Who Can Still Cultivate the Uncomfortable? - Scrutiny #2: An Anarch Journal of Review

Scrutiny is a lucidity pact. Not an ideology, but a form which we take towards all things. To our own ideas. To the past. To the numb future. In these pages the rampant contradictions and divergences have a thin veil of warfare. Even at the smallest level there must be violence against the culture, against the image, against the robot, against its knowledge and its material. Who are the last agents who can still summon this near-exterminated, irrational violence? Who can still cultivate the uncomfortable? Scrutiny is the engine, powering us towards the receding cliffs of rupture.

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Scrutiny is sorely needed, everywhere. That has been our assessment. If we are to move beyond the banal and redundant self-referential mediocrity of this current reality, we need to be far more relationally critical and honest, not only of the horrifying world at large, the varied environments we are part of, and our own thoughts and actions, but most force- fully with the withering anarchist space we still dwell within (somewhat reluctantly and certainly marginally at this point, we suppose).

The Tamarix Project on Immediatism podcast

These two magical green anarchist pieces offer us ways to relate to our animated environment as powerful equals. In Tending the Body of the Goddess, we see that being stuck in grief for Nature can prevent us being a true partner to her. Freedom from grief allows us to flourish along with Nature. The second piece models a style of interaction with the undesirable thoughts that crowd our minds, whether nightmares or just civilization's intrusions; by calling the Night Mare to us, holding her, working with her, and then freeing her, we can become free of our nightmares. Both pieces are beautifully written and quite moving. Immediatism has received strong positive feedback on these. Check out The Tamarix Project, Backwoods Journal at LittleBlackCart.com, or Oak Journal for more like them.

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