This episode we discuss some of these critics and having a balanced approach towards that most anarchist of problems. This is done in a modern context.

This conversation is very much "in the weeds." We go through the project article by article. We frame out Black Seed by context, order, and authorship.

You can get access to Black Seed via LBC

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This wide ranging conversation happened in a coffee house (terrible sound) but is an interesting snapshot in where the academy, anarchy, and mf Lacan will take you.

Dreamtime may have been amazing but it was not exactly a laboratory of the anarchies. It hosted anarchists but may have been more accurately been described as a permacultural art space. The prime movers behinds the project were mIEKAL aND, Elizabeth Was, and their son Liaizon Wakest. Here are some links about them (recently) and their ongoing publishing project.

https://isthmus.com/arts/what-ever-happened-to-the-church-of-anarchy/ https://www.xexoxial.org/

chisel and I discuss all of this and more.

Here is a link to the book. http://www.zero-books.net/books/kill-all-normies

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It is also about anarchism. The original thesis of this book went something like this: The difference between indigenous and anarchist perspectives only requires some sort of keystone or translation guide; the two perspectives have so much in common that the only work is mapping the geography. But as the saying goes the map is not the territory. Clearly many, if not most, anarchists are happily married to Enlightenment thought and believe that the problem is not the production of widgets but how the widgets are produced. Similarly many indigenous people are not exactly on board with the kind of total social and material transformation alluded to by an anti-civilization, green anarchist perspective. To put this another way, I was wrong in my initial thesis and in face of that wrongness I am questioning both my anarchism and my relationship to indigeneity.

Couple this to the general exhaustion I am feeling in my seemingly complete transition from trickster to bear and it has been difficult to talk about this book. To get the word out. To care about how anyone not in the book feels about it. But this is how projects fail. This one deserves a full airing and luckily my friend Obsidian (along with peanut gallery) was up to the task. This is an hour interview with me about the book I edited "The Fight for Turtle Island." Enjoy and then pick it up at Little Black Cart.

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There is also something of a critique that I can feel (at least the radiant heat from) that they call rigid radicalism. I would call it something more like "what Christian value systems have wrought" but perhaps that's a lot more blame-y than they want to sound but again back to the content of this podcast. I forced my collaborater chisel to read this book and we use this hour to talk it through. Thanks to chisel, Nick, carla, and all of you listeners. Together we can do as the authors desire which is to

Fusing together movement-based perspectives and contemporary affect theory, they trace emergent forms of trust, care and responsibility in a wide variety of radical currents today, including indigenous resurgence, anarchism, transformative justice, and youth liberation.

(which of course sounds like a jargon-laden nightmare but whatever floats your boat)

BTW the book is available on The Anarchist Library. Check it out!

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I was upset that the book was undermined, this is the full story of how, what, and why that happened. An interesting test case of what politics look like in the anti-political milieu and what bad faith looks like in practice. We also get the skinny on leaf-cutter ants which I can't get enough of.

Bellamy and I have another conversation that I'll release next week about Corrosive Consciousness but for now we discuss anarchism in 2018 (http://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-65-what-is-anarchism-in-2018/ and text here http://thebrilliant.org/2018/11/19/season-3-of-the-brilliant/) and where we agree and where BF is wrong (joke!). We discuss whether we are in a third wave of anarchism and what it's boundary is compared to second wave. Should we fight for the word anarchism, the loyal opposition to anarcho-liberalism, or should we go another direction?

If you haven't you should check out Bellamy's article from Backwoods #1 you should. An Invitation to Desertion to understand some of BF's position in this conversation.

Finally we gossip about Dr. Bones, anarchist nationalism, and spirituality.

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From the article Thinking from the Outside: Avoiding Recuperation

Working inside the system in any way immediately creates difficulties, not least the dangers of recuperation, reformism, and selling-out. These dangers have a structural form — the turning-against-itself of desire, the conversion of an active force, which uses the external world as a series of tools or partners in dialogue, with a reactive force, which comes to value the fixed forms of the external world as goods in themselves.

We discuss the crisis in anarchism (and second wave in particular), the critique of modern reason and cybernetic capitalism, 1973 (and the end of Breton Woods), and the movements we need now (the fight against fordism vs cybernetic power). How a yearning for an authentic life pits us against the monopoly of violence. Andy is very smart.

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Our discussion begins with nostalgia (about fighting nazis & KKA), passes through controversies like GA framing of Sasha K, Keith Preston and anarcho-nationalism, disagreements (generally). Then we talk about indigenous struggles in Regina and how to practice political conflict in 2018. Maybe later we'll have an answer to what turns out to be one of the biggest problems of our time.

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Of course I see, in this kind of comedy and in its lifestyle, something quite similar to anarchists. These are people doing a ridiculous thing (entertaining people/changing the world) that they need a lifelong commitment to (many fail at this stage of course) and in odd cases something pops. Whether it’s Occupy, BLM, or just that moment where one feels free there is something parallel to mind between laughter and anarchy.

As I think about future projects, I think about how to make people laugh, since making people love freedom doesn’t seem to be nearly as successful.

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“It all has to go” – MW 1982

Politics as personal attack (ancom vs green), complicated French nationalism in Quebec, anarcho-liberals and municipal libertarianism, pragmatists, koans.

A wonderful conversation about how much has been going on in @Canada over the past 40 years.

This third episode on the question of nationalism wraps up the conversation with a nice bow. I talk to one of the authors of Tribes magazine about their story (and apologies but the first part of the episode was lost to the computer usability gods), and specifically how they went from being a “left anarchist” (which has less to do with leftist ideas than with leftist activities like squatting, occupy, and black bloc!!!) to becoming a national anarchist. We talk specifically about how fucking stupid that name is; what family looks like; why, ultimately, I can’t get on board with their program at all (which was obvious from the beginning but I use this as an opportunity to go through something in good faith and wash away all the cruft and grime to really see what’s underneath). I am really appreciative of Gregor’s patience and understanding in the conversation. They were a good advocate for their position, and really served as a not-paranoid or mealy-mouthed partisan of it.

This episode will be challenging for many listeners as the position we are discussing (national or tribal anarchism) can be easily dismissed as racist. And I’m not going to say it is not racist but my reading of Tribes is that it tries very hard to dance around the issue (though sometimes dog whistling) and is worth examining closer. But I say this because I think that the idea of building community, and how it’s done, and who it’s done with, is worth grappling with seriously, before deciding specific efforts are bad, by whatever epithet. That’s what I try to do here. To put a point on it, I have not found many so-called anti-racists living in a way that is all that different than racists do. Mostly people surround themselves with a homogeneous group of people and don’t question their own social, cultural, and even ethnic comfort zones. This conversation starts to poke at that comfort zone, but I’m not sure where I’d go from here.

To be clear, after this process of discovery of the Tribes/National Anarchist position, I reject it entirely. It turns out that like many other anarchist positions they end up having Hope (with a capital H) in something that I find totally absurd. In this case it isn’t the workers or the movement, but a construction of “heritability” that while being “true” is absolutely not true. You’ll have to decide how you feel about it by listening to the conversation.

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Right-anarchist Keith Preston sent me a copy of a very interesting (and disturbing) magazine called Tribes that points straight at the issue calling itself a “National Anarchist magazine.” I did a conversation with KP where I tried to tease out the issue of how you can discuss nation in any meaningful way without discussing race (or the nation state tbh) and here is what he had to say about it.

I simply described myself as a “racial atheist,” meaning I have no racial beliefs. And then he was like “But these folks do….” and I simply said that there are many people who do not have racial/ethnic beliefs in the N-A milieu, and those who do are very diverse in terms of their perspective on those issues, and that people of color were among the N-A milieu as well.

To which I’d respond, why call yourself a national anarchist at all? How is a nation defined (especially if you use it in the sense that the Tribes editorial does as in nation = tribes)? I’d then laugh at the use of the term atheist in the same breath as race. You can claim all humans are of the same biological race (and I’d agree) but to say that “Race does not exist” is laughably stupid.

But let’s not get distracted. If the post-modern definition of a nation, or a tribe, is possible, which I’m not sure it is, the place where it was articulated best was in the 80’s by the (not)anarchist, (not)utopian book bolo’bolo. Filled with a world where alco-bolos and les-bolos live together in perfect harmony. Let’s talk about this body of ideas in a context we share… which obviously doesn’t involve KP.

In this two episode block we discuss our discomfort with KP’s approach (the first two episodes focus on the nationalism question in the context of bolo’bolo, the third on the context of bolo’bolo itself) and ask how to discuss nationalism at all in a modern (ie dramaful) context.

Episode 81 – I discuss the specifics of what it means to be Indian (aka native americans or indigenous folk on turtle island) using terms like nation with Dominique. Episode 82 – Chisel and I discuss the topic of nationalism

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Right-anarchist Keith Preston sent me a copy of a very interesting (and disturbing) magazine called Tribes that points straight at the issue calling itself a “National Anarchist magazine.” I did a conversation with KP where I tried to tease out the issue of how you can discuss nation in any meaningful way without discussing race (or the nation state tbh) and here is what he had to say about it.

I simply described myself as a “racial atheist,” meaning I have no racial beliefs. And then he was like “But these folks do….” and I simply said that there are many people who do not have racial/ethnic beliefs in the N-A milieu, and those who do are very diverse in terms of their perspective on those issues, and that people of color were among the N-A milieu as well.

To which I’d respond, why call yourself a national anarchist at all? How is a nation defined (especially if you use it in the sense that the Tribes editorial does as in nation = tribes)? I’d then laugh at the use of the term atheist in the same breath as race. You can claim all humans are of the same biological race (and I’d agree) but to say that “Race does not exist” is laughably stupid.

But let’s not get distracted. If the post-modern definition of a nation, or a tribe, is possible, which I’m not sure it is, the place where it was articulated best was in the 80’s by the (not)anarchist, (not)utopian book bolo’bolo. Filled with a world where alco-bolos and les-bolos live together in perfect harmony. Let’s talk about this body of ideas in a context we share… which obviously doesn’t involve KP.

In this two episode block we discuss our discomfort with KP’s approach (the first two episodes focus on the nationalism question in the context of bolo’bolo, the third on the context of bolo’bolo itself) and ask how to discuss nationalism at all in a modern (ie dramaful) context.

Episode 81 – I discuss the specifics of what it means to be Indian (aka native americans or indigenous folk on turtle island) using terms like nation with Dominique. Episode 82 – Chisel and I discuss the topic of nationalism Episode 83 – I chat with the editor of Minor Compositions (an Autonomedia imprint) Stevphen Shukaitis about bolo’bolo and his general outlook. The episode barely counts as being on the general topic but it tries.

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One of them, which I’ll update with website information if/when that is available is Labadie related. It is an oral history project much like Paul Avrich’s Anarchist Voices (the expanded version from Anarchist Portraits which I believe is widely available). Our good friend Audrey was in Anarchist Voices and having a written remembrance of here is still very sweet.

