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 […]
Communism Is The Riddle Posed To History
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’
An Interview Discussing the Pandemic, Economic Crisis, Repression, and Resistance in Iran All around the world, as the compromises that stabilized capitalism through the 20th century collapse, people are facing increasingly authoritarian measures from governments of all stripes. In this
Iran: “There Is an Infinite Amount of Hope… but Not for Us”
,, , Posted on July 24, 2020 Before the Red Army Faction in Germany (1970–1998), the Red Brigades in Italy (1970–1988), and Action Directe in France (1979–1987), there was Nada. This latter group was a significantly smaller formation relative to
A Model of Behavior Like A Cop or A Female Saint: On Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Nada
“The other who is nobody…the a priori Other is defined in each system by its expressive value – in other words, its implicit and enveloping value […] The I and the Self, by contrast, are immediately characterised by functions of
A Baroque Heresy: Notes on Deleuze and Leibniz on the Concept
I. Memories of a Spivakian Given her revisions in A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, Spivak delineates three main point regarding the subaltern. First, the subaltern refers to the space of “sheer heterogeneity of” decolonization. Second, “when a line of communication
A Rupture in Colonial Reason: Spivak, Fanon, and The Question of Subalternity
/0/. The Most Savage Fruit of Alienation Despite the revolutionary promise of the nomadic war machines relation to the State, Deleuze and Guattari are quick to note that “…the present situation is highly discouraging. We have watched the war machine grow
The War Machine Is Not Your Friend: Notes on Minoritarian Politics
Before the Red Army Faction in Germany (1970-1998), the Red Brigades in Italy (1970-1988), and Action Directe in France (1979-1987), there was Nada. Neither historical actor nor marginal organization of the post-war European ultra-Left, Nada was born out of the
‘…a model of behavior like a cop or a female saint…’
The progress of the disease across Europe in the early 1830s was marked by a string of riots and disturbances in almost every country it affected. Popular opinion did not accept that cholera was a hitherto unknown disease, but considered
Epidemics and Revolution (pt. I): The Cholera Riots, 1830-1831
To continue from our conclusions regarding the question of what it would mean to love as a communist, we begin from the idea that abolition is what necessary binds communism as real movement to problems encountered in the life of
Brief Histories of Invisibility Posted on August 7, 2019 by youandwhosearmy? What follows is a transcript of my response to Andrew Culp’s presentation of research from his forthcoming book, Indiscernibility: The Politics of the Unseen (currently under contract with University of
Brief Histories of Invisibility