Hostis Journal
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 […]
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 […]
What we have undertaken must not be confused with anything else and cannot be limited to the expression of certain ideas or even less to what is rightly considered art. It is necessary to produce and to eat: many things are necessary that are still nothing, and so it is with political agitation. Who imagines, […]
The Police = The Enemy We are persuaded by the Situationist belief that all good critiques can be boiled down to a slogan. Those for our issue? “All Cops Are Bastards.” “Fuck The Police.” “Off the Pigs.” “Fire to the Prisons.” The job of the police is to put everything and everyone in its proper […]
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 […]
Hostis, Issue 2, “Beyond Recognition,” is now available from our distributor, Little Black Cart. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction Recognition and its Discontents 2. Five Theses on the Politics of Cruelty 3. A Letter to the Editors – Mary Nardini Gang 4. A Cautious Reply 5. THE REAL WAR [La guerre véritable] – Anonymous 6. […]
We are happy to announce that Hostis issue 1 is now available in PDF. Issue 1: Cruelty Few emotions burn like cruelty. Those motivated by cruelty are neither fair nor impartial. Their actions speak with an intensity that does not desire permission, let alone seek it. While social anarchism sings lullabies of altruism, there are […]
[[[[+++++++++===========================——————–——- Have you ever been surveilled by the police or the state? I am looking to collaborate with people who, like myself, have had the experience of being surveilled. I wish to find a way to both resist the interpolative act of surveillance, and acknowledge the psychological and emotional impact of this experience through an […]