Government in the future – Noam Chomsky
This is a text of Noam Chomsky's 1970 lecture on the possibilities for a libertarian socialist society and against both liberal capitalist and state socialist alternatives.
Organization and Its Theories- by Jasper Bernes
Lots of people are reading Rodrigo Nunes’s Neither Horizontal Nor Vertical this summer, including some people to whom I recommended the book, and so I thought I’d do a post about it. When I was writing my review of Vincent Bevins’s If We Burn, I
The ‘Gemeinwesen’ Has Always Been Here: An Engagement with the Ideas of Jacques Camatte
The following article (re-published here by Void Network) was sent to Ill Will Editions by ex-Monsieur Dupont co-author Peter Harrison. In addition to offering
The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy
Watts 1965 . . . Minneapolis 2020 Here’s what the situationists said about riots, looting, and the condition of black people in America 55
Pandemic Dystopias: Biopolitical Emergency and Social Resistance
VOID NETWORK (Athens Greece) – written by George Sotiropoulos & Gene Ray – 4 / 4 / 2020 ____________________ “I didn’t think the Apocalypse
HISTORY IS NO LONGER ON OUR SIDE: an interview with JÉRÔME BASCHET
Ιnterview conducted on September 12, 2019 by ACTA, on the occasion of the publication of Baschet’s new book on the Gilets Jaunes uprising, Une Juste colère.
Premonitions: Fragments of a Culture of Revolt- an interview with AK Thompson
AK Thompson’s newest book, Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt, is focused on strategic and analytical insights about how our social movements work,
Everything must go! The abolition of value – Bruno Astarian and Gilles Dauvé
This book is about a revolution (i.e. a historical break, not gradual peaceful evolution) that creates communism – not its preconditions. The main difference
Between Past and Future: On the Contrasting Fortunes of the Far-Right and the Far-Left in Europe By George Sotiropoulos / Void Network
A specter appears to be haunting Europe, but it does not wear red. The recent European elections are the last in a series of
Diagnostic of the Future: Between the Crisis of Democracy and the Crisis of Capitalism- A Forecast- by Peter Gelderloos
In this in-depth analysis, Peter Gelderloos explores the technological and geopolitical changes that movements for liberation will face over the next several decades. How
The Market Theocracy – by ANGELA NAGLE
Τhe recent Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece The Handmaid’s Tale has been interpreted by commentators with remarkable uniformity, as a nightmare vision perfectly timed for a
Travelogue: For a projectuality in times of war (and in times of peace)
The need for compasses Often we think of our ideas as pillars staved-in stable grounds. However, the grounds are generally stable but in appearance.
The crisis in modern masculinity- by Pankaj Mishra
Luridly retro ideas of what it means to be a man have caused a dangerous rush of testosterone around the world – from Modi’s
Walter Benjamin: Messianism and Revolution – Theses on History
Walter Benjamin’s relevance for activists today is most strongly felt in his works on social transformation. In the sixth of eight pieces on Benjamin,
Η Σουηδία και ο σοσιαλδημοκρατικός μεταμοντερνισμός- Γιώργος Κουτσαντώνης
«Στον κόσμο που ζούμε […] τα τείχη δεν είναι στέρεα και σίγουρα δεν διαρκούν για πάντα· είναι ιδιαίτερα κινητικά και θυμίζουν στον ταξιδιώτη της
An Essay on Liberation- Herbert Marcuse – 1969
Acknowledgments Thanks Again to my friends who read the manuscript and whose comments and criticism I heeded throughout: especially Leo Lowenthal (University of California
NECROPOLITICS by Achille Mbembe
How do contemporary forms of subjugation of life to the power of death (necropolitics) profoundly reconfigure the relation between resistance, sacrifice, and terror? This
