Andreas Petrossiants

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

"Billionaires, the corporate lobby, and the political right don't need an uptick in crime numbers as pretext to start drawing blood from the mayor. Tisch doesn't require any reformist provocation from the mayor to openly defy his leadership."

Mamdani Is Getting Snowballed by His Own NYPD The situation is absurd. The stakes are real.

Nick Pinto in Hell Gate on the anarchist snowballers, hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...

"Police unions operate at the same piercing frequency of grievance whether an officer is killed or just gets wet."

The extent to which search functions got worse, across the board (on macs, search engines because of AI rather than page rank, etc.) must have more to tell us than just being a good example of enshitification. I am trying to periodize not being able to find files with notes about periodization ...

Defund this

This guy gets it.

Is It Simple to Be a Communist in Philosophy? Review of Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy - Notes - e-flux Jason Read reviews Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri by Alberto Toscano.

Great review of Toscano's new book by Jason Read
www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...

If you write about FIFA’s obscene Gaza plans without mentioning that Israel has systematically destroyed Palestinian football by murdering Palestinian footballers, destroying Palestinian pitches and blocked Palestinian footballers from training or playing, you are part of the problem

The Epstein household may have reached extremes of sadism, but its political economy is becoming less exceptional .. When a single individual disposes of more money than a government grant awarding agency or research university, the impact on knowledge production and academic relations is profound.

"...the treatment of in-house domestic servants, primarily black women: any attempt at labour organisation was met with the argument that they were family members, hence liable to be treated with the same sanctified forms of abuse as next of kin."

"The appropriate reference point here is not the nuclear family but the household economy, where production is inseparable from reproduction, and the management of business assets is coextensive with the preservation of family possessions."

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

As always Melinda Cooper's work is impeccable and so astute. "Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order." www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Boycott this monstrosity

Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy — Common Notions Press Take Over the City provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and the extraordinary urban struggles of 1970s Italy.

Don't sleep on Neil's forthcoming book. It's so excellent. Pre-order available now www.commonnotions.org/buy/take-ove...

Looking Back with Silvia Federici: A Conversation - Journal #160 Andreas Petrossiants talks to Silvia Federici about her childhood in Italy and her political radicalization.

SF: "... in moments of struggle, when the masses mobilized, many militants, including the intellectuals, would leave the party. But in times of defeat, they would go back to it. The Communist Party was like a big womb that would always take them back."
www.e-flux.com/journal/160/...

"... the agency has so far purchased 11 warehouses for a sum of $697.4 million in funds from the billions they received in Trump’s funding bill last summer (that total excludes the sale prices that have not yet been made public.)"

YouTube video by pepitá música Prendiamoci la città - Pino Masi (Canzoniere Del Proletariato) [1971, IT/EN]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLIn...

Someone demanding you agree to vote for Newsom is demanding absolution, they feel a building shame and guilt for their complicity in this system but rather than self-reflect or reconsider, they demand the more victimized absolve them by agreeing that there is no alternative to that complicity

Those "national policies" were, above all, neoliberal economic policies designed to shift resources from workers' income to capitalist profits. They began with Carter/Volcker & continued under both Dem's & Repub's. On the beginning: la.utexas.edu/users/hcleav...

So deeply profoundly disappointed by Wenders.

Marina Vishmidt Reading Group: A Dis/Course Workshop with Andreas Petrossiants In gathering to read Marina Vishmidt’s work together we will attend to her crucial contributions to understanding the hurdles that emerge in revolutionary activity. Among them: “The politics of subjec...

For those in nyc, I'm honored that the poetry project invited me to host a reading group about the work of the brilliant Marina Vishmidt. www.poetryproject.org/events/marin...

però io lo leggo con piacere :)

trayvon martin would be 31 today 😢

what did you send ?

Looking Back with Silvia Federici: A Conversation - Journal #160 Andreas Petrossiants talks to Silvia Federici about her childhood in Italy and her political radicalization.

Sat down with Silvia Federici to talk about her recollections of wartime and postwar struggle in Italy, her radicalization in Buffalo, and WfH, among other things www.e-flux.com/journal/160/...

"AP: What was May ’68 like for you in Buffalo?

SF: I was getting an abortion during May ’68."

The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.

" do not try to derive a political program for populations inside Iran that, in practice, translates into support for the Iranian state. ..."

"Any immediacy in dealing with the situation, any fetishism of “action” for its own sake that attempts to bypass this fact will only lend itself to one of the aforementioned projects."

"Moreover, even if such a position were available, no organized leftist force currently exists in Iran that could take it. ...