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A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like
Whatever happens in Washington, we can start building an internet that respects our rights on the local level. What would be the best route for creating community broadband in your community? In cities and towns, it’s probably through a municipal… Continue reading
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Whiteness is Dead | The Wild Hunt
Highly recommend a read through of this… Whiteness is dead. James Baldwin proclaimed it back in 1972, prophesying ominously that there would be “bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come.” The holding actions have gotten bloodier… Continue reading
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Infrared Photography Captures the Neon World of Colorblind Islanders – Creators
On a small island in the Pacific called Pingelap, a high percentage of the population sees the world in only black and white. A startling number of island’s inhabitants suffer from achromatopsia, or total color-blindness with an increased sensitivity to… Continue reading
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Mindfulness colouring sheets
Great series of coloring pictures for mindful detachment. Take a look and choose your favorite. Source: Mindfulness colouring sheets Continue reading
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The solitude of the inner citadel: the epoché of suffering | Preludes and Refrains
…the situation of philosophy today is one in which we can no longer pretend that we are innocent of reproducing the same violence that the philosopher has suffered at the hands of the sophist and the misologist. Since Kant, philosophy’s… Continue reading
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AnarchoCynic as Queer or recognizing the gravity well of domination
We are forsaken to our existential condition. We can simply make-do with what is already underway, or we can accept responsibility for having the power to explore in a fashion otherwise than tradition teaches. Anarchocynicism only works so long as… Continue reading
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Iceberg Detaches from the Larsen C Shelf
The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, with average temperatures that have risen about 3°C (5°F) over the last half century. The increasing size and poleward shift of the Larsen calving events over the last 20-plus… Continue reading
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Freedom, Choice, and the Death of Us
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: “they did not stop to think they died instead” “‘next to of course god america i,’” e.e. cummings Over the course of a couple hours after my mother was discovered comatose, the ER… Continue reading
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AnarchoCynic Praxis, Faith and Sacred Tradition
What makes our praxis specifically AnarchoCynic concerns how we take on none of the authority to be gained from established hierarchies, seek to take no privileged position for ourselves, and specifically engage folks about the customs that hold most currency in our… Continue reading
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Charity or philanthropy
One of the reasons for the possible rehabilitation of charity is especially paradoxical, given philanthropy’s technocratic pretensions. Over the past decade, as groups have become more sophisticated at assessing the impact of their work, and as digital payment systems have… Continue reading
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AnarchoCynic Praxis
While I am very knowledgeable about the workings of our political system–and I even vote, esp. locally–my energy and time goes to helping establish temporary autonomous zones wherein friends and allies can work together. If Paulo Freire is right that… Continue reading
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necrophilia
Originally posted on coromandal: This excerpt by Erich Fromm describes necrophilia in terms of sadism, control, work and technology. Necrophilia is literally love of death, which on its face sounds absurd, until we realize, with a closer look, that it’s… Continue reading
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Veteran Organizer Gives Inside Look at the First $15 Minimum Wage Campaign
…more than just a collection of war stories, Rosenblum’s purpose in Beyond $15 is to persuade other advocates to follow his lead. The book uses Sea-Tac’s success to argue for a “social movement union” approach to organizing that grounds labor… Continue reading
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What appears tends to disappear
Φύσις δε… kαθ’ Ηραkλειτον… kρύπτεσθαι φιλεΐ Phúsis de… kath’ Erakleiton… krúptesthai phileî (Qtd in Themistius, Orations 5.69b, DK B123) The story I am about to tell therefore begins symbolically at Ephesus, in Asia Minor, around 500 BCE, on the day… Continue reading
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Can we overcome a white supremacy that has permeated our politics and culture? Part 2
Anis Shivani continues his rumination upon white supremacy by tracing the tendrils of it throughout contemporary American society. He traces its presence not only within the commonly understood movements that are openly racist, but also into the neoliberal policies and globalizing… Continue reading
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