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Essays & Reviews

As Goes Naples

By Michael McCanneFebruary 19, 2014
The disastrous, corrupt "recovery" of war-shattered Naples in Curzio Malaparte's The Skin reflects the rot at the core of the European peace
The Austerity Kitchen

Red Holidays of Genius

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 4, 2014
The Italian Futurists' marriage of man and machine was a feast for the senses
Socialism and/or Barbarism

May the curse of labor be cursed, may the ineluctability of production become its sorrow

By Evan Calder WilliamsApril 25, 2013
Productive life and quotidian life coincide in their misery.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

An exemplary revolt

By Evan Calder WilliamsMarch 4, 2013
Because we don't defend - we attack - there's no need to ask for the disarming of the enemy, just weapons for comrades.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

"a disease that would reveal itself to be incurable: the ever more widespread and pressing war of women"

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 7, 2012
"if the paternal authority that sometimes manifests itself in a merited spanking was to lessen, the family would go to ruin.”
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war)

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 20, 2012
Domestic work today means to literally give over your own life to that of others (kids and husband), to their spaces, to their times, to their rhythms.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

We paralyze the everyday reproduction of the working class

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 23, 2012
from this struggle that built a first breakwater of defense to let us catch our breath and keep our heads above the flood of labor, from this struggle we had to begin.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Destroy yourselves as our bosses. Destroy yourselves as the inexhaustible vacuums of our domestic labor.

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 21, 2012
When the flowers of the garden no longer smell sweet, when the leaves refuse to bloom and the birds to sing, the bosses of the garden go into crisis.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Women in armed struggle

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 20, 2012
The state is astonished. Men are astonished. We are astonished that they are astonished. And now we come to the problem.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

What the hell is the family?

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 19, 2012
it is them, it is women, above all, who have an objective interest in ruining this condition
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