An image from the future, past, and present
“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
- Anokchan subcommandante
Hello fellow anoks. We would like to take this opportunity to publicly announce the re-launch of Anokchan.
Anokchan is an anarchist image board for sharing and interacting with the haunting spectacle. The website has been around in various iterations since 2010 under the anokchan.com URL, but in 2018 the website moved to anokchan.org. Unfortunately, most of the images from the early days have been lost to time, but their memory lives on, like the 2010 post advising anarchists to mine Bitcoin that if we had only taken more seriously we might be writing this from our boat right now... or maybe we are. For those who remember, previous announcements related to Anokchan were by Papa Smurf, but this new iteration is by different people who have also been around since the start of the image board (Papa Smurf, if you're out there, email us and say hi!).
The website is here for the lulz and other images, but please no gore or other unlawful content. For those, you will be banished to Anokchan hell!
Create the new image of the future, share your anarchist meme on Anokchan!
Here are some quotes from actual Anokchan users interviewed in the streetz:
“The spectacle is Anokchan accumulated to the point where it becomes image.”
“Where the real world changes into simple images, Anokchan images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.”
“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism. However at Anokchan this is not true.”
“The more anok identifies with the dominant images of need, the less anok understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the anok's gestures are no longer their own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to anok by posting ancient memes to Anokchan.”
There are 3 Comments
3rd or 4th relaunch attempt...
Wtf? That board is just as dead as it was last week, or month. Next time try to add some content and invite your (comatose or dead or gone) old buddies maybe, lol
...ok I sound very harsh but I'm really more joking. I'd like to contribute like in the older days, yet I don't feel like doing it alone
fine I'll go meme for meme
fine I'll go meme for meme with you. Bring it on.
"lol your friends are dead or
"lol your friends are dead or gone or in comas maybe"
whatever do you mean "harsh"?