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The stirring speech given by Peter Sloterdijk in Lucerne in October 2022. From time immemorial, humanity has had to organize their "metabolism with nature." For Marx, the most important factor in this process was labor. When Prometheus, according to the myth, brought fire to earth, another crucial input was added. Fire has been used to cook food and harden tools for(...)
Prometheus's remorse: From the gift of fire to global arson
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The stirring speech given by Peter Sloterdijk in Lucerne in October 2022. From time immemorial, humanity has had to organize their "metabolism with nature." For Marx, the most important factor in this process was labor. When Prometheus, according to the myth, brought fire to earth, another crucial input was added. Fire has been used to cook food and harden tools for hundreds of thousands of years. In this sense, it can be said that all history implies the history of the uses of fire. But whereas trees could only be burnt once, labor and fire shifted with the discovery of underground deposits of coal and oil. Modern humanity, according to Peter Sloterdijk, can be considered a collective of arsonists who set fire to the underground forests and moors. If Prometheus were to return to earth today, he might regret his gift; after all, what looms is nothing less than Ekpyrosis, the demise of the world in fire. And only a new, energetic pacifism can prevent this catastrophe.
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The world is marked by deepening conflicts—between democracies and autocracies, woke and populist identity politics, rich and poor, continued environmental exploitation and harsh complications like climate change. In "The monadic age," Ingo Niermann argues that, stirred by rapid developments in automation and AI, these manifold crises are about to culminate in a new(...)
The monadic age: Notes on the coming social order
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The world is marked by deepening conflicts—between democracies and autocracies, woke and populist identity politics, rich and poor, continued environmental exploitation and harsh complications like climate change. In "The monadic age," Ingo Niermann argues that, stirred by rapid developments in automation and AI, these manifold crises are about to culminate in a new paradigm of self-sufficiency—monadism—that overturns the liberal era and forces a reinvention of all social parameters. Today, two major post-liberal dispositions are unfolding. On the one side, people envision a harmonious community of all human and nonhuman beings (multi-species kinship, a rainbow of identities). On the other side, people isolate themselves within their own identities and belongings (filter bubbles, safe spaces, gated communities, charter cities, prepping). Monadism recognizes that these two seemingly contradictory dispositions stem from a similar understanding of the world: one is more optimistic, the other more pessimistic, but ultimately they’re interdependent. Before seeking harmony, we humans, a highly dominant species, must first of all restrain ourselves from coercive interactions with our environment. And to protect ourselves sufficiently from our environment, we must minimize its abuse.
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Against the pernicious machinations of modern-day capitalism and a perverse optimism that sustains it, ''Disconsolate Dreamers'' explores the extent to which pessimism is compatible with a radical utopian goal - namely, a collective escape from the misery of modern existence. It shows that, in a thoroughly hopeless world devoid of rational alternatives, it is time for the(...)
Disconsolate dreamers: On pessimism and utopia
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Against the pernicious machinations of modern-day capitalism and a perverse optimism that sustains it, ''Disconsolate Dreamers'' explores the extent to which pessimism is compatible with a radical utopian goal - namely, a collective escape from the misery of modern existence. It shows that, in a thoroughly hopeless world devoid of rational alternatives, it is time for the Left to consider the pessimist a helpful guide out of the somnolence of capitalist realism, revealing how pessimism necessitates a radical revision of utopian alterity.
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Frugalité : Un récit heureux
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La frugalité dit la juste récolte des fruits de la Terre. Les Romains, avec les Grecs, l'accordaient à un idéal personnel, à la santé, au plaisir, à une vertu politique, mais pas à une abstinence et une mortification. La frugalité est joyeuse, créative, et propose une autre façon de vivre qui valorise le déjà-là, la mutualisation, le partage, et prônes les usages(...)
Frugalité : Un récit heureux
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La frugalité dit la juste récolte des fruits de la Terre. Les Romains, avec les Grecs, l'accordaient à un idéal personnel, à la santé, au plaisir, à une vertu politique, mais pas à une abstinence et une mortification. La frugalité est joyeuse, créative, et propose une autre façon de vivre qui valorise le déjà-là, la mutualisation, le partage, et prônes les usages transitoires. La frugalité en territoires ménage plutôt qu'elle aménage. La frugalité est une autre façon d'« être au monde », une relation à la Terre qui se veut heureuse et durable. Dans ce carnet de 48 pages illustré par les dessins de Judith Potin, l'architecte Philippe Madec pose les principes fondateurs d'une philosophie devenue Mouvement, celui de la Frugalité heureuse et créative.
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Lamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the dead and the more-than-human. Gestures such as singing or breathing, gathering, and performances that exceed rationality can inspire a renewed approach to(...)
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Urban lament: Collective expressions of pain, rage and affection
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Lamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the dead and the more-than-human. Gestures such as singing or breathing, gathering, and performances that exceed rationality can inspire a renewed approach to life and death, rural and urban. After all, amidst ongoing processes of extinction, how to mourn a queer activist, a Roma father, a burnt forest, an exiled body, and a ship sunken in the Mediterranean? How to experience loss not as something individual, but within an expanded continuum of pain? How to explore emotions beyond the private sphere? Through case studies and narrations, in different times and geographies surrounding the Aegean Sea, this book amplifies the echoes of collective tears to invigorate contemporary mourning practices that claim public space by grief, rage, and affect.
