For a Theory of Destituent Power
The place and function of the police is undecidable and must remain undecidable, because if it were really absorbed in the judicial power, police could no longer exist.
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TOXICOLOGY: lethal forces
The poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves … categorized according to Graeber and Wengrow’s three basic forms of domination. See our About page for more info.
Neoliberalism and the “Davos Class”
If we understand the complexity of mechanisms by which neoliberalism maintains its power, we have to hit at many different levels that are not necessarily political, but nevertheless are instruments of power.
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Wall Street’s Latest Land Grab
We’re going to be paying our rental checks to financial institutions that collude with the big banks that orchestrated a foreclosure crisis that pushed us out of our homes and tore apart our communities in the first place.
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After the Ball, Burschenschaften Explained
In Austria, right wing extremism is having a ballby Natascha Strobl for LeftEast3 February 2014 (original post) It is a sad fact that each year right-wing student fraternities, the Burschenschaften, are allowed to hold a ball in the Hofburg palace. It has grown into a major event on the yearly calendar of the Austrian and
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The Radical Pessimist on Iran
The poorer countries of the world are getting a cold because the United States sneezed. It’s unfair and it shows how the balance of power works in the world economy, but it also shows what came out of the 2008 crisis.
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Neo-Nazi Frequencies
Born as out of some immaculate conception, there is no parental lineage to speak of and the modern xenophobic populist party neither has to defend their belief in national socialism nor reject any connection to it.
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European Asylum after the Lampedusa Tragedy
After ships carrying hundreds of refugees sank off the Italian coast recently, we must demand a change in asylum and immigration policies or surrender to the logic of barbarism.
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Die Flucht – Die Herzlosen
Dieser Text wurde anlässlich einer Zugbesetzung geschrieben und den Passagieren per Lautsprechanlange vorgelesen. Ziel der Aktion war es, der Flucht eine Geschichte, und den Fliehenden eine Stimme zu verleihen.
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On Bullshit
Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it.
Syria and the Euro-Leftist Double Impotency
Much of the European left’s argument against the revolution was demanding proof from Syrians on their worthiness of support, asking them to demonstrate that they are “revolutionary enough.”
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