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Tag Archives: Michel Foucault
Christian Laval: Total war as a neo-fascist mode of government
From the Verso Books Blog (03/02/2026) Christian Laval, co-author of The Choice of Civil War, on the escalation of the neoliberal order through the Trump administration’s total war. Trump is carrying out a protracted coup d’état right before our eyes, making … Continue reading
Tomás Ibáñez: Some contributions to anarchism from contemporary critical thought
Holding to critical thinking in the turbulent waters of anarchism From Redes Libertarias, 27/01/2026 From the moment that political anarchism took its first steps in the second half of the 19th century, it has always been open to incorporating contributions … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Max Stirner, Michel Foucault, Reiner Schürmann, Tomás Ibáñez
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Michel Foucault: Grotesque Power
Ah ! saleté ! le mauvais droit ne vaut-il pas le bon?/Ah, crap! Isn’t Wrong worth the same as Right? Alfred Jarry, Ubu roi We fascists are the only true anarchists, naturally, once we’re masters of the state. In fact, … Continue reading
Parrhesia: To speak freely, with courage, to the tyrant
From Michel Foucault and Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde: The courage to speak the truth to power. To begin with, what is the general meaning of the word parrhesia? Etymologically, parrhesiazesthai means “to say everything” – from pan … (everything) … Continue reading
From Revolution to Destitution
We are confronted with an expansion of the revolution that reaches the point of becoming something else. Today’s uprisings point toward an anthropological and no longer merely a political revolution, in which Marx’s distinction between political and social revolution begins … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimé Césaire, autonomism, Colectivo Situaciones, Enzo Traverso, François Lyotard, Frantz Fanon, George Jackson, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, Karl Korsch, Marcello Tarì, Mario Tronti, Michel Foucault, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, revolt, revolution, Situationists, Walter Benjamin
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Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Michel Foucault
In my opinion, as important as it may be, tactically speaking, to say at a given moment, ‘I am a homosexual,’ over the long run, in a wider strategy, the question of knowing who we are sexually should no longer … Continue reading
Notes on the state of the plague
From the autonomous media collective, Bruxelles Dévie (and also posted on lundi matin), a reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic through the words of Michel Foucault. The english language translation follows. This enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in which … Continue reading
Architecture beyond truth and falsity: Radicalising feminist interventions in the creation of spaces
Better to live in the provisional than in the definitive. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space All dissidence, rebellion, revolution has a location, a place. The relationship between the two has been the subject of an ongoing reflection on the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, Donna Haraway, Feminism, Henri Lefebvre, LGBT, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir
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Nietzsche and anarchy
I don’t say that my values and desires are the right or true ones. For instance, I don’t say that it is right or true to love anarchy and hate domination. I affirm my values. This affirmation is not like … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault
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Fascist subjectivisation
From lundimatin #509, (18/02/2026) To take an interest in fascism is to feel a connection with a past that is imminent in a threatening future. This past is not simply an ancient present: it is a past that is contemporary … Continue reading →