Benefiting from huge media coverage, the far right and a mainstream right drifting towards it now seem to have a new champion for the presidential election next spring in the person of Éric Zemmour. If it is not certain that […]
INTERVIEW WITH JULIEN COUPAT AND MATHIEU BURNEL e Monde: What do you make of the presidential campaign? What campaign? There was no campaign. There was a soap opera, a fairly worn-out one at that, to tell the truth, full of
Politics is Nothing but the Reign of Feints and Shenanigans
Elections Democracy and its instrument of choice are based on citizens handing over their powers to representatives or delegating them to a professional group that decides on their behalf. This implies a misjudgment, because only because the representatives exist does
Elections, State: Instruments of expropriation.
Collective nihilism is no better than the lonelier forms of despair. The revulsion is perhaps a version of the “uncanny valley,” that experience of disturbing familiarity when a simulacrum of a person comes close to impersonating human behavior, so close
Voting for the End of the World
Taken from ediciones-ineditos [Originally published on the blog of Léon de Mattis, April 26th, 2017 in French. What follows is a translation into English by ediciones inéditos which has been reviewed by de Mattis himself. We found it has much that
this article is taken from: The Word From Struggle Street Words Are Wind And elections remain, as they did in Mai 68, ‘a trap for fools’ – that is when we are actually out on the streets in great
An interview with Julien Coupat and Mathieu Burnel Le Monde | April 20, 2017. Translated by Ill Will Editions. Editor’s note: The trial of Julien Coupat and Mathieu Burnel, known as the “Tarnac affair”, has dragged-on for over eight
Politics is Nothing But the Reign of Feints and Shenanigans