Hostis, We read your cruel little journal in a single sitting, deriving a great deal of enjoyment from the sandpaper-bound pages. While the journal generated much discussion in our private reading of it, we’d like to decrypt a few points to share with you at this time. In particular, we’d like to address your engagement […]
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Five Theses on the Politics of Cruelty
1. The politics that seduces us is not ethical, it is cruel. We contrast the politics of cruelty to the politics of ethics. Ethics goes all the way back to the Greeks, whose ethics was the study of ‘the good life.’ Our interests do not lie in being better than our enemies. There is only […]
For reasons that will become evident in the course of this text and to save the reader the trouble of sifting through the details, we offer up our analysis at the start: the politics of recognition, insofar as recognition is treated as the means for collective emancipation, is nothing more than a mirage that welcomes […]
We are excited to reissue Jaleh Mansoor’s “Notes on Militant Folds,” which has been previously available in print and has appeared in a slightly different form under the title “Triode to Resistor: Notes on Militant Folds” on the now defunct magazine platform Cladius App. “Notes” is a critique of the Tiqqun essay “Preliminary Materials […]
The recent media attention to anti-fa has us thinking about writing from the last cycle of struggles. A notable one that has been hard to find in its original format is the Institute for Experimental Freedom’s “God Only Knows What Devils We Are: An Apologia for the Black Bloc from the Community of those who do […]
Hostis is a negation. It emerges devoid of ethics, lacking any sense of democracy, and without a care for pre-figuring anything. Fed up with the search for a social solution to the present crisis, it aspires to be attacked wildly and painted as utterly black without a single virtue. In thought, Hostis is the construction […]
by Julio C We hereby reject any form of self-imposed austerity. We posit that we want nice shit for everybody and that is not only feasible but desirable. We will not put forth graphs announcing how much work (or not) will require such a project but will state that such a project is part of […]
by Tom Nomad and Gallus Stanig Mag “Revolutionaries always pay their parking tickets” -William Haver Introductions Anarchist discussions of illegalism become confused when it is defined in relief; “if the law is a criminal imposition by the ruling class, criminals are truly revolutionary regardless of their actions” they say. Such a definition leads to idiotic […]
By Daniel Gutiérrez “Laçan defines madness as being spoken by language rather than by speaking it. The destruction of language as communication renders the initial solidarity… to deafness… the word of authority swamps that of the individual, dislodging his most personal interests.” -Stephen Boldy “Hace ya tiempo que nos acabaron las ganas de hablar.” – […]
Taken from O Globo Translated by Pepe Rojo Brazilian capo speaks like a prophet; everything he said is both actual and unsettling. Marcos Camacho, better known by his nickname Marcola, is the leader of a criminal organization in São Paulo, Brazil, called Primer Comando de la Capital (PCC, Capital’s First Commando). Marcola’s answers allow us […]