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A DJ mixed David Graeber reading

Production Unit is back at it with a new show. This time it's a collab with the 'Immediatism' podcast, who specialise in "essays provocative and incendiary", so you'll hear the voice of Immediatism's Cory sprinkled throughout the show, reading from the late David Graeber's "Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you".

The show fuses ambience, jungle, electronica, techno and all things in-between.
This collaboration across the Atlantic is a couple of hours long.

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."

Last Act of the Circus Animals on Immediatism Podcast

Three imprisoned or formerly imprisoned individuals wrote introductions to Last Act of the Circus Animals and these have now been made available as recorded readings at Immediatism.com. The book, by Travis Washington and Sean Swain, is a story that has been circulating within prisons for fourteen years, and was originally a three part zine distributed by South Chicago ABC Zine Distro (P.O. Box 721, Homewood IL 60430). Described as an Animal Farm for our times, the story concerns enslaved and imprisoned animals that find ways together to gain their freedom.

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)".

More Deathscythe on Immediatism Podcast

In response to having one of his essays arrive in the All-Time Top Ten at Immediatism.com (episode 726 "All People"), Sir Josephine Deathscythe has produced four new essays which have been read on Immediatism podcast. These essays are short, to the point, and very opinionated, in the style of editorials. "Housing, etc.," while ostensibly addressing the housing crisis in Deathscythe's country, asks a larger question -- What is our obligation in opposing the state, as anarchists? We oppose the state but does that mean refusing everything it shoves our way?

The Faggots & Their Friends on Immediatism podcast

Immediatism now has available readings of the full text of the classic The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, by Larry Mitchell. Delightfully told through story, it is a history of the experience of non-normative sexuality in the seventies, in the north american context. The concept and writing came about in San Francisco and the book was published in 1977 by Calamus Books, New York City. It is now available through distros including ContagionPress.com and LittleBlackCart.com, as a faithful reprint. If your interest is the concept and metastory, you might enjoy listening to the introduction (episode 765) and also the afterword which is included in the final episode's intro (episode 769). Surprisingly, the endearing story ends with what can be read as an allusion to recuperation and an analysis against identity politics.

Anarchist Online Study Group, on Immediatism Podcast

Immediatism's favorite online anarchist study group is taking a three-week deep dive into spirituality and religion in the anarchist sphere. (See each week's reading list and links to pdf's at https://chi.st/study-group/.) To support participants and newcomers with the reading, Immediatism has available two of the texts for Thursday 1/13 and is in the process of putting out the 10 episodes of the lengthier text for 1/20 and 1/27/22. The Shamanic Trace is PLW's large scale theory of religion -- its roots and its relationship with the state.

Cory is Critiqued on Immediatism podcast

In this episode of Immediatism podcast, Cory's points of view get heavily critiqued by a theorist who tends toward Stirner and D&G. Cybernetics is thoroughly described. Postmodernism and poststructuralism are described in terms of what they attempt to do and how they function in academia. The anonymous author reminisces about a time (prior to the 2010's) when anarchists did not used to talk in terms of cybernetics.

Is Space the Place? on Immediatism Podcast

Is Space the Place? on Immediatism Podcast

These four semi-surreal anarchist essays look at space exploration as answering or not answering the needs and desires of anarchists.
In the Manifesto (episode 730) we are shown a vision of space exploration and colonization as exploitative and echoing the errors of the conquest of the Americas -- IF, that is, exploration can even get that far in the limited time left ahead of us by slow civilizational decline or sudden collapse.

An Individualist, on Immediatism Podcast

From time to time, listeners submit what they have written to Immediatism for feedback or just conversation. The individualist anarchist author of the following three essays says that their pseudonym has taken a pseudonym -- Sir Josephine Deathscythe. Their writing is from a particularly personal point of view. "Individualism" is a discussion of Stirnerian egoism and specifically what motivates an egoist, as well as how an egoist will tend to differ from leftists and libertarians.

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).

It's Crazy How Many Things Don't Exist, on Immediatism podcast

By request, Immediatism offers eleven new episodes continuing the theme of the Situationist International. Part of the project here is to make key concepts like "detournement" available to listeners who may be unfamiliar, hence the original texts from the Situationist International Anthology. Another goal was to offer a sample of the response gotten by the SI, and for this purpose (and because it was one of the texts requested by a listener!) Jean-Pierre Voyer's There Is No Society of the Spectacle was chosen from the book It's Crazy How Many Things Don't Exist.

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