Free City Radio Episode with Yours Truly

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From Outside the Circle by Cindy Milstein

My longtime friend Stefan Christoff sat down with me on a park bench this past winter, both of us bundled in coats and scarves, to chat about anarchism. It wasn’t all that cold outside. Still, it was March in Montreal—meaning there is often a long way to go before one reaches the possibility of warmth, (re)emergence, and blossoming.

Perhaps it was the perfect time for a conversation—or rather, interview for Stefan’s Free City Radio show—about trying anarchism for life, because we often have a long way to go, too, as warm-hearted rebels before the possibilities we offer up against this icy-cold social order start to (re)emerge and blossom.

Now Stefan’s labors have flowered into episode 169 of Free City Radio, recently broadcast on five stations in so-called Canada, and I’m delighted to share the link with you, if you feel so moved to listen.


Ostensibly, the show was supposed to revolve around my latest book, #TryAnarchismForLife (Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness, with joyous cover design by @eff_charm using a circle A by Landon Sheely). Yet one of the many things I appreciate about Stefan, who has been and remains anarchistically awesome for years, is that he curates all sorts of imaginative cultural spaces, leaping off the predictable (in this case, a straightforward book interview) to weave artful alternatives and dreamy otherworlds.

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Not that this short radio chat does all that. Nonetheless, I like to think that our real-life friendship shines through and our shared commitment to not merely the #ArtOfResistance but also conversing and organizing as if social relations matter. As if promise and possibility and care matter.

One can only do that, I think, if one hangs onto prefigurative politics, which brings us full circle to my book—made up of picture-prose that look at some of the many beautiful dimensions of anarchism.

Which circles us to one of the artists in my book, @the_sabot_cats, who sent me these two photos of their circle A framed by their adorable graffiti!

https://www.tangledwilderness.org/shop/p/try-anarchism-for-life

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #TheBeautyOfOurCircles

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Good luck Cindy with your creative resistance to normality, it has a lot less ressentiment than the seething destructive leftist form.

So just because a simpering liberal steps one foot outside the mainstream she's now engaged in "creative resistance"?! Her project can only be characterized as resistance by using the most extreme generosity.

It's possible for prefigurative politics to project a centralist attitude in its transitional pragmatic stage.

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