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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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Twenty Years of Militant-Research: La Potencia Destituyente y La Potencia Feminista (DRAFT)
[ part 1 & 2 of an old unpublished essay on the past two decades of ‘militant-research’. part 3, A Feminist Internationale Assembled in a Riotous Manner‘, forthcoming] Demands, protests, petitions, graffiti, discussions, harangues, slogans, shouts, cheers and insults are so many links in a chain of discourse that can give us a great deal…
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Tomorrow was Shahrivar 1401: Notes on the iranian uprisings
[“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 Zhina Uprising 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 & available…
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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Interview with Diego Sztulwark: Thinking about 2001, questioning the subjectivities of the crisis By Ramiro Manduca and Maximiliano de la Puente
The complete interview (in Spanish) can be found here & was first published as part of Aletheia’s ‘Dossier: A 20 años del 2001: memorias, representaciones, militancias y reverberancias.’ Introduction The protagonist of this interview, Diego Sztulwark, is a political scientist whose course has eluded the academic cloisters. His professional work has prioritized thinking and doing with…
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Death haunts every line of flight, tempting revolutionary forms of self-destruction into becoming forms of reactionary suicide
Thesis: States and state-capture [comparison + appropriation] are solutions to the problem posed by the lines of flight encountered in the historical process of State formation. But while both capture and its evasion presupposes these lines of flight as indeterminate processes of destratification, they are perpetually confronted by Death, which haunts every line of flight…
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Destituer le monde est un sport du combat — cursory remarks on M.Tari’s ‘There Is No Unhappy Revolution’
The world too will end; this is certainty and not hope. In fact, countless worlds have ended, are ending as we speak The end of the World depends on us. True friendship is the end of the World, the beginning of our play together. The secret is to begin at the end. How to approach…
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