When Nikita invited me to participate in this new (unnamed?) project I overcame my hesitance and here is the result. I broke it into two parts for your entertainment.

Part II – Publishing and being involved in so much drama as a result

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One of them, which I’ll update with website information if/when that is available is Labadie related. It is an oral history project much like Paul Avrich’s Anarchist Voices (the expanded version from Anarchist Portraits which I believe is widely available). Our good friend Audrey was in Anarchist Voices and having a written remembrance of here is still very sweet.

When Nikita invited me to participate in this new (unnamed?) project I overcame my hesitance and here is the result. I broke it into two parts for your entertainment.

Part I – The Late Eighties and Nineties. Anarchy and Punk. How do we live this thing? Traveler kid stories. Moving from the Midwest to the Bay Area

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That said, if I were going to try to articulate how I think we should disagree with each other I’d start with information/data. Most of the “hot takes” I see on social media and whatnot start a disagreement off my misrepresenting someone else’s position. Layla is a vegan anarcho-primitivist but I am not, in fact, interested enough in either topic (especially from the perspective of trying to somehow win them) to talk about them. But Layla is interested especially in how these principles (or ideologies depending on your point of view) apply to children, raising children, and literature around children. This is very interesting to me (especially as a non-breeder) and I really appreciated the chance to think about something deep and different than I would normally absolutely fulfilling.

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This discussion doesn’t sell any books or ideologies. We attempt to talk through our fundamental disagreements and perspectives to what feels like a productive end. I’m not so sure that is what my takeaway from the conversation should be though as just yesterday NJ threw out another bag of flaming shit about one of the projects I’m involved in. I guess no good deed goes unpunished and public anarchist projects are a cesspool compared to…

Anyway, I really enjoyed this conversation with NJ and hope it begins a productive series of conversations with people who I don’t really agree with, but who are also interested in anarchist theory.

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If a heretic is someone whose position is hard to understand based on the company they keep and the actions they take then Cody may be a heretic but if you pull the lens back one click and see the field something else emerges.

Often times I’m confronted with choices that really want to be solved by making either/or decisions. I try to turn them into both/and choices and am called a fool. It is clear from this conversation with Cody that he is a similar kind of fool.

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This conversation should have happened some time ago as our chemistry and spiritedness is apparent. If you want to ask us questions for a deeper discussion on topics, leave a comment here or email us!

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My first exposure to milieu anarchists was at a collective restaurant that had a type of infoshop connected to it. While I was aggressively trying to come to terms with living and learning about anarchy, the dude bros who inhabited that infoshop were actively suppressing any position other than theirs. It was red, collectivist, and very connected to the broader milieu (they even knew Chumbawumba). This so-called infoshop was not a place to get information about any perspective but the one of its inhabitants.

Even though I’ve been hostile to 75% of the anarchist space most of my time here, I have always done my damnedest to inform people where they can go to find “their people,” if they are articulate enough to give me a hint as to who those people are. As much as I might disagree with a syndicalist, workerist, or strugglist I have always paid enough attention to them to point the way to the people who need to be there. The last thing I want is to create an orthodoxy and trap people inside of it. Run, forest, run!

To that end I have spent much of my life with people who fit no orthodoxy and never will. Whether due to temperament, ideas, or personality, this next series of podcasts includes some conversations with these people. This is not the heresy of a religious order but the heresy of strange, goofy people who happen to be fellow travelers to an anarchy of bruises and disorder.

This first interview is with a long-term friend and participant in the weekly anarchist study group in Berkeley CA. Lew is a wild consumer of philosophy and magick (yes, with a mother-fucking k). You never find him without a pile of books (mostly continental philosophy) and recent magazines on marxism and theory. He quotes from the high theorists of heresy; Blake, Benjamin, and Bey. Lew is a feature of the study group and a wild idea man. In the fight between poetry and facts, he has picked the same side as me. The side of the beautiful losers.

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We begin our discussion with Bellamy with a slightly off-topic discussion about catastrophe and leaf cutter ants (and eusocial insects). Around minute thirteen the Stirner begins. There is a quibble about the new title (and some nerdy translation talk). There is some history talk (Proudhon and Marx are discussed). What is to be done? Corrosive Consciousness is discussed, as is Bellamy’s new project Backwoods.

What it is is not a program. It is a mode of analysis.

The moment you believe you have more power, you do.

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Music

Intro: OBSTRUCTION – “Pressure Breaks” Outro: POLICE DE MOEURS – “Out from the Void” (Antisect)

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Anyway, this was a useful conversation because it does establish a baseline from which to understand what this egoism thing is all about. It is worth noting that Daniel is doing the sound editing for these past few episodes and is doing a fantastic job!

Audio Intro: FASTIDIO – “Generación” // Outro: RIXE – “Condamné”

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This episode is both more fanciful and more practical than our first episode on egoism. Be warned.

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Enemies of Society Disruptive Elements

Post-left anarchism is a modern, North American, veneer on egoism. The Situationists, while arguably marxist, were also using thematic elements from egoism (especially The Treatise). Several prominent North American anarchists have been working on Stirner and the general concepts around egoism for decades.

For anyone following the themes we cover in The Brilliant, post-left anarchism, or Stirner our guest this episode needs no introduction. Wolfi Landstreicher has been a translator, writer, and merry interlocutor for decades. He has been an inspiration for my own projectuality for a long time and I count him as a friend. Our conversation in this issue is centered on the effort Wolfi made in translating The Unique and all the details around it.

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Anyway, this conversation rotates around the axis of social change. Scott is a well known “social changer” and I am not. I am largely critical of the way social changers minds work but there is something there. Something I still desire, even though I hate the whens and wheres in the here in now. How can we think about big change without hope in it? In this episode, and as a way to introduce anarchism in 2018, Scott and I try.

]]> Scott Crow has been a good friend for nearly a decade (!!!). We agree on almost nothing except on how to disagree. As a grown adult I’ve probably had the longest conversations on record with Scott. We are both talkers. We both have a bit too much pride in our ability to convince people by using our words. I’m not sure we ever consider ourselves convinced, or convincable, by others. We power on.

Anyway, this conversation rotates around the axis of social change. Scott is a well known “social changer” and I am not. I am largely critical of the way social changers minds work but there is something there. Something I still desire, even though I hate the whens and wheres in the here in now. How can we think about big change without hope in it? In this episode, and as a way to introduce anarchism in 2018, Scott and I try.

]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/i5694roixnq01.jpg Episode 68 – Scott Crow and Change false no 1:07:24 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-67-dominique-and-indigenous-anarchy/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:11:56 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=250 Dominique is a close friend. If we didn’t live in the big city we’d probably be closer but here we are. Two particles flying around the same center at different speeds. I’m slowing down. He is speeding up.

We have been working around the conversation of Indigenous Anarchy for a number of years but perhaps you haven’t seen that. Black Seed is the platform we are trying to do this work but this conversation is as clear as I think we are capable of being around the topic.

Here is our interview in Black Seed 3 – https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-there-s-no-place-to-go Here is a link to get issue 5 – https://littleblackcart.com/journals/black-seed-5/ Here is the general Black Seed link – http://blackseed.anarchyplanet.org/ email us at]]> Dominique is a close friend. If we didn’t live in the big city we’d probably be closer but here we are. Two particles flying around the same center at different speeds. I’m slowing down. He is speeding up.

We have been working around the conversation of Indigenous Anarchy for a number of years but perhaps you haven’t seen that. Black Seed is the platform we are trying to do this work but this conversation is as clear as I think we are capable of being around the topic.

Here is our interview in Black Seed 3 – https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-there-s-no-place-to-go Here is a link to get issue 5 – https://littleblackcart.com/journals/black-seed-5/ Here is the general Black Seed link – http://blackseed.anarchyplanet.org/ email us at]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MEMRtwg2zMddhi3a-WpNzWM2PcuDKeqouarLErLtYVs.jpg Episode 67 – Dominique and Indigenous Anarchy false no 59:18 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-66-klee-benally-tia/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:53:47 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=246 Most recently Klee has been a movie maker but is also known as a musician and media activist. I interviewed him in the first few issues of Black Seed but that really isn’t where our relationship begins.

I’d say our friendship begins exactly where most should, in humor. Klee is one of the first “radical” people I’ve ever met who has joked and criticized and laughed with me as soon as we met. I hope that current is obvious in this discussion which centers on the core of Turtle Island anarchism.

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For further information on these themes

Links

Second Wave Anarchy John Moore Desert or LBC physical book link Dark Mountain Manifesto Russell Means 2017 BASTARD Chronicles – Boom!

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Episode 59 – Gerardo (haters to the left) Episode 60 – Paul Z Simons (wandering post-left anarchist) Episode 61 – Ramon Elani (black seed editor) Episode 62 – Rydra! (Free Radical Radio) Episode 63 – Jason McQuinn (Modern Slavery editor, A:JODA creator)

The intention of this series of podcasts is not to do your work for you. It isn’t to tell you what to do or think. It is to examine the weaknesses of a set of thirty year old critiques of technology to our current situation. Especially in the context of the tremendous growth and change of information technologies like the Internet.

The final episode is Season two and in our series on technology is a conversation with Jason McQuinn where we tackle technology but also many other concepts. Join us!

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Episode 59 – Gerardo (haters to the left) Episode 60 – Paul Z Simons (wandering post-left anarchist) Episode 61 – Ramon Elani (black seed editor) Episode 62 – Rydra! (Free Radical Radio) Episode 63 – Jason McQuinn (Modern Slavery editor, A:JODA creator)

Rydra is the former host, and now ringleader, of the Free Radical Radio which transitioned from a conversational podcast into a sort of anarchist reading rainbow program. Recent episodes include “A Burglar’s Guide to the City” and “The Broken Teapot”. Check it out here http://www.freeradicalradio.net/

Rydra is a big personality. Our conversation is easy because he has opinions and even if they are wrong opinions are easier to talk to than the cagey motherfuckers I usually have on the show. We even, recently, had a conversation that was interesting, nuanced, and careful that the guest pleaded I didn’t share after it happened. Rydra would never do that. They make big mistakes all the time. Joy.

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The goal of this series is to discuss our critique(s) of technology and how these critiques have changed in the past few decades. Specifically we are discussing new technologies like mobile and Internet technology. Communication has changed. How we access information has changed. How has this meant that we have changed too?

Episode 59 – Gerardo (haters to the left) Episode 60 – Paul Z Simons (wandering post-left anarchist) Episode 61 – Ramon Elani (black seed editor) Episode 62 – Rydra! (Free Radical Radio) Episode 63 – Jason McQuinn (Modern Slavery editor, A:JODA creator)

Ramon Elani has entered our lives in a rush of output and energy. He is part of the new crew of Black Seed editors (starting issue 5). He has contributed content to both the Dark Mountain project and Gods and Radicals. One of the most denounced articles in Atassa 1 was written by Ramon. He is a post-academic (who is healing fast), that lives in the country, and attends to babies and whatnot. You can find the bulk of his creative output at his blog https://thetigersleap.wordpress.com/. You can give him all the monies at https://www.patreon.com/runewhisper.

