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Articles


07.15.2025

Guy Debord

Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben on his friendship with Guy Debord and the elusive clandestinity of political life.

07.02.2025

An Eclipse of Invisibility

Luhuna Carvalho

Luhuna Carvalho on myth, mourning, and depoliticization in Nanni Balestrini's "The Unseen"

12.17.2024

Class Struggle in What Society?

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

The election of Trump and the revival of tyrannicide highlight the void at the heart of US society.

12.07.2024

Major and Minor Virality

Adam C. Jones

There is only transmission and mutation, against the confinement of control.

11.30.2024

Locked Together

David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan

David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan on the uneven complicities that cement carceral power.

10.17.2024

Why War?

Maurizio Lazzarato

Maurizio Lazzarato ties the global civil war to the fiscal crises of American Empire.

10.07.2024

Through the Looking Glass

Serene Richards

Serene Richards on the destitution of the Spectacle and the liberation of imaginal life.

10.01.2024

The End of Judaism

Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben on Zionism as the negation of Jewish exile.

09.08.2024

Is there an Affective Class?

Howard Slater

Howard Slater on Walter Benjamin, class politics, and the contagious impersonality of affect.

07.04.2024

Heresy and History

Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem retraces two thousand years of resistance to Christianity

06.22.2024

Beyond Hope

Adam Greenfield

Adam Greenfield's "Lifehouse" offers a strategy for the Long Emergency.

06.20.2024

Against Liberal Fascism

Josep Rafanell i Orra

For Josep Rafanell i Orra, capitalism and communism offer divergent models of fragmentation.

05.19.2024

Freedom and Joy with Uma Kiwe

Mother Earth Liberation Process

The Mother Earth Liberation Process is a life and death struggle to reclaim land in Colombia.

04.27.2024

Liberal Infernos

Ian Alan Paul

For the struggle against genocide to succeed, the spell of liberalism must be broken.

02.20.2024

States of Siege

Anonymous

Victory cannot rely on improvised means alone.

02.07.2024

Last Resorts

Research and Destroy

Research and Destroy on blockades and counterlogistical strategy.

01.01.2024

An Illogical Life

Simone LeMarteu and Nada Lestrigon

A tribute to the revolutionary passion of Alfredo Bonanno

12.23.2023

Being an Anarchist

Catherine Malabou

Catherine Malabou on philosophical disavowal and the plasticity of anarchism

12.16.2023

Anaesthetic Violence

Ian Alan Paul

Part II of Ian Alan Paul's analysis of death and datapower in Palestine.

09.07.2023

What is Wokeness?

Émilie

The event of wokeness announces the return of sensitive reason through the cancellation of the Western subject.

08.28.2023

A Philosophy of Escape

Acid Horizon

Acid Horizon traces a cartography of escape routes from the control systems of cyber-capitalism.

07.30.2023

Carnivals and Revolt

Josep Rafanell i Orra

Josep Rafanell i Orra on the riots for Nahel and the fragmentation of the social.

07.08.2023

The Two Faces of Power

Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben on the kingdom, the government, and the anarchy that binds them.

06.23.2023

Breaking the Waves

Nicolò Molinari

Nicolò Molinari on composition, territorial struggles, and the alchemical art of insurrection.

03.26.2023

Refusal Requires a Guerilla Mentality

Rudi Dutschke and Hans-Jürgen Krahl

1967 speech by Rudi Dutschke and Hans-Jürgen Krahl announcing an anti-authoritarian rupture within the Socialist German Students' Union.

03.23.2023

Crowds against Pathology

Josep Rafanell i Orra

Josep Rafanell i Orra on the 2023 uprising against pension reform in France.

03.09.2023

Guerilla Manifesto

Resurgence Youth Movement

The Resurgence Youth Movement brought insurrectional anarchism to 1960s New York.

03.07.2023

Last Letter

Alfredo Cospito

A final letter from anarchist Alfredo Cospito, following the rejection of his appeal against the 41-bis regime.

02.28.2023

On Anarchy Today

Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben on the imprisonment of Alfredo Cospito and the "administrative state."

01.15.2023

The Strategy of Composition

Hugh Farrell

Hugh Farrell on the possibility of revolutionary organization in profoundly disordered times.

10.25.2022

Come Home Now

Ateronhiatakon Francis Boots

Interview with Mohawk warrior Ateronhiatakon Francis Boots.

