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Manifeste du parti grumaliste (continued)*

From lundimatin #513 (23/03/2026) The network society connects everything it can. As a result, it tends to exclude class struggles. A number of us oppose this – in practical terms.[1] 2- Relays and Grumeaux In the network society, homes are junctions, hubs – … Continue reading

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Manifeste du parti grumaliste*

From lundimatin #512 (16/03/2026) The connected society links together everything it can. It thereby aims to dematerialise social existence—that is its project. Consequently, there is no class struggle, even during election periods. A number of us are concerned about this. … Continue reading

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Edward Abbey: Theory of Anarchy

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: On artificial intelligence and natural stupidity

“An age of barbarism is beginning, and science will be at its service.” The age of barbarism is not yet over, and Nietzsche’s diagnosis is now being confirmed. The sciences are so attentive to satisfying and even anticipating every demand … Continue reading

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Gabriel Azaïs: Artificial Intelligence, or the End of Technics

From Ill Will (18/04/2025) The aim of AI is not so much to replace man with the machine but to make it so that man behaves, acts like a machine, that society as a whole technicizes through a subtle play, by turns, … Continue reading

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Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull the Plug on AI Fascism

From It’s Going Down (26/01/2025) On January 20th, at a ceremony attended by both far-Right and neo-fascist leaders from around the globe and some of the richest tech billionaires in the world, including the heads of Apple, Google, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and Amazon, … Continue reading

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Movement as illusion, stillness as meaninglessness (IV)

Introduction It is said that the automobile industry created and brought life to the cities, but once again official history dangerously misrepresents and distorts the facts. In reality, it is responsible for the destruction of viable human communities and emblematic … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: Pasiphae’s bull and technique

In the myth of Pasiphae, the woman who has an artificial cow built by Daedalus in order to mate with a bull, it is legitimate to see a paradigm of technology. In this perspective, technology appears as the device through … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: The snail’s shell

A snail, after adding a number of widening rings to the delicate structure of its shell, suddenly brings its accustomed building activities to a stop. A single additional ring would increase the size of the shell sixteen times. Instead of … Continue reading

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Jacques Ellul: The necessary revolution

… man must refuse to be his role, and revolution must attack all roles. In other words … revolution acts not only against organizations, institutions, systems, and structures, but also, and concurrently, against each member of this society, his behavior, … Continue reading

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