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Tag Archives: State terror
Giorgio Agamben: Normalising the state of exception under the Covid-19 epidemic
What follows is an interview with Giorgio Agamben by Nicolas Truong for Le Monde (24/03/2020), where he analyses “the very serious ethical and political consequences” of the security measures applied to curb the pandemic. As Le Monde reserves full access … Continue reading
The coronavirus as a declaration of war
An essay by Santiago López Petit … (el critic 18/03/2020; comite disperso 19/03/2020; lobo suelto 19/03/2020)
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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Viruses and Separation
From the journal Inhabit … Viruses and Separation: Frédéric Neyrat on political virality and competing separatisms (15/03/2020) Originally published in Terrestres on March 5, 2020 Translated from the French by an anonymous friend “Our enemy is separatism,” President Macron recently declared. Hearing … Continue reading
Wrestling with a virus
From the journal Inhabit … Crisis and Control: Resisting the end of the world by proliferating new worlds COVID-19 is the culmination of a decade of contagion movies, the beginning of the worst. Every little anxiety baked into the liberal … Continue reading
Reflections on a virus: Trying to see the catastrophe where it is not said to be
Power is domination: all it can do is prohibit, and all it can command is obedience. Michel Foucault Human societies have become like devouring and insatiable mono-cultures, and as such, the viruses multiply. Made therefore fragile, we turn to the … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The coronaviris and the state of exception
Before the frenzied, irrational and totally unjustified emergency measures taken for a supposed epidemic due to the coronavirus, it is necessary to start with the declarations of the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), according to which “there is no epidemic … Continue reading
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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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Against All Wars, Against All Governments
From the CrimethInc. Collective (08/01/2020)… Against All Wars, Against All Governments: Responding to the Escalation of the US-Iran War Following the US airstrike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on January 3 and the Iranian missile strikes against US positions … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, iran, State and terror, State terror, united states
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Gianfranco Sanguinetti: A virus removes the veil of bourgeois democracy
Sanguinetti proposes a reading of the COVID-19 pandemic which argues that the coronavirus has brought the pretensions of liberal, bourgeois democracy to an end. We now enter upon an age of open despotism. However problematic such a division of epochs … Continue reading →