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Tag Archives: revolution
Rebel neighbourhoods: Carabanchel, Madrid
There are cities where particular neighbourhoods guard a memory of past disobedience and rebellion. They were in the past often referred to as working-class neighbourhoods, or quartiers populaires, to employ the French expression. They recall that past however not as … Continue reading
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Tagged Carabanchel, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, rebellion, revolution, spain
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Remembering/living Tiananmen
On this, the 25th anniversary of the massacre of Tiananmen Square, it is more than fitting to return to this past; not though only to remember past tragedy, but to be able to live our present. The protests and occupations … Continue reading
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Tagged china, Giorgio Agamben, rebellion, revolution, Tiananman Square
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Autonomy as threshold spatiality: Stavros Stavrides
Stavros Stavrides’ work on political autonomy in our contemporary crises governed cities, illuminated by an experience and knowledge of protest and rebellion in Athens since 2008, is of considerable significance. In the wake of the square occupation movements of our … Continue reading
On the Passage of a Few Thousand People Through a Brief Period of Time
The following is a critical description and an analysis of almost four years of political protest in portugal; critical both for its understanding of social movements and as a point of comparison with other contemporaneous movements. Posted on libcom.org (07/05/2014), … Continue reading
Pieces of Madrid
The protest, dissidence and creativity of those who rebel in spain against State-Capital continues to weave together forms of life at the margins of/in opposition to domination. At the heart of all that 15M and parallel movements in the country … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, spain, Spanish Revolution
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The ethics of disobedience: 22M Madrid, The March of Dignity
A state is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: “I, the state, am the people.” … Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, … Continue reading
The dance of rebellion: brazil
Gustavo Piqueira Lá não tem claro-escuro A luz é dura A chapa é quente Que futuro tem Aquela gente toda Perdido em ti Eu ando em roda É pau, é pedra É fim de linha É lenha, é fogo, é … Continue reading
A first (and failed) attempt at a manifesto for a radically negative anthropology
A reflection on anthropology, on the search/need for a negative anthropology, in which all sure grounds of knowledge of the other crumble, in which all of the hierarchical theories and categories for the ordering of the other’s life are dismantled: … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: For a theory of destituent power
From a public lecture in Athens (16/11/2013), at the invitation of and organised by the Nicos Poulantzas Institute and SYRIZA Youth, and originally posted on Chronos … A reflection on the destiny of democracy today here in Athens is in … Continue reading
In praise of a riot: The Stonewall Inn insurrection, 1969
(The Battle of Stonewall, Sandow Birk) (In memory of all of the gays, lesbians, bisexuals, trans, queens, sex workers and hustlers, blacks, hispanics, whites, employed and unemployed, who resisted on the 28th of June of 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, … Continue reading →