Tag Archives: May 68

For Philippe Gaulier (1943–2026): The anarchy of clowning

Posted on February 11, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

There is no pool … which has not some dead leaves floating on its surface, no human soul upon which there do not settle habits that make it rigid against itself by making it rigid against others … Henri Bergson, … Continue reading →

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Daniel Colson: Reflections on anarchism

Posted on January 25, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

We share below an interview with Daniel Colson for the French magazine, Ballast (02/02/2015). Recently deceased, Colson’s philosophical readings of the anarchist tradition are among the most significant of the post-May 68 generation.

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“Shake in Your Boots Bureaucrats!”: Resistance, Recuperation, and the Legacy of the Situationists

Posted on September 17, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From the It’s Going Down podcast and Bill Brown of the Not Bored journal, reflections on the Situationists.

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For Daniel Blanchard (1934-2024)

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

I think that radical, revolutionary critical theory is not a science; its purpose is not to provide a comprehensive, neutral account of reality. It is a political act carried out in order to transform the world and seeks to reveal … Continue reading →

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Portugal: The revolution of 1974-1975

Posted on April 25, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

The Portuguese experience between 1974 and 1976 shows that revolutionary activity does not develop as the result of strategies devised by system analysts or bourgeois planners … It emerges in the course of the struggle itself, and its most advanced … Continue reading →

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Reading Fredy Perlman with Uri Gordon

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

We share a timely and critical reading of Fredy Perlman’s work by Uri Gordon … Leviathan’s Body: Recovering Fredy Perlman’s anarchist social theory Uri Gordon (Anarchist Library and Anarchist Studies (2023)) Abstract Fredy Perlman’s anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on … Continue reading →

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Félix Guattari: Self-Management and Narcissism

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Self-Management and Narcissism Self-management, like any order word, can be combined with anything: from Lapassade to de Gaulle, from the CFDT [French Democratic Confederation of Labor] to anarchists. To speak of self-management itself, without any context, is a myth. It … Continue reading →

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Félix Guattari: We Are All Groupuscules

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

We are almost tempted to call this and our next post – two short essays by Félix Guattari written in the wake of May 68 in france – “lessons for anarchists”. However we do not pretend to teach anyone, for … Continue reading →

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Michèle Bernstein, the Situationists and May 68

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

The situationists have designated as the primary terrains of creativity in the future experiments in behavior and the construction of complete settings, moments of life freely created. Since the definition of experimentation of this type is only the other side … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy: May 68

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

We close our overly brief and modest sharing of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy with an interview (in translation) that he gave to Carole Dely, for the journal Sens publique on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of france’s May … Continue reading →

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