The tradition of the oppressed teaches us

that the state of exception in which we live is the rule.

We must achieve a concept of history that corresponds to this fact.

—Walter Benjamin

    The concept of Rights is a huge apparatus that creates exclusion, that is based on exclusion, and yet the chorus of protest against every sort of exclusion merely demands rights, hoping that the heaven of Rights extends itself to newer and newer lands. In fact, democracy is conceived as this progressive conquest of newer and newer spaces. This is why it is not only defended, but also exported. The of legal acknowledgements must cover more of the possibilities and aspirations of individuals every day. An individual who has his rights is a citizen, which is to say a being who has the right of citizenship in the democratic City.

    With the most varied intentions, many are waiting for a renewal of democracy.
Continue reading The Camps Under the Heavens by Adonide (Diavolo In Corpo) →

If I don’t know the meaning of a language, I will be a barbarian to the one who speaks it, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me -.Paul, First Corinthians
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Nothing to worry about

Continue reading Nature, C’est Moi by R. D. B. →

Is there a relationship between the birth of the rational mentality and the development of commercial economy? In the 7th century B.C.E., a whole series of tightly connected social changes took place in the Ionian Greek cities of Asia Minor. It is precisely during this epoch that the rational mentality arose, at the time when maritime commercial culture began to experience its first great development.
Continue reading Money and Logos By M. D. P. (Diavolo In Corpo) →

How many people have gone through life without ever waking up!

And how many others have been noticed who live only for the monotonous tick-tock of the clock!

Continue reading For the Poetry of Life by L. Vargas (Diavolo In Corpo) →

“Real life is absent. We are not in the world.”—A. Rimbaud
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Work less to live more. What a beautiful slogan! I wonder if the one who coined it understood the unintended truth it contains, that work is the negation of life. “Eight hours of obligation is enough to exhaust a person’s energy. What he gives at work is his life, the better part of her strength. Even if the work has not degraded her, even if she has not felt himself overcome by boredom and fatigue, he leaves exhausted, diminished, with the imagination withered.” So a worker wrote several decades ago. Anyone who has worked even for just one day understands the meaning of these words. This is why the reduction of work hours has always been one of the primary demands of those who don’t commission the work, but who carry it out, and so bear its entire burden.
Continue reading Eight Hours Too Many? by E. Kerr (Diavolo In Corpo) →

“What do you want, my children? Jobs? Regional autonomy? A pay raise? The vote at the age of 15? Retirement at the age of 45? Equality of the sexes? Keep on asking in order and all of your complaints will be properly treated with the due form.”
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History is a progression toward the origin. Every new beginning in reality transforms all known time. But history is also one: plurality is now a moral slogan, like tolerance. The historians who recount it, who comment on it, who analyze it, obscure its visibility: history is the past! So no one will think of making use of it to transform the present.
Continue reading But Which History Is This? by Adreba Solneman →