Our conversation ranges from academic poop (Hegel & Derrida) to Zerzan. I start saying “as far as I’m concerned” for some strange reason. What does a post-Heidegger critique of technology look like? Messiness! Rewilding is not enough (BS#5 reference). Hard rejection vs Soft rejection (Attack vs personal action). Facebook. Jung. Inward vs outward looking? Is technology fluid? We get into anthropology critique. Health (goop reference). Solutions, ha. Propoganda and anti-blackseedness. Indigeneity. How do we call out people for being sub-awesome without participating in what is horrible about call-out culture. Sacrifice. Intertwined.

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Episode 59 – Gerardo (haters to the left) Episode 60 – Paul Z Simons (wandering post-left anarchist) Episode 61 – Ramon Elani (black seed editor) Episode 62 – Jason McQuinn (Modern Slavery editor, A:JODA creator)

Paul requires no introduction to most The Brilliant listeners. He is a long time friend and collaborator (Check out Black Eye). He is an editor of Modern Slavery. He has been involved in AJODA and a ton of other projects. Most recently he has been proselytizing “black anarchy” and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

We spend the first twelve minutes catching up on what Brazil is like, what Paul is fascinated with currently, what sectarian anarchism looks like in South America before we get to the topic of technology. Paul describes the Internet provocatively as a weapon of war.

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Part of my interest in discussing exclusion was to begin to formulate a Grand Theory of Exclusion (I am only partially joking) to describe the why, how, and whatnot of why so many anarchists (that interest me) are excluded from most/many social situations. What organ do anarchists have (or have not) that forces them to make socially unacceptable choices. How does this relate/not relate to the desire for a total transformation of society? Can one be a revolutionary and anti-social? How about disliked?

Andy is one of the few people who seems capable of talking/building theory on the fly so this conversation was particularly special to me. I had a blast having it and look forward to seeing what my people do with this raw material in future projects that attack the smiling happy people who make the rest of us feel bad by way of exclusion.

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This is an interview with Mitchell Halberstadt. He wrote a provocative essay back when I was with AJODA and I’ve stayed in contact with him every since. That said he has burned every anarchist bridge available to him since then. He’s been escorted out of several BASTARD conferences. He is one of the few not-houseless people banned from the Long Haul. He is the very definition of a social pariah.

Halberstadt observes, “With 20/20 hindsight, I wish I’d invoked the name of Lenny Bruce. That might have avoided a lot of verbiage. Then again, I’m an original in my own right. It’s my hope that this interview succeeds in establishing that, in contradistinction to the notion that I ought to be viewed predominantly as a pariah.”

This conversation is an attempt to grapple with why this is the state of affairs and who is MH. It was an enjoyable conversation for me for the way it tells a story about post-Stonewall NYC, a time when the Bay was still friendly to freaks, and what happens (inevitably?) as one ages.

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I’m not sure what else to say about this conversation as introduction other than it is chapter 2 in the 4 chapter sequence on Exclusion. I hope you get something out of this effort and please contact us at our email address for discussion and more.

This episode is the second step on a process on how to think about exclusion, how we are for and against it, how we learn and grow from it, and what is means for the anarchist space that exclusion is so central to it. In this conversation with Ben we learn about homogeneity, Portland, effectiveness vs maybe principles?, and like usual the gap between people and society.

The first step of this process, for me btw, was the workshop I did for this years BASTARD Conference. Here is the writeup of that.

This is a basic conversation that, if successful, will question a basic anarchist principle and point a way torward thinking about how to form pods of human activity in a possible, viable future. We will discuss what is social, society, and at what numerical breaks are different kinds of organizations possible and impossible. Mostly we’d like to talk about exclusion as a consequence of how this society is ordered but also how utopia planning is largely a reactionary and conservative process. We are against it.

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In this hour we see how the situationist analysis evolves into other aspects of life and continues to evolve itself. As Isaac aged and took on new adventures (like fatherhood) new challenges arose. In this hour we discuss how his sons health became the catalyst to entirely new direction in his thinking.

As always, we thank Isaac for doing this project with me. Linn O’mable for their sound editing (they just visited us and blew our minds while watching them work). While the work will not save us, it tends to be a lot more interesting than most of the responses to it.

This week something like a reportback of the kerfuffle happened. Alongside a great conversation on anarchistnews.org there have been several, fairly specific, threats made against LBC, its people, and promises made about next weeks Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair. While camping (and practicing what I believe will be the shape of future anarchist events) a group of us got together to discuss recent events, strategize next weekends events (which will include the 2017 BASTARD conference), and discuss the current way in which anarchist disagreements are performed. Enjoy the conversation.

Thanks a ton to the participants and especially to Linn O’Mable who turned this episode around in a heartbeat.

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1:00 Shout out to Slingshot! 3:00 Trolling project 6:00 Online dating 10:00 History of @ Internet 12:00 Black Seed issue 5 19:00 alt-right clowns 24:00 doxxing 29:00 polarized individuality 36:00 affirmative consent 43:00 More options around post-“bad things happening” 46:00 Reasons for coupledness 51:00 More anarchist models (Audrey stories)

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1:30 Hoodoo & Slavery 4:15 Africa, Catholicism, Protestantism 8:00 Cultural Appropriation 13:00 Colonialism and cultural continuity 18:00 Lots of race talk 22:00 There are plenty of toys for everyone 27:00 Practical magic 31:00 The Revolution 34:00 Hungarian Revolution 40:00 Anarchism 43:30 Burn the Plantation 49:00 Some ITS review 52:30 Dr Bones book and an anti-economic program via magic (with a k?)

There have been quite a few critical essays, rants, and podcasts about how horrible any curiosity about ITS by anarchists is. This chatter has increased in volume and intensity since ITS Communique 29 which threw down the glove on any illusion that ITS didn’t mean it. This communique admits to the murder of a female University student and two hikers.

In this conversation we (Bellamy and I) attempt to distance ourselves from ITS, from their actions, but not from the challenge they represent. If I were to have a hope it would be that this ends my involvement in conversations about ITS as I think we’ve taken this as far as we could but I’m sure there will be another week or two of kerfuffle.

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:30 Catching up with Bellamy 2:00 Communique 29 – Bellamy 4:00 A! on violence-ism 5:00 What is a project of liberation? 9:00 Critical departure from @. What does that look like? 14:30 Transformative violence 17:00 What did Lenin say about white gloves? 21:20 Are ITS nihilists or “christians” (for lack of better language) 26:50 Do words mean anything? 29:00 Is there an anarcho-nihilism? 37:00 The social anarchist critique of eco-extremism 38:30 Freedom (Is there such a thing as freer?) btw the reference is to The Anarchist Tension and not Armed Joy. Oops. 44:00 What it’s like to be the focus of five minutes of hate 50:20 Good faith, quotations, snarl words, logical fallacies, and getting smacked 54:00 Who is responsible for other peoples bad behavior 59:30 At least we are talking about ideas? 1:05 Team sports

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0:30 Introduction to Kalan 2:00 Times Square Trump 6:50 Anarchist-Nihilist-Philosophy Puppet Show 12:00 Other things against the monolithic economy 17:40 Rhizomatic subway systems 21:30 Trade offs of time and art and money 25:00 The line between shit jobs and life 31:00 Current anarchist bro-culture 36:45 NYC cops as intellectuals 41:00 Collecting pennies 45:00 The work 49:00 Stirring the pot

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1:00 Shit talk about how bad @ podcasts are 7:00 Ideas about interesting podcasts and how anon lives their life! 9:30 Influences? 12:00 Life as an organizer 17:00 A! reminesces about the 80s fringe (that he grew up in the shadow of) 21:00 Beautiful snowflake is beautiful 27:30 The movement vs the critique 30:00 We are very small 39:00 ITS & Humor 43:00 Squatting 49:00 The shittalking becomes generalized

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This conversation is with Julio, our friend from the LA apocalypse, and covers fighting and what is there to win.

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:30 A review of the Anews podcast 2:00 An introduction – Are there rules to fighting? Where is the line between conflict and fighting? How is conflict racialized? When/if physical conflict? What about threats? What about threats on the Internet? 7:00 Bob Black and his rules for intra-fighting 10:00 Physicality vs Social Exclusion 15:00 Outrage exhaustion & Left unity 19:00 An order to opposition (should capitalism be first or other peoples bad ideas?) 23:00 Can we discuss, with those we disagree with, anything at all? 27:00 Hope, god, nihilism 32:00 Maoists 36:00 Friends vs Milieu 40:00 LA diversity (its real) 44:00 Political education 47:00 Death of the workers movement (Social Justice vs Trump) 49:00 Some conversation about Joe Rogan 52:00 The sad thing about being a messenger and how to do media training

In this conversation is a conversation about critique that should resonate today. It concerns humility, the peril of being right (in a world that is wrong), the left (same as it ever was), race, worker(ism)s, orthodoxy vs play, etc.

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Introductions to Wil and Bellamy 1:34 Atassa introduction 2:00 Wil: Attitude. ITS. 6:00 Market anarchism & Technophilia 7:30 Strong introduction. Defines terms. Bel: This is something you have to deal with (Why?) 9:45 Origin story of eco-extremism. Revolution. Kacynski. Ancestral Beliefs. 13:20 Shocking bits wrt Mafia style violence, appearance, adopt an accent, espouse a strong moral character. sXe. Necheav. 15:30 Return of the warrior. Clastres. What is the relationship between violence and the State? Monopoly of violence has unforseen consequence. Becoming. 29:00 More origin of EE. Solid piece from Jacobi. Notes on wildism vs EE vs AP. 34:30 Creek War. Market economy as invasion. Old ways. Brutal. 39:00 Indiscriminate anarchists. Today there is reaction by @ against indiscriminate attacks. There is a history here. This is another way to talk about social vs anti-social @. 41:40 Is this an anarchist journal? No! But @ should be engaged with it anyway. 45:30 Are you a pacifist? Kudos for your consistency. Otherwise you have to (internally) confront the questions of Atassa.

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The Atassa website

Hunter Gather project

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0:00 Introduction to Julio 01:00 Introduction to the Topic 2:16 Umberto Eco & a literary approach to anti-fascism Fuck traditional values 5:14 Parallelism false and not – Politics 7:30 Is fascism on the rise? 10:30 Persuasion. Scott Adams & Joe Rogan (aka Dilbert and the bro on Trump) 19:50 Arguing value theory with nerds Julio makes valid point that I ignore 22:00 We are having a conversation about style 23:45 A Chicano context 26:00 What does victory look like? Kitchen table politics 28:30 talking about talking Is it a mistake to critique antifa on the Internet? F2F Conversations > Internet single issue politics vs maximalist 35:00 Black Rose Federation is mentioned in a story about “enemies” 42:00 If not the party then what? 46:30 http://www.daskeyboard.com/ 49:30 How do we have engaged conversations?

