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TOTW: The future of anarchist media

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Topic of the week - How anarchists engage in the sharing of information has long been a critical part of the anarchist project, and as the media landscape of the future changes, perhaps anarchists must too. In this topic of the week, we will discuss the future of anarchist media.

TOTW: Money trouble

I imagine there are at least a few anarchists out there who are relatively used to substantial amounts of money in bank accounts. Perhaps there are even a few more on top who actually know how to utilize the numerical pixels without the deleterious headfuck. I have never had either experience as an anarchist; That is, until now.

TotW: Contradictions, make peace or fight them?

We all have contradictions in our practice and our ideas. Not just anarchists, obviously, but definitely anarchists, perhaps most foundationally (at least, I like to think so).

What are the four main contradictions in your life with your anarchist ideas of how life should be (you can go meta huge, like capitalism, but probably that won't be as much fun for this topic), and what are ways that you plan to negotiate/mess with them this coming year?

TotW: Using it for Our Purposes?

seek, and ye shall find

What is social media good for? How do you use it for what works for you, how do you remind yourself what your goals are for using it, and when do you know that you've lost the thread? What are the ways you use it that you would call anarchist, and why would you call them anarchist? Or are anarchy and social media on two different planes that don't intercept each other for you?

totw: Strangers

doppelganger from "Enemy" (2013)

If it's "all about who you know," what about the people you don't know? Dealing with strangers is not unique to anarchists, but the consequences of trusting someone new can hold special weight. Common practices such as security culture and the affinity group shield us from unfamiliar people in our close circles. Pair this with a distrust of technocrats and the rejection of community and all signs point toward the fact that hell is, in fact, other people. But is it that simple?

TOTW: Seasons of Anarchy

With the always on, always working, always lit up landscape of the city, capital and the forces of 24/7 life attempt to destroy any concept of seasonality urban dwellers might still cling to. Yet each year there are still shifts in temperature, apparel, the swapping out of your covid mask for your super-fire mask, etc.

TOTW: New laws in the new normal

the judge

While the enforcement of laws is largely unremarkable to the irreverent anarchist, it can be beneficial to reflect on how we are arranged in this new legal landscape to anticipate and outmaneuver new attempts to restrict everyday life. Past examples of shifting legal landscapes include the popularization of surveillance cameras over the past 50 years and heightened security practices we still rely on as a result of the Green Scare. How will our current legal context in the new normal influence how anarchists arrange themselves illegally in the future?

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