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AntiTech wrote
Reply to The Technological Society, by Jacques Ellul by subrosa
Link to raddle post for:
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The Technological System - an update a couple from decades later.
unidentified wrote
Reply to could someone summarize the ego and its own? i dont have the attention span to read nonfiction. by JohnBrownDidNothingWrong2
Stirner does it best in Stirner’s Critics. It’s a super quick read.
Fool wrote
Reply to could someone summarize the ego and its own? i dont have the attention span to read nonfiction. by JohnBrownDidNothingWrong2
TLDR; Nom Nom Nom
Fool wrote
Reply to could someone summarize the ego and its own? i dont have the attention span to read nonfiction. by JohnBrownDidNothingWrong2
Audiobook of someone discussing the text.
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/674-stirner-1-reading-max-stirner-by-jacob-blumenfeld
moonlune wrote
Reply to could someone summarize the ego and its own? i dont have the attention span to read nonfiction. by JohnBrownDidNothingWrong2
Read the first chapter (all things are nothing to me)
kin wrote
Reply to comment by fortmis in P.-J. Proudhon, “The Creation of Order in Humanity” — Definitions and Chapter I - The Libertarian Labyrinth by ziq
Religión = gonorrea
fortmis wrote
Reply to P.-J. Proudhon, “The Creation of Order in Humanity” — Definitions and Chapter I - The Libertarian Labyrinth by ziq
Religion cause of laxity and sterility.
religion causes diarrhea and infertility
Fool OP wrote
Expanding on it, this one's really good too.
https://rhyd.substack.com/p/the-mysteria-part-four-the-mystery
It wasn’t just the witch-hunters who worried about this danger, however. The architects of the American nation-state held to this same fear, but iterated that fear instead through the new language of democracy and republicanism. Some divine figure would need to bequeath sovereignty to the rulers so they could save the people from demonic chaos, and thus the people themselves—or rather their abstracted will and “consent” as the electorate—was proffered as God’s mouthpiece. Where once Popes, druids, and priests interpreted the will of the sacred, elections would now become the new auguries. Regardless of how it is dressed up, though, the fear of the demonic chaos still provides the ultimate justification for all modern sovereign rule. Without the sovereign, some great calamity shall befall us, triggering a series of events at whose end is the final days of the Christian order itself.
Fool wrote
Reply to comment by TwentyFiveCharsOrLess in Notes toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto by TwentyFiveCharsOrLess
I was just picking at your wording, you do what works for you.
Okay, after actually reading the piece, it seems a bit dated.
What's proposed is akin to Solarpunk, but it was written over 30 years ago, so it was before both the rise of silicone valley and more readily available in-depth critiques of "green" energy.
So a bit better than portents of Solarpunk, that just aren't reading the information easily available.
I could imagine I would have been quite into this piece a couple of years ago.
Carry on. Continue reading (or listening).
Fool wrote
Reply to comment by TwentyFiveCharsOrLess in Notes toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto by TwentyFiveCharsOrLess
We'll have a race, first one to destroy civilization wins. Loser cooks dinner for the winner and cleans up afterwards, for a whole week!
TwentyFiveCharsOrLess OP wrote
Reply to comment by Fool in Notes toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto by TwentyFiveCharsOrLess
Yes but I don’t think it’s feasible to destroy civilization within a generation or two without killing lot of people.
Fool wrote
protect the livelihoods, communities, and families we love
My livelihood is based on technology, I seek it's abolition.
My community is based on technology, I seek it's abolition.
My family's destruction was my own choice, my deconstructed family is still shackled by livelihood and community.
All these things are based in civilization, I do not seek their continuation.
TwentyFiveCharsOrLess OP wrote
Like the early Luddites, we too are a desperate people seeking to protect the livelihoods, communities, and families we love, which lie on the verge of destruction.
subrosa wrote
Reply to No, markets and money aren’t natural by Esperaux
history supports the argument that co-operative, democratic control of the economy is possible.
Thanks Dave.
Fool wrote
Reply to No, markets and money aren’t natural by Esperaux
It is well researched and has many references to the researched material... which almost solely is Debt the first 5000 Years by Graeber.
Uh...
Esperaux wrote
Reply to The Strategy of Composition • Ill Will by Vogtu
Obviously the media is gonna be one of the largest obstacles with how they shunned coverage of police brutality at Standing Rock, demonized CHAZ, and now are selectively covering Stop Cop City. Very hard getting this kind of perspective out to the general public to challenge those narratives.
Vogtu OP wrote
Reply to Endnotes 5: The Passions and the Interests by Vogtu
For people unfamiliar, Endnotes is an irregular journal of communist theory, their fifth issue being a pretty wide-ranging collection of pieces I don’t think I could easily summarize. (I am an anarchist but I read the anti-authoritarian communist stuff)
The first essay, which I am currently reading, is pretty eye opening. It looks at the relation between small groups of “revolutionaries” and revolutions, and uses psychoanalysis to understand why these groups always seem to fall apart.
subrosa wrote
Reply to There Is No Invisible Hand by Esperaux
Very 2012.
Esperaux OP wrote
Reply to comment by subrosa in Anarchy Against Hierarchy by Esperaux
Yeah its nothing new asides from seeing what is continuing to influence new minds.
subrosa wrote (edited )
Reply to Anarchy Against Hierarchy by Esperaux
Both the librarian and the anarchist in me are annoyed by what I'm seeing.
There, fixed the formatting. Feeling better now. The piece is still a boring read about how reading Chomsky and Bookchin had em synthesize solarpunk and anarchist democracy, or some shit.
Haruki wrote
Reply to comment by ukuleleclass in How to Start a Gift Circle by Esperaux
gift economy is when rich techies buy drugs to trade for sex
ukuleleclass wrote
Reply to How to Start a Gift Circle by Esperaux
someone tell me it’s worth reading past calling burning man a gift economy
subrosa wrote
Reply to comment by ziq in The Soul of Man Under Socialism - Oscar Wilde by Potkea
The second, for Interchange, covers both Wilde and Orwell, and focuses quite a bit on the problem of moral saints
sweet; will listen to this later today
Socialists annoy me when they bring up the Einstein essay, but who knows, maybe I can warm up to Wilde being an anarchist.
topa OP wrote
Reply to Addicted to Losing by topa
In what follows, we wish to clarify the ground upon which the standpoint of Black counter-insurgency rests, the set of beliefs and assumptions that allow it to reproduce itself. Why is the notion that racialized people need masters so easily swallowed, even by so-called radicals? How do we injure the stupidity that is spread by this idea, this ongoing perception of people of color as unsuited to the task of ending the world? In today’s movements and organizing spaces, the reign of white supremacy is nourished by the paternal concern for the welfare of people of color, an insidious apparatus that works to attenuate our militancy by instilling in us feelings of inferiority and dependency. Our task therefore is twofold: not only must we confront racist repression at the hands of police in our streets, but also the fluid web of social control that extends beyond that terrain into our own social and political circles. In seeking answers to these questions, our aim is to make way for more unruly and ungrateful black and brown insurgents, a specter feared by both whites and non-whites alike.