Some links to Woodbine: https://woodbine.website/ https://twitter.com/woodbinenyc/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/woodbine-into-the-future
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:06 PM Justin Charles < justinrobertchar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with Brian. These folks aren’t alt-right. I can’t pin down the > politics precisely but Brian gets the Invisible Committee thing right. > They’re probably somewhere around leftcom/anarcho-communist/communization. > I’m pretty sure they’re somehow connected to the Woodbine collective in > Ridgewood, Queens. I picked up a copy of the pamphlet when I was at a > workshop there. > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 7:26 PM Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> This pamphlet reads like an American redux of The Invisible Committee. >> Its concepts and general outlook go back to a text like "Civil War" in >> Tiqqun #2. Its production values are within reach of anyone who can afford >> a laptop, an Amazon bucket and a domain name. Its imagery is of a piece >> with the rest; and by looking around on the web you can see that it was >> originally published as an orange-tinted book, so maybe the pseudo-print >> aesthetic has a simple explanation. >> >> The idea that it's a psychologist's honey-pot crafted to catch the naive >> is far-fetched. This is anarchy. The positions codified by Tiqqun and >> popularized by the Invisible Committee have become widespread through the >> experiences of Exarchia, the ZAD, Standing Rock and many others, with the >> Palestinian resistance and the Kurdish war of independence blazing in the >> background. The elemental question to be asked is, do I make common cause >> with these authors? A corollary line of questioning would be: Is civil war >> inevitable in the capitalist democracies? Could it have positive effects? >> >> I say no on all three counts. The serious threat of civil war comes from >> the extreme right, they have both the numbers and the guns. Throw gasoline >> on that fire and it will explode in your face. Punching a Nazi has become >> legitimate, yes, and it's a good thing. The legitimacy, I mean. That makes >> it possible to gather large numbers for anti-fascist demos and to seek >> criminal prosecution against the extremists, while city governments topple >> the statues of racists and carry out investigations of police abuse, etc. >> The rule of law is definitely not all it's cracked up to be, but its >> absence would be worse. The potential of life degrades exactly to the >> extent that societies are not able to keep violence of all kinds in check. >> In militarized countries like the US it has degraded a lot, and the point >> is to reverse the process, not accelerate it. >> >> The really weird thing here is the typeface, for sure. I think that in >> the age of atrophied thought and controlled imaginations there is an >> unconscious sexualized attraction to the passions of war, symbolized by the >> aesthetics of the 1930s. In this sense I agree with the gist of Ted's >> analysis: the intention is that of normalizing a largely fantasmatic >> violence, without realizing how enabling the practice of that fantasy can >> be for the hard right. >> >> Where I agree with Ian is that we do have to discuss these things. Energy >> companies ARE expanding their operations. Cities ARE being smashed by >> hurricanes. US troops ARE camped at the border with Mexico (and possibly >> militias too). How do you respond to a dystopian reality? What is the best >> strategy? With whom can you carry it out? How can you bring it up to scale? >> These are the questions we should be answering. >> >> best, Brian >> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission >> # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, >> # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets >> # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l >> # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org >> # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > > -- > Justin Charles > 862.216.2467 > -- Justin Charles 862.216.2467
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