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Stanford University Press

The road to true anarchism

George Agamben: Creation and Anarchy. The work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism

AGAMBE: The archeology of religion, art, politics, and capitalism is not a search for any kind of origin – but a search for a foundation that tears past notions to the root.

The Church and the military

Dmitry Adamsky: Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy. Religion, Politics, and Strategy

RUSSIA: Did the annexation of Crimea really come from religious circles? Membership of the Russian Orthodox Church promotes military careers.

Not quite the same as kindness, gentleness, generosity, as goodness, as sweet, as soft, as the quality of velvet, as subtle secret

Anne Dufourmantelle: Power of Gentleness

: A beautiful and wise book about tenderness as an active passivity and resistance in ethics and politics.

The fire as a source of life

George Agamben: The Fire and the Tale

: Georgio Agamben brings the reader on the trail of the essential questions about the transforming power of literature – the relationship to the mystery of life itself. 

An intellectual ode to Snowden, Assange and Manning

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie: The Art of Revolt. Snowden, Assange, Manning

: Snowden, Assange and Manning represent a whole new way of resisting. The Art of Revolt is as radical and original in its thinking as the three whistleblowers mentioned are in their resistance work.