When they come knocking…

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When they come knocking…

«When they kick at your front door


How you gonna come? 


With your hands on your head 


Or on the trigger of your gun…»


 

At the beginning of December one of the most beloved tele-virologists said that freedom of choice is a problem that those in power should solve.

Palindromes

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Palindromes

First they came to disparage philosophers and researchers who publicly criticized the validity of the reasons and date declared by the government to legitimate the bans and suspension of liberties. But mere mortals do not frequent speculative cloisters and scientific laboratories, and so very few have cared about them.

Bundles of Grass

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Bundles of Grass

Born under the leaden sky of Berlin, he used to spend his holidays in a Mediterranean country, sunny, warm, bathed by the sea. With his bodily features, he stood out among the local inhabitants, whose language he had learned. and most of whom treated him with courtesy, sometimes with indifference. But not all. Among them there were those who glared at him with suspicion, with restrained rancor. One day he had the misfortune of running into one who replied to his greeting by shouting:
“What do you want? Why are you greeting me? Are we perhaps friends?”

In Search of the Powder Keg

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In Search of the Powder Keg

“Does lived experience only tell you where the slave reclines and resigns himself to the yoke, are the master’s arrogance and greed beyond all restraint?”
 

How long has this been going on? We have almost lost memory of it, overwhelmed as it is by nausea and disgust.
They have caused a pandemic, indirectly or directly.

The Real Division

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The Real Division

Even though he was certainly not an enemy of every authority, George Orwell hit the mark when he put things in these terms: «the real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries, but between authoritarians and libertarians».
But who is willing to admit and recognized this division?

In Corpore Vili

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In Corpore Vili

Here we go. A few hours ago the nationwide state of (health) emergency has been declared. Almost total lockdown. Almost deserted streets and squares. Forbidden to leave the house without a reason considered valid (by whom? by the authorities, of course). Forbidden to meet and hug. Forbidden to organize any initiative requiring even a minimum of human presence (from parties to rallies). Forbidden to be too close to anyone. Suspension of all social life.

On Irregularity: between Analysis and Desire

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On Irregularity: between Analysis and Desire

Black Mamba
 
“Not merely the love of one person, but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: 
that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces.”
George Orwell, 1984
 
     Often when we feel calm reigning, we busy ourselves with the task of trying to tackle the analysis of the situation. We enter into that order of discussion that recites: the analysis of reality is missing, the study of what is happening around us is missing. And who would disagree with this principle? In attacking a world that horrifies us, knowing what creates the disgust is a rather sage matter.

Women, Men and Bigots

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Women, Men and Bigots

Rhadija Lamrani


 
To create a revolution capable of putting an end to all domination, it is necessary to put an end to the tendency that we all have to submit ourselves. This implies that we observe with a sharp and pitiless eye the roles that this society imposes on us and that we distinguish their weak points in order to free ourselves and surpass their limits.
Sexuality is an essential expression of individual desire and passion, of the flame that both love and revolt can light.

What is fascism?

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What is fascism?

André Prudhommeaux
 
    “Fascism will not pass!” This slogan, launched again by the Kremlin with a powerful orchestration and and repeated in chorus by the Communist Parties of all countries, seems to be more effective the more ambiguous it remains. . The adversary is not designated with a name, and this allows anyone to depict it in the imagination on the bases of their own interests, prejudices or ideological conceptions.

Ubu in Washington

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Ubu in Washington

“But if they have dared so much, you have allowed everything.
The viler the oppressor is, the more disgraceful the slave is.”
Chateaubriand
 

Well, yes, we admit it. The news of Donald Trump’s victory in the race to the White House has provoked in us, who have lived for years at the peak of desperation, an uncontrollable excess of hilarity. The circle is closing.

The world in a spit

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The world in a spit

A few days ago in Italian prisons commenced the collection of samples destined to compose the National Archive for DNA, an institution run under the Minister of Internal Affairs who is busy compiling the genetic profile of all the individuals incarcerated, investigated, arrested or detained, along with the Dna found on crime scenes.

With regard to nihilism

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With regard to nihilism

Noël Demeure - Albert Libertad
 
Although more than a century old, this exchange of letters between a reader and the better known editor of the weekly l'anarchie has not lost its significance. Of course, today’s proponents of nihilism aren’t interested in taking back up the old (and furthermore, populist) Russian tradition. And yet it seems to us that there is still a persisting confusion between a negation of the existent as an end in itself, which ends up in a desolate emotional and ideal desert, and a negation of the existent as a prelude to an absolutely other whole to imagine and experiment with. As you will see, Albert Libertad already insisted on the difference between “nothing” and the “creative nothing”.

Murmurs and cries from the underground

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Murmurs and cries from the underground

Stopping to reflect, now more than ever, seems a waste of time. In the tumultuous succession of events, with which even our most up-to-date smartphones seem unable to keep pace, the only possible watchword seems to be: Just do it. But do what? This I still don’t understand.
If you listen around, everyone seems capable of talking about everything: an opinion on every event, a solution for every problem, from small-time drug dealers at home to global terrorism. And I, who ceaselessly have the feeling that I don’t understand shit, observe and plod on. I can cope with the apathy of the many, most likely because I have no deep relationship with the many, mainly due to my arrogance. But “the comrades” are the ones who block my sun! the assemblies, the fliers, the blogs, the initiatives, the rallies, the actions … the benzodiazepines! Perhaps these are what I could truly make use of.

“But so delicious, so delicious”

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“But so delicious, so delicious”

Shit loves to be close to shit – it’s a fact. Whether it’s because it came out of the same asshole or because it floats in the same sewer, that’s how it is. But certain shit – in subversive environments, the supporters of alternating conflictuality – also loves to be close to chocolate, or at least would like to have it understood. To boast of being a nutrient is not enough, it isn’t sufficient.
To give examples, certain workers’ power leaders might even go so far as to present their old organization as favorable to autonomy and permanent conflictuality, but would you want to believe them? Believe who?

Insurrection and Doublethink

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Insurrection and Doublethink

The language of the Invisible Committee fears it that much less. The aspect that most leaps out before its writings is precisely the lack of a consequential logic underlying its affirmations. It seems to be a characteristic of this entire milieu, since already in 2003 the last editors of Tiqqun announced in their (announcement for enlistment and so called) Appel (Call): “The question is not to demonstrate, to argue, to convince. We will go straight to the evident. The evident is not primarily an affair of logic or reasoning. It attaches to the sensible, to worlds.” One already starts to smile over the curious and self-interested mixture of terms. In general, the sensible is as far as can be from an evident. The sensible is subjective, individual, obscure as a riddle that is interpreted by each one individually. The evident, instead, is objective, common, clear as a certainty clarified for all collectively. The sensible is controversial, the evident, no, it is verified. If both are not “affairs of logic”, it is for diametrically opposed reasons. Reason doesn’t have the capacity of making an affair of what lies beyond its range (like the elusive sensible), while it has no need to do it with what is right here (like the evident already taken for granted at a discount). But what interests the authors of Appel, what makes them drool before the evocation of the sensible as evident, is that both are recognized, accepted in any case, and, above all, are not debated. Each one has her own inaccessible sensibility, all yield before the undeniable evident.

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