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Ursula K. Le Guin: A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be
A reflection on the desire for utopia, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Introduction to “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place To Be” John Clark Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010 Ursula Le Guin’s works typically recount the story … Continue reading
T. J. Clark: For a left with no future
The British art historian and writer Timothy James Clark published an essay in 2012 with the New Left Review (74, March/April, 2012) that we believe remains as relevant today as it did then. Writing in the wake of the 2008 … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Clément Rosset, Jacques Ellul, revolution, T.J. Clark, tragedy, utopia
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Utopia?
Words of Ghassan Salhab, lebanese filmmaker and writer (from lundi matin #365 09/01/2023) … What remains to be said or done once everything has been said, analysed, dissected of the humiliation that power and its mechanisms represent for everyone? From … Continue reading
Amedeo Bertolo: The Utopian Function in the Anarchist Imaginary
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anarchism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, May 68, Miguel Amorós, utopia
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Agustín García Calvo: For those who asked about utopias
With a little inspiration from lundi matin … If everyone were able to look closely within themselves, they would realise that everyone from below is mad, that we are all mad, and that we live, from below, in a very … Continue reading
Mario Tronti: Desperate Hopes
I do not want to know to know, but to overthrow what is, and to the extent that it is possible, into its opposite. Mario Tronti, Noi operaisti Mario Tronti is one of the central figures of operaismo/workerism, a theoretical-practical … Continue reading
The Space and Time of Utopia
Reflections around the concept of utopia, on the 500th anniversary of Thomas Moore’s Utopia, reflections that echo earlier thoughts on the time and space of revolution. In revolution, everything happens incredibly quickly, just like in dreams in which people seem to be freed from … Continue reading
William Morris: The Society of the Future
The only way forward is for all those targeted to gather themselves more effectively than their enemies have, to recognize their alliance, and to fight the phantasms prepared for them with a powerful and regenerative imaginary that can distinguish between … Continue reading →