it is time for a new secret plan

april for writing
may for projects

this

fig28a freedom of the press belongs to those who own one

this

fig28b tree soup

& then...?

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why you cannot dislike facebook

once again
tni hits the proverbial
nail in the balls

Negative sentiment – disliking – is asymmetrical in its power to shape consumer’s opinions of a brand: for every 10 likes, 1 dislike could tear a brand apart.

go ooooon

But we are not allowed to dislike. And herein lies a way out of the Like Economy. Dissent, dissensus, refusal are not easily afforded in Facebook. Dissenters have to work for it: they have to write out comments, start up a blog, seek out other dislikers. They are not lulled into slackivism or “clickivism,” replacing the work of activism with clicking “like” on a cause as if the sheer aggregate of sentiment will make someone somewhere change something

i am a selfstyled
disliker
of all the hundreds of folks
ive known
i am one of three
to ever opt out
of the facebooks

ive long hated it
first the bougie elitism
with which it left
alumni of my school
out of its loop

later its sicklysweet
commercialization
anything commerce
picks up with such a frenzy
is to be

deeply

distrusted

but what a great picture
amirite

fig23a death to myspace

bloody brilliant phrase
sovereign consumer too
because it can never be you
personally
it is an abstraction
you personally
are a servant
just like all the rest of us
from the c suite to the pee moppers

we serve
the idea
that nothing is free

not even freedom

i gave my facebook profile to a homeless man

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a bandit gang writ large warning the wire spoilers within

fig23a you can sleep easy

"Without justice, what are kingdoms but great robber bands? What are robber bands but small kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men, is ruled by the command of a leader, and is held together by a social pact. Plunder is divided in accordance with an agreed upon law."
- St Augustine

fig23b roberts rules say we gotta have minutes

"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

fig23c many ways to play the game

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
- Max Stirner

fig23d quiet violence in the merikan desert

"I have my own army in the NYPD - the seventh largest army in the world."
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg

fig23e military surplus for the war on terror or immigrants or whatever

"So these villains, who call themselves governments, well understand that their power rests primarily upon money. With money they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort money. And, when their authority is denied, the first use they always make of money is to hire soldiers to kill or subdue all those who refuse them more money."
- Lysander Spooner

fig23f cmon books are you really gonna go there - yeah i went there

"For if the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the state, if it were convinced that the state is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the state would soon collapse to take on no ore status or breadth of existence than another mafia gang."
- Murray Rothbard

fig23g once theyve stopped working for the state theyre just dudes with a sweet ride

"Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people."
- Richard M. Nixon

fig23h damn people think they can just use their own bridges whenever they feel like it

"Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal."
- Frederic Bastiat

fig23i stop resisting

"You may think you belong to a big gang, you may be 50 people, even 100, but we have 32,000 in our gang. It's called the metropolitan police."
- Chief Inspector Ian Kibblewhite

fig23j see also a list of countries by size of police force

surely there is data to be considered here

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
- Charles De Montesquieu

fig23k the more translucent the window the more invisible the state

that
did not take as long
as i thought it would

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in defense of adventure

"Adventure is just bad planning." - Roald Amundsen

"Adventurism: the heretical notion that you should actually have fun when doing something." - Rolling Thunder, vol 10

it is said

there should be no

adventure

no surprises

push for

consistency

no unknowns

value stability

see it

hear it

from mouths

i like having a routine

of course it looks

common

it looks

normal

to want

a nice & settled life

pasturized

occupied

as both in busy & oppressed

because

anyone who wants adventure

has been killed

jailed

outlawed

exiled

fig18a the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls/ and tenement halls

our society

wants to sell

sensation of adventure

to stimulate

the innate human need

without letting it

get out of hand

catharsis

enabling you to stir

orgasm relax &

work again

art

which may have once served

a purpose altogether different

is now media

& masturbation

of the adventure instinct

we did not get here

by staying

at home

explore.

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an exercise in otherness becomingness selfness

how americans approach
their subcultures

emo
quit whining

punk
get a job

hippies
take a bath

indicates whats good
american

americans put up
americans have jobs
americans have hygeine

guess what

america you are weak
america you loaf all day
america you smell funny

pretty sure im going to jail for this one

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link minded folks

organizing as if social relations matter

its always vindicative
when i find someone thinking
along lines
i also walk

Organizing, good organizing, is to my mind the slow, steady, one-on-one building of relations and interconnections that are at odds with how people are treated under capitalism.
go on
im listening

Instead of instrumentalizing people for what they can give us or do for us, we look to each other as having worth unto ourselves, and for how we can cement relations of sociability, collaboration, and solidarity

Expedient activism falls apart under its own flimsy weight; there’s little there to sustain it, especially when the going inevitably gets rough or disappointing. Here, patient and what appears to be joyful organizing might just have a fighting chance of leaving something in its wake
that speaks to my experiences
socialist sectarianism

beliefs in changing
behavior & culture
creative relationships
transcend isolation

it takes work
says cindy milstein
something i am learning also
from the revolution starts
at home

reaching out
finding people
putting effort
not into sign
waving ranting
spectaclework

socalled actions
recognizing instead
building the world we want
begins with living the life
we believe in

As now-deferred prospective student after student got up to read their varied, often-eloquent remarks, or have them read by a current Cooper Union student or an alumni, for upward of an hour, it became clearer and clearer how much work went into finding, educating, involving, and gaining the support and participation of these frequently far-afieldpotential students.
not
mind you
a population
who would seem
accessible useful
in an
expedient way

beautiful
also

That no tuition, even within a hierarchical and select structure, still manages to engender a tangible freedom to imagine social goodness, and the freedom (of thought and financial constraints) to organize in more imaginative as well as qualitative ways
in the face
of the anarchists
& far leftists
not though the sectarian socialists
in this case

but in the face
of those who want to bring it
all down now now now
with a brick

yes yes yes
sympathies
we want it to be so easy
revolution happens suddenlike
but there must be
work lessons compromise
failures effort love
changing culture
changing material
changing structure

i look forward to reading more
from this beautiful blog

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post hipster art

looks like the seattle art scene
has made quite the gaffe
in thinking
one of their beloved artists
is just another hipster

what do you do with white nationalist art
once the irony is gone?
asks hyperallergic

the pitfalls of tolerance

how do you deal with intolerance?

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i welcome our beastly guest

mom mom
hey mom
look what followed
me home from google

fig9a protip copy image url paste into google images

pretty sure
the fuzzy one is madness

i like it

can we keep him

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