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Tag Archives: revolution
Italy: Autonomia (1)
… the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. Like any other relationship, it is a fluency which evades analysis if we attempt to stop it dead at any given moment and anatomise its structure. The finest meshed … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomism, Feminism, italy, revolution
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Simon Critchley: Mystical Anarchism
Exploring the facets of the desire to smash time, through “mystical anarchism … It is not enough for us to reject conditions and institutions; we have to reject ourselves. “Do not kill others, only yourself” – such will be the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Carl Schmitt, Gustav Landauer, religion, revolution, Simon Critchley
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On the desire to smash time
The consciousness of exploding the continuum of history is peculiar to the revolutionary classes in the moment of their action. The Great Revolution introduced a new calendar. The day on which the calendar started functioned as a historical time-lapse camera. … Continue reading
Jacques Rancière: Between anarchy and anarchism
We do not gain from the working operations of history that comprehensive understanding which would reveal the true solution. At best we rectify errors which occur along the way, but the new scheme is not immune to errors which will … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, democracy, Jacques Rancière, revolution
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Brazil: The struggle against the erasure of rebellion
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the June 2013 uprising in brazil and a narrative begins to take form: the Bolsonaro government was the child of the protests that occurred against the policies of the PT government then in … Continue reading
Félix Guattari: Self-Management and Narcissism
Self-Management and Narcissism Self-management, like any order word, can be combined with anything: from Lapassade to de Gaulle, from the CFDT [French Democratic Confederation of Labor] to anarchists. To speak of self-management itself, without any context, is a myth. It … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Félix Guattari, May 68, revolution, self-management
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Félix Guattari: We Are All Groupuscules
We are almost tempted to call this and our next post – two short essays by Félix Guattari written in the wake of May 68 in france – “lessons for anarchists”. However we do not pretend to teach anyone, for … Continue reading
Alain Badiou: Thirteen theses and some comments on politics today
What is the communist hypothesis? In its generic sense, given in its canonic Manifesto, ‘communist’ means, first, that the logic of class—the fundamental subordination of labour to a dominant class, the arrangement that has persisted since Antiquity—is not inevitable; it can … Continue reading
Gáspár Miklós Tamás: Between Rousseau and Marx
… what happens if one seriously tries to complete Marx’s project of developing, as he put it in an early essay, a “ruthless critique of everything that exists.” The likely result is a picture of the world so relentlessly bleak … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, marxism, revolution
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Italy: Autonomia (2)
Anarchist truth cannot and must not become the monopoly of one individual or committee; nor can it depend on the decisions of real or fictitious majorities. All that is necessary — and sufficient — is for everyone to have and to … Continue reading →