“No Rules, Just Chaos”, and “Burn World Bank” by a group of informal affinity

We are responsible for the burning of Two Hana Bank ATM machines, the Hana Bank office building, a capitalist-owned advertising videotron, and a motor vehicle belonging to the Indonesian National Army. The arson occurred after a space occupation carried out by demonstrators in the aftermath of a demonstration against the passage of the Indonesian National Army Law (TNI law), the arson occurred in Bandung, West Java on Friday night 21/03/2025.

TOTW: abstractions and embodiment

Topic of the Week - This won't be fully fleshed out (ha, did you see what i did there?) but I've been thinking a bit about the way that anarchists (at least as victims of western civilization) can be very abstracted from our bodies, how that is a part of computer culture, the impact of smelling people, of hearing them move and breathe, of the ways that being in someone's presence is more than the sum of its parts, of how ideas float away from our physical beings, of generalizations and how they are fun to play with but also distract from our subjective, individual experiences.

Chaos, nihilism, and the way of “No Surrender”

(or, In defence of the Chaos Star and the Nihilist-Anarchists)

from Alpeh's Heretical Domain by Aleph Skoteinos

[T]he Chaos Star is also one of a number of esoteric symbols that have been altered and recuperated by fascists as representations of their movement, leading some leftists to declare that the Chaos Star is itself a fascist symbol, despite the fact that it was a non-fascist symbol invented by a man whose own political convictions put him completely at odds with fascism. And recently, this has resulted in an entire tendency of anarchism, namely the nihilist anarchists, being tarred over the use of the Chaos Star in an image declaring the nihilist-anarchist position. Both anarchists and presumably Marxists take turns saying both that nihilist-anarchists are incapable of threatening the system and that they are dangerous fascist counter-revolutionaries, without the slightest bit of irony or self-awareness regarding the outright regurgitation of that old far-right trope that their enemy is strong but also weak.

The Oystercatcher #18, on Immediatism podcast

Enjoy these four recordings of pieces from the latest issue of The Oystercatcher journal, which is full of gorgeous surrealist art not able to be represented through the podcast medium. charred discusses the condition and situation of being a settler in Beyond the Ecology of Presence: Being Anarchists on Indigenous Lands. Steven Cline celebrates chaos and challenges language in the surprising piece, Amok. Guy Girard describes the state of policing in Paris in Everybody Hates the Police!

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