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From Ill Will by Josep Rafanell i Orra

In December of 2025, a new journal appeared in France entitled À bas bruits [Under the Radar]. In the opening article of its first issue, Josep Rafanell i Orra argues that anarchism has always functioned as an escape route for communities fleeing the iron cage of society. Among the many competing conceptions of what an anarchist politics today could or should look like, Rafanell’s stance is anti-social, yet non-nihilist.

From &&& by Noor Ben-Ami

For the better part of this 21st century, we have all been expected to come to terms with what is essentially a lie—that the international art world is a place representative of moral superiority, of a heightened way of being, a place where utopias can be imagined (then abandoned), and activism comes at no personal cost.