Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 52 (December 23, 2024)

Giorgio Agamben: Labour and life

From the pages of Genesis, which present work as a punishment for Adam’s sin, to the oft-quoted passage in The German Ideology in which Marx announced that in communist society it would be possible, instead of working, "to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind", a healthy mistrust of work is an integral part of our cultural tradition.

Agamben rediscovering Idle Theory: http://endgame.co.uk/idletheory/

Olga Taratuta - Wikipedia

Olha Illivna Taratuta (Ukrainian: О́льга Іллівна Тарату́та;[1][a] 1876–1938) was a Ukrainian Jewish anarchist and a founder of the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC).

Second Thoughts on the Treatment of Anarchy - The Atlantic [1902]

This thoughtfully anti-anarchist Atlantic article from 1902 (shortly after the assassination of President McKinley) is interesting to read today