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The Revolution is Dead, Long Live the Revolution: Reflections on the Quebec Student Movement
As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history. Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History As Quebec universities … Continue reading
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Tagged Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Quebec Student Movement, revolution
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The Government of the Economy or the Economy of Government: Notes on/for Giorgio Agamben
The current problem is altogether different: it’s a matter of using up, without war, the unprecedented accumulation, which has turned the whole world into a colossal powder keg. Georges Bataille, Sovereignty Krauss misses his stroke, a lump of … Continue reading
Government by Police
Government by Police
15M: A Philosophical Concerto in Three Unfinished Movements
An exercise in philosophical reflection on 15M in spain …
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Tagged 15M, Alain Badiou, Cornelius Castoriadis, Edgar Morin, Giorgio Agamben, May 68, Michael Hardt, revolution, Slavoj Žižek, spain, Spanish Revolution, Toni Negri
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15M: A Cartography of the Spanish Revolution 79
The interpretation/intervention in the rebellions-revolutions of our day are intensely debated, and without suggesting that John Holloway’s reading of them as cracks in capitalism surpasses others, there is perhaps much here from which one can learn or remember from earlier … Continue reading
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Tagged John Holloway, Occupy London, revolution, Spanish Revolution
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The Joys of Opium, or Notes on the “Spanish Revolution”
“To resolve insoluble problems without the aid of the state, that is the destiny of an event. And it is that which makes a people, suddenly, and for an indefinite time, exist, there where it decides to assemble.” (Alain Badiou, … Continue reading
Revolution Revisited
[By Julius Gavroche. Originally published in Autonomy No. 1 (1989).] “We must learn to think differently before the revolution can come. That alone can bring the revolution.” — Alexander Berkman Ibañez’s claim (Farewell to the Revolution) that the concept of … Continue reading
Farewell to the Revolution
[By Tomás Ibáñez. Originally presented by the author at the seminar “Which revolution” held at the international conference of anarchist studies, Venice, 1984; published in Volontá No. 1 (1985) and in the Argentine journal Utopia No. 9. This translation is … Continue reading
How do we escape The Castle within us?
In an excellent article that appeared recently in Adbusters (07/09/2012), Andy Merrifield explores the difficulty of thinking/acting insurrection in a society-spectacle where the outside the system has vanished, where the inside is all that remains and where rebellion is the … Continue reading →