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‘The Resurrection of a Revolutionary Paradigm’ – Alain Badiou [ENG Translation]
What follows is a rough ENG translation of Alain Badiou’s Preface for Hongsheng Jian’s book, La Commune de Shanghai et la Commune de Paris (La Fabrique, 2014). In the modern world, the history of revolutions consists of only five paradigms, if by ‘paradigm’ we understand not only revolutions themselves (fortunately there have been many more…
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STRANGE SAMENESS: Canis (un-)Familiaris & the Logic of Estrangement in Aaron Schuster’s How To Research Like a Dog (2025)
Maximum strangeness coupled with maximum simplicity marks the gesture out as animal. — Walter Benjamin, ‘Franz Kafka’ What follows is a transcription of some notes prepared for the launch of Aaron’s recently published book, How to Research Like A Dog (MIT Press: 2025). Of the various arguments and themes covered in this book and their…
aesthetics, Alienation, anti-oedipus, Art, Capital, Césaire, colonialism, Deleuze & Guattari, deleuze-and-guattari, Derrida, desire, Dialectics, Difference, discourse, estrangement, Fanon, form, global south, History, indiscernibility, kafka, karl-marx, literary-theory, literature, machinic, Marx, Marxism, marxist-theory, minor-literature, national liberation, Philosophy, Politics, Power, Psychoanalysis, Resistance, schizoanalysis, slavery, Species-Being, Theory, Walter Benjamin -
THE LOGIC OF REVOLUTION IN POPULAR FORM
PDF version here As the movement continues, there will come a time when the spirits of the masses will change. It is inevitable that their desires and interests will evolve, transforming spontaneous actions into conscious endeavors. Mohammad Mokhtari, ‘A Study of the Slogans of the 1979 Uprising’ (1980). The Birth of A New Cycle of…
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ON ANTI-FORGETFULNESS WARS AND ANTI-OBLIVION STONES: An interview with Nasser Abourahme
The following interview with Nasser Abourahme took place on 11 November 2023 and covers a range of issues related to the struggle for Palestinian liberation: the economic consequences of Israel’s unforgiving siege of Gaza on its domestic economy; the notion of the military and the moral as the twin fronts of Palestinian liberation; the global…
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“…we speak the same language”
1. Volume 2 is the first published account of Claire Fontaine’s reception in Iran and consists of a conversation, beginning from shared principles, and interrogates various possible translations/adaptations of two works by Claire Fontaine: Human Strike and Foreigners Everywhere. 2. One of the central themes of this conversation is translation——Claire Fontaine’s differing works, the Marx…
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Tomorrow was Shahrivar 1401: Notes on the Jina Revolution
“Kurdistan is the graveyard of fascists.” Woman carrying a stone to defend herself from the live ammunition of police. An overview of the first month of the Jina Revolution and analysis of the struggle in the wake of the Evin Prison fires, co-authored with Iman Ganji. This text first appeared in e-flux notes here and…
anti-oedipus, Becoming, Capital, Communism, Deleuze & Guattari, feminist international, global south, human strike, internationalism, iran, Jin Jiyan Azadi, kurdish women's movement, kurdistan, Minor Politics, minoritarian-becoming, practice, Resistance, revolution, State, strike, Theory, Zhina Uprising -
Communism as the Riddle Posed to History
On May 24, we admired on television the impressive Paris demonstration called by the central CGT trade union. Throughout the country were other demonstrations. We were jubilant. If the most important workers’ union embraced the movement, we had an avenue for hope! We saw proof of this in president General de Gaulle, casting his bait…
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the bitter experience of workers in iran: from the General Strike to اعتصاب انسانی (with A Reply to comrades from angry workers of the world)
This report was written on July 1, 2021 and published by Angry Workers on July 9, 2021. At the beginning of the revolution we were strong and the enemy was weak. The leadership of the Islamic regime flattered us. They shouted their support for the deprived masses. But at the very same time the Islamic…
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