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Umberto Eco definition of fascism

King Collins CCE text

Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous also worth checking out Bureau of Public Secrets prehistory

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1:00 Introduction to Julio & antipolitics 5:00 pro-revolutionaries & friends vs Trump 10:00 Los Angeles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiZHt6sqg4) 19:00 Art (LA, Public School, Sandpaper books) 27:00 Communist & and use of political titles 30:00 Scandalous comment about anarchism 33:30 While a mechanical keyboard is great, it sounds loud next to a microphone. Sorry. 38:00 Chicano Nationalism 46:00 Some opining about eco-extremism & colonization

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3:00 the anarchist franchises (food not bombs, bookfairs, antifa), the critique, and the response 11:00 Are anarchists superior at critical thinking? 15:30 What we should be talking about? Should everything @ be news/activist oriented? 19:00 Empathy and the Internet (and wealth) 26:00 The pack and urban life 36:30 forgiveness 43:20 Do we, in fact, see the world in incompatible ways? Do we lack the empathy to try? 48:00 Sacco & Vanzetti

PS We did finally get the books back.

Links

The End of Empathy How do we Increase Empathy? What, Me Care? Why is Empathy Decreasing

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1:00 Discussion about Seattle (anarchist bookfair) 2:50 Providence (anarchist bookfair) 9:00 Eric McDavid 13:50 The incident in Portland 22:30 The puny king of crap mountain 24:30 The critique & searching for a response 27:00 Against the Fascist Creep is coming & ARR is a jerk 33:20 Listener feedback 48:00 JZ Which Side podcast 53:30 What is the etymology of squaw? 55:00 Butthurt Gillis

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This first episode sits down with people FROM DIY culture who have “professionalized” and talks through the consequences of that. We attempt to humanize the project of leaving DIY behind and returning to DIY culture. We talk to a midwife and an herbalist. Future discussions will involve people inside different paradigms like IT, Science, and so much more.

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1:30 Interview I – Kate the Midwife 27:45 Interview II – Herbalist I

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This discussion was intended to lead off the rest of the interviews by speaking to today’s problems with a post-situationist perspective. It’s unclear how well it did that but it does introduce themes we’ll be getting into including Jean-Pierre Voyer, James Carr, Berkeley history, FSM, Contradiction, The Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous, Call it Sleep, etc, etc. We’ll also talk quite a bit about marketing and how to reconcile that with radical ideas (that oppose it).

The next section of our interview series has already been recorded. It’ll be episode 35.

Links

Articles from the Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous Call it Sleep Cruel Hospice James Carr

In this episode we mostly talk about what we did over the past three months, where we are at now, and what we’ll be working on in the future. There is also conversation about RS/ITS and their latest translated communique.

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2:00 What Aragorn did late Spring. Nihilism, Chicago, traveling 18:20 Podcast 19:45 What Bellamy has been up to. Bone seal creek forest garden 31:30 Forest gardening 38:30 Our response is like an Earthquake 55:00 meta-Brilliant

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2:00 Discussion on the news and its motivation, the unterrified discussed, propaganda 5:00 a short story about indymedia 11:00 another story about AJODA 20:00 introduction to The Blast 30:30 The crackdown in Spain (http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-crackdown-in-spain). Media criticism and the media fascination with anarchists around the year 2000. 39:00 An anarchist life in context. On anonymity as a criticism.

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1:29 Introduction 2:37 Racism – ATR and now from a TOTW (week of 3/19) 15:00 Wildism – where we defend JJ against dumb attacks 24:10 Primitivism w/o Catastrophe (and a song clip from my ancient generation) 35:00 Bellamy action plan

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2:30 the election 4:30 ITS communique of early March. Discussion about indiscriminate attack 23:40 The FBI and anarchist extremism 29:00 Our action plans with caveats! Lots of history of the past 25 years of (my lived) anarchist activity

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1:50 Responding to listener feedback – Are we urban elites? 14:00 News including eric king, genetics 20:20 Our science origin story & science as a way to knowledge & the debate on science by JJ, AG, and WG 40:30 Thinkers on science – Feyerabend

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3:00 email feedback regarding the milieu 21:30 DJ & anarchism 23:30 TOTW anarchist action & subcultural weenies 33:00 Facebook & anarchist social media use and implementation 43:00 The SI & the left

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3:00 Bellamy grapples with the intellectual tradition of the libertarian right. Some discussion about freedom ensues. 10:00 small business (homo economicus) is boring 13:20 NAP & ecology 20:00 The constitution vs At Daggers Drawn OMG Kraftwerk breakdown! 22:08 KT, Facebook, The story of the 90’s to 2000’s, atomization 26:00 Discussion about social media & the double negation 35:30 TOTW What is real? The Haters and how deep does reification go? 43:15 The Left. Egalitarianism. Progressive/dialetical world view

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3:00 Bellamy grapples with the intellectual tradition of the libertarian right. Some discussion about freedom ensues. 10:00 small business (homo economicus) is boring 13:20 NAP & ecology 20:00 The constitution vs At Daggers Drawn OMG Kraftwerk breakdown! 22:08 KT, Facebook, The story of the 90’s to 2000’s, atomization 26:00 Discussion about social media & the double negation 35:30 TOTW What is real? The Haters and how deep does reification go? 43:15 The Left. Egalitarianism. Progressive/dialetical world view

Don’t forget to email with concerns or comments at]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/14395091689_312698b27d_k.jpg Episode 24 – The (Libertarian) Right pt II false no 57:22 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-23-the-right/ Tue, 31 May 2016 22:34:08 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=90 In our race to the end (episode 29) we had a bunch of topics we wanted to discuss. One of them was the libertarian right. This is that episode. This episode was recorded prior to our knowledge of ARR’s book where he accuses us of being part of the right so listen to it in that light.

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1:00 Listener Feedback – Black Seed & Desert, politics, Chinese megacities 17:30 Google and the impossibility of renewable energy 27:00 News items – new 325 material & sectarian crosswords puzzles 33:00 The Right

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2:30 Study on kids and the absence of the Internet 6:00 Cell phones 16:00 TedK 22:30 ITS is back! 31:30 Humor & Strugglismo 42:00 Bioregionalism

In my opinion this is an impossibly difficult question and we, as commentators, didn’t come prepared for such a despairing conversation.

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2:55 We are we so weak continued 6:54 A reading from Species Being 13:00 riots and reforms 19:00 The thin edge of the wedge. Are we the wedge or the wedged? 23:30 Oakland policing & Community Policing 27:30 Economic crises. Where is the wedge? Is it the climate? 31:00 A conversation about (true) types. 39:00 How we have construed our media efforts – lots of talk about web vs print vs context 48:37 Because we are embarassed by ourselves 50:00 Who are the gatekeepers?

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News items

3:30 IGD kickstarts a new publication. We discuss the site as charitably as possible. (BTW it is out now and exactly what we expected) 12:30 Strike magazine and manarchism. Green Anarchy, the entitled man, grown-ups

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22:40 A discussion about an “existentialist libertarian” and how quirky ideas can be… 30:50 A discussion about revolution and the moralism of the North American radical milieu which bleeds into the… topic of the week

and we ask what is the difference between the Bay Area and Athens.

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02:15: Table of contents, given unreliably; the bleached souls of the Millennials described amidst the baying of hellhounds

11:15: Millennials engage in the true anti-civ praxis of phasing out the human species by consistently not fucking; Bellamy rides the despair train

16:25: Revisiting the ideology conversation from Dunbar’s Number; Aragorn! can be heard quietly snickering while Bellamy talks; a burst of hostility followed by unexpected, suspicious agreement; Bellamy filibusters about being non-ideological

23:00: Aragorn filibusters about transcending fervently non-ideological orientations with the elusive wisdom of age; Bellamy’s residual scientism; the importance of ideology today vs. functionalist/cybernetic domination

33:00: A!’s “We can’t get there from here” – the limitations of radical imagination; street protesting in Oakland

37:40: Celebrating an abundance of media, lamenting an abundance of uncreative critique; anarchist theory perceived as popularity contest; future of the podcast

43:20: Desert, part III: A! responds to Tiqqun/de Acosta/others’ critiques of the Milieu; “normal monkey behavior”; gender dynamics in the anarchist space across time; conflating anarchism with broader social problems, lack of mentor relationships, and the dynamics of milieux in general; anarchism as existential salve; Aragorn! is defending the milieu!!

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3:00 Resignation is death Infrastructure is a substitute for action? Futilitarian means I don’t like what you do, not that I think you should do less Strugglismo and the stripping of context 12:30 Theory can be good (for struggle) Some Bay Area shit talking – the race away from SD@ and toward community organizing 21:30 Gerald Viznor comparison between the Haiku and the Anishnabae dream song survivance and a comic spirit – breaking out of blood A spiritual quest is a reconstruction by way of story Violence, bullying, self-defense, and survivance 37:30 Desert II – Green Nihilism Pop culture “in the dust of this planet” Jay Z meets Nihilism by way of Eugene Thacker An obtuseness regarding the consumption of theory Latin conjugation throwdown a fundamentally wierd world (pro and con) transcendent god – kings immanent god – democracy We should be god – anarchism

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Black Banner Distro – Resignation is Death: responding to the negation of anarchy

Viznor quotes

The conditions are that, first, no story is the same. The conditions are npostmodern because of their connection to oral expression which is usually a kind of free-floating signifier or a collection of signifiers, depending on who’s present. The meaning of such stories that are orally presented depends on a number of interesting, lively, immediate, temporal, and dangerous, dangerous natural conditions […]

[…] To hunt, to tell stories, is dangerous. It’s also survivance. […] that is […] a conditional experience rather than a mere response to domination or victimization. Survivance is not just carrying this burden and surviving […] but also inventing a world view. It’s an attitude of play – play in a very serious sense. Survivance is the end of domination ion literature. It’s also a new kind of existentialism, a source of identity – not the French atheistic existentialism but tribal existentialism or spiritual existentialism […] the discovery of tself through action, through being prersent […] The advantages to survivance are that it provides a way to accept this condition, reverse what’s been imposed upon us – and play with that!

Philosophically, I think we should break out of all the routes, all the boxes, break down the sides. A comic spirit demands that we break from formula, break out of program. . . . I suppose I am preoccupied with this theme because the characters I admire in my own imagination and the characters I would like to make myself be break out of things. They break out of all restrictions. They even break out of their blood. . . . They break out of invented cultures and repression. I think it’s a spiritual quest in a way.

