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  • Making Fires Does You Good

    Making Fires Does You Good

    Author Diaty Diallo on the lessons of street action and fire building in Paris during the protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.
  • Translating Crooked Plow

    Translating Crooked Plow

    "When people speak of this book in Brazil, they speak of it not only as a published novel but as an event, a happening, something of national importance." — Johnny Lorenz, translator.
  • Who Will Build the Ark?

    Who Will Build the Ark?

    "Since most of history’s giant trees have already been cut down, a new Ark will have to be constructed out of the materials that a desperate humanity finds at hand in insurgent communities, pirate technologies, bootlegged media, rebel science and forgotten utopias."

  • Macron and the Civil War in France

    Macron and the Civil War in France

    Macron recently side-stepped France's Parliament to institute an unpopular, neoliberal law raising the country's pension age. But Macron is only the most visible symptom of a system that has become totally infected with neoliberalism.
  • Press Release from Soulèvements de la Terre

    Press Release from Soulèvements de la Terre

    In France, over the past two weeks, more than thirty arrests have been made in environmentalist circles, and attempts have been made to dissolve Les Soulèvements de la Terre, despite the fact that more than 100,000 people have publicly claimed to belong to the movement, and despite the support of dozens of trade unions, farmers' organisations, associations, parties, MPs, senators and intellectuals.
  • Make it New

    Make it New

    Recent years have seen a growing number of convincing pop songs produced entirely by machines. But what does this development tells us about contemporary culture's increasing homogeneity, and can artists use the technology against itself to create something genuinely new?