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TOTW: Dinner and a Movie

netflix and anarchy!

After some years thinking about this, it seems to me like most people enjoy dinner. I’ve also discovered that a lot of them tend to like pictures that move …moving pictures, “movies.” The social sciences suggest that human beings have been doing something like the two things together for a while. Creating and consuming food while creating and consuming passive entertainment. 

Anarchism and Star Trek: Picard

All Commanders Are Bastards

From Libertarian Eco-Socialism

Check out this entertaining interview Joseph Orosco recently held with my mother, María Castro, and myself about our article, “Bibliophilia and Anarchism in Star Trek: Picard.” Our conversation took place on YouTube for the Anarres Project for Alternatives Futures this month, and our review was published in Perspectives on Anarchist Theory in October 2022.

Introducing The Anarcho-Geek Power Hour! S1E1

Not Andor again!

From Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness

A new podcast for people who like movies and hate cops. Every... I dont know, month or so we get some anti-authoritarian freaks together to talk about video games and comics and shit as a springboard to get silly in ways that are totally parody and not court admissible, nice try FBI. For this debut episode Io and Margaret, talk about Star Wars. Specifically the new and definitely intentional insurectionary propaganda from comrad Disney, Andor.

A Man Of Action (2022) Netflix Movie Review

A Man Of Action (2022) Netflix Movie Review – A decent Spanish biographical drama

From The Review Geek

A decent Spanish biographical drama

Loosely inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, the movie explores the history of this enigmatic Spanish anarchist, a man who pulled off a legendary counterfeiting operation in Paris. With fake Traveler’s Cheques handed out, America’s biggest bank – City Bank – cast their gaze on Lucio and attempted to take him down.

A long time ago in a revolution far, far away

From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos

Revolutionary Organizing, Lumpen, and Anarchy in Andor

What are the politics of Andor? It would be obtuse to expect any representation to be meaningful in a society in which action is constantly divorced from belief. Nonetheless, we can engage in cultural criticism to take a look at what kind of fantasies the culture industry feels a need to contemplate and domesticate.

Alan Moore Is Considering Launching A Podcast About Anarchism

From Bleeding Cool by Rich Johnston

[B]eing asked if he would return to his spoken word performance pieces of art such as Highbury Working or The Moon And Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre Of Marvels, and how much he enjoyed doing them, he teased the possibility of returning to spoken word performances in a different fashion, starting a podcast looking at the history of anarchism.

Bibliophilia & Anarchism in Star Trek: Picard

beam me up Willy! I have spoken.

From The Institute for Anarchist Studies by María Angeles Castro & Javier Sethness Castro

Following up on our previous analysis of the political and philosophical affinities between Mikhail Bakunin and Richard Wagner, in which we discussed social ideologies such as feminism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and anarchist revolutionism in the epic opera The Ring (1874), we turn now to an examination of the first two seasons of Star Trek: Picard (2020/2022). We hope our artistic study of this television show might help to elucidate the anti-authoritarian themes present in its first and second seasons, as well as draw attention to the numerous literary allusions and extensive bibliophilia (‘book-love’) present in both. Our purpose here is to illuminate the anarchist values and revolutionary messages conveyed in the show through the presence of literature. Reader be forewarned: this text contains spoilers for both seasons.

The Anarchist review – an innocent sense of humour amid political unrest

The Anarchist review – an innocent sense of humour amid political unrest

From The Guardian Jermyn Street theatre, London

The first winner of the Woven Voices prize for migrant playwrights is an open-hearted play that layers a Belarusian woman’s past and present.

Leather jackets and protest banners, bootleg booze and molotov cocktails hang from above. These are the props from Dasha’s teenage years growing up in Belarus, back when she was an anarchist and, amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, change felt possible. Now middle-aged, Dasha has a chance to move to the US but, if she is to get away, she’ll have to help quell the unrest that rumbles around yet another corrupt election. Should she flee and thrive – or stay and fight?

Love, Hope, & Joy

Love, Hope, & Joy

From Rulerless

An Anarchist Anthology

May 1st (International Workers’ Day), 2022

From fighting for freedom to plain ol’ living, this new anthology explores every facet of anarchic existence via its themes of love, hope, and joy. Open up these pages to experience three dozen fantastic poems and ten fascinating works of fiction and nonfiction alike, curated to inspire and elate whilst still not shying away from the darker sides of life.

Penny Rimbaud Interview: "I influence myself the most when it comes to anarchism"

March 5, 2022
It’s Psychedelic Baby! Magazine
https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2022/03/penny-rimbaud-interview.html

Penny Rimbaud is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. One of the most prolific punk pioneers is still very active these days. Together with Martin ‘Youth’ Glover they recorded a collaboration album ‘Corpus Mei’, out via One Little Independent Records.

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