“…what can be said of a political sequence wherein a disparate set of events such as these come to serve as its inflection points? They are, if anything, the serial expression of a collective desire for bringing about an end to this world. A collective desire whose content is not the restoration of dignified estrangement, […]
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Black Skin, Black Masks
[Hostis Journal: We received this mail from a conspirator. It will be included in Issue 3, “Fuck the Police”] What up Hostis, This is a thing I made while watching the facebook live of the first night of rioting in Charlotte, NC (and reading the unfortunate comments). I guess the intention behind it is to […]
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 […]
This text was translated from the French by Robert Hurley and merits a statement regarding the context from which it emerged. The original article,‘contre létat d’urgence, l’urgence de prendre la rue,’ was written upon request by the French newspaper Le Monde. The newspaper had asked for a commentary from some of the Tarnac defendants ( […]
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SAD ASIAN GIRLS
Before getting right into the work of SAD ASIAN GIRLS CLUB and some of the ideas and politics behind what SAGC produces, could you tell us a little bit about how you all came together and started this project? Has SAGC kept (relatively) the same members since it was first started? We heard that the […]
On Hostis’s removal of Nina Power’s ‘zine‘It’s Not a Debate, It’s a War’: We are removing this pamphlet as an act of solidarity with transfeminism. Hostis has always defined politics as acts of partisanship in the ethical game of alliances. Our actions follow from the conviction that there is no room for debating reactionaries. There […]
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Hostis Primer: Blackness
PDF, For Printing / For Reading This paper is on the darkness that clings to so-called “afro-pessimism.” My thesis is that to take the “pessimism” of afro-pessimism seriously, I argue for moving from the metaphysical pessimism of making claims about this world to the moral pessimism of a fatalistic attitude towards the world.
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Hostis Primer: Riots
PDF, For Printing / For Reading August 13-16 1965, the blacks of Los Angeles revolted. An incident between traffic police and pedestrians developed into two days of spontaneous riots. Despite increasing reinforcements, the forces of order were unable to regain control of the streets. By the third day the blacks had armed themselves by looting […]
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Hostis Primer: The State
PDF, For Printing / For Reading Japanese director Nagisa Ōshima’s 1968 film Death by Hanging begins with the execution of an ethnic Korean man, R. Miraculously, the hanging does not kill him; in fact, the only effect of the hanging is that it erases his memory. Taken by surprise, the officials argue about how to […]