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What I’ve been up to in 2019

This is a brief note to tell you all what I have been up to in 2019. For starters I’ve started a weekend call in show (and podcast) called Anarchy Bang that introduces a new kind of conversation into the anarchist mix. We have just finished episode nine and so far it has been a … Continue reading “What I’ve been up to in 2019”

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What I’ve been up to in 2019

This is a brief note to tell you all what I have been up to in 2019. For starters I’ve started a weekend call in show (and podcast) called Anarchy Bang that introduces a new kind of conversation into the anarchist mix. We have just finished episode nine and so far it has been a … Continue reading “What I’ve been up to in 2019”

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Editorial for 10/19

The failure of criticism For many years I’ve had issues with criticism. My particular issue was as narrow as feeling like post-left anarchism being being “just a criticism” has made itself too rarified for the long term. I personally have found a critical eye, and more importantly a kind of rigor around criticism, to be … Continue reading “Editorial for 10/19”

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Editorial for 10/19

The failure of criticism For many years I’ve had issues with criticism. My particular issue was as narrow as feeling like post-left anarchism being being “just a criticism” has made itself too rarified for the long term. I personally have found a critical eye, and more importantly a kind of rigor around criticism, to be … Continue reading “Editorial for 10/19”

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Editorial for 10/12/18

Sometimes I write little editorials for the @news podcast. Here is one from a few weeks ago. Editorial – Anarchist Principles redux For a number of years I’ve been thinking that the old school anarchist principles have needed updating. In the old days a lot of anarchist questions were answered by using the litmus of … Continue reading “Editorial for 10/12/18”

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Editorial for 10/12/18

Sometimes I write little editorials for the @news podcast. Here is one from a few weeks ago. Editorial – Anarchist Principles redux For a number of years I’ve been thinking that the old school anarchist principles have needed updating. In the old days a lot of anarchist questions were answered by using the litmus of … Continue reading “Editorial for 10/12/18”

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TAPTBSI – episode one

Talking a project through before starting it I haven’t been blogging lately for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I’m getting pretty tired of responding to “hot takes” as if they are real engagement. They aren’t. I want anarchy to be a project we are all partaking of but I’m … Continue reading “TAPTBSI – episode one”

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TAPTBSI – episode one

Talking a project through before starting it I haven’t been blogging lately for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I’m getting pretty tired of responding to “hot takes” as if they are real engagement. They aren’t. I want anarchy to be a project we are all partaking of but I’m … Continue reading “TAPTBSI – episode one”

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I do not want to go there

but recognize how they did A reportback on a trip to Libertopia This is an attempt at a friendly reportback. Of course it’ll be filled with my usual scorn and antipathy but I will attempt to point it in the direction of the larger things and not the other things, like people. Here is the … Continue reading “I do not want to go there”

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I do not want to go there

but recognize how they did A reportback on a trip to Libertopia This is an attempt at a friendly reportback. Of course it’ll be filled with my usual scorn and antipathy but I will attempt to point it in the direction of the larger things and not the other things, like people. Here is the … Continue reading “I do not want to go there”

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Here is an old essay

Reproduced from the 2014 BASTARD conference on Social war. Obviously short and sweet. Why Social War is a bad way to practice anarchy If I were to be generous I would say that social war is a nice term in search of meaning. At best I have experienced it as a way to dress up … Continue reading “Here is an old essay”

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Here is an old essay

Reproduced from the 2014 BASTARD conference on Social war. Obviously short and sweet. Why Social War is a bad way to practice anarchy If I were to be generous I would say that social war is a nice term in search of meaning. At best I have experienced it as a way to dress up … Continue reading “Here is an old essay”

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Fascism

This text finds itself more relevant to my life this week than it has in years. From Foucault’s introduction to Anti-Oedipus. Whence the three adversaries confronted by Anti-Oedipus. Three adversaries who do not have the same strength, who represent varying degrees of danger, and whom the book combats in different ways: The political ascetics, the … Continue reading “Fascism”

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What I hate about the Internet and what it means for the future of Anarchism

In another life I work with technology for a living. This means I keep up to date on Internet technologies and the theories that inform them. I just scanned a solid article from new TOR board member and security researcher Bruce Schneier and the power struggle between the feudal internet and those of us who … Continue reading “What I hate about the Internet and what it means for the future of Anarchism”

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Entry 6 – End of Trip. Lessons

Montreal should get its own entry but now that I’ve been home for two weeks the time to review the end of May seems to have passed. Suffice it to say that Montreal, Chicago (!!!), and Phoenix were all fantastic stops and had great turn outs for what I and LBC have to share. I’m … Continue reading “Entry 6 – End of Trip. Lessons”

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Entry 5 – Ontario & the East Coast

Detroit Did you know there are still active projects in MI? Indeed, Fifth Estate is a currently active project that still puts out three issues of an anarchistish content periodical every year. While I was in Detroit this project loomed large as I was staying with its managing editor. We went to visit its memorialization. … Continue reading “Entry 5 – Ontario & the East Coast”

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Entry 4 – From BC to MI

On the essay denouncement The author of one of the three recent denouncements of nihilism that I am at least partially culpable in lives in the city of Vancouver (or so they say in the essay). My presentation there was pregnant with the possibility of a public face-to-face with this critic. Sadly, though not surprisingly, … Continue reading “Entry 4 – From BC to MI”

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Entry 3 – British Columbia

I haven’t been away from my home keyboard setup for this long in a few years. The reason I know is because I haven’t read hundreds of @news comments. I have stopped caring about all of the updates of my “friends.” And I’m ambivalent about catching all of you up with my trip. That’s not … Continue reading “Entry 3 – British Columbia”

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Entry 2. To mile 1000.

Portland One expects the worst from Portland. From “we will not be silenced,” to Portlandia, to the fact that Portland doesn’t even seem to be trying any more I had low expectations. The fact that the only person I knew from the Annares collective wasn’t there and my fear started to rise. I was totally … Continue reading “Entry 2. To mile 1000.”

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Entry 1 – #lbcasual tour

About 450 miles from Berkeley, CA to Southern Oregon First stops I’m going to journal my trip a little bit, not so personal but perhaps over personal along the lines of what a long motorcycle trip looks like for a middle aged person. What travails and pleasantries I encounter and how I somehow relate all … Continue reading “Entry 1 – #lbcasual tour”

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