by Yavor Tarinski
“Many different alternative movements around the world simply refused to stop imagining that another world is possible: Öcalan and the Kurdish freedom movement belong to this category.”
Continue reading “A Legacy of Autonomy & the Kurdish Freedom Movement”Title: Asking questions with the Zapatistas. Reflections from Greece on our Civilizational Impasse
Authors: Theodoros Karyotis, Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi, Yavor Tarinski
Editor: Matthew Little
Cover: Apollon Petropoulos
Design: George Chelebiev
Publisher: Transnational Institute of Social Ecology
Year: 2022
Continue reading “Asking questions with the Zapatistas: Reflections from Greece on our Civilizational Impasse”In this episode of the podcast “Castoriadis and Autonomy in the 21st Century” author Yavor Tarinski joins the hosts to discuss the projects of Autonomy and Social Ecology, contrasting the visions of Cornelius Castoriadis and Murray Bookchin.
Political activist Yavor Tarinski, author of “Short Introduction to the Political Legacy of Castoriadis” (Aftoleksi, 2020) answers to questions posed by the Greek political journal Aftoleksi on the topicality of Castoriadis’ thought today, during a public event.
What are the perspectives for the project of autonomy that Castoriadis’ thought offer?
Yavor Tarinski: Castoriadis offers an inclusive and holistic understanding of autonomy. He advocates for something quite different from what other autonomists support. Castoriadis challenges narrower understandings of autonomy:
Continue reading “Castoriadis and the Political Question Today”By Yavor Tarinski
« Concern with the problem of organization has meaning only for people convinced that they can and must struggle together (hence, by organizing) and who do not, from the very beginning, assume their own defeat is inevitable. »
~ Cornelius Castoriadis Continue reading “Political Organizing in the 21st Century”
Title: Short Introduction to the Political Legacy of Castoriadis
Author: Yavor Tarinski
Pages: 88
Publisher: Aftoleksi
Year: 2020
Continue reading “Short Introduction to the Political Legacy of Castoriadis (e-book)”
By Yavor Tarinski
The State is a cold concern which cannot inspire love, but itself kills, suppresses everything that might be loved; so one is forced to love it, because there is nothing else. That is the moral torment to which all of us today are exposed.
Simone Weil[1] Continue reading “Nation-State, Nationalism and the Need for Roots”
By Yavor Tarinski
Despite many international meetings, dealing with every subject from biodiversity to climate change, the national political elites have found it impossible to come to meaningful agreements to deal with the environmental crisis. […] There is no avoiding imagining new and different scenarios than the status quo. Surely another world is possible.
– Dimitrios Roussopoulos[1] Continue reading “Climate Change and the Need for a New Paradigm”
By Yavor Tarinski
Though you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security; for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by knavery; but damn ye altogether: damn them for a pack of crafty rascals, and you, who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numbskulls.
Captain Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy[1]
Long-haired preachers come out every night, Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right; But when asked how ’bout something to eat they will answer with voices so sweet: You will eat, bye and bye, in that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, you’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
Joe Hill[2]
Continue reading “Pirates and Hobos: Radical Politics on the Margins of Society”
Interview with Yavor Tarinski
Excerpts from an interview given at the end of May 2016 for an activist group from Freiburg (Germany), aired on radio dreyeckland and freie-radios. Continue reading “On Anti-Authority, Cooperation and Utopia”
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