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Tag Archives: State and Capital
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
Pandemic Visions
With the generosity of the author, we share a “fiction” which is threateningly and increasingly indistinguishable from “reality”. The Pandemic Community Nil Mata Reyes, 2020 01. Welcome to the pandemic community, a form of social belonging structured by the participatory … Continue reading
Mapping a virus: China and beyond
The Chuang journal-blog dedicates itself to studying and analyzing chinese capitalism, or in the groups own words: Chuang will publish a journal analyzing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it. … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, china, ecology, State and Capital, State terror
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Achille Mbembe: The society of enmity
Achille Mbembe’s Politiques de l’inimitié reads contemporary politics as a series of strategies and tactics of colonisation, thus grounded on the creation of fictional others (through hierarchising categories of race, sex, ethnicity and the like) and the desire for their … Continue reading
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Tagged Achille Mbembe, State and Capital, State and terror, State terror
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The yellow vests’ rebellion and beyond
The yellow vests insurrection revealed the central role of the State in assuring the reproduction of capitalist social relations, a role which as central, is also fragile, sustained only by its increasing militarisation against those whom capital increasingly discards. From … Continue reading
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Tagged france, gilets jaunes, State and Capital, State and terror
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In search of forms of life before the desertion of State-Capital
A reflection to interpellate any anarchist: what if State politics and Capital in our time (they having assumed in all lucidity the present reality of the ecological catastrophe that threatens human existence) have taken on as their combined ambition to … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, Frédéric Neyrat, State and Capital, State terror
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The repression of autonomy: Exarchia
The day after November 17, 2019 in Athens: a taste of blood in the mouth Yannis Youlountas (18/11/2019) Many of our comrades spent the night between four walls after systematic beatings. Others were injured, three of whom were transferred to … Continue reading
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Tagged greece, insurrection, Okupations, State and Capital, State and terror
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Of trees and of men
From lundi matin #209 (23/09/2019): further reflections on Capital’s ecocide (in translation) … Two weeks ago, lundi matin published a beautiful text by Alessi Dell’Umbria on the subject of extractivism in general and the Amazon fires in particular:La terre brûlée … Continue reading
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Tagged Agustín García Calvo, capitalism, ecology, State and Capital
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Terror’s Atomization of Man: Leo Löwenthal
Horror and fears contain us in a world that we do not want, and impede us from acceding to interruptive encounters that regenerate our existence. To participate in the exercise of clearing obstructions means first to not offer up our … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, capitalism, Frankfurt School, Leo Löwenthal, State and Capital, State and terror
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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 →