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THE PERSISTENT REFUSAL OF PARADISE

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by Penelope Nin

It is rumored that we (a “we” not well-defined whose lack of definition suits the rumor-mongers) have nothing to do with anarchism, being in reality nihilists disguised for the purpose of penetrating into the sanctuary of anarchy with bad intentions. It is noted that one who takes up the task of guarding the temple ends up seeing thieves everywhere, and maybe the hour has come to quiet “our” troubled detractors.

First of all, they must explain what they mean by nihilism. Personally, I view anyone who extols the joys of nihilism to me with suspicion because I consider nihilism, as the substantiation of nothing, to be a deception. When the incompleteness of all is cultivated with a feeling of fullness, it is difficult to resist the temptation to replace the old absolute with its most abstract moment in which nothing is immediately transformed into all and is therefore totalized. Ultimately, nihilism seems to me to be a crafty form of reasoning, that drives the whole structure of knowledge into the darkness of Nothingness only to receive, through this spectacular, radical negation, still more of the light of the All.

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[México] Teoría y práctica de la insurrección (2014)

Lo que aquí te presentamos como Teoría y práctica de la insurrección es el primer trabajo de una serie revistas en donde se compilan textos de diversos autores, así de como colectivos y anónimos de varias latitudes del planeta, y que giran en torno al proyecto insurreccional anarquista.
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Brittle Utopias

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In the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire there was a palace with seemingly endless corridors; where those outside had little idea what happened inside and those in one department didn’t know what happened in the other. At least that’s how it was in the imagination of Ismail Kadare, the Albanian novelist who wrote The Palace of Dreams. In his novel, the protagonist is given a job as a dream reader. He is sent to a room that he has difficulty finding, and told to read the dreams of others, sorting them into those that are of no interest, and that need to be investigated further: those that could be prophesies of events that will be threatening to the state. People throughout the empire submitted written accounts of their dreams to local offices in hope that their dreams would be selected, sent to Istanbul, and later proven to be prophetic. Little did they know that some dreams would be labeled as exposing threats to the state and that this didn’t bode well for the dreamers. Kadare knew what we also know: that dreams have the potential to threaten the structures of power.

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Against War and Pacifist Bliss

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The pacifist abhors war and blesses the state. In times of peace, he has been taught — and he has believed — that society is a vast system of communication where all controls itself by means of dialogue, in a nonviolent manner. It follows from this that only one who, living on the periphery of these communicating vessels, mocks the hopeless cornerstone of vain democratic chattering with blows is candidate to suffer brute force.

Though he implicitly recognizes in this way that this society is not only dialogue but also violence, the pacifist citizen is not excessively worried by this: the violence is destined for others, for the new savages who have not yet acquired a proper communicative humanity and who deduce from this that society is much more violent from the sweet force of words that support a round table. The pacifist elevates the nonviolent image to a supreme principle — in which the peaceful course of capitalist affairs reflects itself — which mediated society gives itself.

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Más allá de la estructura de síntesis

CONTRA LA ORGANIZACIÓN ANARQUISTA DE SÍNTESIS PROPONEMOS LA ORGANIZACIÓN INFORMAL ANARQUISTA, BASADA EN LA LUCHA Y LOS ANÁLISIS QUE EMERGEN DE ELLA.

Lxs anarquistas de todas las tendencias rechazamos cualquier modelo organizativo jerárquico y autoritario. Rechazamos a los partidos y las estructuras verticales que imponen directorios de antemano de una manera más o menos obvia… Cuando postulamos la Revolución Libertaria como única solución social posible al mundo actual, lxs anarquistas consideramos que los medios usados en causar esta transformación condicionarán los extremos alcanzados. Y esto significa que las organizaciones autoritarias no pueden ser instrumentos que nos conduzcan a la liberación.

LOS PELIGROS DE LA ESTRUCTURA DE SÍNTESIS PARA LA LUCHA ANARQUISTA.
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Más allá de la estructura de síntesis

CONTRA LA ORGANIZACIÓN ANARQUISTA DE SÍNTESIS PROPONEMOS LA ORGANIZACIÓN INFORMAL ANARQUISTA, BASADA EN LA LUCHA Y LOS ANÁLISIS QUE EMERGEN DE ELLA.

Lxs anarquistas de todas las tendencias rechazamos cualquier modelo organizativo jerárquico y autoritario. Rechazamos a los partidos y las estructuras verticales que imponen directorios de antemano de una manera más o menos obvia… Cuando postulamos la Revolución Libertaria como única solución social posible al mundo actual, lxs anarquistas consideramos que los medios usados en causar esta transformación condicionarán los extremos alcanzados. Y esto significa que las organizaciones autoritarias no pueden ser instrumentos que nos conduzcan a la liberación.

LOS PELIGROS DE LA ESTRUCTURA DE SÍNTESIS PARA LA LUCHA ANARQUISTA.
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A Balanced Account of the World: A Critical Look at the Scientific World View

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Wolfi Landstreicher

The origin of modern science in the 16th and 17th centuries corresponds with the origins of modern capitalism and the industrial system. From the beginning, the worldview and methods of science have fit in perfectly with the need of the capitalist social system to dominate nature and the vast majority of human beings. Francis Bacon made it clear that science was not an attempt to understand nature as it is, but to dominate it in order to twist it to the ends of humanity — in this case meaning the current rulers of the social order. In this light, science must necessarily be subjected to social analysis by anyone claiming to call the present social reality into question.
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Whither now? Some thoughts on creating anarchy By Feral Faun

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“Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and virgin thoughts…planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion.”
–Renzo Novatore

I feel that there is no possible society in which I would fit, that whatever society was like, I would be a rebel. At times, this fills me with the joy of the “unruly and heroic tramps” of whom Renzo Navatore speaks, but often it leaves me feeling quite lonely and isolated.

I live in a “society” now–in a situation in which social roles are used to reproduce social relationships. Would the way that we relate when we are free of character armor and social roles still be social relationships? I envision a world in which we can live our lives fully, as unique, wild beings, moving freely into and out of relations with each other as our desires motivate us, never creating the sorts of complex structures of formalized relationships that I understand as “society.” It is only in such a world that I can imagine feeling at home. But I really don’t know how to go about creating this world.
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