we must link activist stress with emotional & transformative justice

ongoing postmarxist critique

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

& even our enemies

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

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optimistic engineer tackles peak plastic

via as usual lovingly
from the new inquiry

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

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objectify hostilities

hostile

objects

they are as we

treat them

kicking the car that

dies

cursing the computer

that lost the file

throwing the shovel

brokenhandled

fig8a shadows and parts of our former selves

a tool is an augmentation

replacement for human

effort

their mechanization

replaces our bodies

their digitalization

our brains

capital wants to make human

obsolescence

we are already at war

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basic meditation on fossil fuels

capitalism arose out of the industrial revolution
which is the discovery
of fossil fuels

natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms
excavating
buried essence

fig 6a living labor

at first employing idle
laborers

for their surplus-labor
that extra bit of work capacity
beyond their wage

then
through money and commodity exchange
and profit

develop machines
that reproduce human motion
called dead labor
freeing/enslaving
more laborers to work
on more & diverse
machines

fig 7b manifestation of ossified human labor

some which extract
other essences
oils
to make more machines
plastics
galvanized metals
computer chips

everything around us
is a product
of dead labor
dead essence
the undead

capitalism
is necromancy

fig 7c death is no excuse to stop working

sustainable economics indeed

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(mostly) survivors all

fig3a naturally we will equip ourselves with smartphone apps....

daps to my friend eclectricbreakfast
for this choice article
analyzing the zombie apocalypse
(yet again)

importantly this piece of text

which i think illustrates well
the position
we unconsciously take
from inside the consumerist recession

Neoliberalism and bourgeois culture places the individual (the self) at the centre of the universe. From this perspective the bulk of society appear as an immense collection of herd-like Others engaged in an array of apparently meaningless and mundane activities. You and your immediate circle are the individuals. The rest are a homogenous mass.
each little subculture
a bastion of us versus them
we have it right
and the rest consume media
mindlessly

fig3b its obvious

its more interclass competition
who is more adapted
to survive the neoliberal apocalypse
well of course those who are ready
to sacrifice their friends and family
on the alter of getting by

we long for work that is fulfilling
nothing is more that than survival

when face with a lack of real change
& that eternally recurring drudgery
of walking death

you could outfit every zombie with a bluetooth
only to give the narrative
a garishly particular spin

what do you want
a solution
a way forward?

well you cant spell collaboration
without labor

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