09.20.2022

Genealogy of Krav Maga

Elsa Dorlin

Elsa Dorlin positions the Israeli martial art within a complex lineage of militant Jewish self-defense.

08.31.2022

Paper Planes

S. Prasad

Reflections on Sri Lanka's Galle Face Commune

08.11.2022

Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Anonymous

Two interviews with anarchists in Sri Lanka exploring the limits and horizons of the 2022 uprising

07.29.2022

Ecosystems of Revolt

Peter Gelderloos

Peter Gelderloos outlines the features of successful insurgent movements against government-sanctioned ecocide.

07.18.2022

Closing Paradise’s Gate

Nicholas Smaligo

Nicholas Smaligo on revolutionary history and classless societies from Benjamin to Graeber and Wengrow

07.01.2022

New Battlefields

Phil Neel

Phil Neel on the geography of capitalist crisis and communist subversion.

06.07.2022

Attacking Prison Society

Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group

For Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, the struggle against carceral society did not aim to ameliorate, soften, or render its oppressive power more bearable, but to attack it.

05.22.2022

On Destituent Power

Mario Tronti

Mario Tronti on the death of the modern subject, the defeat of the workers movement, and the new horizons of proletarian civil war.

05.16.2022

Escape from New York

Jarrod Shanahan

Jarrod Shanahan on resistance, fugitivity, and revolutionary militancy in the New York jail system.

04.28.2022

Fragments of a Chile in Revolt

Rodrigo Karmy Bolton

Rodrigo Karmy Bolton on revolt, popular violence, and martyrdom in Chile's unfinished uprising.

04.22.2022

Kinocene Ethics

Thomas Nail

Thomas Nail on materialist cosmology and the earthbound ethics of expenditure.

04.17.2022

Welcome to the Geopolitics of Chaos

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi on the vengeance of colonialism, nationalist humiliation, and the new inter-white war in Europe.

03.09.2022

Vandalizing the Subject

Ulysse Carrière

Ulysse Carrière on the vandalism of gender, the looting of commodities, and the desertion of capitalist subjectivity.

03.02.2022

The Irreducible Gap

Lea Melandri

Lea Melandri on women's sexuality, the theory of the unconscious, and the critique of Marxist economism.

02.18.2022

Lectures on the Virus

William S. Burroughs

Two lectures by William S. Burroughs on control, communication, and virality.

01.19.2022

The Centrality of Conflict

Francesc & El Quico

A dispatch from Sāo Paulo on revolt, Bolsonarism, work, class fragmentation, and organization in Brazil.

01.06.2022

Exo-Communications

Frédéric Neyrat

Frédéric Neyrat on the refusal of subjectivity in Moten and Harney's "All Incomplete"

01.01.2022

Happy New Year

Ill Will

A highlight reel of Ill Will in 2021, as well as a snapshot of what's to come

12.22.2021

Vital Cells

Kevin Suemnicht

How do we become the kind of people who can take a revolutionary situation to its conclusion?

11.28.2021

Restitution

Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy on nihilism, vitalism, and the destitution of politics in the thought of Giorgio Agamben.

11.17.2021

Kenosha, I Do Mind Dying

Inhabit

In the ruin and wreckage of Kenosha, our political horizons are being redrawn in real time.

11.06.2021

What Are Militants?

Steve Wright

Steve Wright on writing, publishing, and propaganda among Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s.

10.08.2021

Fascist Spectacle

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Is fascism a kind of sickness hidden inside the folds of our impoverished neoliberal psyche?

09.03.2021

Manifest Destiny

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and that techno-swarm we call progress.

08.14.2021

Two Texts on the Green Pass

Il Rovescio & Giorgio Agamben

Il Rovescio and Giorgio Agamben on emergency politics and the vaccine passport.

08.01.2021

The Original Infamy

Lea Melandri

Lea Melandri on sexual difference, revolutionary organization, and women’s survival.

07.22.2021

Gimme Danger

P.M.A. Gittlitz & J.F.

Have punks and the left become the eager hall monitors of the biosecurity state?

07.12.2021

Deconstructing Anarchy

Donatella Di Cesare

Philosopher Donatella Di Cesare on freeing the anarchic ontology concealed within the anarchist tradition.

