Maurizio Lazzarato, 26/3/2025 Cartoons by Enrico Bertuccioli Translated by Tlaxcala, edited by John Catalinotto Maurizio Lazzarato (1955), exiled in France following the crackdown on April 7, 1979 on the Organized Worker Autonomy movement, in which he was an activist at the University of Padua, is an Italian independent sociologist and philosopher living in Paris. He …
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Arming to save financial capitalism!
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Refusing Complicity in Israel’s Literary Institutions
A letter by writers, translators, publishers, and other book workersMonday, October 28, 2024: We, as writers, publishers, literary festival workers, and other book workers, publish this letter as we face the most profound moral, political and cultural crisis of the 21st century. The overwhelming injustice faced by the Palestinians cannot be denied. The current war has entered our homes and pierced our hearts. The …
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We need a pedagogy of resistance
Milena Rampoldi, 28-10-2024 Pedagogy is one of the fundamental sciences when it comes to changing the world, which we do not like the way it looks right now. Pedagogy thus has the task of anticipating the socio-political utopia that we would like to see in the near future. Pedagogy should sow the desire in our …
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‘Never Again for Anyone’: The Shoah after Gaza
Pankaj MishraRead the essay here
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Werner Rügemer, a voice from the other Germany: interview
Fausto Giudice, 23 April 2021 Werner Rügemer undoubtedly belongs to that “other Germany” – the one we love -, the one of “poets and thinkers” (Dichter und Denker), engaged in a secular struggle against that of “judges and hangmen” (Richter und Henker). We felt it was urgent to talk to him. Dear Werner, on 4 …
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Half a bread and a book
Speech given by Federico García Lorca at the inauguration of the first library in his village, Fuente de Vaqueros (Granada) (1931) When somebody goes to the theatre, a concert, or whatever event; if the feast pleases him, he immediately remembers his loved ones and feels sad that the people he loves are not there. “How …
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so you want to be a writer?
Charles Bukowski – 1920-1994 From sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to …
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