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Category Archives: Blog
Kristian Williams: ‘“Full Spectrum Resistance”: a field manual for insurgencies’
Posted in agonism, anarchism, Blog, disobedience, freedom, governance, justice, power, revolt, revolution, rights, tyranny, violence
“Reading the History of Slavery: 3 Experts Offer Book Recommendations”
On the ways the history of slavery informs our present.
Crystal Eddins: “The First Ayitian Revolution”
“And given that the island was essentially a black space from the mid-1500s forward, we can think of this historical trajectory not in terms of the maroons fighting back against empires, but as empires attempting to repress – and in some cases to co-opt – those who had already liberated themselves.”
“‘Black Patriots’ Were Heroes Of The Revolution — But Not The History Books”
“A new documentary, Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution, introduces us to heroes of the American Revolution who aren’t typically found in history books. They are a writer, a double agent, a martyr and a soldier — and they are all black.”
Posted in Blog, film, freedom, revolution, rights
Tagged American Revolution, race
Joseph Fronczak: “Melancholy and Mobilisation”
A review of Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso
Posted in Blog, defeat, film, melancholy, power, revolution, the Left, tragic politics
Tagged Judaism
Keith Thomas: “Does Liberalism Have Its Roots in the Illiberal Upheavals of the English Reformation?”
Review essay of James Simpson’s book, Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism.
Posted in Blog, disobedience, power, revolution
Tagged Calvinism, English Revolution, liberalism, Reformation
“Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe”
“We focus on how the memory of civil resistance has been produced in documentaries, memoirs, commemorations, archiving projects as well as in the visual and literary arts.” Project leader Prof. Ann Rigney, Utrecht University
Posted in Arts, Blog, disobedience, resistance
Tagged memory
ROAR Collective: A Dual Power Reading List
An anthology from the magazine.
William Dalrymple: Review of “The Buried” by Peter Hessler – Life, death and revolution in Egypt
‘In this scheme, the fall of Mubarak, the chaos of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the restoration of authoritarian rule under Sisi also follow rhythms familiar to Egyptian history. Hessler sees a mirror in the story of the pharoah Akhenaten – a failed revolutionary whose attempt to introduce monotheism was crushed in “what was possibly the first military coup in human history” by his general Horemheb, and whose tyranny was consolidated by Horemheb’s successor Ramesses II.’
Posted in Blog, governance, power, revolution, tragic politics, tyranny
Tagged Egypt