05.17.2021

Memes Without End

Adrian Wohlleben

Adrian Wohlleben on race treason, demolitionism, and riot during the 2020 revolt

05.02.2021

Remaining Ungovernable

Mauvaise Troupe

Three years after the airport was abandoned, the ZAD remains largely ungovernable.

03.07.2021

Illich as Revolutionary

David Cayley

David Cayley introduces the main axes of Ivan Illich's attack on late modern paradigms of technology, production, science, and medicine.

03.04.2021

The Beautiful Hell

Tiqqun

For Tiqqun, the sensory religion of Empire today establishes a new form of anesthetizing separation: "between the user and the apparatus."

02.24.2021

War and Peace

Giorgio Agamben

In this brief note, Giorgio Agamben aligns the history of state power with war, contrasting it with a life in peace that is "by definition without history," and in which statist imaginary perceives the dangerous specter of ungovernability.

02.16.2021

Missed Insurrections

Shemon

Shemon wrestles with the lack of an insurrectionary Black Radical Tradition through which to understand the limits of the George Floyd rebellion. 

02.11.2021

The Saved Commune

Marcello Tarì

Marcello Tarì on communism, fragmentation, Deleuze and Guattari, and Autonomia in Italy.

01.27.2021

Dialogue with the Dead

Julien Coupat

If history is a nightmare from which some are trying to awaken, civilization is an illness from which few, it seems, are trying to recover.

01.24.2021

The Dilemma

Research and Destroy

Political economy for the time of monsters

01.22.2021

Imagination, or Absolute Life

Rodrigo Karmy

The imagination leaves nothing in its right place. Everything in it rises, floats and initiates a process of becoming outside the general order of things.

01.20.2021

Immunitarian Democracy

Donatella Di Cesare

The following text is taken from Immunodemocracy: Capitalist Asphyxia by Donatella Di Cesare.

01.11.2021

A Philosophy of Contact

Giorgio Agamben

If, as is being perversely attempted today, all contact were to be abolished, if everything and everyone were kept at a distance, we would then lose not only the experience of other bodies, but first and foremost any immediate experience of ourselves.

01.11.2021

Inversion and the Rupture in Continuity

Jacques Camatte

Henceforth, the forces necessary to achieve the escape from this world and the establishment of a different world can be deployed: the deepest affectivity-sensitivity that allows adherence to the continuum of living beings.

12.19.2020

“Beautiful Like an Impure Insurrection”

The Invisible Committee

Insurrections ripen under ice, like a mass desire to trample on all that has trodden us down, a sudden burst of dignity after decades of humiliation, a will to put an abrupt end to all that we have suffered for no reason.

12.18.2020

We Writhe; We Do Not Become

Peter Harrison

What becomes of communist theory when stripped of its prophetic and predictive vocation? Ex-Monsieur Dupont author Peter Harrison surveys the field of theoretical production today.

12.15.2020

Communist Capitalism

Giorgio Agamben

Philosopher Giorgio Agamben argues that a technologically updated configuration of state capitalism now serves as the ruling principle of globalized capitalism.

12.03.2020

Six Destituent Theses

Rodrigo Karmy

Chilean philosopher Rodrigo Karmy on cybernetic domination, acceleration, and the destituent impact of revolt on the imagination.

11.25.2020

The Trickster Insurrection

Emanuele E. Pelilli

Taking Todd Phillips’ Joker as a case study, Emanuele E. Pelilli reads contemporary insurrection as an event that collapses the Western divide between essence and appearance.

11.02.2020

Prelude to a New Civil War

Shemon & Arturo

Building off the analysis set out in their articles this summer, Shemon and Arturo trace today's mounting hostilities back to the unfinished business of the first American Civil War, and the counter-insurrection that crushed its emancipatory promise.

10.24.2020

Extinction, Rebellion, Happiness

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

Our task is to rethink autonomy from within the new horizon that confronts us, namely, that of our own extinction.

10.02.2020

Enmity and Extinction

Jacques Camatte

Jacques Camatte on the dynamic of enmity that "inevitably leads to the extinction of the species."

09.18.2020

Weapons and Ethics

Adrian Wohlleben

The ethical question is not about weapons, but about which ones.

09.13.2020

Things Seen

Julien Coupat et al.

Julien Coupat takes us on a journey across our own chaotic epoch.

06.21.2020

Remote Bodies

Cesare Battisti

Lifelong revolutionary and political prisoner Cesare Battisti reflects on COVID, the Agamben affair, & new technologies of social control.

