[ part 1 & 2 of a longer essay on the past two decades of ‘militant-research’. part 3, A Feminist Internationale Assembled in a Riotous Manner‘, forthcoming] Demands, protests, petitions, graffiti, discussions, harangues, slogans, shouts, cheers and insults are so …
Twenty Years of Militant-Research: La Potencia Destituyente y La Potencia Feminista (DRAFT)
Iman Ganji und Jose Rosales Dieser Beitrag erschien am 19. Oktober 2022 auf e-flux Notes und wurde von Sunzi Bingfa übersetzt. Erstens: Am 13. September wurde Zhina (Mahsa) Amini (1), eine zweiundzwanzigjährige Kurdin, von der iranischen „Sittenpolizei“ (2) festgenommen und inhaftiert, als sie …
Morgen war Schahrivar 1401: Anmerkungen zu den iranischen Aufständen
Iman Ganji and Jose Rosales . On September 13, Zhina (Mahsa) Amini,1 a twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested and detained by the Iranian “morality police”2 while visiting Tehran with her family from Saqqez (in Iran’s Kurdistan Province). Her charge: allegedly violating the law …
The English translation of this incredible text, written by L, was originally posted here via Jadaliyya [Translated by Alireza Doostdar.] [2] For Zhina, for Niloofar, for Elaheh, for Mahsa, for Elmira, and for those whose names I have yet to call. Is the uprising …
FIGURING A WOMEN’S REVOLUTION: BODIES INTERACTING WITH THEIR IMAGES
The following is a short introduction for a forthcoming discussion between comrades from an NYC feminist group and an Iranian-Kurdish collective in the first issue of The Reservoir–a new publication run out of Woodbine (NYC) Ni uno solo-Ni Una Menos: this is …
Thesis: States and state-capture [comparison + appropriation] are solutions to the problem posed by the lines of flight encountered in the historical process of State formation. But while both capture and its evasion presupposes these lines of flight as indeterminate …
Iman Ganji with Jose Rosales How do you see the relation between this strike and the protests in 2019, regarding the petrol prices? How do you see the relation between this strike and the wider criticism of the regime? IG …
Comrades sent us following observations on the recent oil workers strike in Iran. For further reading on recent struggles in the region we recommend this article on the wider learning processes of the working class. We think the descriptions of the …
The world too will end; this is certainty and not hope.In fact, countless worlds have ended, are ending as we speak The end of the World depends on us.True friendship is the end of the World,the beginning of our play …
An especially rough draft of a book chapter for the forthcoming collection,Neoliberalism and its Double-Binds (2022) ] On May 24, we admired on television the impressive Paris demonstration called by the central CGT trade union. Throughout the country were other …
NOTE: What follows are a set of incomplete notes drafted in the lead up to the Quiver Reading Group organized around the theme of ‘new weapons for thought’, and whose first meeting will read Deleuze and Foucault’s ‘Intellectuals & Power’ …
Strength of hatred in Marx.Fighting spirit of the working class.Interlay revolutionary destruction and the idea of redemption.— Walter Benjamin, ‘Notes on the Concept of History,’ (1939) 1. To have repudiated with the utmost vehemence the political significance of Millenarianism is …
From Theological to Historical Apocatastasis: Notes on Benjamin’s ‘Theologico-Political Fragment’