Por Giovanni Alves: Na medida em que incorpora o fetichismo da mercadoria, o capital como modo estranhado de controle do metabolismo social, permeia o mundo social com enigmas e mistificações que nos provocam. Por isso, a necessidade hoje, mais do que nunca, da consciência crítica capaz de apreender, com radicalidade dialética, processos sociais que surgem [...]
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Lubies métaphysiques de la lutte des classes
April 30, 2012
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A propos des présupposés tacites d’un étrange rétro-discours – By Norbert Trenkle: La lutte des classes serait-elle de retour sur la scène historique ? Pour qui prête l’oreille au discours de la gauche, ça ne fait apparemment aucun doute. « C’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait les meilleures soupes », déclare-t-on d’entrée dans le n°4 de la [...]
Read more As contradições da frente neo desenvolvimentista
March 5, 2012
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Por Armando Boito Jr.: [excerpt] “A frente neodesenvolvimentista é a frente política integrada por classes e frações de classe muito heterogêneas que sustentou os governos Lula da Silva e que, agora, sustenta o governo Dilma. Essa frente representa prioritariamente os interesses de um setor importante da burguesia brasileira que é a grande burguesia interna. Essa [...]
Read more Cooperativización: algunas aproximaciones a las relaciones actuales entre Estado capitalista y sectores subalternos
February 15, 2012
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Por Mariana Giaretto: “El análisis de las relaciones entre Estado y clases subalternas a partir de experiencias concretas de tomas de tierras urbanas nos ha permitido identificar a la cooperativización como un proceso en el que se entrelazan complejamente tanto mecanismos estatales de dispersión del conflicto social como estrategias de subsistencia de los sectores populares.” [...]
Read more L’ « économie réelle », c’est le capitalisme ! Au-delà de l’anticapitalisme tronqué de la gauche et du mouvement « Occupy Wall Street »
February 13, 2012
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Par K.B.: « Croissance de l’économie réelle ! », telle est depuis trente ans la position de l’altercapitalisme de gauche sur tous les continents. Pas besoin d’aller très loin, en France, les décombres du mouvement altermondialiste restent ainsi plongés dans une immense nostalgie pour le capitalisme à papa des Trente Glorieuses avec ses entreprises nationalisées, ses services publics, son [...]
Read more Misusing the City Statute in São Paulo
January 27, 2012
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By Patricia Rodrigues Samora*: The City Statute and subsequent São Paolo Master Plan were seen as victories for the housing movement, but the city and state governments of São Paulo, and to a certain extent the federal government, seem to have chosen another way to build the future of our cities. This is a future [...]
Read more The Urban Roots of Financial Crises:
January 18, 2012
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Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle By David Harvey: [ABSTRACT] Property market booms and busts are inextricably intertwined with speculative financial flows and these booms and busts have serious consequences for the macro-economy in general as well as all manner of externality effects upon resource depletion and environmental degradation. Property booms and capitalist crises also [...]
Read more Le mouvement des piqueteros: Argentine 1994-2006
November 30, 2011
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Pour Bruno Astarian: Présentation – (…) Dans l’histoire mondiale du prolétariat, il n’y a pas d’exemple où l’on ait vu les chômeurs développer une activité propre aussi approfondie et construite que celle des piqueteros argentins. Le chômage, même quand il est massif, est le plus souvent considéré et vécu comme l’antichambre du travail, tandis que [...]
Read more Why complexity improves the quality of city life
November 23, 2011
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By Richard Sennett: I want to explore the concept of ‘quality of life’ in cities. My own view can be stated simply: the quality of life in a city is good when its inhabitants are capable of dealing with complexity. Conversely, the quality of life in cities is bad when its inhabitants are capable only [...]
Read more Não há Leviatã que vos salve – Parte II
November 16, 2011
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Teses para uma teoria crítica do Estado. Por Robert Kurz: [Nota prévia] Na nova crise económica mundial longe de estar dominada o Estado mostra-se novamente um actor económico central. Prova-se que a doutrina neoliberal sempre tinha um núcleo estatista. A estatalidade constitui um momento objectivo da socialização negativa através do capital. E, tal como nas [...]
Read more PRESSURE: The PoliTechnics of Water Supply in Mumbai
November 2, 2011
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By Nikhil Anand: “Now there is a [state] policy regulation for water that we are bound by. Those structures prior to January 1995 are eligible for basic amenities. We are allowed . . . supposed to give water to them. Those [who have unauthorized structures built] after that date also get water. They make arrangements [...]
Read more L’argent est-il devenu obsolète ?
November 1, 2011
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Par Anselm Jappe : Médias et instances officielles nous y préparent : dans les prochains mois, voire semaines, une nouvelle crise financière mondiale va se déclencher, et elle sera pire qu’en 2008. On parle ouvertement des catastrophes et désastres. Mais qu’est-ce qui va arriver après ? Quelles seront nos vies après un écroulement des banques [...]
Read more Theses on the New European Fascism
October 28, 2011
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An anticipatory paper of Paolo Virno: [excerpts] 1. At the turn of the century, European fascism is the twin brother, which is to say the terrifying “double,” of the most radical instances of freedom and community that arise in the crisis of the labor-based society. It is the malignant caricature of what men and women [...]
Read more This is Actually Happening
October 21, 2011
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By Escalate (collective of writers and activists from around the University of London) – January 2011 – Introduction: The delusional cries in the media that our protests are hijacked by trouble-makers are indicative of how complete our alienation is. The unspoken belief is that all disorder and disobedience must originate outside of normal society, as [...]
Read more Giorgio Agamben: Política da profanação versus religião do consumo
October 20, 2011
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Por Demétrio Cherobini: Em 1921, Walter Benjamin escreveu um breve artigo que viria a público somente após sua morte: O capitalismo como religião. Nele o filósofo acreditou ter decifrado três das principais características da sociedade capitalista de seu tempo, enquanto fenômeno intrinsecamente religioso. O capitalismo seria, em primeiro lugar, uma religião essencialmente cultual: o dinheiro, [...]
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- PENTECOSTAL BODY LOGICS: Cultivating a Modern Sensorium JOSH BRAHINSKY
