so lets talk about
authorized use of force
because writing the law
& carrying out its letters
entirely different
"reasonable to kick a hypothetical suspect who was already on the ground"
"the short answer is yes"
oh good
no one wanted to hear the long
answer anyway probably too many
words
heres where it gets good
if a crowd has gathered get the focal point of this crowd faster the crowd will dissipate risk of the suspect getting help from the crowd dozens of potentially hostile onlookers
looks to me like theyre trying
to make an example
fig14b that nothing to see here bullshit
my untrained eye
counts five squad cars
you cannot bully a community
into compliance
any more than you can one man
not for long
not ethically
that might could be
laws nature
that cooperation
requires coercion
co-opt-ation
of our labor power
requires
brutalizing
its threat
its realization
certainly not saying
the guy is a saint
for beatin up his girlfriend
which he was probably doing
but two wrongs
as they say
dont make a right
& our laughably oxymoronic
justice system
just keeps heaping up
them wrongs
older now but this article the immediate need for emotional justice
speaks again
experiences in sectarian
socialism
not only my own emotional
luggage
that of
burnouts wanderoffs
jadeds tired outs
overstressed
folks
all around
stress confrontation
buildup & letdown
fig13a lets not forget the sectarian student recruitment fetish while we are here
so few ways to vent
so few ways for feelings
to be taken seriously
always talking about sacrifice
like for blood
im going to have to write
more on that later
but
fig13b with narrative logic like that no wonder enrollment is at historic lows
speaking to abuse
in the activist community
in which i seem
to have taken interest
lacking emotional justice
folks from homes
broken
by capitalism
the state
turn to what theyve learned
violence abuse
coercion manipulation
mirroring
in these communities
those very dynamics
poison dynamics
which the world we
want to change
consistently
regenerates
if we cant fix it
in ourselves
our loved ones
comrades
trusted
how can we empower
friends
acquaintances
strangers
yet
i know sectarians
wont listen
at best theyre slow to change
its all about building glorious proletarian revolution
without ever addressing
personal problems
problems must in essence first
be polticized
too often at the cost
of dehumanizing
the problemed
sacred logic ending
with dismissal
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
04 March 2013
keep calm & whatever
is a meme ripe
for crapjects
might be my new
favorite subject
so when algorithms
decided to publish rape tshirts
marriage
occurred
its an article worth reading
because partly
what we think of when we think peak oil
because partly unflaggably
optimisic engineer
says rather than handwring
over plastics death
undeath redeath whatever
consider
alternatives that already exist
natural gas for example
TM: I wonder how much time that really buys us.
DC: That’s a bit of an open question, but probably a decent amount.... But really, this is an opportunity to think about what should be made of plastic, and why.
yes plastic
is a recent invention
we overuse it too
DC: A good example is switching disposable cutlery to bioderived, compostable plastics — there’s really no reason why something that has a functional life measured in minutes needs to be made of something like polystyrene that essentially lasts forever.
buried in plastic forks
up to our eyeballs
as ive said
dinosaurs revenge
so she says
lets use nature
duh
DC: ... feeding bacteria the waste material from palm oil production and having them synthesize biodegradable polymer.
although i think my friends rainforest action network
might take some issue
with that one in particular
then naturally the threedee
object printer hubbub
are we looking at a world full of “crapjects”? I think the evolution of printing and photocopying might tell us something about the evolution of 3-D printing.
i love it crapjects
as if
stuff weve already got
is renowned for its utility
other natural solutions
inspirations include
every fascists second
favorite insect next to ants
DC: One of my side projects is looking at a type of plastic made by the Colletes family of bees.
fig12 that was no human bee
that ones pretty promising
DC: It’s possible that our material environment will look exactly the same after we run out of oil. But I think it’s far more likely that we’ll see a range of new polymers, that do a better job of filling niches.
i envision
a world of polymers
biosynthetics
a new logic of materials
hence commodities
architecture
community planning
an alien animal world
with the same unflaggable human
heart
progress narrative
always so exciting
on the horizon
banal & disappointing
when its realized
at least so far
constrained in
capitalism
