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Tag Archives: Guy Debord
Free Pussy Riot from Russian jail!
From the new September-October 2012 issue of News & Letters: World in View Free Pussy Riot from Russian jail! by Gerry Emmett Three members of the punk band/art collective Pussy Riot were each sentenced to two years in prison on … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics of resistance, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, David Riff, Franz Kafka, Guy Debord, Maria Alyokhina, Moscow, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot, Putin, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Stalinism, state capitalism, Vladimir Putin, Yekaterina Samutsevich
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Readers’ Views, July-August 2012, Part 1
From the July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views, July-August 2012, Part 1 REVOLUTION, COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND NEED FOR PHILOSOPHY In the Draft of Marxist-Humanist Perspectives for 2012-2013, published in the last issue, while the global analysis is good, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Abahlali baseMjondolo, Alexei Gusev, Arab spring, Bheki Buthelezi, C.L.R. James, China, climate change, Cornelius Castoriadis, democracy, dialectic of negativity, fascism, Ferdinand Lundberg, fetishism of commodities, Frantz Fanon, freely associated labor, Fukushima, global warming, Guy Debord, István Mészáros, Karl Marx, law of value, Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992, Margaret Farley, Middle East, movement from practice, Murray Bookchin, New York City, Occupy Detroit, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Paris France May 1968 near-revolution, Pope Benedict XVI, Raya Dunayeskaya, revolution, Russian protests, Situationist International, structural economic crisis of capitalism, subject, Syria, Tahrir Squares, Unemployed People's Movement, Vatican, Vladimir Putin
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Situationists and Absolute Negativity
From the March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: Philosophic dialogue Situationists and Absolute Negativity It was good to have Ron Kelch’s Essay, “Absolute Negativity, Occupy and Situationists,” in the Jan.-Feb. News & Letters open an overdue philosophic dialogue. As … Continue reading
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Tagged absolute method, absolute negativity, Black masses as vanguard, dialectics, fetishism of commodities, freely associated labor, Guy Debord, Hegelian dialectic, Karl Marx, Marx, Marxist-Humanism, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution, Situationist International, Society of the Spectacle, Subjects of revolution, workers' councils
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Absolute Negativity, Occupy and Situationists
From the new January-February 2012 issue of News & Letters: Essay Absolute Negativity, Occupy and Situationists by Ron Kelch [Absolute negativity] is the simple point of the negative relation to self, the innermost source of all activity, of all animate and spiritual self-movement, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1844 Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx, 1920-21 trade union dispute, absolute method, absolute negativity, April Theses, Arab spring, Charles de Gaulle, council communism, Critique of the Gotha Program, dialectic, France May 1968, Guy Debord, Hegel, Karl Marx, Ken Knabb, Lenin, Leninist theory of organization, Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin, Oakland Commune, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, organization, Paolo Salvadori, Paris France May 1968 near-revolution, René Magritte, Rene Riesel, Russia, Russian Revolution, Russian Revolution of 1917, Situationism, Situationist International, Slingshot, Society of the Spectacle, surrealism, theory and practice, vanguard party, vanguardism, vulgar materialism
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January-February 2012 issue of News & Letters now available on the web
New issue is available on the web. News & Letters, Vol. 57, No. 1 January-February 2012 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead Widening labor and peasant revolts threaten Chinese rulers Protests began in September … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010 Haiti earthquake, Abigail Borah, absolute negativity, Africa, Anders Behring Breivik, Angye Gaona, Arab spring, Asia, Black Skin White Masks, Brother to Brother, China, climate change, dialectic, Durban, economic crisis, Frantz Fanon, global warming, Gordon Hirabayashi, Guy Debord, Japanese internment, Ken Knabb, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-Un, L Boogie, labor, Martina Noel Davis-Correia, National Defense Authorization Act, NATO/G8, News and Letters Committees, North Korea, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, Pariah, peasant revolt, Post Office, Postal Service, postal workers, revolution, sexual harassment, Situationist International, Syria, teachers, women's liberation, workers, Wukan
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