Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2020-21. Long before midnight, police helicopters are circling over Kreuzberg, Neukölln and Mitte, creating a subtle but hard-to-ignore security surround that conflates pandemic containment and urban counterinsurgency on an affective level. [1] The Senate Administration has …
“You can’t evict a movement.” A review of Krystian Woznicki’s book “Undeclared Movements”
Days of anger, shame, grief, guilt … Α bleak variety of feelings for conscious andthoughtful people of Lesvos. The attack of the State for the requisition of an area in order to create a detention center appears to be only …
ABSTRACT Neoliberalism and austerity are not ‘false policies’, but strategies of increasing profits by reducing labor and welfare costs. In the process of dismantling labor rights and the welfare state, a part of the population is being marginalized. It becomes …
Transcending the nation: a communist strategy in the era ofglobalization. A reply to Velissariou
The rhetoric of migrant “invasions” is back again. Donald Trump has recently described the caravan of Central American refugees marching to the US as “an onslaught,” “an assault on our country,” and an “invasion,” repeating the words of Robert Bowers, …
Political theory in the twenty-first century is at an interesting crossroads where migration has reached such a critical threshold that what seemed to be an exception has now become the rule. The question now is how to understand the rules …
„Der moderne Flüchtling vereint alle Stigmata des kapitalistischen Systems in sich: auf unbestimmte Zeit zur Heimatlosigkeit verdammt, von der eigentlich alle geschlagen sind, weil die Welt eine unwirtliche wurde, in der niemand willkommen ist; rechtlos, weil Recht allen nur provisorisch …