“Reflecting on Brazil’s social formation once again in 2003, de Oliveira classed Brazil as a duck-billed platypus: a misshapen mon­ster, neither any longer underdeveloped, nor yet having the conditions to complete its modernization...” -- Alex Hochuli americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-...

“El bolsonarismo no fue un accidente, sino el producto orgánico del colapso del sistema representativo. [...] la derrota de la mediación no genera el fin de la política; solo su mutación en formas regresivas. [...] abrió el camino al fascismo tropical” | Prólogo (Gabriel Teles)

new episode out today! we discuss Horkheimer's essay "Traditional and Critical Theory", asking what actually makes critical theory critical, and whether there's any genuinely critical theory going on right now. the social totality causing all kinds of problems rn fr www.patreon.com/posts/130-ma...

#OtD 9 Mar 1894 German radical artist, Franz Seiwert, was born. He was involved with Dada before helping to form the Cologne Progressives, a council communist artist circle. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1092...

Hans-Georg Backhaus ist mit 96 Jahren gestorben. Ich habe viel von ihm gelernt, mich noch mehr an ihm gerieben. Was mir persönlich von ihm bleibt, ist ein Papier, das ich mit etwa Mitte 20 in der Marx-Gesellschaft vorgestellt habe. 1/4

Reports on the other site that Hans-Georg Backhaus died. RIP king.

“Resistencias, autonomías y luchas sociales en el Brasil de hoy” 17 ENTREVISTAS Los grupos entrevistados fueron los siguientes:

Roland Simon - #Iran 2026

The Grounds of Planning PART II: @abenanav.bsky.social on Utopia, Socialism, and Rationality criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...

Am 05.03. ist Schulstreik gegen die Wehrpflicht Mein Respekt an alle die teilnehmen Hier gibts Infos 👇 schulstreikgegenwehrpflicht.com

“Pahlavi is another Khomeini” Anti-government, anti-Shah pasteup seen in Iran

Statement by the Iran Labour Confederation. iranlc.org/en/12023

ici : sortirducapitalisme.fr/emissions/sy...

RS sur l'Iran (2026) : dndf.org/iran-2026/ “Que la politique puisse être mal orientée, et se faire le meilleur serviteur des ambitions, des intérêts particuliers ou de la vanité des dirigeants, cela ne nous regarde pas pour le moment.” | Clausewitz

Un épisode également publié sur notre page @spectrepodcasts.bsky.social spectremedia.org/podcast/syst...

Nous publions aujourd'hui un épisode issu d'une riche conversation avec les camarades du collectif Réalité. La conversation porte, à partir des articles publiés sur leur site (realite.world), sur leurs insatisfactions théoriques... sortirducapitalisme.fr/emissions/sy...

💥Ankündigung! Donnerstag 05.03.2026💥 🔥✊🏾Schulstreik gegen Wehrpflicht! Nein zum Krieg!✊🏾🔥 Donnerstag, 05.03.2026 | 11:00 Uhr | Potsdamer Platz, 10785 Berlin 📣 Aufruf: www.instagram.com/p/DUaksnsjLAn/ - @streikgegenwehrpflicht.ber #b0503 #Schulstreik #WehrpflichtAbschaffen 1/2

#SchulstreikGegenWehrpflicht schulstreikgegenwehrpflicht.com/streikende-s...

RS sur l'Iran (2026) : dndf.org/iran-2026/ “Que la politique puisse être mal orientée, et se faire le meilleur serviteur des ambitions, des intérêts particuliers ou de la vanité des dirigeants, cela ne nous regarde pas pour le moment.” | Clausewitz

“... Sacha Kahir, Théorie Communiste, Ray Brassier, Neil Gray, Rob Lucas, Nadia Bou Ali, Jessika Khazrik, Andrei Chitu, Marina Vishmidt, Dimitra Kotouza, and Endnotes.” A digital version can freely be downloaded here: archive.org/details/abol...

“Includes texts and interventions from Anthony Iles, Mattin, Andrés Saenz De Sicilia, Bolívar Echeverría, Négation, Federico Corriente, Roland Simon, Anne Boyer, Lisa Jeschke, Em Hedditch,
 Loss Choi, Danny Hayward, Sean Bonney, ...” www.minorcompositions.info?p=1690

Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done under Real Subsumption? Edited by Anthony Iles & Mattin “When capitalism feels inescapable, theory becomes a weapon to challenge fatalistic totalities. This book explores the limits of the colonization of everyday life by economic logic gone mad.”

We Are Prisoners A translation of the autobiographical novel by Oskar Maria Graf. “We Are Prisoners paints a fascinating picture of bohemian life in Schwabing & the radical politics of the time, climaxing with the struggles of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic of 1919.”