06.19.2020

A Spark in Search of a Powder Keg

An International Surrealist Declaration

An international surrealist declaration in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en insurgency

05.24.2020

Requiem for the Students

Giorgio Agamben

D. Alan Dean has translated a short text by Giorgio Agamben, recently published by the philosopher on the Italian blog Diario della Crisi.

05.20.2020

‘Inversion Is Not a Strategy’

Jacques Camatte

Gerardo Muñoz interviews Jacques Camatte about friendship and enmity, politics and reality, and the global pandemic.

05.15.2020

Biosecurity and Politics

Giorgio Agamben

At issue is an entire conception of the destinies of human society from a perspective that, in many ways, seems to have adopted the apocalyptic idea of the end of the world from religions which are now in their sunset.

05.01.2020

The Destituent Moment of the Chilean October

Interview with philosopher Rodrigo Karmy

Revolt is always much more precarious, weaker if you like, in the sense that it cancels the usual way of things, denaturalizing them, so as to imagine other possible uses.

04.24.2020

Trespassing Horizons

Sandra Göbel

If the machine is not controlled by humans, the machine itself becomes the direction.

04.22.2020

New Reflections

Giorgio Agamben

It is always dangerous to entrust to doctors and scientists decisions that are ultimately ethical and political.

04.09.2020

Social Distancing

Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben on the inverted crowd of socially distanced separation

04.09.2020

Marginal Notes on the Agamben Scandal

Anonymous

The reconfiguration of capitalist society and its general relations of power take the form of a predominance of digital capitalism, of data capture and of a predictive function of the devices of control: that is, of a total grip on the biological that at the same time mineralizes it.

04.05.2020

The Economy or Life

Anonymous

And so we stand at a crossroads: either we save the economy, or we save ourselves.

03.19.2020

What the Virus Said

Anonymous

"I have come to shut down the machine whose emergency brake you couldn’t find."

03.17.2020

Clarifications

Giorgio Agamben

A society that lives in a perennial state of emergency cannot be a free society.

03.12.2020

The Threat of Contagion

Massimo De Carolis

Is our political existence more important than our biological survival?

03.05.2020

Standing up and Walking Out

Virginie Despentes

The most beautiful image in forty-five years of the ceremony is that of Adèle Haenel descending the stairs to exit.

12.01.2019

Presentation of ‘To Our Friends’ in Chiapas

The Invisible Committee

"What we will try to do is share, with the help of the language and perceptions that are elaborated in To Our Friends, the difficulties that we have encountered, with an emphasis on those that seem to us to echo the Mexican situation."

03.20.2019

Paris Is Ours

ACTA

Never before had the Champs-Élysées truly been “the most beautiful avenue in the world.”

03.01.2019

A Letter From Greg

Greg Minday

We must find ways of organizing life and work that bring us joy.

02.02.2019

Full Metal Yellow Jacket

Alèssi Dell’Umbria

A balance sheet of the first two months of the Yellow Vests insurgency.

12.04.2018

Next Stop: Destitution

Anonymous

The difference between the people and those who govern is that the people aren’t a bunch of losers.

03.12.2018

The Zad Will Survive

CMDO

An English translation of a statement from February, 2018 by several groups of La ZAD’s residents.

03.02.2018

There Is No Unhappy Revolution

Marcello Tarì

An early translation of the preface to Marcello Tarí's book There Is No Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution, released March 2021.

12.14.2016

Continue the Beginning

Film Committee

A short film drawing lessons from the Loi travail revolts in France in 2016.

07.03.2016

The Unassignable Riot

Anonymous

To build and strengthen our Party: that is the task of the coming phase.

03.28.2016

Call to Block Everything

Anonymous

If we do not want our lives to be reduced to nothing but waking, working and sleeping, condemned to nothing but survival, it is urgent we spread this mobilization.

11.17.2015

The Real War

Anonymous

What is the ‘real war’ that grips Western countries?

09.11.2015

Fire to the Houseprojects!

A Manifesto for Berlin

In spite of its tremendous potential, struggles in Berlin seem everywhere to get stuck in dead-ends.

05.04.2015

Snowpiercer : Open Letter to Bong Joon-Ho

Anonymous

We see your film not as discursively "political”, but as simply revolutionary—we see it as a work which, like many others, tries in groping fashion to find a way out of the impasse of the present.