Star Wars

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 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.

I've Got a Bad Feeling About This

I've Got a Bad Feeling About This

Star Wars, Intellectual Property, and Cultural Expropriation
by Peter Gelderloos

To say I am a Star Wars fan would be an understatement. In high school, I could win the Star Wars Trivial Pursuit board game in one turn: I didn't get any answers wrong and kept going around the board until I had collected all the tokens (yeah, not many friends). Of course, as I got older, I realized that the Jungian archetypes, Daoist philosophy, and tale of rebellion against authority that had so enchanted me were mixed in with a democratic storyline of restoring a “rightful” government, along with plenty of racial stereotypes and settler tropes. Nonetheless, it is hard to disavow the fantasy worlds one grows up with. The total conversion of Star Wars into a “franchise” is occasion enough to comment on how we might respond when capitalism eviscerates an imaginary world we love. The kind of cultural resistance I want to explore also offers some tactics for dealing with problematic aspects of the original movies.

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