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1:37: Bellamy believes in plans that go awry 3:08: “The Social and the Political”; Tiqqun’s provocation of friendship in favor of the milieu; hazy lines between friendship, affinity, and projectuality; anarchist cliques and action; A-News as black sheep, A! is not a cool kid; anarchists and isolation 18:06: Bellamy’s college and the hazards of food appropriation; accusation culture spreads to campuses – will anarchists recognize how recuperative it is now?; Midwestern cafeteria experiences and class; 23:00: Different senses of liberal and how they are conflated; cafeteria activism as liberal training; Van Jones 29:18: Woodbine (American Tiqquinist)’s New Year’s video, “Resolution”: can’t wait for the movie!; For freedom…aren’t you?; how will the lowest common denominator find it? how can one be pelican-eats-pigeon? 36:37: What is success with a media project like this?; Situationists and meme culture; climate change as the new memetic vector, or soccer…or perhaps Star Wars? 45:40: Desert; shifting from a millenarian catastrophist perspective to a perspective of collapse as a slow, punctuated lurch; Bellamy criticizes Desert, and A! Nietzsche-izes his criticism.

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2:35 – Two episodes of The Brilliant are lost and gone forever into the Devouring Void 3:15 – The Brilliant, brought to you by society 4:15 – Jeriah Bowser and Ian Smith on Anarchy Radio: on being called Buh-Lamb-Eee; being a consumer of Big Men’s ideology; limitations of the podcast medium: we like soundbites; Primal War at yo front do’! 11:45 – It’s best to say words with open mouths; revolution vs. hope, oases and mirages 20:20 – Jeriah on egoism – Bellamy feels the need to defend the brand; examples of the word example; is the egoist project possible in society? 26:35 – Listener feedback: Does A!’s call for engagement in human-sized projects make us pathetic? 34:30 – Listener feedback: Does embracing Vine Deloria mean embracing some adventurous metaphysics?; the scientific community as ideological; not all scientists and philosophers of science are scientific realists; scientific realism as middle-class metaphysic based on faith, not evidence 49:00 – Society and Dunbar’s Number: Is Dunbar’s Number the limit after which Society emerges?; Aragorn! shows his PoMo colors by showing an allergy to evidence, preferring totally made-up figures to empirically demonstrated ones; Dunbar’s Number and political representation; Bellamy tries to talk about avoiding ideology by employing many perspectives, suggests it is similar to things A! says about having many stories – A! says he is being ideological; we may talk about prefiguration and ideology in the future; the episode ends with Bellamy saying “um”.

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This is one of the first episodes where B & A! seriously disagree. Probably there is just some sort of misunderstanding or perhaps race is something we are not capable of seeing eye to eye on. Entertaining listen though. Totally separately than this is a discussion about an article from the newest Black Seed by Gerald Vizenor.

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Introduction @ 2:00 Topic of the week – Identity @ 4:00 Bellamy was taught politics in college… saw some grandstanding He moved to the Bay and saw worse A! attempts to thread a needle A critique of Post-left Anarchy as tone deaf Pickup lines on Facebook Not stories, battle plans about winning Veganism Individuation and social relations

Race is a geist @ 24:30 Revisiting reflections on and with the Unterrified podcast (episode 11) Can an analysis (about geist) be intrinsically European or only contingently associated Context matters! (in this case I don’t know more than I know) White mans burden (colonization and evaluating other cultures) Disagreement ensues

Imagination redux @ 41:20 Gerald Vizenor!!! Spoiler Alert!!! We talk about specifics of the Vizenor piece from Black Seed European authors are mentioned (Derrida, Barthes, etc) The story is about storytelling, indigeneity, sex, social pressure, racism, etc. “When you tell a story you lead with the sex and then tell about the back seat” Trickster destroys and creates the world Genocide vs the Trickster Catholicism

Anews Identity Locating an Indigenous Anarchism Black Seed #4

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0:00: Cryptic comment and theme song.

0:38: New intro! We refrain from being monotonous!

1:40: Aragorn! erodes Bellamy’s self-esteem and comes out against freedom, hoping for support for Bonnano

3:50: A! confesses his mistakes and reveals his ignorance

5:35 – 17:05: Listener asks about cultural appropriation: A!’s robber baron fanboy-ism; on stealing more and bigger; why don’t you be more European? Bellamy takes a step toward social justice; hidden presuppositions manifest as lies; Aragorn! seems to finally actually answer the question but wanders off; the praxis of inflammatory t-shirts; Bellamy makes a last desperate attempt to get A! to answer the question

17:05 – 26:00: East Bay Anarchist Bookfair: Why did the fair start when there was already a Bay Area Fair? A! keeps evading questions while Brick offers his input; Bay Area mainstream anarchism: anarchists are the nicest people you’ll meet! – praxis of delusion; a bookfair with no fights!

26:05: Black Seed #4: It’s out and has been spread around!; content preview; Bellamy explains the backstory to his piece; Aragorn! gives the backstory for the Black Seed theme – the horror of toxic rivers

34:00: @news topic of the week: What’s next?; human beings excite Bellamy; pessimism vs. futilitarianism;

37:30: The Brilliant is criticized: Intellectual masturbation, our constant critique discourages action and is “reactionary” (how many people actually know what this word means?); B and A! try to take the critique in good faith; what is projectual activity (hint: it’s not “building skyscrapers in your backyard”)?; Bellamy invites critics to do better; an anarchist This American Life, anyone?

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2. Against Identity Politicians
3. Unterrified podcast
   ]]> In this episode, we try to recover from our losses: Bellamy happened to be generally dispirited about life at the time of recording (and it shows!), while Aragorn! broods over having lost two episodes of The Brilliant through some unknown and unknowable techno-incompetence. Perhaps fittingly, we spend some of the episode talking about an event and a project which excite us and the last third of the episode responding to our most consistent and harsh criticism.

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   0:00: Cryptic comment and theme song.

   0:38: New intro! We refrain from being monotonous!

   1:40: Aragorn! erodes Bellamy’s self-esteem and comes out against freedom, hoping for support for Bonnano

   3:50: A! confesses his mistakes and reveals his ignorance

   5:35 – 17:05: Listener asks about cultural appropriation: A!’s robber baron fanboy-ism; on stealing more and bigger; why don’t you be more European? Bellamy takes a step toward social justice; hidden presuppositions manifest as lies; Aragorn! seems to finally actually answer the question but wanders off; the praxis of inflammatory t-shirts; Bellamy makes a last desperate attempt to get A! to answer the question

   17:05 – 26:00: East Bay Anarchist Bookfair: Why did the fair start when there was already a Bay Area Fair? A! keeps evading questions while Brick offers his input; Bay Area mainstream anarchism: anarchists are the nicest people you’ll meet! – praxis of delusion; a bookfair with no fights!

   26:05: Black Seed #4: It’s out and has been spread around!; content preview; Bellamy explains the backstory to his piece; Aragorn! gives the backstory for the Black Seed theme – the horror of toxic rivers

   34:00: @news topic of the week: What’s next?; human beings excite Bellamy; pessimism vs. futilitarianism;

   37:30: The Brilliant is criticized: Intellectual masturbation, our constant critique discourages action and is “reactionary” (how many people actually know what this word means?); B and A! try to take the critique in good faith; what is projectual activity (hint: it’s not “building skyscrapers in your backyard”)?; Bellamy invites critics to do better; an anarchist This American Life, anyone?

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   1. The East Bay Anarchist bookfair
   2. Against Identity Politicians
   3. Unterrified podcast
      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/lake-erie-waves-photography-dave-sandford.jpg Episode Fourteen – Critics false no 54:35 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-13-your-joy-is-so-bourgeois/ Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:59:27 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=59 In this episode of the Brilliant, we begin by discussing briefly what made us first call ourselves anarchists: Aragorn! talks about being realistic by demanding the impossible while Bellamy almost mistakes the episode for a therapy session. We then spend a good bit of time on the Paris attacks, an effort which mutates into a discussion about how we frame analyses of distant events. Finally, we use a thoughtful and lengthy critical e-mail from a listener as a point from which to wander through the subjects of revolution, “changing the world”, pessimism versus passivity, and the meaning of joy.

      0:44: A new intro by Aragorn!, so you don’t have to keep skipping past the beginning of the show

      1:57: Bellamy frames the episode while and A! occupies himself by clicking and making noise in the background;

      2:34: A! tells about how he became an anarchist

      6:03: B tells about he became an anarchist

      8:57: The call of the wild

      9:10: A-News does something sweet and nice for a change

      11:30: Aftermath of Paris incident

      12:50: Reading from the Appelistas’ (anti-state communists) comment on Paris

      13:58: Discussion of Paris attacks: humans as neurotic, caged animals; “there’s this thing called History”; people as mutually incomprehensible; the usefulness of an anti-civilization analysis for understanding the event; people performing ideological functions passively vs. actively; “[Civilization:] there’s no way to fight it other than going camping a lot”

      29:50: More from the French commies

      30:45: Beautiful sentiments; lived communism as something like dual power; rhetoric based on real relationships vs. abstract concepts

      34:40: Response to listener e-mail: J’accuse!; the nature of human nature arguments

      39:08: Wildness cannot be denied

      39:30: chasm on the possibility of revolution; strategy vs. human-scale thinking

      42:10: publishing as an indigenous perspective on revolution – “it looks like telling better stories”

      45:20: “changing the world” as discrete vs. continuous; pessimism in the context of metaphysic of world as Becoming; anarcho-lexophilia; anarchism, anarchy, anarchist…choose carefully!; metrics of “success”; pessimism vs. passivity

      54:45: Anarchy without emphasis; “You’re so fucked up! – Respond!”

      57:41: Unmediated joy; joy vs. happiness; Joy is…bro-like?

      ]]> In this episode of the Brilliant, we begin by discussing briefly what made us first call ourselves anarchists: Aragorn! talks about being realistic by demanding the impossible while Bellamy almost mistakes the episode for a therapy session. We then spend a good bit of time on the Paris attacks, an effort which mutates into a discussion about how we frame analyses of distant events. Finally, we use a thoughtful and lengthy critical e-mail from a listener as a point from which to wander through the subjects of revolution, “changing the world”, pessimism versus passivity, and the meaning of joy.

      0:44: A new intro by Aragorn!, so you don’t have to keep skipping past the beginning of the show

      1:57: Bellamy frames the episode while and A! occupies himself by clicking and making noise in the background;

      2:34: A! tells about how he became an anarchist

      6:03: B tells about he became an anarchist

      8:57: The call of the wild

      9:10: A-News does something sweet and nice for a change

      11:30: Aftermath of Paris incident

      12:50: Reading from the Appelistas’ (anti-state communists) comment on Paris

      13:58: Discussion of Paris attacks: humans as neurotic, caged animals; “there’s this thing called History”; people as mutually incomprehensible; the usefulness of an anti-civilization analysis for understanding the event; people performing ideological functions passively vs. actively; “[Civilization:] there’s no way to fight it other than going camping a lot”

      29:50: More from the French commies

      30:45: Beautiful sentiments; lived communism as something like dual power; rhetoric based on real relationships vs. abstract concepts

      34:40: Response to listener e-mail: J’accuse!; the nature of human nature arguments

      39:08: Wildness cannot be denied

      39:30: chasm on the possibility of revolution; strategy vs. human-scale thinking

      42:10: publishing as an indigenous perspective on revolution – “it looks like telling better stories”

      45:20: “changing the world” as discrete vs. continuous; pessimism in the context of metaphysic of world as Becoming; anarcho-lexophilia; anarchism, anarchy, anarchist…choose carefully!; metrics of “success”; pessimism vs. passivity

      54:45: Anarchy without emphasis; “You’re so fucked up! – Respond!”

