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so far
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10 April 2013
up to
been busy
this month
so far
with
secret plans
trust me
there are more
plans to come
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
this month
so far
with
secret plans
trust me
there are more
plans to come
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
27 March 2013
in which a review also contributes much
how often
do you read a review
better than most books
oh well
ill read it anyway
do you read a review
better than most books
Punk was making up life for yourself, punk was inventing yourself, and punk was inventing the people around you, too, inflating them to the size of Gods or perhaps just cartoons. Punk was a scene and scenes are a form of myth-making.and
Too often, stories about youth told by people who are not young focus, incorrectly, on romantic love. But traditional, romantic love is not what defines our formative years.... People would mistake Hell and Verlaine for brothers, Hell recounts. The mistake is exciting because they aren’t. Their sameness is trained, chosen, rather than ordained from birth. This kind of love is a rebellion, a freedom from the strictures of home and family. Punk is friendship, not love. It is the friend with whom we are literally or figuratively cutting class and hiding behind the gym, smoking and making plans to run away. In counter-cultures that refuse and reject patterns of domesticity, tradition, and adulthood, we define ourselves far more by strange friendships, by relationships that mimic not the love our parents were (or were supposed to be) in, but the camaraderie we had with our childhood best friends.
what book could
do that justice
ill read it anyway
yours for the revolution
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22 March 2013
what do you think about forcing people into communes is that ok or not
so in the quest
to figure out
what
the
fuck
is going on with this
iww sisters camelot
shit
i ended up signing onto
libcom
a website resources
dialogue about
libertarian communism
which yknow
if you want to figure that out
good fucking luck
ive been at it for years now
anyway
gold like this
made it alllllll
worth it
made it worth even waking up
today
at first its like
serious question
& theres all this good civil talk
it gets really good around post 27
NUH UH QUIT TRYING TO MAKE ME IMPOSE COMMUNISM ON EVERYONE YOU MONSTER
as they say on the interwebs
i lold
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
to figure out
what
the
fuck
is going on with this
iww sisters camelot
shit
i ended up signing onto
libcom
a website resources
dialogue about
libertarian communism
which yknow
if you want to figure that out
good fucking luck
ive been at it for years now
anyway
gold like this
made it alllllll
worth it
made it worth even waking up
today
at first its like
serious question
& theres all this good civil talk
it gets really good around post 27
NUH UH QUIT TRYING TO MAKE ME IMPOSE COMMUNISM ON EVERYONE YOU MONSTER
as they say on the interwebs
i lold
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
16 March 2013
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.
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
14 March 2013
only a moral interpretation of phenomena -
03 March 2013
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.
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
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
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
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
02 March 2013
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
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
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
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
27 February 2013
dont call it chaos
"Their error arises from their failure to allow there are different kinds of order. If researchers seek only the kinds of order with which Westerners are today familiar, they will miss, or reject as disorder, all other orders."
makes me think
of every time ive heard
dismissals about chaos
in whose eyes
you have to wonder
are we missing
opportunities
for other orders
other stories
yours for the revolution,
forbidden books
makes me think
of every time ive heard
dismissals about chaos
in whose eyes
you have to wonder
are we missing
opportunities
for other orders
other stories
yours for the revolution,
forbidden books
15 February 2013
a ceo is not a classical capitalist & your boss is not THE boss
We can run everything we need without the breath of a CEO on the back of our necks.
