Originally published by Mute. Written by Shemon and Arturo. Image above: ‘Looting rampant’ in Philly. Glass shatters. Thick plumes of dark black smoke pour out of a burning police car stalled in the middle of 52nd street. Another black man shot dead by the police. […]
Cars, Riots, & Black Liberation: #Philadelphia’s Walter Wallace Rebellion
The Poor Way We will pay tribute to the great Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben, the anti-Badiou par excellence.And we will, in particular, try to illustrate one of the last books of the Homo Sacer series:The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and
Autonomies share here a very free and partial translation (interspersed with paraphrases and summaries) of Donatella Di Ceasare’s essay, Virus Sovrano? L’Asfissia Capitalistica (Bollati Boringhieri Editore, 2020). A forthcoming English language edition is to be published by MIT Press in
Covid-19: An invisible agent of catastrophe
The English translation of the article first appeared on PPPR “Riots are born not because of little things but out of little things“ Aristotle, Politics, V Tackling the theme of neopopulism – a term that will be justified in the
Neopopulism as a Problem: Between Geopolitics and Class Struggle*
… Like Britain, the rise and fall of the American Empire is written in the language of energy. But unlike Britain, which declined as rapidly as it rose, the American rise and fall is less spectacular (at least so far).
Why America Won’t Be ‘Great’ Again
In the past I’ve written on how to spot digital philosophers. But let’s name names. Who exactly do we mean? Digital philosophers are many: Democritus, Leibniz, Konrad Zuse, Wittgenstein (in the Tractatus but later he inverts), Edward Fredkin, Stephen Wolfram, and many others.
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”
Report from Hard Crackers on the Kenosha uprising on the first several days of the uprising following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Originally published by Hard Crackers on September 7, 2020. What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is. Bright
In the Eye of the Storm: A Report from #Kenosha
Here is the english version of the latest text published by Proletarios Internacionalistas about the revolts happening around the world in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, putting the global state of alarm into question by fighting back against the
The contagion of revolt spreads…Revolts everywhere!
taken from ill will editions “The working class in every country lives its own life, makes its own experiences, seeking always to create forms and realize values which originate directly from its organic opposition to official society.” —CLR James, Grace
Theses on the George Floyd Rebellion
taken from Hostis 2 For reasons that will become evident in the course of this text and to save the reader the trouble of sifting through the details, we offer up our analysis at the start: the politics of recognition,
Introduction: Recognition and its Discontents
Übersetzt von Richard A. Bachmann. aus dem Commune Magazin. Es ist schon seltsam heutzutage Englischmuttersprachler zu sein, besonders wenn man aus Großbritannien oder den USA kommt. Beide Nationen war einst sowohl in militärischer als auch wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht global agierende Kolonisatoren,
2019 – Ein Jahresrückblick im Zeichen der Sozialen Kämpfe