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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
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Tagged Art and Revolution, Claude Lévi-Strauss, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, myth, revolution
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The gilets jaunes: A movement that is not a movement
Movement is the impossibility, indefiniteness and imperfection of every politics. It always leaves a residue. In this perspective the motto I cited as a rule for myself might be reformulated in ontological terms as this: ‘the movement is that which … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, marxism, revolution
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Gilets Jaunes: Signs of the times / Images from the future
… from a distance, every judgment, praise and critique are easy. However, because many of us have found ourselves in a similar position, the question faced by the politicized minorities that still raise red and black flags remains: can we participate in something … Continue reading
Lessons from the gilets jaunes
Radical political movements and thought have always been nourished by rebellions and insurrections that were rarely or never foreseen, largely outside of any movement’s control, and whose fate was decided in struggle with both opposing protagonists and institutions of power. … Continue reading
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Amidst the polyphony of the gilets jaunes
In the occupied roundabouts of france, occupations which are the most emblematic expression of the gilets jaunes or “yellow vest movement”, the word or speech has been freed. Individuals, people, who would formerly never have encountered each other, find themselves protesting, … Continue reading
Insurrection in the end times: The gilets jaunes
When all that remains is the prospect of misery and death, then the only fitting response is to create, out of the destruction of what is killing life …
Voices of Bakur
A film testimony of the often forgotten rebellion for autonomy in eastern turkey in 2015.