problematic
the far left rhetoric
marxists & anarchists
make them sound
sometimes like they havent worked
a day in their lives
no wonder they mostly
attract students
unless you work in the c suite
i highly doubt a ceo
is ever going to breathe
down your neck
i dont think the far left
even knows what the c suite is
wall street
is only a symbol to us
an abstraction
we would do well
to learn more about
the systems we want to
replace
there are some scary concepts
out in the biz world
we would be wise
to study that which we oppose
finally to reach out
to others than those
who will grow up
to be a professor
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
problematic
the far left rhetoric
marxists & anarchists
make them sound
sometimes like they havent worked
a day in their lives
no wonder they mostly
attract students
unless you work in the c suite
i highly doubt a ceo
is ever going to breathe
down your neck
i dont think the far left
even knows what the c suite is
wall street
is only a symbol to us
an abstraction
we would do well
to learn more about
the systems we want to
replace
there are some scary concepts
out in the biz world
we would be wise
to study that which we oppose
finally to reach out
to others than those
who will grow up
to be a professor
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07 February 2013
meditation re gun control
eclecticbreakfast once again hosts
a good meditation
re the worship
of the self vs the state
which to a reply is penned
there is of course no such thing
as the state
nothing you can point to
say there it is
there is a collection of very nice buildings
some
mostly old white male
people
engaged in a widely reported
ritualized charade
an immense labor structure
stamps bells & whistles
that command respect
lotta land & investments
financial legal &c
a devoted apparatus of force
backing it up
but at the end of the day
consensual adherence
to useful fiction
for capital
individuality
is a little more tangible
because of the body
the ego is notably more concrete
though it too
does not stand
up well to intense scrutiny
family is a hereditary arrangement
its story more immediate
community is just
family neighbors businesses
it is reactive
to value these things instead
of the state
because they predate
the state
it is progressive
to value these things instead
because they move us away
from the states
totalitizing
state monopoly on violence
it can sanction its own use
of force
individual family community
excluded from participating
question of trust
trust in god
becomes
trust in the state
from the framework
alternatives boil down
i only trust people of my community
blood is thicker than water
the only person who has my back is me
question of loss
of trust
look at the trust the state
loses in we the people
formerly constituents
CCTV
militarization of police
increased rules regulations
loss of common space
vicious circle
question of domination
along & within question of survival
any incarnation of the state
must dominate to survive
mubaraks al-assads withstanding
whatever it takes
other governments would do the same
i am the state
obsession can be fascistic - at bottom of the urge to clarify things is the impulse to dominate
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
a good meditation
re the worship
of the self vs the state
which to a reply is penned
there is of course no such thing
as the state
nothing you can point to
say there it is
there is a collection of very nice buildings
some
mostly old white male
people
engaged in a widely reported
ritualized charade
an immense labor structure
stamps bells & whistles
that command respect
lotta land & investments
financial legal &c
a devoted apparatus of force
backing it up
but at the end of the day
consensual adherence
to useful fiction
for capital
individuality
is a little more tangible
because of the body
the ego is notably more concrete
though it too
does not stand
up well to intense scrutiny
family is a hereditary arrangement
its story more immediate
community is just
family neighbors businesses
it is reactive
to value these things instead
of the state
because they predate
the state
it is progressive
to value these things instead
because they move us away
from the states
totalitizing
state monopoly on violence
it can sanction its own use
of force
individual family community
excluded from participating
question of trust
trust in god
becomes
trust in the state
from the framework
alternatives boil down
i only trust people of my community
blood is thicker than water
the only person who has my back is me
question of loss
of trust
look at the trust the state
loses in we the people
formerly constituents
CCTV
militarization of police
increased rules regulations
loss of common space
vicious circle
question of domination
along & within question of survival
any incarnation of the state
must dominate to survive
mubaraks al-assads withstanding
whatever it takes
other governments would do the same
i am the state
obsession can be fascistic - at bottom of the urge to clarify things is the impulse to dominate
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
04 February 2013
postmarxist critique re transformative justice
i spent a number of years in a marxist organization
i have a number of proleftist critiques & contributions
the first is most specific & important
a spectacle whichin i participated
first in a showtrial
then in very poor reaction
a good friend introduced me
to the concept of transformative justice
which i think
essential not just to aiding
victims of sexual assault
on the left
& elsewhere
but to confronting this beast
called capitalism
a system of dehumanization
& move to recognize
humanness
in oppressor oppressed
alike
handle things
in a delicate nurturing energetic way
that maps a new route
to confrontation
with the mechanizing monster
which would make
rote of our flesh
a squalor of hypnotism and violation
and look instead
for the way
that there might be hope
for us all
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
i have a number of proleftist critiques & contributions
fig4a howtodifferently
the first is most specific & important
a spectacle whichin i participated
first in a showtrial
then in very poor reaction
a good friend introduced me
to the concept of transformative justice
which i think
essential not just to aiding
victims of sexual assault
on the left
& elsewhere
but to confronting this beast
called capitalism
a system of dehumanization
& move to recognize
humanness
in oppressor oppressed
alike
handle things
in a delicate nurturing energetic way
that maps a new route
to confrontation
with the mechanizing monster
which would make
rote of our flesh
a squalor of hypnotism and violation
and look instead
for the way
that there might be hope
for us all
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
25 January 2013
"gone gear-queer"
"Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken for having special capability. A species of cosplay, really. Endemic. Lots of boys are playing soldier now. The men who run the world aren't, and neither are the boys most effectively bent on running it next. Or the ones who're actually having to be soldiers, of course. But many of the rest have gone gear-queer, to one extent or another.... The military, if you think about it, largely invented branding. The whole idea of being 'in uniform.' The global fashion industry is based on that."
- huburtus bigend, Zero History by william gibson
- huburtus bigend, Zero History by william gibson
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