Tag Archives: Nuit Debout

Now and the anarchy of destituent power: Reading politics with the invisible committee

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

… they wanted to reinvent everything, each day; to make themselves masters and possessors of their own lives. Guy Debord If to constituent power corresponds revolutions, uprisings and new consititutions, that is, a violence that lays down and constitutes new … Continue reading →

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Reading our times with Now: The invisible committee

Posted on May 27, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Beginning by abandoning the old idea of revolution and reinventing it … Not as a new ideology but as a true praxis of an ethics of freedom to redefine the desirable and the undesirable and to create a new subjectivity … Continue reading →

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France 2015-2017: Permanent rebellion

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

On the eve of the french presidential elections, we share from the Crimethinc collective,  the first of two reflections on french politics, that is, on the only politics that matters, that which comes from below …

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The ZAD: an autonomous zone in the heart of france

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

From Roarmag collective (26/01/2017), a reflection on the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes by Martin Legall, a pre-figuarative struggle for autonomy … 

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Nuit Debout: Where lies the filthy beast?

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

(Yaya) The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another… We are the State and we shall continue to be the … Continue reading →

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Nuit Debout: Interventions by the revolutionary erotic committee

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

We believe, without any doubt, that it is when each anonymous being gains consciousness of her/his pure potential and capacity to act, it is then when the wheel of dissidence begins to turn. It is then that it is unstoppable.  … Continue reading →

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Nuit Debout: To live the commune – To live the revolt

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Nuit Debout in Paris and elsewhere in france continues to occupy public squares, after now two months.  The “movement’s” resilience testifies to agencies and virtues that are quickly passed over or ignored by far too many.  This is of course … Continue reading →

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Nuit Debout: Reflections in movement

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Nuit Debout, Place de la République, Paris, is a political space of many voices, where no one view dominates, or can gain dominion, as long as the general assembly which lies at its heart remains an open, horizontal assembly.  Reflection … Continue reading →

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Nuit Debout: At the banquet of intellectuals

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Revolution is not ‘showing’ life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, … Continue reading →

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Nuit Debout: Reading an occupation

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

The principal function of politics is the configuration of its proper space.  It is to disclose the world of its subjects and its operations. Jacques Rancière, Ten Theses on Politics The occupation of the Place de la Republique of Paris by “Nuit … Continue reading →

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