      57:41: Unmediated joy; joy vs. happiness; Joy is…bro-like?

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/kWE0KAB.jpg Episode 13 – Your Joy is so Bourgeois false no 1:03:21 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-twelve-to-put-it-delicately/ Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:24:24 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=56 In this episode, we respond to some of the wonderful feedback, suggestions, and questions we’ve received from listeners – there is actually so much that we weren’t able to get to all of it in this episode and will follow up on it in the next. We are asked about issues of race; discuss how we have very different backgrounds related to this issue; and end up talking about the importance of, and our frustration with, the way discussions of race are framed in North America. Bellamy addresses some feedback about how FRR was better than his current podcast, leading A! to talk about what it looks like to do meaningful projects in our context. A! responds to criticism of an essay he wrote in the past, connecting it to genocide. Finally, Bellamy escapes a dramatically read critique by filibustering.

      Recorded on November 13th, 2015

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      0:45: Bellamy’s same old intro – new one on the way for #14.

      2:27: The gap of alienation didn’t actually close; torpor – A!’s lack of support for B

      3:10: This episode is for the People because the People speak

      4:45: Response to e-mail asking us about race; Bellamy complains about local humans; A!’s piece “Non-European Anarchism; limits of North American conversations about race and the term POC; A! “put[s] it delicately”; growing up with good old-fashioned justifications for genocide.

      15:00: Beginning conversations about race differently; accusation as time-management; realpolitik vs. complex conversations about race; Bellamy: honkey phallosopher; A! Gets heckled IRL for blogging; framing trumps actual discourse and ideas in most conversations.

      22:06: Some friendly trash-talk from The Unterrified; Bellamy already a setting sun at age 28, alongside the ossified A!; The Brilliant is “artsy-fartsy”; How could someone doubt us!?! We are doing things!!; we are not those people, the terrible people with the terrible ideas; Bellamy went from authentic to pompous.

      31:55: Benett Freeman on A!’s “Locating An Indigenous Anarchism”; A! gives his first performative reading; Geist and racial realism; genocide as lack of knowledge, death of stories.

      38:55: A! gives a second dramatic reading, clearly enjoying himself; Tecumseh, well-known critic of Bellamy; Bellamy gives a near-monologue of seven minutes(!); you might say I’m a casual reifier, not a professional one; ideas as raising banners or being angry about them; A! not-so-subtly implies his perspective is more mature, nuanced than Bellamy’s ardent, naïve one.

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      @news on episode 11 Non-European Anarchism Locating an Indigenous Anarchism

      email us

      ]]> In this episode, we respond to some of the wonderful feedback, suggestions, and questions we’ve received from listeners – there is actually so much that we weren’t able to get to all of it in this episode and will follow up on it in the next. We are asked about issues of race; discuss how we have very different backgrounds related to this issue; and end up talking about the importance of, and our frustration with, the way discussions of race are framed in North America. Bellamy addresses some feedback about how FRR was better than his current podcast, leading A! to talk about what it looks like to do meaningful projects in our context. A! responds to criticism of an essay he wrote in the past, connecting it to genocide. Finally, Bellamy escapes a dramatically read critique by filibustering.

      Recorded on November 13th, 2015

      Join us in conversation by email

      Ticktock

      0:45: Bellamy’s same old intro – new one on the way for #14.

      2:27: The gap of alienation didn’t actually close; torpor – A!’s lack of support for B

      3:10: This episode is for the People because the People speak

      4:45: Response to e-mail asking us about race; Bellamy complains about local humans; A!’s piece “Non-European Anarchism; limits of North American conversations about race and the term POC; A! “put[s] it delicately”; growing up with good old-fashioned justifications for genocide.

      15:00: Beginning conversations about race differently; accusation as time-management; realpolitik vs. complex conversations about race; Bellamy: honkey phallosopher; A! Gets heckled IRL for blogging; framing trumps actual discourse and ideas in most conversations.

      22:06: Some friendly trash-talk from The Unterrified; Bellamy already a setting sun at age 28, alongside the ossified A!; The Brilliant is “artsy-fartsy”; How could someone doubt us!?! We are doing things!!; we are not those people, the terrible people with the terrible ideas; Bellamy went from authentic to pompous.

      31:55: Benett Freeman on A!’s “Locating An Indigenous Anarchism”; A! gives his first performative reading; Geist and racial realism; genocide as lack of knowledge, death of stories.

      38:55: A! gives a second dramatic reading, clearly enjoying himself; Tecumseh, well-known critic of Bellamy; Bellamy gives a near-monologue of seven minutes(!); you might say I’m a casual reifier, not a professional one; ideas as raising banners or being angry about them; A! not-so-subtly implies his perspective is more mature, nuanced than Bellamy’s ardent, naïve one.

      URLs

      @news on episode 11 Non-European Anarchism Locating an Indigenous Anarchism

      email us

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ydg1GsP.jpg Episode Twelve – To Put it Delicately false no 59:45 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-eleven-revolution/ Wed, 11 Nov 2015 07:42:29 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=53 This episode turns out to be an argument against striving for only an hour for each episode. We cut some conversations, especially the one about revolution itself short. Perhaps this is good as things can get repetitive otherwise but we begin an examination about revolution where B ends up falling on the “working with small groups” and A! falls on “anarchist space is good” side of the conversation. We also talk about some listener feedback about the Midwest and some about how A! is some kind of a social scientist and shit. Especially the shit part.

      Recorded on November 6th 2015

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      Listener Feedback @ 2:30

      Anarchism in the Midwest ennui DIY ethic Response to critical feedback about being a social scientist

      Revolution @ 25:10

      Fighting on the New Terrain lifestyle vs strugglismo Crises in 2015 vs 2009 The contradiction of the CT manifestos Resistance is the motor of history? Progress Christian Eschatology Social media is a way to oppress yourself with how boring your life is The bad people will get what they deserve? Heart is with the anarchist space

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      Anews feedback Fighting on the New Terrain

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      ]]> This episode turns out to be an argument against striving for only an hour for each episode. We cut some conversations, especially the one about revolution itself short. Perhaps this is good as things can get repetitive otherwise but we begin an examination about revolution where B ends up falling on the “working with small groups” and A! falls on “anarchist space is good” side of the conversation. We also talk about some listener feedback about the Midwest and some about how A! is some kind of a social scientist and shit. Especially the shit part.

      Recorded on November 6th 2015

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      Listener Feedback @ 2:30

      Anarchism in the Midwest ennui DIY ethic Response to critical feedback about being a social scientist

      Revolution @ 25:10

      Fighting on the New Terrain lifestyle vs strugglismo Crises in 2015 vs 2009 The contradiction of the CT manifestos Resistance is the motor of history? Progress Christian Eschatology Social media is a way to oppress yourself with how boring your life is The bad people will get what they deserve? Heart is with the anarchist space

      URLs

      Anews feedback Fighting on the New Terrain

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      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Shlp7Me.jpg Episode Eleven – Revolution false no 58:14 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-nine-indigineity-ii/ Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:54:09 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=49 This episode concerns indigineity. It is labeled part II but, in fact, should be part I as our first episode on this issue was distracted by more (temporally) pressing items. We begin by returning to our dialogue with the Haters, discussing a critique of anti-civilization discourse, the Rojava reportbacks by Paul Z Simons (who has outed themselves in the last writeup), and then an emo rantish introduction to the topic of Indigineity by Aragorn!

      Recorded on October 30th 2015

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      Listener Feedback @ 3:15

      More on the Haters v Brilliant Sex life & Freedom The podcast as circumspection tool

      Anti-civ @ 8:55

      The comments on @news are great wrt article Anti-civ is anti-thinking Who will win the ultimate anarchist idea contest?! How to win a fight no one wants?

      Rojava @ 17:20

      What is the motivation of a journalist? How about an activist journalist? What is the limitation of google vs living in a context (information greed) Americans exoticize/fetishize international stories

      Indigineity @ 27:00

      An actual discussion about what A! is for practice vs identity spirituality meets the western gaze Ward Churchill references to episode 8 about leadership Spirituality Paradise Lost Critique of Race Traitor Action plans

      btw you can hear murmurs throughout this episode by Brick. Here is Brick.

      URLs

      A Quick and Dirty Critique of Primitivist & Anticiv Thought Final Rojava dispatch Locating an Indigenous Anarchism

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      ]]> This episode concerns indigineity. It is labeled part II but, in fact, should be part I as our first episode on this issue was distracted by more (temporally) pressing items. We begin by returning to our dialogue with the Haters, discussing a critique of anti-civilization discourse, the Rojava reportbacks by Paul Z Simons (who has outed themselves in the last writeup), and then an emo rantish introduction to the topic of Indigineity by Aragorn!

      Recorded on October 30th 2015

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      Ticktock

      Listener Feedback @ 3:15

      More on the Haters v Brilliant Sex life & Freedom The podcast as circumspection tool

      Anti-civ @ 8:55

      The comments on @news are great wrt article Anti-civ is anti-thinking Who will win the ultimate anarchist idea contest?! How to win a fight no one wants?

      Rojava @ 17:20

      What is the motivation of a journalist? How about an activist journalist? What is the limitation of google vs living in a context (information greed) Americans exoticize/fetishize international stories

      Indigineity @ 27:00

      An actual discussion about what A! is for practice vs identity spirituality meets the western gaze Ward Churchill references to episode 8 about leadership Spirituality Paradise Lost Critique of Race Traitor Action plans

      btw you can hear murmurs throughout this episode by Brick. Here is Brick.

      URLs

      A Quick and Dirty Critique of Primitivist & Anticiv Thought Final Rojava dispatch Locating an Indigenous Anarchism

      email us

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IZOJck8.jpg Episode Ten – Indigineity II false no 1:03:18 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-nine-the-people/ Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:30:12 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=47 This episode features Crimethinc. and their To Change Everything tour. We try to turn the conversation into a condemnation on humanism to limited success. We do ask some questions that others may have more complete answers to than we did in this conversation. Obviously we are thankful to Crimethinc for bringing their guests to our neck of the woods to entertain and beguile us with how wonderful other places are. We also respond to some more feedback including a correction from Resonance Audio and more anthropology feedback.

