Re: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

2018-11-12 Thread tbyfield
So far, the only parts of my initial message I'd retract is "that, I think, was based on psychological modeling" and the word "bamboozle." Aside from those mistakes — which admittedly carry real freight — my analysis was precise and my conclusions were cautious. In particular, the

Re: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

2018-11-11 Thread Brian Holmes
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 4:48 PM tbyfield wrote: > Let's add 2 + 2, shall we? We have a site largely organized around white > subjectivity and visuality that plays footsie with fascist aesthetics. > But that's supposed to be OK because the authors' attraction to "the > passions of war" — what a

Yes please - was: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

2018-11-11 Thread Nina Temporär
Oh nice, a smelling [con]test. Want to participate. It’s very sweet how much effort you put into analysing this „piece of work“, Probably wanting to be on the right side on this one. It’s very honorable you want to find The fly after not seeing the elephant. (Sorry, couldn’t help myself going

Re: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

2018-11-11 Thread newmedia
sey City Heights) P.S. As it turns out, "fascist alt-right troll" spells out FART. Yes, I do find that funny. Does that make "antifa" Anti-FART (with all that implies, including self-combustion)? -Original Message- From: Justin Charles To: bhcontinentaldrift Cc: netti

Re: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

2018-11-10 Thread Justin Charles
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

Re: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

2018-11-10 Thread Justin Charles
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

Re: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

2018-11-10 Thread Brian Holmes
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

Re: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

2018-11-10 Thread Ian Alan Paul
Unfortunately I don't have the time to fully respond to every claim of this larger analysis/investigation except to simply say that I think the projection of a white male subject onto a collectively written text (which has happened twice now) is a tired critique of militancy that isn't helpful in

Re: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

2018-11-10 Thread Morlock Elloi
Left doesn't abstract. Left lays fiber. On 11/10/18, 08:06, tbyfield wrote: to lure progressive/leftists into a rightist fantasy world # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural

Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

2018-11-10 Thread tbyfield
This thing didn't pass the initial smell test, and after spending some time with it I can say: it stinks. tl;dr: It's provocateur agitprop made by Americans for Americans, and it's crafted to blur distinctions between left and right — more specifically, to lure progressive/leftists into a