Author Archives: rocinante

Waiting for the Great Leap Forward of the Lonely Island

By rocinante | Published: September 9, 2012

Asere, ¿qué bola?: An extremely almost non-existent brief non-review of two Fifth Estate texts on Cuba [La playa near Santiago de Cuba, Cuba] An Anarchist in Cuba: Socialism or Cell Phones by Walker Lane Fifth Estate #378, Summer 2008. $4.00 Adios Socialismo by Walker Lane Fifth Estate #383, Summer 2010. $4.00 Hey friends don’t you […]

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The World… and some stuff

By rocinante | Published: October 3, 2011

October 3rd doing dirty dishes downstairs i would like to make dinner but all the dishes are dirty Haiku the World Goodness gracious, world – it has been sometime since the last, hasn’t it? Let’s no pretend you didn’t miss me (or did you!). Well, there were some things in-between – here for a moment, […]

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Waiting for the Great Leap Forward

By rocinante | Published: August 22, 2011

Asere, ¿qué bola?: A brief review of two Fifth Estate texts on Cuba (like very brief) An Anarchist in Cuba: Socialism or Cell Phones by Walker Lane Fifth Estate #378, Summer 2008. $4.00 Adios Socialismo by Walker Lane Fifth Estate #383, Summer 2010. $4.00 Well Infoshop.org is down, so what else am I supposed to […]

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Fighting the Systems Within Us

By rocinante | Published: April 23, 2011

[image originally from here] You Say Fair, I Say Faire… Hello. So, it has been some time since I jotted down some thoughts here, so here goes nothing – what interesting things can I write to you of… Well, the spring time is finally here – and not a moment too soon. Not to wrangle […]

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A Not So Top 10 for 2k10′

By rocinante | Published: January 16, 2011

how about swimming at the bottom of the lake? (ohhh, the irony! is that why people like the Weakerthans?) Why do you put LOVE so much in your titles? Or something like that… Hi. What moves you? Well… last year when I had a radio show and was much cooler I did a top five […]

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Falling in Love Again

By rocinante | Published: November 5, 2010

Oh, for you ever so serious and on time blog readers, it has been some time since I last posted anything. I’m still here and still alive, and still not turning my back on the things I love. Just sometimes, you know… life gets in the way of things and the day-to-day gets a little […]

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Drawing a line between love and (anti)politics

By rocinante | Published: September 15, 2010

What’s a book? Is it a self-realization of an individual’s life in the context of living others? Or is it self-realization as a closed compartment, for example an “insurgent,” a category that remains separate from all the other separate categories? – Sophie Back from the Mountains In typical fashion, almost a month late – over […]

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Reality is starting to incorporate our dreams

By rocinante | Published: August 21, 2010

Maybe what’s happening is that we’re all becoming children again. Our rigid roles and characters are dropping off like dried skin. We’re fascinating to each other because each one of our acts might be a total surprise, at any instant our personalities might change completely. Like children, we’re not exhausted by what we’ve been and […]

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Letters of Insurgents: Just Dance

By rocinante | Published: July 24, 2010

Dancing in the Dark (you can’t start a fire, without a spark) I’m still in the midst of finishing Letters #6 and so far I’ve read about half-way through. It has been a busy week with old friends visiting from far away, the usual suspect (work), and a little thing called a leaf storm (which, […]

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Letters of Insurgents: Part 3 (y más)

By rocinante | Published: July 19, 2010

You can do anything you want “impossibility is a term of logic and reality doesn’t observe the limits of logic” – Sophie (page #382) Wow. It has been a while, and for a moment there I fell behind a bit in the reading and writing about that reading. The conversation is always there, it is […]

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Letters of Insurgents: Part 2

By rocinante | Published: June 22, 2010

losing your illusion in the land of gigantic objects and monstrous toys Hello there world. It has been a busy week, with the official start of summer, and one more set of letters. One idea that really sticks out for me in this set of letters that of illusion. The title of this blog is […]

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Letters of Insurgents: Part 1

By rocinante | Published: June 10, 2010

So, things are heating up over at Insurgent Summer, a participatory reading of Letters of Insurgents. Tomorrow is the deadline for the first letters to be completed, and I’ve just finished them, so I’ll try and write down some thoughts to get the ball slowly rolling. I’m going to try and do this for every […]

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History’s instrument was a firing squad!

By rocinante | Published: May 18, 2010

[photo from the insurrection in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico on May 19th, 1911] Summer has almost arrived and with that, everyone’s favorite hope of free time is being watered and with patience, (perhaps even) growing. What will your summer look like? The grasshopper or ant? Of the many things happening this summer, here is one that […]

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Putting a good face toward the bad weather

By rocinante | Published: April 4, 2010

Anarchist Library in Cuba I’d like to share a special note of interest regarding Cuba. In the text Our men and women in Havana (are requesting good, published material) it mentions a recent conference, Observatorio Crítico de Cuba, that took place on the island and was hosted by Cátedra Haydeé Santamaría. In the article above […]

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top five songs for 2k9′

By rocinante | Published: January 7, 2010

2009 has come to a close, and while I would have liked to get this list out before the final countdown – some technical difficulties started off the year with just enough spice, to remind me of how frustrating computers can really be sometimes. Here is to a 2010 free of such issues, problems, and […]

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anarchy on the radio: playlist #8 ‘n #9

By rocinante | Published: December 9, 2009

Here are two more playlists from my weekly radioshow, which is actually now in hiatus. So, for now – these will be the last posts of this nature, but perhaps sometime in the near future I’ll piece the show back together, when things aren’t so busy. I must say, I’ve really enjoyed doing this, not […]

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anarchy on the radio: playlist #4 ‘n #7

By rocinante | Published: November 11, 2009

Having a radio show can be a lot of work, if you really spend time on it, plan stuff out, make it amazing, and make romantic attempts at execution. It takes time, and lots of (ex)work[ers] – here are two playlists from my shows. The talking, the randomness, the part that really makes it radio, […]

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Viva la anarquí@!

By rocinante | Published: October 25, 2009

Welcome to my first ever blog post on Anarchy Planet, this is going to be pretty sweet. The plan  is for this to be a dreamy cornucopia of sorts,  including  – but not limited to critiques and reviews of anarchist journals, zines, art, music, and books. Occasionally, there will also be some homemade writing from […]

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