nihilism
The black flame of active nihilism (an addendum)
(an addendum to “The Path of Destruction”)
Not long after I published my previous article, “The Path of Destruction“, someone reminded me about Renzo Novatore and his philosophy of anarchist active nihilism, with the suggestion of a link between Novatore’s nihilism and the Sadean motion of destruction. In retrospect, not discussing Novatore in that article turned out to be a glaring oversight. So I feel a short addendum is called for, but with perhaps with some additional Bataillean commentary regarding the nature of the sacred from his posthumous Theory of Religion.
A Feral Life: One Last Nihilist Exposition
(Flower Bomb's final text)
So to the readers of my writing, I bid you a literary farewell! If my writing has inspired you to think differently, it is only because you had the courage to read something unfamiliar to you in the first place. If any of my writing has encouraged you to live more freely, it was only because you possessed the power to reclaim your life and live on your own terms. On paper, I am just an idea that you read aloud in your head with your own voice.
Announcing: Berkman School of Anarchy
From Berkman School of Anarchy
The Office of Scholarly Communications at the Berkman School of Anarchy is pleased to announce the launch of our new counter-info project!
Consequences: The Inexorable Nature of Conflict
From The Anarchist Library by Flower Bomb
Since Julian Langer and I have passionately decided to air out our dirty laundry for the world to smell, might as well give a little background.
A Nihilist Understanding of Social War
By DESTROY. Originally published at https://upittanarchy.org/zine-files/socialwar.pdf. Accessible on theanarchistlibrary at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/destroy-a-nihilist-understanding-of-social-war.
Introduction
“Politics is the continuation of war by other means.” This war can best be understood as the social war, or the war by the state and other institutions to maintain social control, as well as the resistance to this control.
Ego Death Podcast Episode 4: Nihilism (Part 2) Anarcho-nihilism
We just posted Episode 4: Nihilism (Part2) for your nihilistic listening pleasure. This time around we discuss anarcho-nihilism and Blessed is the Flame by Serafinski.
It was a bit of a detour to help answer all of the listener questions we received on Nihilism Part 1, but ended up being a fun conversation. So much fun that we ran quite long so you all were spared too much Walter Benjamin talk and my petty issues with using jouissance in a quasi-academic text without considering Lacan…
Ego Death Podcast Episode 3: Nihilism (Part 1)
We finally finished Episode Three of the Ego Death Podcast. This week's topic was nihilism, and after scrapping two, very long, recording sessions we settled on a more basic intro to the subject (but there will be more to come). Hopefully we managed to provide a little helpful background while keeping it relatively short if not sweet.
Ego Death Podcast
From Ego Death Podcast
Hey there internet folks. We're Zack and Josh and Ego Death is our first foray into podcasting.
This project is very much a work in progress, but the gist is that we're having conversations we'd have with each other, or friends anyway, and recording them for anyone that might have interest.
Solidarity with the Susaron 4
2 articles about the 4 meat-packaging plant saboteurs on trial
Part 1 & 2: Russian Nihilists
From Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar
Margaret talks with Io about the science hippies of the 1860s who wore sunglasses at night and invented modern terrorism.
A Conversation with John Zerzan
A Conversation with John Zerzan on Direct Action, School Shootings, Authenticity, Veganism & More
I reached out to Zerzan by email with 4 long questions to help prepare for a different conversation with an anti-industrialist, plus the suggestion that I could post our Q&A text interview around a few places to help clarify his political theory and promote my critique of primitivism. But he offered to voice chat instead, which was a pleasant surprise.
So I'll post the video and transcribe our conversation here. I edited the text slightly for clarity’s sake, just to remove filler words and put anything I forgot to say in, but I ran the updated version past Zerzan and he’s happy his answers still suit the questions asked.
Acrid Black Smoke
The purpose of this zine is to revisit a particularly influential piece of contemporary anarchist and nihilist writing in Blessed is the Flame by Serafinski, with a heavy focus on history, and apply some of the concepts explored to the uprisings of 2020.
Margins of Reality - Episode 2 - Post-Left Anarchy
from https://margins.noblogs.org
The second episode of MARGINS OF REALITY - a podcast by and for unmenschen. This episode concerns the current state of the phenomenon called post-left anarchy. We read Wolfi Landstreicher's "From Politics to Life - Ridding anarchy of the leftist millstone" and Jason McQuinn's "Rejecting the Reification of Revolt".
Okty Budiati on Immediatism podcast
Okty Budiati is an individualist and nihilist anarchist in Indonesia. A performance artist and photographer, she has turned toward writing while confined to a safehouse in Jakarta. Okty has written a number of pieces for The Anarchist Libraries SE Asia. These two Immediatism episodes feature Okty's English writings, with the rest to be translated soon. Okty writes of anti-identity and self-defense in My Home Is My Broken Heart. Her Libertine Monologue Correlation Imagination is also titled "Who Slips and Who is Lonely."