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Tag Archives: State and Capital
Greece: Everything Is Coming to a Boil
Posted with the CrimethInc. Collective (15/07/2020) … Looming Recession, the Ban on Freedom of Assembly, and the Death of Vassilis Maggos Since coming to power last summer, Greece’s far-right New Democracy party has waged an all-out war against immigrants, anarchists, and rebels, attempting … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, greece, insurrection, Okupations, State and Capital, State terror
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A.C.A.B.: A Manifesto
MANIFESTO AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE / PUSSY RIOT x LASTESIS This manifesto is co-written and co-performed byfeminists from Mexico, Chile and Russia. We unite ourforces to stop police violence. In solidarity we trust.Pussy Riot x LASTESIS. PART 1. LASTESIS a feminist … Continue reading
Arundhati Roy: Our task is to disable the engine
The coronavirus pandemic has brought the machine of capitalism to a grinding halt. Arundhati Roy (Progressive International, 02/05/2020) While the human race is momentarily incarcerated, and even as a record-size hole opens in the ozone layer above the Arctic, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arundhati Roy, ecology, State and Capital, State and terror
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Tomás Ibáñez: The State and the pandemic
You might as well be hung for deathAs breaking a machine–So now my Lad, your sword unsheathAnd make it sharp and keen- We are ready now your cause to joinWhenever you may call;So make foul blood run clear & fineOf … Continue reading
COVID-19: Translating a pandemic politically (3)
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis I If political sovereignty is defined by the decision on the exception (Carl Schmitt), on what is to be excluded from and … Continue reading
Mapping our dystopia
We continue to share translations from the not bored collective which are generously forwarded to us. Ongoing reflections on the politics of a pandemic …
Santiago López Petit: Coronavirus as theatre of truth
Humanity is entering a phase of its history in which truth is reduced to a moment in the movement of the false. True is that false speech that must be kept true even when its untruth is proven. But in … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Santiago López Petit, State and Capital
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Achille Mbembe: The necropolitics of a pandemic
… the ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die. Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics From a brazilian newspaper, an interview with Achille Mbembe … Mbembe … Continue reading
COVID-19: Translating a pandemic politically (2)
Arundhati Roy, in an eloquent article on the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in india, concludes by writing … Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. … Continue reading
Chile: Looking Back on a Year of Uprising
From the CrimethInc. Collective (15/10/2020), a reflection on the chilean uprising … Chile: Looking Back on a Year of Uprising – What Makes Revolt Spread—and What Hinders It? The Fight for Dignity and the Campaign for a New Constitution October … Continue reading →