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Since Hamas’s attack on Israel last October 7, the term "settler colonialism" has become central to public debate in the United States. A concept new to most Americans, but already established and influential in academic circles, settler colonialism is shaping the way many people think about the history of the United States, Israel and Palestine, and a host of political(...)
On settler colonialism: Ideology, violence, and justice
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Since Hamas’s attack on Israel last October 7, the term "settler colonialism" has become central to public debate in the United States. A concept new to most Americans, but already established and influential in academic circles, settler colonialism is shaping the way many people think about the history of the United States, Israel and Palestine, and a host of political issues. This short book is the first to examine settler colonialism critically for a general readership. By critiquing the most important writers, texts, and ideas in the field, Adam Kirsch shows how the concept emerged in the context of North American and Australian history and how it is being applied to Israel. He examines the sources of its appeal, which, he argues, are spiritual as much as political; how it works to delegitimize nations; and why it has the potential to turn indignation at past injustices into a source of new injustices today. A compact and accessible introduction, rich with historical detail, the book will speak to readers interested in the Middle East, American history, and today’s most urgent cultural-political debates
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Philosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. From the philosophical ferment of the Enlightenment arose the idea of emancipation, a conflictual perspective which Marina Garcés would have us rethink. "New radical Enlightenment" lays out the need for critical dissent as a new beginning for the humanities in apocalyptic times. The productive(...)
New radical enlightenment: Philosophy for a common world
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Philosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. From the philosophical ferment of the Enlightenment arose the idea of emancipation, a conflictual perspective which Marina Garcés would have us rethink. "New radical Enlightenment" lays out the need for critical dissent as a new beginning for the humanities in apocalyptic times. The productive dissent she envisions is established on the inclusion of multiple perspectives attending to common problems.
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The Situationist International, which leaped to the fore during the Paris tumult of 1968, has extended its revolutionary influence right up to the present day. In "Leaving the Twentieth Century", the movement is captured for the first time in its full range and diversity. McKenzie Wark traces the group’s development from the bohemian Paris of the ’50s to the explosive(...)
Leaving the Twentieth Century: Situationist revolutions
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The Situationist International, which leaped to the fore during the Paris tumult of 1968, has extended its revolutionary influence right up to the present day. In "Leaving the Twentieth Century", the movement is captured for the first time in its full range and diversity. McKenzie Wark traces the group’s development from the bohemian Paris of the ’50s to the explosive days of May ’68. She introduces the group as an ensemble, revealing the work and activities of thinkers previously obscured by the reputation of founding member Guy Debord. Roaming through Europe and exploring the vital lives its members—including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michèle Bernstein, Alexander Trocchi, and Jacqueline de Jong—Wark uncovers a group riven with conflicting passions. She follows the narrative beyond 1968, to the Situationists International’s disintegration and beyond: the ideas of T. J. Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, René Vienet’s earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s pranking of the Italian ruling class, Alice Becker-Ho’s account of the anonymous language of the Romany, and Debord’s late films and his surprising work as a game designer.
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Deleuze et Guattari
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Dans cet ouvrage, Igor Krtolica propose une analyse claire de l’ensemble des œuvres de De;euze et Guattari pour montrer deux choses : qu’elle est en prise étroite sur la conjoncture politique, car elle analyse les nouvelles subjectivités qui émergent après-guerre et cristallisent dans les mouvements révolutionnaires de la fin des années 1960, comme les réactions(...)
Deleuze et Guattari
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Dans cet ouvrage, Igor Krtolica propose une analyse claire de l’ensemble des œuvres de De;euze et Guattari pour montrer deux choses : qu’elle est en prise étroite sur la conjoncture politique, car elle analyse les nouvelles subjectivités qui émergent après-guerre et cristallisent dans les mouvements révolutionnaires de la fin des années 1960, comme les réactions contre-révolutionnaires qui les répriment et font craindre l’instauration d’un nouveau type de fascisme; mais aussi que cette œuvre a une prétention universelle, car les nombreux concepts qu’inventent Deleuze et Guattari remplissent une fonction intempestive, celle de saisir dans chaque présent historique ce qui recèle une puissance d’avenir et de devenir, formant ainsi une clinique des devenirs ou une médecine de la civilisation — avec une vigilance particulière pour ces moments critiques où se lèvent les devenirs-révolutionnaires, comme pour ceux où les choses risquent de mal tourner.
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This book gathers all the questions that appear in the following books by Angela Davis: Angela Davis: An Autobiography, (1974); Women, Race and Class (1981); Women, Culture & Politics, Vintage (1990), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, Vintage Books (1999); Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003); Abolition Democracy: Beyond(...)
The collected questions of Angela Davis
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This book gathers all the questions that appear in the following books by Angela Davis: Angela Davis: An Autobiography, (1974); Women, Race and Class (1981); Women, Culture & Politics, Vintage (1990), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, Vintage Books (1999); Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003); Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire, Seven Stories Press (2005); The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (2012); Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2015). This a non-profit project. The money obtained by Gato Negro from the sale of this book finances the printing of other copies that are distributed free of charge in antiracist and prison abolition spaces and organisations among Latin America.
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