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TOTW: Mostly made of water

a tree falling into the great lakes

We’re mostly made of water. This week we’re exploring anarchist ideas and their relationship to water. Is there such a thing? Do you have a relationship to water? Do you define it as such or something else? What is your anarchist hot take about water?

TOTW: Manifestos

manifesto gun

When a white supremacist mass shooter, rich politician-turned-tech-executive, and anonymous anarchists all release public declarations to the media in the same week, perhaps there’s reason to pause and reflect on the form. Whether you call them manifestos, communiqués or marketing campaigns, there’s a patterned reliance on rhetoric to complement provocative deeds.

TOTW: Failure Modes

Borrowing lingo from engineering and using it metaphorically: What are well-known ways in which anarchists fail according to their own criteria? What are the known stresses and potential failure mechanisms? What have we learned from all typical failure modes?

TOTW: Rights

you gotta fight for your right to party!?

Topic of the Week - This week we’re taking a closer look into anarchist ideas and their relationship to rights. There are many rights one might come across in daily life including animal rights, child rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, gun rights, human rights, natural rights, legal rights, property rights, student rights, housing rights, food rights, water rights, reproductive rights, digital rights, women’s rights, indigenous rights, voting rights, and workers rights to name some.

TOTW: Against Architecture

Fun fact: A hummingbird's nest is mostly spider silk, lichen and saliva.

I have been thinking recently about what seems to me to be one of the greatest failures of anarchist, anti-technology and anti-civilisation discourse and practice. This failure is that of not having presented much, if any, critique or challenge to architecture, which seems to me to be the cage that captures most within the totalitarianism of this technologically dependent culture.

TOTW: Recuperation

Quench your thirst for justice with Pepsi!

While it’s easy to place emphasis on the more exciting forms of state violence—baton-wielding, armor-clad riot cops through a teargas haze—it’s equally important to be mindful of another ever-present and much more boring reality: recuperation. The murky ways in which once-radical acts are disarmed, defanged, redirected, or otherwise rendered ineffective of their original purpose.

TOTW: Gardens

the bloom lives in the bloom

Here in this part of the world, spring has almost arrived. Outside today the sun is shining, the air is the warmest it has been since the fall, with the overcast gloomy skies of winter breaking. This week, we’re taking a look into practical anarchy and asking how does your garden grow?

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