Tag Archives: Greece

Nikos Vrantsis: “Exarchia or How to Frame a Revolution”

Posted on November 17, 2019 by

“We need to start using words once more. Perhaps this reflection on Exarchia could be the triggering effect for us to talk about the problem of cities, with our focus on our collective problems: the epidemic of loneliness, political disenchantment, environmental degradation, commercialisation of neighbourhoods and cities.”

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Tasos Theofilou: ‘“I am not innocent”: Writings from a Greek prison’

Posted on April 30, 2019 by

“Theofilou gives testimony on the brutality of prison life, and its centrality in contemporary capitalism, through a blur of memoir, social commentary and free verse. His work centers on exposing the conditions of widespread exploitation and social struggle that persist in Greece as a result of the debt crisis — in prisons as well as in mainstream society.”

Posted in anarchism, disobedience, ethics, freedom, justice, Nota Bene, resistance, the Left, tyranny, violence

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“Love and revolution” (2018): A film by Yannis Youlountas

Posted on August 6, 2018 by

A documentary film-testimony of struggles for autonomy in Greece, letting those who are directly engaged in these struggles speak for themselves.

Posted in anarchism, Blog, crisis, film, fraternity, resistance, the common

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Kenan Behzat Sharpe: “Trapped in between: 1968 in Greece and Turkey”

Posted on May 19, 2018 by

“The 1960s explosions in Greece and Turkey were neither of the First or Third Worlds, the core or the periphery: they combined elements of both.”

Posted in defeat, disobedience, freedom, Nota Bene, resistance, the Left, tyranny

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Stathis Gourgouris: “Preliminary Thoughts on Left Governmentality”

Posted on May 9, 2018 by

“In the manufactured politics of crisis that we see increasingly in many societies around the world, the question of what politics can overcome the impasse of so-called democratic rule, which serves as a cover for the domination of liberal oligarchies, has become urgent. Mining the most radical elements in Foucault’s thinking about governmentality, this essay seeks to imagine a politics of left governmentality that would evade the pitfalls of left populism.”

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Despina Lalaki: “Charting Syriza’s swift rise and fall”

Posted on January 30, 2018 by

“Profoundly disappointed, not merely with the capitulation of the government but also its alienation from the party and the movements, Helena Sheehan [in The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left (2016)] evaluates through her interviewees and discussants some of Syriza’s fault lines as well as the prospects of the Left’s recomposition, especially after the break of the left wing of Syriza and the large exodus of dissidents both from the government and the party.”

Posted in defeat, governance, melancholy, Nota Bene, resistance, the Left, tragic politics

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Theodoros Karyotis: “The Right to the City in an Age of Austerity”

Posted on November 13, 2017 by

“In Greece, resistance to austerity comprises a mosaic of struggles for a right to the city, conceived as the collective self-determination of everyday life.”

Posted in autonomy, crisis, Nota Bene, power, resistance, the common, the Left, tragic politics

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