-
Recent Posts
- Giorgio Agamben: Give us this day our daily nothingness
- The Forbidden Deleuze: For Palestine, Against Genocide
- Ghassan Salhab: And the world falls
- Solidarity Collectives Ukraine: Four years of anti-authoritarian resistance
- Solidarity Without Submission: Nestor, Ulysses, Ukraine and the Glory of Heroes
Categories
- Commentary (1,736)
- Discussion (6)
- Film (129)
- Interview (73)
- News blog (854)
- Poiesis (134)
- Review (3)
- Uncategorized (4)
Tag Archives: revolution
The gilets jaunes: Understanding the movement(s) beyond final defeat or victory
The political soothsayers and diviners will cynically proclaim the yellow vests’ movement dead: Act XXI brought less than 25,000 people into the streets this last Saturday. We however refuse to be political accountants. And rebellions and revolutions have never been … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: A movement(s) at a crossroads
On the day of Act XX … The Temps critique collective (22/03/2019), in a finely developed analysis of the yellow vests movement(s) of france, elaborates three fundamental criticisms: the movement has hitherto been unable to define itself, it has equally … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Insurrection in the midst of collapse
In the wake of Act XIX … The yellow vests insurrection offers lessons beyond or in parallel to the often celebrated insurrections of the Zapatistas in Chiapas and of the Rojava “Revolution”. In no way dismissing these latter, the yellow … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, News blog
Tagged anarchism, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, revolution
Leave a comment
The gilets jaunes: The people are constrained to respond to the violence
Today we had people who tried by all of the means available … to injure the Republic, to damage, to destroy, at the risk of killing. Emmanuel Macron (Le Monde 19/03/2019) Saturday, we saw extreme violence in Paris. It was … Continue reading
Voices of Bakur
A film testimony of the often forgotten rebellion for autonomy in eastern turkey in 2015.
The gilets jaunes: A question of time
A reflection on the re-appropriation of time as the revolution within the yellow vests insurrection. Words from a yellow vests newspaper. And images and words of a movement, now in its “Act XVI”.
Care as struggle
It is by no means obvious that the history of anarchist politics every owed anything to the speculations of philosophers, even anarchist philosophers. And in like manner, no such politics could ever be read mechanically off a philosophy. Philosophies of … Continue reading
The state against autonomy: In defence of Fraguas
On the 23rd of February, thousands marched through Madrid in solidarity with and in defence of the Fraguas rural occupation. (Kaos en la red) Six of the accused-defendants involved in the occupation were sentenced to 1 year and 9 months … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Fragments of interpretation
The yellow vests: February 9th, Act XIII … We continue to share fragments of reflections, of a movement, or movements, in motion. The yellow vests insurrection(s) is a picture of our future today: the only ethical response possible to permanent … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged Art and Revolution, Claude Lévi-Strauss, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, myth, revolution
Leave a comment
The gilets jaunes: What violence?
A critique of violence …