Perhaps the best measure of the significance of Democracy Village as a tent city is to contrast it with what followed in the space of an year. The Arab Spring and the huge encampment at Midan Tahrir Cairo in February 2011 and in the coming spring the Occupy tent cities ..
To understand the month of June 2020 enfolded between Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter requires a reading of its political space as a double emergency. For what intervened in the time of a national lockdown could only be described as another ..
The purpose of this writing is to make a clearing in the time of this pandemic, a space for a clarity of confrontation between the claims to violence in it. The claim between natural violence and state violence – or between the divine violence of nature and mythic violence of law…
We have all become prisoners of the State. Wherever we are across the whole planet. It’s a time like no other time in human history or natural history. Is it a force of Nature as virus Covid-19 that has brought this about; or is it something to do with the nature of our State?
The arrival of the corona virus Covid-19 in Europe was staggered, uneven, belated and sudden. The first reported case of infection may have been on the 27th of January 2020 in Germany, but the virus as a political body arrived in Europe sometime at the start of March.
Terror becomes a means of an embodiment and of realisation as terror essentialised for what the Zapatista call the “mental climate imposed on the world”: to maintain it as it were. The burden of its maintenance is fully democratised as the calling..
