No Ethical Activism Under Capitalism

C4SS grindset

from Center for a Stateless Society by Emmi Bevensee

One of the strongest critiques of anarchism (or consequentialism) I’ve heard (often from former anarchists no less) is that it’s too hard. And maybe it is. Hard problems don’t have Solutions in pure form. They have scales of tradeoffs and inventiveness at the margins. Your best hope with hard collective action problems is usually that prosocial tactics and incentive structures proliferate rapidly in a cascade of concurrent action. But at the end of the day, if you try to change anything in this fucked world, you will have dirty hands.

Elon Musk Says That Politically, He’s a “Utopian Anarchist”

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From Futurism.com

"I don’t mean to suggest chaos, but rather that you’re not under anyone’s thumb."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn’t one to follow rules, particularly when he thinks they’re bogus.

Help Us Recover from the Fire that Destroyed Our Mailorder Space

from CrimethInc.

Burnt Down—But Not Out!

On December 15, 2021, the mail-order space of the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective was destroyed in a catastrophic fire that reduced three large buildings to burned-out shells in downtown Olympia, Washington. Yes, that’s the fire in the photo above. Thousands of our books, posters, and stickers were entirely consumed, not to mention equipment and supplies. We lost everything that was in the space.

Viva l’anarchia: Lina Wertmüller (1928-2021)

from Autonomies

If we may venture a claim about a central idea in the films Lina Wertmüller, it is that they express the impossibility of politics without love – such a politics would be reduced to the management of life and the extraction its energy –, and of love without politics – love is shaped and winnowed through the many layers of relations of power that mark everyday life. It is through this lens that Wertmüller reads political ideologies and human behaviour and agency, a lens that can only reveal and revel in tensions, incoherencies and contradictions. If her films defy ideological purity, to the dismay of her critics, she turns the accusation back on them – for those who are willing to see –, unmasking the demands for “purity” as the greatest form of violence, because it can tolerate no disorder, no wild life, no anarchy.

Timothy Morton on Immediatism Podcast

Timothy Morton's essays on Immediatism podcast at Immediatism.com

Timothy Morton has called themself an anarchist ontologist. Five of Morton's essays have now been read on Immediatism podcast, across the 17 episodes linked below. Perhaps of greatest interest to anarchy generalists would be the fifth of these, entitled "Things in Common" (episodes 719-723), which serves as the introduction to their book, "Humankind: Solidarity With Non-Human People" (Verso, 2017).

What Is Mutual Aid?

You aid mee and I aid youuuu, MUTUAL AIIIIIIIIIIIID! Gotta aid them all, gotta aid them alllll! Mutual AID!

from Unoffensive Animal

Mutual aid has been in the spotlight recently in light of the current crisis, but what exactly does it mean? And what makes it a powerful form of anarchist praxis unique from charity and volunteering?

Well, ‘mutual aid’ is essentially the very radical notion that co-operation, rather than competition, is what drives communities forward

Framing the Mentally Ill

Welcome to my twisted mind

from Bright Lights Film Journal

An Anarchist-Theoretical Understanding of Two “Jokers” by David Christopher

This article aims to demonstrate the ways in which media interests at the levels of cinematic production through to their journalistic reception work to control and marginalize certain progressive ideologies that run counter to their interests, in this particular case by deploying widespread stereotypes of mental illness and instability that map neatly, in the arena of normative ideology, onto the image of the insane clown (always an “anarchist”). It also intends, more specifically, to demonstrate the ways in which progressive anarchist philosophy remains an ideological scapegoat for even ostensibly left-inflected political stances.

Festival Feast After Plague is postponed to the next May

Sputnik business is fishy

Festival Feast After Plague (formerly Father Frost against Putin) is postponed to the next May, due to too slow opening of the external EU borders.

Festival will be organised from 6th to 9th of May 2022.

The modern situation requires a change in the aesthetic and conceptual forms of expressing the real.

Another incentive to rethink representation and tactics was the pandemic and macro-political vulnerability, rallies and waves of new political repression in Russia and Belarus, which affected all aspects of our life.

Embracing Anarchy - Introduction

from Libertarian Labyrinth

Embracing Anarchy — Becoming Anarchists, Constructing Anarchisms

There are plenty of reasons why anarchists find themselves so divided in the present, many of which will not be easily overcome. Let’s not let that worry us. If we find, as well we may, that some anarchisms are ultimately incompatible with one another, antagonistic in their expressions, incommensurable in their specific conceptions, so be it. There is a proposal to accompany the analysis presented here, but it is not a proposal for unity.

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