Judith Butler Thinks You’re Overreacting – Interview
How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject shares answers in NYT interview about her new book "Who's afraid of Gender".
Raoul Vaneigem: Abolish Predation – Become Human Again
A call for the global creation of collectivities that struggle for a free and authentic human life
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
Trojan Horses- Activist art and power by Lucy Lippard- a historic essay positively revisited
Positively Trojan Horses Revisited Lucy Lippard’s famous essay on activist art should need no introduction or art historical contextualization; what’s more, “Trojan Horses: Activist
Postmodernism is dead. What comes next? ALISON GIBBONS
From the late 1980s onwards, novelists, artists, critics and art historians have foreseen the death of postmodernism. Linda Hutcheon, in the second edition of
DESTROY ESTABLISHED REALITY! Sissy Doutsiou / Void Network
From the 2005 French riots in the suburbs of Paris and all over France until the Greek social revolt from 2008 to
