s reflections on sovereignty and the state of exception as mutually interdependent concepts in western political thought and practice are fundamental tools in the understanding of the contemporary “war on terror”, as this has been assumed in various countries, … Continue reading
We are all refugees (1)
Apparently nobody wants to know that contemporary history has created a new kind of human beings – the kind that are put in concentration camps by their foes and in internment camps by their friends. Hannah Arendt, We Refugees The … Continue reading
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Tagged Espai en Blanc, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, migration, Thomas Nail
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The complete domination of time: Raúl Zibechi
We share below, in translation, a reflection by uruguayan essayist and activist Raúl Zibechi (La Jornada 07/08/2015) on the contemporary political paradigm of the concentration camp. With references to historian Josep Fontana and philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the short essay serves … Continue reading
Hobbesian reflections in times of elections: Giorgio Agamben
The recent electoral successes of political parties rooted in “citizens movements” in spain’s municipal and regional elections (and this in the wake of the Syriza victory in greece) may give some reasons for hope that social movements, especially the “occupy” … Continue reading
The refusal of sovereignty; An anarchist reading of “occupy” movements
(El Roto) The “occupy” movements that emerged in 2011 in different parts of the world continue to merit reflection as the most radical challenge to State forms and Capitalism in recent memory. We share below an essay by a friend … Continue reading
An apology for anarchist politics in anarchic times: Giorgio Agamben’s “Pilate and Jesus”
What follows is a summary and commentary on Giorgio Agamben’s Pilate and Jesus … Earthly judgement does not coincide with a witnessing of the truth. Giorgio Agamben, Pilate and Jesus If a reflection on the trial of Jesus appears … Continue reading
To be or not to be a democrat: Anarchy beyond democracy
We formerly shared the excellent series of essays from the Crimethinc collective critically evaluating the notion of “democracy”. That the debate is not closed for anarchists is evident from the simple fact that it continues (e.g., Robert Graham‘s very recent … Continue reading →