On drugs policy and harm reduction in Night Life By TechnoAntonioNegri technomaterialism.com/on-drugs-pol...

“En pleine vague de contestation post-électorale au Brésil, une émission d’analyse des luttes sociales au Brésil depuis 2013 & du néo-fascisme bolsonariste comme « révolte dans l’ordre » à partir de Incêndio, Trabalho e Revolta no fim de linha brasileiro” sortirducapitalisme.fr/emissions/lu...

Now available for ordering and/or free download… Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done under Real Subsumption? Edited by Anthony Iles & Mattin www.minorcompositions.info?p=1690 When capitalism feels inescapable, theory becomes a weapon to challenge fatalistic totalities.

Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done under Real Subsumption? Edited by Anthony Iles & Mattin “When capitalism feels inescapable, theory becomes a weapon to challenge fatalistic totalities. This book explores the limits of the colonization of everyday life by economic logic gone mad.”

Éliane Radigue in 1958 Photograph by Jacques Brisseaut

rip elianeradigue.bandcamp.com/album/trilog...

“En pleine vague de contestation post-électorale au Brésil, une émission d’analyse des luttes sociales au Brésil depuis 2013 & du néo-fascisme bolsonariste comme « révolte dans l’ordre » à partir de Incêndio, Trabalho e Revolta no fim de linha brasileiro” sortirducapitalisme.fr/emissions/lu...

Watched this 6-episodes TV miniseries called Sai 災. Stunning work about loneliness, depression, personal tragedy in everyday life and the trap in struggling to find a meaning behind someone else's death.

Work in progress. Montage de notre conversation avec realite.world.

[work in progress] “Quand une nouvelle ère politique émerge, comme c’est le cas actuellement, les procédures fictionnelles peuvent servir à coaguler le subconscient de la classe, ouvrant la voie à l’émergence d’une subjectivité rudimentaire.” | Phil. A. NEEL & Nick CHAVEZ

m. roberts: “This is an impasse in the style of the Korean war of the 1950s (which officially is still not ended!). The war looks likely to be settled on the front, rather than by diplomacy. So it will continue...” thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/u...

‘The caricature of class struggle between master and servant is not resolved, even though one wishes the other dead. They form an unhappy couple, a pair of attached but redundant beings.’ R. Schwarz on Adorno, on Beckett: newleftreview.org/issues/ii150...

...but rather a reminder that not everyone you will fight along with will call themselves an anarchist, a commie or even a radical. but that's where the power is. to see beyond ideology, beyond politics and to realize the revolt will necessarily be along material lines, not purely ideological ones.

dispossession brings together what affinity cannot do alone. affinity draws us to kindred spirits, but as the barricades return they will draw the whole of the dispossessed. we must be prepared to assess situations as-they-are and not as we-wish-to-be. this is not a call for class collaboration...

Louis Althusser - Sur le matérialisme Thèses de juin et autres textes (1980-1986) À paraître en avril aux Puf

“That hunger, a craving for productivity and profit that never actually materializes, pushes society to devour its own organs of intelligence for short-term gain.”

“In fact, there are reasons to believe the full extent of our creative powers depends on the interwoven interplay of our evolved perceptomotor apparatus, not the mutilated version left by this capitalist division of labor...” brooklynrail.org/2026/02/fiel...

February's Field Notes are now available: brooklynrail.org/section/fiel...

Horkheimer, January 1943 (during the composition of the 1st chapter of dialectic of enlightenment)

translation of Horkheimer’s “last letter” to Henryk Grossman in Jan 1943, which I read not as a breakup letter (it is one, & most do) but as a missed encounter over a shared problem: conceptualizing the unity of “evolutionary” & “revolutionary” moments in Marx’s critique of political economy 🔗 ⬇️

“Dialectics thinks against the dazzling spell of the supersensible world of (economic) value. [...] Dialectics is the cunning of reason in a bewitched society. Negative dialectics is the presentation of the wrong state of things.”

“The mythological idea of fate becomes no less mythical when it is demythologised ‘into a secular “logic of things”’ that on the pain of ruin judges the actions of the actual individuals by means of competing price signals’ (Adorno). Fate is a category of a ghostlike society.” | Bonefeld

Prochaine rencontre à la librairie Libertalia des Métallos: samedi 21 février, 19h30: Le Principe Espérance, du philosophe marxiste Ernst Bloch, présenté par Joel Gayraud, spécialiste de l'utopie. Au 94 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Paris (métro Couronnes). editionslibertalia.com/catalogue/po...

The “Adorno & Communism?” seminar series starts next week! Excited to talk about these texts with you all!

“For deeper & longer lasting than the wars our primers render Are the wars of classes, open or secret, not for enemy Cities but for their own, ending only in revolution Or in a joint downfall of the fighters, rulers & ruled.”