Category Archives: criticism

The Four That Should Not Be One

By aragorn | Published: December 29, 2011

After my trip to Europe I came back to a couple of different existential challenges. This was put succinctly during a conversation with T in Greece who responded to my question “What was your biggest criticism of American Anarchists?” by saying simply “You all act like you are in High School” and as unfair as [...]

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But What About the Vegans!?

By aragorn | Published: September 24, 2011

Consider this post my farewell to veganism. I am writing it so that there is a single place to put down my ideas about the change and, I hope, the last place I’ll have to talk about this again. At the end of the day my change from being vegan has as much to do [...]

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The problems of opinions & wealth

By aragorn | Published: September 1, 2011

I want to wrap up my out loud thinking about my time in Europe (I’ve been back for three weeks but it doesn’t feel like it since I am now traveling so much) with some conclusions but first some thoughts about other problems that feel specifically American but perhaps are more general. US radicals are [...]

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A story of a Greek Assembly

By aragorn | Published: May 20, 2011

Ever since I saw the Void Network give their presentation on the “Greek situation” I have wanted to seriously think, and put into practice, my understanding of what they meant by “an assembly”. Since I am in Greece now (updates of my Amsterdam trip will have to come later as I don’t want to lose [...]

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Tactics? WTF are TACTICS?!?! On the recent events that transpired in Oakland (archived 11-7-2010)

By amel | Published: January 18, 2011

“Learn to become indiscernible. Blend in. Revive the taste for anonymity, for promiscuity. Renounce distinction in order to evade repression: arrange for the most favorable conditions of confrontation. Become crafty. Become pitiless. To do so, become whatever.” – Tiqqun “How … Continue reading →

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The Great Lesson – VI

By aragorn | Published: July 27, 2010

A review is in order. I read Letters of Insurgents as a great work on how to do criticism: a humane story about two sharp people cutting each other to size in appropriate, if harsh and perhaps mean-at-times, ways. This criticism ranges far beyond the tome of Letters of Insurgents or the dynamics between two [...]

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Letter of Insurgents: The Great Lesson V

By aragorn | Published: July 18, 2010

This is the first chapter of the book that I have re-read in the book itself. Times have changed for me and now I spend 80% of my waking hours in front of a screen and so it is just more convenient for me to read the wonderful version of the text that we put [...]

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Letter of Insurgents: The Great Lesson III

By aragorn | Published: July 1, 2010

I am writing about this book again after years of absence, because of how formative the book was in my thinking about criticism (and specifically criticism as a form of communication and engagement with written material). The relationships in this story are still the model I use when considering what I mean and what I [...]

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Letters of Insurgents: The Great Lesson II

By aragorn | Published: June 21, 2010

This week’s submission is going to be a little short. I think I need to pace myself (I still have eight weeks after this one) but there are so many themes from this week’s reading that I’must dig into, including a rich quote from Sophia about memory exercises, the concept that political people have “the [...]

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