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      Correction @ 3:12

      the piece was poorly done

      Listener Feedback @ 4:30

      a special epistemic value gotcha anthropology faith, reason, imagination a priori is a latin word

      Rojava I @ 12:40

      The tears of Bookchin war

      Crimethinc events @ 16:55

      not about the text… instead about stories (of a type) The Justice League and its relationship to anarchism space vs milieu daily life and results

      preamble to the People @ 31:50

      The Work and the Motivation Library project a defense of media projects

      what is healthy and why would someone do it?

      The People @ 41:00

      Leadership pro and con To Change Everything text Is Crimethinc a worthy subject of study? Our vs the People’s daily life Humanism? anarchy 101 if we were abstractions More nihcom ranting about how resistance doesn’t look like politics (but often self destruction) How does one distro 100K+?

      URLs

      Resonance Distro To Change Everything Hostis Interview T@L Nihilist Communism – web Nihilist Communism – book Self Destruction

      email us

      ]]> This episode features Crimethinc. and their To Change Everything tour. We try to turn the conversation into a condemnation on humanism to limited success. We do ask some questions that others may have more complete answers to than we did in this conversation. Obviously we are thankful to Crimethinc for bringing their guests to our neck of the woods to entertain and beguile us with how wonderful other places are. We also respond to some more feedback including a correction from Resonance Audio and more anthropology feedback.

      Join us in conversation by email

      Ticktock

      Correction @ 3:12

      the piece was poorly done

      Listener Feedback @ 4:30

      a special epistemic value gotcha anthropology faith, reason, imagination a priori is a latin word

      Rojava I @ 12:40

      The tears of Bookchin war

      Crimethinc events @ 16:55

      not about the text… instead about stories (of a type) The Justice League and its relationship to anarchism space vs milieu daily life and results

      preamble to the People @ 31:50

      The Work and the Motivation Library project a defense of media projects

      what is healthy and why would someone do it?

      The People @ 41:00

      Leadership pro and con To Change Everything text Is Crimethinc a worthy subject of study? Our vs the People’s daily life Humanism? anarchy 101 if we were abstractions More nihcom ranting about how resistance doesn’t look like politics (but often self destruction) How does one distro 100K+?

      URLs

      Resonance Distro To Change Everything Hostis Interview T@L Nihilist Communism – web Nihilist Communism – book Self Destruction

      email us

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/FGKxO6r.jpg Episode Nine – The People false no 1:03:23 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-eight-indigenity-i/ Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:17:52 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=44 This is the eighth episode of the Brilliant podcast. Stories about brilliant people, ideas, and how they are lived in the world. This episode is the first of two about Indigenity (although, to be fair this one turns out to not really be about what we promise). We respond to feedback from Emile and discuss the recent review of John Zerzan’s new book Why Hope? which is the question of the day, isn’t it?

      Recorded October 16th, 2015

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      0:00 By popular request: new theme song!

      2:20 Welcome, first listener feedback, beginning of dialogue Are we talking about indigeneity? Aragorn promises it. Bellamy scapegoated, a common experience

      3:45 Sometimes the Brilliant listens to you: Emile Bellamy outs himself as an Emilist…or claims Emile as a Bellamyist…either way, he monologues for almost three minutes A! implies Bellamy is pretentious/pedantic. Bellamy proves him right Where do disses come from?

      14:10 The Spirit of Gravity is annoying… Unreferenced pronoun terrorism

      17:00 Incontrovertible proof!: A! plays human beings like chess pieces and is a subjectivist post-modernist Bellamy can’t stop saying “mmhmm…”

      22:05 John Zerzan’s “Why Hope?” and Ian Smith’s review Disses come from book titles Ian Smith: the Reasonable Anarcho-Primitivist Just the place for a snark! Nihilism is a disease; the tumor must be excised

      28:10 We are diseased Fashionable posturing by A! Fashionable posturing by Bellamy

      32:30 John Zerzan’s Origins Where reviews end and cheerleading begins

      39:43 The Natives lose to the Anthropocene Weird plug for the East Bay Anarchist Bookfair and Conversation Event Plague of People We are the new cyanobacteria

      51:30 Loathsome futilitarians “Hope-ist” is a thing now Pessimism as radical humility?

      URLs

      Announcement of this podcast The Anthropocene East Bay Book and Conversation Event “Review” of Why Hope?

      email us

      ]]> This is the eighth episode of the Brilliant podcast. Stories about brilliant people, ideas, and how they are lived in the world. This episode is the first of two about Indigenity (although, to be fair this one turns out to not really be about what we promise). We respond to feedback from Emile and discuss the recent review of John Zerzan’s new book Why Hope? which is the question of the day, isn’t it?

      Recorded October 16th, 2015

      Join us in conversation by email

      tick tock

      0:00 By popular request: new theme song!

      2:20 Welcome, first listener feedback, beginning of dialogue Are we talking about indigeneity? Aragorn promises it. Bellamy scapegoated, a common experience

      3:45 Sometimes the Brilliant listens to you: Emile Bellamy outs himself as an Emilist…or claims Emile as a Bellamyist…either way, he monologues for almost three minutes A! implies Bellamy is pretentious/pedantic. Bellamy proves him right Where do disses come from?

      14:10 The Spirit of Gravity is annoying… Unreferenced pronoun terrorism

      17:00 Incontrovertible proof!: A! plays human beings like chess pieces and is a subjectivist post-modernist Bellamy can’t stop saying “mmhmm…”

      22:05 John Zerzan’s “Why Hope?” and Ian Smith’s review Disses come from book titles Ian Smith: the Reasonable Anarcho-Primitivist Just the place for a snark! Nihilism is a disease; the tumor must be excised

      28:10 We are diseased Fashionable posturing by A! Fashionable posturing by Bellamy

      32:30 John Zerzan’s Origins Where reviews end and cheerleading begins

      39:43 The Natives lose to the Anthropocene Weird plug for the East Bay Anarchist Bookfair and Conversation Event Plague of People We are the new cyanobacteria

      51:30 Loathsome futilitarians “Hope-ist” is a thing now Pessimism as radical humility?

      URLs

      Announcement of this podcast The Anthropocene East Bay Book and Conversation Event “Review” of Why Hope?

      email us

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/1024x1024.jpg Episode Eight – Indigenity I false no 1:03:07 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-seven-society/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:34:06 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=42 There is a tendency to be attracted to bad news. Is this regressivist? Are things getting worse? Is something called society fragmenting? In this episode we talk anthropology and animism, the bible and speculation, the academy and truth. Epistemic consistency for the win? We discuss mass shootings (con) and the social media ripple around it. Beta’s are discussed. and then society as framed by the book Enemies of Society.

      We are still catching up (we recorded episode 9 last Friday). We hope to be caught up next week. This is the first episode where the sound has been fixed so… hurray!

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      Listener Feedback @ 3:40

      Feralism animism stories vs empiricism

      Mass Shootings @ 15:00

      beta uprising elliot rodger manifestos (racist, wingnut, beta, bullied) horrorshow pornography the decay of society is here? and it’s the angry young man (aka patriarchy) the alphas, the betas, and the property a theory of society The statistical decline of violence freakonomics

      Society @ 37:40

      Enemies of Society mass anonymity definition as a frame of reference or a strawman the end of history and Thatcher anxiety Is society the ur-oppositional statement of purpose? Did society come first or civilization? bolo bolo JZ’s show vs Urban Scout

      URLs

      Lincoln Finch blog God is Red Motte and Bailey Auditing Shooting Rampage Stats Freakonomics Knabb preface Enemies of Society

      email us

      ]]> There is a tendency to be attracted to bad news. Is this regressivist? Are things getting worse? Is something called society fragmenting? In this episode we talk anthropology and animism, the bible and speculation, the academy and truth. Epistemic consistency for the win? We discuss mass shootings (con) and the social media ripple around it. Beta’s are discussed. and then society as framed by the book Enemies of Society.

      We are still catching up (we recorded episode 9 last Friday). We hope to be caught up next week. This is the first episode where the sound has been fixed so… hurray!

      Join us in conversation by email

      Ticktock

      Listener Feedback @ 3:40

      Feralism animism stories vs empiricism

      Mass Shootings @ 15:00

      beta uprising elliot rodger manifestos (racist, wingnut, beta, bullied) horrorshow pornography the decay of society is here? and it’s the angry young man (aka patriarchy) the alphas, the betas, and the property a theory of society The statistical decline of violence freakonomics

      Society @ 37:40

      Enemies of Society mass anonymity definition as a frame of reference or a strawman the end of history and Thatcher anxiety Is society the ur-oppositional statement of purpose? Did society come first or civilization? bolo bolo JZ’s show vs Urban Scout

      URLs

      Lincoln Finch blog God is Red Motte and Bailey Auditing Shooting Rampage Stats Freakonomics Knabb preface Enemies of Society

      email us

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/DRY0uAT.png Episode Seven – Society false no 1:03:58 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-six-conflict-ii/ Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:53:13 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=39 This is the second of two episodes where we focus on conflict. We begin by whetting our appetite on another look at the Micheal Schmidt controversy, we discuss the fantastic new article from the current issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed and the context of it being published as an audiozine by Free Radical Radio, and finally we engage in the topic of Conflict, ending by some thoughts on Justice.

      Apologies for the sound quality. We have mostly fixed the issue (It is entirely fixed by episode 7) In this episode the flutters only get bad in the last 5 minutes of the discussion.

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      FRR audio books @ 4:20

      What is the role of Anarchist media AJODA subtitles are not good Will it convince someone who disagrees? Resonance audio Identity politics as a shitty term a long reading

      More MS/AK/BS @ 19:20

      The modern way of @ conflict (anon call out vs perpetrator) The accusation of booj Fascist method acting US American @ see themselves as the Internet police

      Conflict @ 29:45

      30:45 List of recent public kerfuffles OMG is that Law & Order theme music? We will not be silenced by your violence Has rationale argumentation died? (on the Internet?) A positive story about being called out Crime as self-help Justice – Wild, restorative, and transformational Unforeseen consequences

      URLs

      FRR Audio of “Against Identity Politics The Politics of Denunciation Resonance Boom Hostis interview Wild Justice

      email us

      ]]> This is the second of two episodes where we focus on conflict. We begin by whetting our appetite on another look at the Micheal Schmidt controversy, we discuss the fantastic new article from the current issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed and the context of it being published as an audiozine by Free Radical Radio, and finally we engage in the topic of Conflict, ending by some thoughts on Justice.

      Apologies for the sound quality. We have mostly fixed the issue (It is entirely fixed by episode 7) In this episode the flutters only get bad in the last 5 minutes of the discussion.

