Bandit

Bandit wrote (edited )

It's always a bit hilarious for me when they talk about the UK like it doesn't have a huge race problem

Just because racism looks different in the UK aragorn and co say some totally misplaced things

as if britain's original sin wasn't also racism in colonialism. the difference is that the US is a postcolony in some sense but britain is just a coloniser

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Bandit wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted16828 in by ziq

People tend to join and not stick around, but it might get better once a few more people get involved.

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Bandit wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by ziq in We Are All Going to Die by boom

... from the collapse, so stop fucking around with reforms and smash capital, the state, and our consumptive relation to the world.

It's a short piece though.

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Bandit wrote

Halberstram features strongly in baedan and says some interesting stuff, evoking The Invisible Committee's Now: "We trash the polemic of No Future in favor of a world in which we say, 'We want the future, and we want it now.'

This is a remarkable panel with a remarkable topic.

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Bandit wrote

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it is a praxis of becoming, first and foremost

Yes. I think all anarchist praxis is. Some further thoughts, possibly messy:

Prefiguration as its used seems to me to be an easy but incorrect way to explain a direct action politics rather than one mediated by transcendent structures (like the state apparatus). Really what people doing prefiguration are doing, in my experience, is trying to not to reproduce oppressor logics in their ways of being in the world.

If we prefigured anarchy (i.e. acted as if relations of anarchy existed) even in our own spaces, we would not have to make the kind of efforts we do to ensure that marginalised voices were heard, for example. There would be no marginalised peoples.

When we think about prefiguration, often we're just talking about our processes. Horizontal decision-making, accountability processes, pedagogies, gift economies. Because we won't impose our world on others, prefiguration is the mode of relating to each other on ground level.

I use 'prefiguration' like I use 'intersectionality', as a simplistic heuristic for something that is inadequate, because it needs to be in motion.

“I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess”: Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory (PDF)

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Bandit wrote

If we really want to direct people to alternatives, we'd close down r/piracy before the admins ban it. Then we could put a message on the "this subreddit is private" page listing the alternatives and they'd be linked there forever.

If we let the admins ban it, which they're obviously ramping up to do, they'll control the message and say "this sub was closed for multiple copyright infractions" which is total bull. Better if we control the message so we can direct people to the truth (that reddit sold out to advertisers).

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