ANews Podcast 347 – 1.12.24
From ANews Podcast
Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org
From ANews Podcast
Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org
From Patreon dot com by Layla AbdelRahim
Conversation with John Zerzan
Today is the Old calendar New Year, so I decided to end my series on War and Civilisation with hope. May this year be one of hope!
Klee Benally RIP. A more nuanced account? of trans/TERF. Sports in shambles, one more sign of collapsing civ. More mainstream notice of anti-domestication (e.g. Never Alone author on NPR Jan. 1) Huge drop in time spent with friends. Children killing children. 42.9% rise in obesity, almost 10% morbidly obese. Failure of "cool streets." Firebomb's swan song, Action news, one call.
Guest TOTW by John Zerzan
Topic of the Week: What is post-Left? Various groups, projects, etc. including anarchistnews are referred to as 'post-Left." What does that actually mean, what does it signify or include? Others (e.g. JZ) feel that anti-Left is a required orientation. Is post-Left a substantive designation?
Gaza bludgeoned and starved, no functioning hospitals. Crazed global weather. Online slander. From microplastics to nanoplastics. Deaths due to smartphones. Homelessness, "Deaths from despair" thesis. All of us Strangers. JVL Rewilding book now available. Ellul discussion. "How Else Is It Possible" poem. Action briefs. One call.
From John Zerzan Anarchy Radio
Kathan co-hosts. Ways news media keep us in the dark. Over 600 mass shootings so far this year. Ozone hole, eco-anxiety grow. Women in prehistory better hunters than the men. No "off" switch for AI. "Digital dementia.""Life Really Is Better Without the Internet."Anti- transphobia action in Portland."Slow Burn: Civility and the White Community."
From John Zerzan: Anarchy Radio
Israeli genocide - is it sparking a new era of resistance? Latest enviro bad news, life declines.Message from Tina, action briefs, events. "AI Safety Summit"(!) in UK. AI revealed, tech addiction(nomophobia). News from Chiapas. Adverse tech health effects. DEVO on tour at 50: "We arekind of like the house band on the Titanic." Walking down, pedestrian deaths up. More inert, less alert.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4sFrfLFU8&t=4s
Reduced Description
Anarchist author John Zerzan joins us to talk everything primitive. It was an absolute pleasure having you on John!
Anarchy Radio: https://johnzerzan.net/radio/
Some of Zerzan's books for purchase can be found here: https://feralhouse.com/?s=john+zerzan
From John Zerzan dot net, Anarchy Radio
Memorial Day weekend carnage. Extinctions: much worse than thought. Red Sea coral die-off. Big increase in weight loss surgery for children and teens. Record police killings in past year. AI is feared and unpopular. Anti-tech Chicago Med TV show. e-skin, e-fake media.What's up at Thacker Pass. Anarchist book fairs galore, resistance briefs. Bison rewilding project in Alaska. One call.
From It's Going Down
Fediverse Grows as Musk Tanks Twitter; Far-Right Beaten Back from Eugene to Penn State
Upcoming anti-civ talks. Cooking reduces energy expenditure of chewing; major evolutionary impact. Author-activist-anarchist Allan Antliff is call-in guest (postmodernism, Camas Books, Victoria Anarchist Book Fair). Anarchist actions, book fairs. Smartphones as deadly distraction. U. S. life expectancy declining. "Love" in the Metaverse. Is radical energy returning after 20-something years in U. S.? One call.