Author Archives: Squee

Memory: Self, Identity, Ideology, and Anarchy (notes)

By Squee | Published: April 16, 2011

These are just some notes and some arguments that come to mind when considering the strange conflicts my contemporary comrades have with Subjectivity, Identity Politics, Ideology, and Anarchy (or, anarchist struggle): Our sense of self, our identities …

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Question of the Month: is Pedagogy the rasion d’etre of Philosophy?

By Squee | Published: April 10, 2011

  conversation so far…. Squee: I want to field some answers before I respond to my own question… but I do want to say that I believe the answers have significant implications (and my next serious piece of writing is going to be rooted …

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Critique of The Zeitgeist Movement: Observations and Responses; Activist Orientation Guide (turned into me not giving a shit enough to finish a formal critique)

By Squee | Published: March 22, 2011

This is one of many documents produced by (or, for) The Zeitgeist Movement. While the cinematic media spread on the internet is for merely introductory purposes, the details tend to be in various documents: FAQs, transcripts of Jacque Fesco’s lec…

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A response to Alan Watts

By Squee | Published: March 22, 2011

I like the basic point of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvG5pIk0rUs&feature=related But, I do have something of an issue with where a lot of this thinking tends to wind up (see: New Age Culture). The sort of selfhood (this disconnected…

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Ramblings .0001 – Reflections on Pathological Anarchist

By Squee | Published: March 13, 2011

Like most things I write, I didn’t finish my last piece. The compulsion that drove me to explain did not carry me through to the part that one could assume would be much more interesting to write: the Sketch of a Life World or whatever. Maybe tha…

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Artifice

By Squee | Published: February 22, 2011

This is a project that I have been thinking about for a while and will probably take a considerable amount of time to put together coherently. Artificiality (or, Artifice) is something I recognize to be a class based, culture based, and oppressive valu…

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Link Rattle

By Squee | Published: February 20, 2011

Links to some of the things I’ve been reading lately: Proprioception – Continuing my research into phenomenology (sort of an ongoing thing for me) The Alexander Technique – This has come up a number of times as something that could be…

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(fuck) The Venus Project and Zeitgeist Movement

By Squee | Published: February 20, 2011

I want to state very clearly, right from the beginning, that I am beyond mere skepticism about the Venus Project (cadre) and the Zeitgeist Movement. The three full-length videos were annoying: between some vague and possibly sound conclusions about eco…

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Ramblings .001 – Estrangement and Intimacy

By Squee | Published: February 6, 2011

[Edit: Originally, I used the term "Alienation" instead of "Estrangement" ...which are synonymous terms but Alienation has a very well defined and specific meaning in radical discourse so I think it is probably better to use "Estrangement" instead. Usi...

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Ramblings .01 – I Hate Working in Call Centers

By Squee | Published: January 24, 2011

I hate working in call centers ..and yet I keep doing it. I pass the time by analyzing the whatever company I work for: the roles, the way surveillance is used, the specific frustrations and stresses of different positions and the way each individual r…

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Thinking about the Functional Designation of Space

By Squee | Published: January 7, 2011

the below comment is a response to this article I think there is (a big) something to be said about the relationship between ideas and material space… this focus on experimentation. There seems to be a different result in the ideas that come from…

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Thoughts on “Disability”

By Squee | Published: December 24, 2010

What I’m basically trying to get at in all of this talk about so called disabilities is the fundamental origins of how an actual human being’s capacities and their potential capacities come to be understood as disabilities (or disorders) at…

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Purple Works

By Squee | Published: December 19, 2010

Here is some writing I had done 3-6 years ago that I consider to be “purple” and somewhat enjoy reading every now and again. They are experimental explorations of sentiment and irrationality. The topics ought not to be taken as an endorseme…

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About Anarchist Argumentation…

By Squee | Published: December 14, 2010

(in reply to questions like “what would an anarchist economy look like then?” and such things). There is a real problem with simply identifying what we don’t like (the State, the capitalist mode of production and distribution, authority, etc.): one can simply reply that there are many necessary things one might not like and then [...]

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Emapthy, Development, Capitalism

By Squee | Published: November 24, 2010

These three videos say a lot of the things that I would like to write about the social and psychological affects of capitalism that for me, are central to the critique of capitalism (and authoritarianism, which is a nice package of all this shit into a more extreme fucking of human development). This first video [...]

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Concept Mapping Anarchism

By Squee | Published: November 17, 2010

So after watching this Ted.com talk: David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization I have become somewhat more enthusiastic about the idea of visually representing information. Like the speaker, I had read Tor Norretranders’ book the User Illusion and was inspired by it to reconsider the way I understand learning. This is only on top [...]

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Notes for an Introduction to Psychology for Anarchists

By Squee | Published: November 6, 2010

[these are notes... markers for an unfinished work that I am in the process of organizing] What is liberty without a conception of compulsion? What is agency without a theory of the Subject? What is value without an understanding of value judgments? What is revolution without an analysis of revolt? These questions are meant to [...]

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Anarchy and the Burden of Proof

By Squee | Published: October 29, 2010

There are a number of perspectives one can entertain when thinking about anarchy, anarchism, etc. There is one in particular that I think is generally useful to consider even if it may fly in the face of the history of anarchist thought (some of it). I intend to outline some of the features of this [...]

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Attractive Inconsistencies: Sex, Gender, Sexuality, and Relationships

By Squee | Published: October 14, 2010

The following analysis may be considered in the light of Gender or Queer Theory, but it does not support many of the common assumptions present in theories of Sex, Gender, Sexuality, and Relationships. The first assumption doubted is not controversial: human beings come in two sexes – male and female.  The second assumption, that there [...]

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Beware the Troll!

By Squee | Published: October 7, 2010

From http://www.jfo.org.uk/info/new/troll.htm Reproduced with the kind permission of Steve Myers at Team Technology Beware the Troll Mind games What is a troll? The game of trolling Troll Levels Playtime trolls Tactical trolls Strategic trolls Domination trolls Dealing with trolls Further resources To “troll” means to allure, to fish, to entice or to bait. An internet [...]

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