• An Arc of Solidarity: Remembering Bob Lee (1942-2017)

    An Arc of Solidarity: Remembering Bob Lee (1942-2017)

    It was activists like Black Pan­ther Bob Lee and the orig­i­nal Rain­bow Coali­tion who cre­at­ed change in our nation, by dar­ing to enter dis­tant neigh­bor­hoods and forge alliances. As a polit­i­cal sym­bol, the Rain­bow didn’t refer just to a series of col­ors; it sig­ni­fied an arc of con­nec­tion between dif­fer­ent places and peo­ple. For Lee and oth­ers who par­tic­i­pat­ed with him in strug­gle, this was the only pos­si­ble start­ing point for rev­o­lu­tion­ary sol­i­dar­i­ty.

The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction

The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction

As the con­sumer-ori­ent­ed lib­er­al­ism of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs gave way to the tech­no­log­i­cal author­i­tar­i­an­ism of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, this strange foun­da­tion paved the way for “neo­re­ac­tion,” or, in a dis­tort­ed echo of Eliez­er Yudkowsky’s ratio­nal­ist vision, the “Dark Enlight­en­ment.”

Making Waves (Part 1)

Making Waves (Part 1)

If we want to speak of a work­ing-class par­ty, we need to begin from the work­ing class as it exists, not as we would like it to be. Yet what con­sid­ers itself a blue­print will not and can­not con­cern itself pri­mar­i­ly with a con­crete analy­sis of class com­po­si­tion. The orga­ni­za­tion­al ques­tions it can address are only those posed from above, while those raised from below go unac­knowl­edged.

The Strike of Those Who Can't Stop: An Interview with Verónica Gago and Natalia Fontana

The Strike of Those Who Can’t Stop: An Interview with Verónica Gago and Natalia Fontana

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To strike is to chal­lenge and block the forms of pro­duc­ing and repro­duc­ing life in homes, in neigh­bor­hoods, in work­places. It is to con­nect vio­lence again­st wom­en with the speci­fic polit­i­cal nature of the cur­rent forms of exploita­tion of the pro­duc­tion and repro­duc­tion of life. The strike was the key that enabled us to unite those two things.

Identity Crisis

Identity Crisis

It’s only by acknowl­edg­ing the roots of iden­ti­ty pol­i­tics in the eman­ci­pa­to­ry move­ments of the past that we can begin the col­lec­tive work of for­mu­lat­ing a pos­i­tive alter­na­tive.

The Genre of the Party

The Genre of the Party

I would like to briefly return to what might be the cen­tral prob­lem of polit­i­cal sub­jec­tiv­i­ty, where Marx­ist thought encoun­tered its lim­it and ulti­mate­ly hit an impasse: the par­ty-form and its con­flict­ual rela­tion­ship with anoth­er “form,” that of the “women’s move­ment” and, con­se­quent­ly, fem­i­nism.

The Paradox of Enlightenment

The Paradox of Enlightenment

A curi­ous symp­tom of the resis­tance to the­o­ry on the Anglo-Amer­i­can left is a fix­a­tion on the Enlight­en­ment. The strik­ing para­dox of this fix­a­tion is the anti-intel­lec­tu­al appro­pri­a­tion of a trend of Euro­pean phi­los­o­phy, which is cred­it­ed with intro­duc­ing the now invi­o­lable stan­dards of sec­u­lar­ism, repub­li­can­ism, rights, free­doms, and equal­i­ty.

Striking at the Roots

Striking at the Roots

Our social con­di­tions place demands upon our strug­gles. They force us to change what it means to strike, requir­ing that such a prac­tice ori­ent itself to struc­tures of care, to sex and domes­tic work, to glob­al chains of cap­i­tal­ist, state, and inti­mate vio­lence. A fem­i­nist prac­tice ade­quate to our times can only be an anti-cap­i­tal­ist fem­i­nism.

Striking for Ourselves

Striking for Ourselves

The strike allows us to find each oth­er, and to togeth­er con­sti­tute a new col­lec­tive sub­ject, bring­ing our bod­ies togeth­er in a com­mon action and shared ter­ri­to­ry. Just as women’s labor takes many forms, so does the women’s strike: a work stop­page, a walk­out, a march, a pick­et, a block­ade, a shop­ping boy­cott, col­lec­tive­ly refus­ing gen­der roles.