Autonomy, Anarchy, and Plastic Surgery
From Interregnum by R.L. Elson
R.L Elson analyses the decisions, impacts, and outcomes of having cosmetic surgeries and procedures through the concepts of feminism, anarchy, and choice.
From Interregnum by R.L. Elson
R.L Elson analyses the decisions, impacts, and outcomes of having cosmetic surgeries and procedures through the concepts of feminism, anarchy, and choice.
from anon
The Condensed and Cutting Clarity of the Campaign to Play for Keeps
Invisible Generation: Rants, Polemics and Critical Theory Against the Planetary Work Machine. Jason Rodgers. Autonomedia. 2021.
Art is only bearable bearing witness against itself, Jason quotes me as saying in this refulgent collection of 33 essays and 27 flyers, but then her project Campaign to Play for Keeps was one of the publishers of my essay Anarchist Adventures in Wordlessland which began, “Anarchism may be beautiful in practice, but in theory it doesn’t work. It certainly doesn’t work wonders.”
One can only wonder, then, at the delight delivered by this demonstration of wor(l)d play undermining wor(l)d processing. Invisible Generation is anarchism for thinkers, not just readers and writers.
What is your relationship to anime as an anarchist? Do your politics make you enjoy it more or less? What are some of your favorites, and why?
This week we’re taking a look at branding and the “rebranding” of anarchist ideas.
from Freedom News UK
Many could be forgiven for thinking it was a belated April Fools prank when, at the beginning of the month, Freedom Press released a statement reading that close to their premises in Whitechapel and out with their knowledge, the colossal Hilton hotel group had opened an upmarket cocktail bar bearing the name ‘Freedom Café’. Marketed towards “independent thinkers and coffee drinkers”, in true anti-consumerist fashion, the bar sells £14 cocktails named after book titles from the publishing house. Their menu comes in the style of an old pamphlet titled “Anarchist Weekly” and references the historic founding of the publishing house. Readers are enticed inside to find “anarchy, coffee, drinks, and comfort food”. Believe it or not, this appears not to be a joke.
Rarely do ideas speak for themselves - the aesthetics of the pathetic socialist paper being handed out at a rally can do more to sell or repel the audience than what’s actually inside.
Do you keep up with the times?
In the stories handed down to me art (or more broadly culture) served a number of purposes within anarchy and politics more generally.
How do Anarchists recognize one another outside the bookfair, outside the demo, outside the show? In days past, and perhaps still, it was through wearing certain clothes, carrying certain books, presenting a certain attitude, styling one’s hair just so; in other words through an aesthetic.