Anarchism for termites: A manifesto

Anarchism for termites: A manifesto

From Autonomies
For Bruno Latour (1947-2022)

When we began to write this “Manifesto”, it was to compliment an earlier exercise in manifesto writing – A moss-like anarchist manifesto – and to continue the sceptical exercise of distilling images and concepts from parallel reflections that have served as inspiration for our own, in this case, Bruno Latour’s essay, After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis.

Call Out from Nowhere

A new, growing, and malignant "collective" of native writers are working on Issue 9 of Black Seed: A Journal of Indigenous Anarchy.

We open this invitation to Indigenous anarchist/autonomist/nihilists who might submit texts (in any form such as essays or poetry & things in-between) regarding the immense subject of “WAR.”

Domination, Hierarchy, Authority, Rules, “Justification,” and The Burden of Proof

*justified hierarchies intensify*

From Center for a Stateless Society by Alex Aragona

The burden of proof to “justify” certain hierarchies, authorities, or rules is on those that are proponents of their continuance. And, the only way one can “justify” the establishment or maintenance of hierarchy, authority, and rules to challenges or inquiries from within or without is if it can be demonstrated that the contexts or dynamics of domination are not present. [...] And if they can’t demonstrate the absence of domination and the presence of consent, they ought to be viewed as unjustified and illegitimate.

Techno-sharia, morality police and psychopolice

From Il Rovescio Via Dark Nights

As I wholeheartedly participate in the courageous uprising of Iranian women, who defy both the high-tech injunctions of the moral police and the murderous lead of the uniformed police, I spit in the face of those who, instead of picking up that example to insubordinate themselves to the “technically equipped barbarism” that imprisons us too and is leading us straight to world war, ill-concealedly contrast “Western freedoms” with Iran’s algorithmic patriarchy.

Night Owls #2: Summer of Sabotage

From It's Going Down

We must learn from the historical mistakes of anti-capitalist strategies that attempted to carve out autonomous spaces or build dual power without also going on the offensive against capital, white supremacy, and the rest of the colonial project. As the essay “Land and Freedom” notes in its discussion of the Back to the Land movement of the 1970s, “the profound need to overcome alienation and reencounter the world will never take us out of harm’s way. If we go to the woods to find peace — not inner peace but an absence of enemies — we’re doing it wrong. Life lived against the dictates of colonization is a life of illegality and conflict” (Sever, Black Seed #1).

Graffiti in Memory of Jennifer Laude + Call to Action

From It's Going Down

Trans and queer anarchists in so-called southern New Jersey stand in solidarity with our siblings in the Philippines. We remember and lift up the memory of our international trans sister, Jennifer “Ganda” Laude, who was hate-crime murdered by U.S. Marine and transphobe Joseph Scott Pemberton on this day October 11, 2014. Pemberton poses a serious risk to communities everywhere as an “international pig” who got away with murder with the help of the U.S. military.

A Blakean Radical: R.I.P. Niall McDevitt, poet

A Blakean Radical: R.I.P. Niall McDevitt, poet (22 February 1967-29 September 2022)
by Alan Morrison
October 11, 2022
https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/4096-a-blak...

Almost incomprehensibly, radical poet, psychogeographer, poetry historian, activist, visionary and devout Blakean, Niall McDevitt, passed away on Thursday 29 September 2022 at just 55 years of age.

Unrest: An Intriguingly Minimalist Chronicle of 19th-Century Anarchy

It’s hard to think of a better title than the one writer-director Cyril Schäublin came up with for his second feature, which chronicles the political fervor swelling beneath the surface of a quiet, picturesque industrial town in late-19th century Switzerland.

Ask not “Who am I?” but “Who might I become?"

Via Anarchy Secession Subsistence From Night Forest Press By Shaun Day-Woods

Ever since I became interested in philosophy, especially its popular varieties, I have encountered the encouragement to ask “Who am I?”. Pursuing this introspection apparently is something that anyone interested in being more enlightened ought to do as it embraces truths, even difficult ones, about our inner personalities. And, I suppose, knowing oneself also has many practical consequences. We become familiar with our limits, our true desires and our fears in order to better interact with, and perhaps even succeed in, the world outside ourselves.

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