      Join us in conversation by email

      Ticktock

      FRR audio books @ 4:20

      What is the role of Anarchist media AJODA subtitles are not good Will it convince someone who disagrees? Resonance audio Identity politics as a shitty term a long reading

      More MS/AK/BS @ 19:20

      The modern way of @ conflict (anon call out vs perpetrator) The accusation of booj Fascist method acting US American @ see themselves as the Internet police

      Conflict @ 29:45

      30:45 List of recent public kerfuffles OMG is that Law & Order theme music? We will not be silenced by your violence Has rationale argumentation died? (on the Internet?) A positive story about being called out Crime as self-help Justice – Wild, restorative, and transformational Unforeseen consequences

      URLs

      FRR Audio of “Against Identity Politics The Politics of Denunciation Resonance Boom Hostis interview Wild Justice

      email us

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/G56NKAm.jpg Episode Six – Conflict II false no 1:04:26 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-five-conflict-i/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:05:39 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=34 This is the first of two episodes where we focus on conflict. Conflict as a form of life, conflict as anarchist practice, conflict as my choice but not necessarily everyone’s choice. I’d like to imagine the brilliant as those who do conflict without confusing signs and chants with seige weapons and the end of this world but sometimes we have to take what we can get.

      Apologies for the sound quality. We are trying to fight “microphone flutter” and I think by Episode 7 it will be defeated. In this episode there are some abrupt cuts that might make us sound more insane than we already are…

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      Parenting @ 3:00 Single family dwellings Shout out to the Midwest Man & Vasectemies lifestyle questions -abrupt cut that decontextualizes a story about Audrey Goodfriend Aging alone is a terrifying concept Michael Schmidt part I @ 16:20 Black Flame summary Sectarianism AK vs AJODA SAvLA vs Black Flame -abrupt cut relating to a critique of post-left anarchy Conflict @ 33:20 Anarchy == Peace? Total Domination Genocide Consensus & process -abrupt cut The dual form of process savior motivation

      URLs

      email us TotW on Parenting Michael Schmidt and AK Press Broken Teapot

      ]]> This is the first of two episodes where we focus on conflict. Conflict as a form of life, conflict as anarchist practice, conflict as my choice but not necessarily everyone’s choice. I’d like to imagine the brilliant as those who do conflict without confusing signs and chants with seige weapons and the end of this world but sometimes we have to take what we can get.

      Apologies for the sound quality. We are trying to fight “microphone flutter” and I think by Episode 7 it will be defeated. In this episode there are some abrupt cuts that might make us sound more insane than we already are…

      Join us in conversation by email

      Ticktock

      Parenting @ 3:00 Single family dwellings Shout out to the Midwest Man & Vasectemies lifestyle questions -abrupt cut that decontextualizes a story about Audrey Goodfriend Aging alone is a terrifying concept Michael Schmidt part I @ 16:20 Black Flame summary Sectarianism AK vs AJODA SAvLA vs Black Flame -abrupt cut relating to a critique of post-left anarchy Conflict @ 33:20 Anarchy == Peace? Total Domination Genocide Consensus & process -abrupt cut The dual form of process savior motivation

      URLs

      email us TotW on Parenting Michael Schmidt and AK Press Broken Teapot

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/06.jpg Episode Five – Conflict I false no 52:57 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-four-critique/ Wed, 07 Oct 2015 08:17:17 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=32 The topic of this episode of The Brilliant is critique but really is a journey through Critical Theory from AJODA through contemporary French theory. The great thing about working without a script is that you often find yourself somewhere else than where you anticipated.

      Join us in conversation by email

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      Haters podcast @ 4:04 Dialogue You are what you eat Are movies important What is entertainment? The MSM is bad but that’s not enough of a hook for this FRR @ 14:35 The relationship has changed Bob @ 16:40 Published two books Behavior vs writing Shouting snitch as attack Punching as attack an essay is forthcoming Critical thinking @ 24:30 Definitions Changing minds Does it matter that I make no sense? Dialectics Are we in a moment of grand ideas To Our Friends Appel Critique of Critique Stories of immiseration Is anything new under the anarchist sun?

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      email us Aragorn! on Bob Black Wolfi on Critical Thinking To Our Friends Call

      ]]> The topic of this episode of The Brilliant is critique but really is a journey through Critical Theory from AJODA through contemporary French theory. The great thing about working without a script is that you often find yourself somewhere else than where you anticipated.

      Join us in conversation by email

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      Haters podcast @ 4:04 Dialogue You are what you eat Are movies important What is entertainment? The MSM is bad but that’s not enough of a hook for this FRR @ 14:35 The relationship has changed Bob @ 16:40 Published two books Behavior vs writing Shouting snitch as attack Punching as attack an essay is forthcoming Critical thinking @ 24:30 Definitions Changing minds Does it matter that I make no sense? Dialectics Are we in a moment of grand ideas To Our Friends Appel Critique of Critique Stories of immiseration Is anything new under the anarchist sun?

      URLs

      email us Aragorn! on Bob Black Wolfi on Critical Thinking To Our Friends Call

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IJsPMW1.jpg Episode Four – Critique false no 59:43 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-three-principles/ Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:04:47 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=25 This week we discuss the To change everything tour and anarchist aging. The topic of the week is principles and we use the text “Instead of a meeting” by Lawrence Jarach and my essay “Locating an Indigenous Anarchism.” Join us in conversation by email
      Ticktock

      Bay area reaction to 9/11 @ 3:00 Big anarchist meeting dissolving into chaos How to jump in front of a bullet for an audience To Change Everything @ 7:00 How to break out entirely within the @ space Wet buttz Where does the midwest end? Aging @ 20:00 Generational problems Nostalgia at the Long Haul North American tiqqunists The managerie of anarchists Aragorn! gets marxist Principles @ 36:00 for and against the big 3 post-left anarchism liberalism riots work new principles transparency security culture accountability Black Seed

      URLs

      To Change Everything tour Aging and burnout Lawrence’s Instead of a meeting Locating an Indigenous Anarchism A reading of LIA

      ]]> This week we discuss the To change everything tour and anarchist aging. The topic of the week is principles and we use the text “Instead of a meeting” by Lawrence Jarach and my essay “Locating an Indigenous Anarchism.” Join us in conversation by email
      Ticktock

      Bay area reaction to 9/11 @ 3:00 Big anarchist meeting dissolving into chaos How to jump in front of a bullet for an audience To Change Everything @ 7:00 How to break out entirely within the @ space Wet buttz Where does the midwest end? Aging @ 20:00 Generational problems Nostalgia at the Long Haul North American tiqqunists The managerie of anarchists Aragorn! gets marxist Principles @ 36:00 for and against the big 3 post-left anarchism liberalism riots work new principles transparency security culture accountability Black Seed

      URLs

      To Change Everything tour Aging and burnout Lawrence’s Instead of a meeting Locating an Indigenous Anarchism A reading of LIA

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/z0dTstY.png Episode Three – Principles false no 1:09:49 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-two-imagination/ Sun, 06 Sep 2015 08:41:38 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=16 This week we discuss stories about the role of anarchist (or alternate) media production and the end of Wild Reaction (RS). We then discuss imagination using Hakim Bey’s Millenium and Jesus Sepulveda’s Garden of Pecularity. Join us in conversation by email
      Ticktock

      Anarchist Media @ 3:20 Big city anarchism Love & Rage Closed mindedness Audience Motivation of anarchist media projects Roy Burton breaks in Wild Reaction @ 17:30 (18:20) RS = not fun M. Parenti & the role of the communique Italian insurrectionary anarchism CCF & the critique of militancy ISIS & RS Imagination @ 29:30 conversation cut short by technical issues Black Seed is fucking awesome Roy Burton is funny Anti-civ Society of the Spectacle @ 42:20 Reification

      URLs

      RS morte Role of Anarchist Media Millenium Garden of Peculiarities

      ]]> This week we discuss stories about the role of anarchist (or alternate) media production and the end of Wild Reaction (RS). We then discuss imagination using Hakim Bey’s Millenium and Jesus Sepulveda’s Garden of Pecularity. Join us in conversation by email
      Ticktock

      Anarchist Media @ 3:20 Big city anarchism Love & Rage Closed mindedness Audience Motivation of anarchist media projects Roy Burton breaks in Wild Reaction @ 17:30 (18:20) RS = not fun M. Parenti & the role of the communique Italian insurrectionary anarchism CCF & the critique of militancy ISIS & RS Imagination @ 29:30 conversation cut short by technical issues Black Seed is fucking awesome Roy Burton is funny Anti-civ Society of the Spectacle @ 42:20 Reification

      URLs

      RS morte Role of Anarchist Media Millenium Garden of Peculiarities

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/enhanced-16847-1441568543-2.jpg Episode Two – Imagination false no 48:34 No no https://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-one-projectuality/ Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:19:49 +0000 http://thebrilliant.org/?post_type=podcast&p=10 This is the first episode of The Brilliant podcast, an attempt to tell different kinds of stories, ones with complex moral plays, ones that aren’t so clearly stories, and ones that are of human size. Our motivation to tell these tales is a desire to see a proliferation of different stories and not just the simple morality plays of popular culture or the inverted, but otherwise identical, stories of the radical milieu.

      We will be accomplishing our storytelling mostly by way of editorializing and discussing themes in an informal, conversational style. Join us in conversation by email

      Themes

      News Analysis @ 2:40 Projectuality (starts around animism simplistic name calling about cooptation reification & civilization For and against everything The dialectic Space Travel @ 22:00 wrenching vs post-SI theory living in a car in space space arcologies the enclosures brick Projectuality @ 37:20 Too long of a wolfi reading what does it mean to be free Free will vectors projects vs organization stirner? baby steps

      URLs

      The New Nihilism by Peter Lamborn Wilson The Anvil Review issue 5 Illegalist Space Program in Four Parts AAA – Association of Autonomous Astronauts Against the Logic of Submission Canenero LBC link for print version of Canenero

      ]]> This is the first episode of The Brilliant podcast, an attempt to tell different kinds of stories, ones with complex moral plays, ones that aren’t so clearly stories, and ones that are of human size. Our motivation to tell these tales is a desire to see a proliferation of different stories and not just the simple morality plays of popular culture or the inverted, but otherwise identical, stories of the radical milieu.

      We will be accomplishing our storytelling mostly by way of editorializing and discussing themes in an informal, conversational style. Join us in conversation by email

      Themes

      News Analysis @ 2:40 Projectuality (starts around animism simplistic name calling about cooptation reification & civilization For and against everything The dialectic Space Travel @ 22:00 wrenching vs post-SI theory living in a car in space space arcologies the enclosures brick Projectuality @ 37:20 Too long of a wolfi reading what does it mean to be free Free will vectors projects vs organization stirner? baby steps

      URLs

      The New Nihilism by Peter Lamborn Wilson The Anvil Review issue 5 Illegalist Space Program in Four Parts AAA – Association of Autonomous Astronauts Against the Logic of Submission Canenero LBC link for print version of Canenero

      ]]> https://thebrilliant.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/nowizard.jpg Episode One – Projectuality false no 55:43 No no