For Felix Guattari, already at the beginning of the age of digitalized mobility in the 1980s, it seemed clear as daylight that large parts of the population, which today we call the global surplus population, „are assigned a corner on …
The following article is an interview with Shirin Kamangar by Warren Montag and Joseph Serrano and was published first here on November 28, 2022. 1. You have argued that the recent revolt in Iran, while initially focused on the mandatory hijab, was preceded by …
his is the translation of a report first published by our sister organization Manjanigh with some additional information on the history and physical structure of the Evin prison for English readers not familiar with the prison’s context. This report is …
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 …
…suicide is the decisive political act of our times.― Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Precarious RhapsodyIt is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.― Emile Cioran, The Trouble with being Born Base materialism begins in the tomb, a world …
The Suicidal Civilization: Technopessimism and the Coming Collapse
But it is different with the Ukrainian war, not the least because Russia is a nuclearpower. The Yugoslav wars, remaining of a limited regional outreach in spite of theunfortunate NATO intervention in 1999, did not look as a threat to …
The new ultraliberal fascist policies of the elites make the world with the help of the security dispositif Corona also spatially to a monstrous camp. Only the capital and the elites themselves should still circulate freely. One usually knows that …
… Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, …
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 …
Translations: French The return of violent identitarian emotions fueled by nationalism, racism and religious fanaticism prompts us to pose the question of fascism as something more than just identifiable enemies we can combat. Is fascism a kind of sickness, hidden …
An Anti-Imperial Perspective from a Veteran of the US Occupation he speed with which the Taliban have recaptured Afghanistan ahead of the United States pullout illustrates how fragile the hegemony of the US empire is: how much force it takes …
30 years have passed since the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall reached Yugoslavia: what has been by then seen as an enthusiastic wave of democratization and peaceful dismantling of socialism, has become much more troublesome and obscurantist …