Critical thinking without guarantees.
Anansi Tactics is an attempt at critical thinking without guarantees. We come from different radical traditions. We agree, and we disagree—and that’s not a weakness. It’s the method.
No One Is Irreplaceable (?): “Worn” Roles and the Politics of Circulation in Movement Collectives
Let’s begin again with a film—as we did in an earlier text in this series, “The Rooster of San Michele.” In 1967, a year before Parisian students took to the streets and May ’68 became the symbol of an entire era, Jean-Luc Godard made a…
The Rooster of San Michele: Generations, movements, and a shared ground for meeting (?)
Frame from the final scene of San Michele Had a Rooster (Taviani), finale.
The Defection of the Intelligentsia and the Historical Recession of the Labor Movement
The prolonged crisis of the labor movement and the contraction of communist parties in Europe cannot be adequately explained as the outcome of electoral defeats, organizational weaknesses, or external pressures such as globalization and…
The German Revolution
Brian Peterson’s article, “Workers’ Councils in Germany, 1918–19: Recent Literature on the Rätebewegung,” stands as one of the most systematic and theoretically charged interventions in the debate on the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and…
The Return of Obscurantism
This article argues that the Trump phenomenon is not a historical anomaly but the mature expression of a long process of decomposition in the American cultural and political subject. Drawing, on the one hand, on Aubrey Immelman’s…
On the occasion of yesterday’s “deadly storm”: Notes toward an ontology of the flood
In the opening pages of Political Theology, Carl Schmitt formulates a proposition that sounds simple but is explosive: “Sovereign is he who decides on the state of exception.” Written in 1922, the sentence describes a logic that far…
Institutionalism as a Substitute for Politics: SYRIZA and the Drift Away from the Gravity of the Times
In periods of historical turning points, politics is not judged by its compliance with institutions, but by its capacity to confront them. And yet SYRIZA’s contemporary strategy seems to have invested almost exclusively in a rhetoric and…
From public discourse to public normality: how the media construct a new conservatism
The public debate ignited around Maria Karystianou’s statement on abortion is not merely another episode of cultural confrontation. It is an indicative example of how the media—through the language they choose and the frame within which…
Greenland Is Not for Sale”: The Arctic, NATO, and Inuit Self-Determination
Analyst Pavel Devyatkin and activist–lawyer Aaju Peter speak on Democracy Now! about Greenland’s geopolitics, escalation risks, and Indigenous demands for sovereignty.
Labor as the First Algorithm: Reflections on Artificial Intelligence
In Greek myth, Talos was a bronze giant who guarded Crete. He had been forged by Hephaestus and given to Minos as a gift. Three times a day he circled the island, hurling rocks at any ship that drew near. He had only a single vein, running…
The Assistants of Defeat
In the essay “The Helpers,” included in the book Profanations, Giorgio Agamben turns his gaze to the strange creatures who parade through Kafka’s novels: the “helpers” (Gehilfen) who do not help, do not understand, have no gift, cause…
When the Revolution Eats Its Own Pyramid
There is a sentence that repeats like a dogma in every revolutionary tradition: unity of command is a precondition for victory. The army needs a head. The organization needs leadership. The revolution needs a vanguard. That is what we were…
