Tag Archives: revolution

The ethics of disobedience: 22M Madrid, The March of Dignity

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

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 →

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The dance of rebellion: brazil

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

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 →

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A first (and failed) attempt at a manifesto for a radically negative anthropology

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

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 →

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Giorgio Agamben: For a theory of destituent power

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

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 →

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The desire of rebellion: Okupation

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Insurrection is the self-constitution of a temporality splitting and proliferating. Franco Berardi “Bifo” We need to be disciplined to be undisciplined. Saul Newman This post is inspired by the ongoing struggle of so many to create and defend Autonomous Okupied … Continue reading →

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Insurrection in the city: Gamonal Resists

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

…the revolution in our times has to be urban – or nothing. David Harvey, Rebel Cities The greater part of the human species now dwells in cities; more correctly, in urban spaces, which for the most part exist in a … Continue reading →

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The plurality of autonomy

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Autonomies are woven in different ways, at different levels.  The self-understanding of those who participate, the goals and means employed, may vary enormously.  It is far too easy then to criticise such initiatives from a puritanical and ultimately impotent ideological … Continue reading →

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Revolution as Destituent Power

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Only if we’re able to disentangle the future … from the traps of growth and investment, will we find an escape from the vicious subjugation of life, wealth, and pleasure to the financial abstraction of semio-capital. … the future is … Continue reading →

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Taking/making the food

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

… human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to … Continue reading →

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Spain’s 15M: Doing revolution

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

The old revolutionary certainties have gone. John Holloway, Crack Capitalism What in our conduct, our action, makes it revolutionary?  Is it a simple matter to say of one activity that it is anti-capitalist, and of another that it is not?  … Continue reading →

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