anti-civ

A Dagger of Feral Anarchy

by Flower Bomb

I remember once over-hearing a conversation in which there was a debate between using “post-left” or “anti-left” to describe anarchy beyond leftism. I thought this was an interesting conversation because it reminded me of how I once viewed and related to anarchy. I remember having viewed anarchy as a world to create, necessitating the organization of others to materialize it. Over time my relationship to anarchy shifted. Soon I found myself relating to anarchy as a sense of feral becoming – a personal revolt that placed emphasis on self – responsibility rather than co-dependence on others. This shift came from the understanding that people are not a singular mass herd of mindless followers but instead unique, complex individuals capable of independent thought, decisions, and actions. For me, anarchy beyond leftism abandons the idea that people are in need of organized leadership, and puts forward an understanding of how people discover their own power best when they’re governed, organized, or controlled the least.

An Anti-Civ Critique of "Post-Civ"

what a piano looks like after you set 9 billion ppl free in the forest to hunt/gather

by ziq

While much of the fallacious green-scare red anarchists have been stirring up since the 1990s can be traced with a straight line directly to Kaczynski, ITS and DGR, there's also a green anarchist tendency that seems to only exist because of that same green-scare: post-civ anarchy. This tendency, while being anarchist and anti-civ, still manages to feed the big lie that other forms of green anarchy are deviant and bigoted ideas that we need to loudly castigate and distance ourselves from at every opportunity. It repeats that tiresome myth that primitivism is a political program to remake society in the image of indigenous gatherer-hunters and subsistence farmers, the same way communism is a program to remake society in the image of the collectively-owned factory worker.

Arson attack against telecommunications antenna

It is in this last front, responding to the call to raise the memory of punky in this Black May, is that we have decided to attack a telecommunications antenna of the Entel company, located on a hill in the commune of Puente Alto, in the capital of the territory dominated by the Chilean state. We are and will always be against the advance of technology and the digitalization of our lives. The existence of these means the exploitation and devastation of the ñuke mapu, the extraction of its minerals through the genocide of wild species in pursuit of the filthy commodities needed by the warriors to reproduce their cursed existence. Antennas like this one erode their natural environment, both at the time of their installation, as well as in the recurrent maintenance they require. Moreover, the effects on the different beings produced by a world overloaded with electromagnetic waves through these antennas and new technologies such as the 5G network are doubtful. We are not scientists nor do we pretend to prove that they do harm, but the invitation of our instinct to destroy them is enough for us.

‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’

Ecological anarchist and anti-extractivist struggle by Riona O’Regan

From Taylor & Francis Online by Alexander Dunlap

Full title: ‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’ Decolonial encounters and the anarchist critique of civilization

Where are green anarchist and anti-civilization thoughts in academia? This article offers an encounter between green anarchism and decolonial theory to demonstrate its relevance as an action-oriented practice carried out across the world by groups or individuals rejecting domination and subjugation by state, capital, and other forms of power.

My Anti-Cull Philosophy part 2

from Eco-Revolt by Julian Langer

[This is being published in an upcoming pamphlet with the first section, through Forged Books.]

Last night I woke up at 3am, full of thoughts that I am going to seek to communicate here, as a second part to my My Anti-Cull Philosophy. Part of my intention for writing this in this way goes with plans for the first part to go in a collection, with some anti-totalitarian poetry. Unlike the first part, this section has one key idea of focus – the link between cull ideology and totalitarianism. 

Invecchiare Selvatico on Immediatism Podcast

Invecchiare Selvatico's book Black Blossoms at the End of the World, with poetry and songs by Nazel Pickens, is a compilation of essays, fragments, scribbles, letters, rants, songs, and ramblin's discovered in a secluded backwoods cabin. Written by a primary editor of Green Anarchy magazine who has used a variety of names, these essays are timely and relevant to our lives. "Can Bricks Break Diametrics? On Decapitating Two~Dimensional Binary Thinking" challenges our language and ideas, potentially leaving us better anarchists for having considered these. "Their World is Virtually Done" is a rant on "the almost encompassing grasp technology has over humans."

TOTW: Against Architecture

Fun fact: A hummingbird's nest is mostly spider silk, lichen and saliva.

I have been thinking recently about what seems to me to be one of the greatest failures of anarchist, anti-technology and anti-civilisation discourse and practice. This failure is that of not having presented much, if any, critique or challenge to architecture, which seems to me to be the cage that captures most within the totalitarianism of this technologically dependent culture.

NO PATH

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AGAINST SPECIESISM, CIVILISATION AND THE REIGN OF IDEAS

We warmly invite our unknown comrades to submit original essays, English translations of beloved texts, poetry, artwork and whatever else potentially relevant to the following topics: anti-speciesism, anti-civ anarchy, nihilism, egoism, gender chaos, rewilding, irrationality. Beyond these more specific concerns, we also wish to pose a riddle: How are we to affirm the here and now, with all its toxic overflows, not pretending to be somewhere else?

(Submissions by mid May or sooner would be great - we hope to release by summer 2022).

Anarcho-blackness on Immediatism podcast

Immediatism has recently added a number of recordings of writings by Black authors. The first is autobiographical whilst the second starts out biographical then segues to analyses of the laws and institutions that controlled Black people after the end of slavery. The third, No Selves to Abolish, presents afropessimism; "[I]t is not simply at odds with, but is in fact hostile to identity and privilege politics -- whether Black or non-Black" (from the intro on TheAnarchistLibrary.org). The fourth, Anarcho-Blackness makes the point that there are many anarchist factors and aspects at work presently in Black communities and asks the question: If Blackness is anarchic, do Black individuals necessarily need to identify as anarchists? Fifth is Flower Bomb's piece which analyzes The Future as a kind of control limiting us in the present.

Cannibal Metaphysics on Immediatism Podcast

Anarchists have a troubled relationship with anthropology. Many of us are sympathetic to the enduring tribulations of people and worldviews that are indigenous in the onslaught of western culture's hegemony. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is known for having offered, in the book Cannibal Metaphysics, a vision of anthropology as the "practice of the permanent decolonization of thought." He shows that "Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours -- in which nature and culture, human and nonhuman, subject and object are conceived in terms that reverse our own. (From the publisher's description)".

Kill The God of Work & All His Clergy

Anti-work cartoon

From: https://raddle.me/wiki/anti-work

I'd say one of the most impactful components of anarchy through the ages, and especially in this current decade is anti-work - the idea of completely rejecting the notion of work. Though as old as civilization itself, anti-work ideas have been steadily regaining momentum in modern times, starting in small anarchist circles, and now taking off explosively in mainstream culture. Millions of people around the world have suddenly found themselves exposed to this very anarchist concept.

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