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The ecstasy of revolution: Gustav Landauer

Only when anarchy becomes, for us, a dark, deep dream, not a vision attainable through concepts, can our ethics and our actions become one. We want to be everything though: humans, animals, and Gods!  We want to be heroes! In … Continue reading

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In the days of our wars

…Empire has succeeded in shaping, out of the debris of civilisation, a new humanity, organically won over to its cause: citizens.  Citizens are those who, in the very midst of the general social conflagration, persist in proclaiming their abstract participation … Continue reading

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Rebelling against debt: examples from spain

… discourses of crises become a way to governmentally produce and manage (rather than deter) the crisis.  “Crisis” becomes a perennial state of exception that turns into a rule and common sense and thus renders critical thinking and acting redundant, … Continue reading

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Occupy Wall Street, two years on …

(poster from the Brooklyn Artist's Alliance) Anniversaries are always problematic.  While celebratory, they lend themselves to nostalgia, nostalgia for past feats, glories, passions, which may mask present poverty and paralyse action in the present.  They also lend themselves to accountings … Continue reading

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The Sirens of representation: 15M before the seduction of elections

… all power is derived from the people, they possess it only on the days of their elections.  After this it is the property of their rulers. Benjamin Rush … we are confronted even in the midst of the French … Continue reading

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Ofelia Nieto 29: The ethics of resistance

… what we are waiting for can only come from ourselves, from our own being.  It will come once we force the unknown, the unconscious, up into our spirit; it will come once our spirit loses itself in the spiritless … Continue reading

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Ecstacies of Occupy: St. Louis

I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate to see that evening sun go down St. Louis Blues … the question of ethics is always a question of an ethical relation, that is the question of what … Continue reading

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What revolutions in the americas?

On the 15th of August, president Rafael Correa of ecuador announced the authorisation of the extraction of petroleum from Yasuni National Park.  The decision will have to be voted on by the country’s congress, but should it agree, it brings … Continue reading

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Autonomy at the limit: Playing with Deleuze and Guattari around contemporary rebellions

(This text is born of an experiment, an experiment in progress, that of thinking through our contemporary rebellions with the tools of contemporary philosophy.  Spain´s 15M is the example considered here and the hypothetical conclusion arrived at is that the … Continue reading

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Rebellion in the city: brazil

Seuls des groupes, classes ou fractions de classes sociales capables d’initiatives révolutionnaires peuvent prendre en charge et mener jusqu’à plein accomplissement les solutions aux problèmes urbains ; de ces forces sociales et politiques la ville rénovée deviendra l’œuvre. Henri Lefebvre, Le … Continue reading

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