Iggy 🏴

"Scientists are toiling day and night to lengthen our lives. We don’t want it, we want it thickened; it’s too damned thin now and if they stretch and stretch it, ’twill break in the middle."

T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937

The Light Pours In on the library for easier reading:

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Cover depicts a dilapidated shopping mall

"The Light Pours In"

New zine reworking some older ideas. Give it a read and let me know what you think.

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Hell ya, thanks for putting this together!

(After Twenty Years by Art Young) Spear-holding gas-masked demon figure climbs over horizon surrounded by war armaments, with fighter planes overhead

New & improved version print-ready PDF collecting four articles on militarism, past & present, dealing w/ the current wars in the Middle East & Eastern Europe, & the nuclear threat, with reference to Marcus Graham, Stuart Christie, Aaron Bushnell & others.
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Thank you!

Company towns, say in West Virginia, may not be colonial projects themselves (though one may argue they are) but they are surely in service of the broader colonial project of the US (and racial capitalism writ large). So long as the broader project exists any space expansion inherently serves it.

Any expansion into space at present can only be done in service of the existing projects of state/capital, both are colonial projects or part of colonial projects. Whether specific iterations of expansion requires enslavement or oppression of indigenous peoples doesn't change the overall project.

I feel colonialism still holds relevance here as framework, but don't think it's mutually exclusive with the "company town" metaphor/analogy. I feel colonialism is the underlying framework justifying expansion into "resourced land" to be used in the name of the colonial project (at home or afar).

The world of violence and genocide we live under is borne from the social relations we exist in and reproduce. Colonialism is a social relations that necessitates genocide and ecocide regardless of where its focus is pointed. Aiming at space without unmaking that relation cannot lead to liberation.

I don't hate humanity, but you and I (and everyone else alive) is almost surely going to "die on this rock" whether I think we should or shouldn't. Any venture beyond this rock in anything resembling the near future will be done in the name of capitalist expansion and colonization. I'm against that.

Anyone got a good zine version of the Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space? I'm in the mood to pick fights with the techno optimists who think their colonial relation to the cosmos is somehow different/good.

Always!

Table covered in zines and posters. Sign on the front reads "Free Zines"

Still at it in the cold.

Drop some new (or some old favorite) zine recs. Need to refresh the table for next week.

I promise you it means something to the person being kidnapped to see others actively fighting against their brutalization. That is with whom my solidarity lies, not some abstracted other.

The world cannot be reduced to data and experimental design. We have agency to affect the relations we exist within and do not need to wait while horrific violence befalls the most heavily targeted. The value of an act cannot be measured purely by it's material outcome.

Fight back against the fucking abductions you fucking coward. Stop moralizing observation and actually resist.

Explain to me how it is counterproductive to resist the abduction of individuals deemed prey, but standing by and watching their abduction isn't? What exactly are you hoping to produce through these ways of relating to present violence?

The danger is already present for those being abducted. It isn't more dangerous to resist, it is only a shift in where the danger is borne. It is okay to be afraid and for that fear to affect action, but justification of inaction because of "danger" is cowardice.

Every video you take of an ICE raid is infinitely more likely to send someone resisting that raid to prison than it is to hold anyone conducting the raid "accountable". Observation is not resistance. It is apologia for inaction.

Don't film, act.

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ICE clearly does not, in totality, fear observation. When you stand by and dutifully observe the horror they enact, all that is proven is that you will watch as people are brutalized and do nothing aside from shout or film. Your deference to observation fuels the expansion of this horror.

“fuck an author, fuck a theorist, fuck an expert.”

"To see and to speak"

"To See and To Speak" now on the library. Lemme know what you think if you get the chance!

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another example of how Yupik and Iñupiaq villages are dealing with the climate crisis right now. not sometime in the future, not hypothetical

Cover of the essay "To See and to speak"

New piece: "To See and To Speak"

A gesture towards the necessity of understanding analysis and articulation as skills we need to intentionally develop in ourselves and one another to meaningfully combat the world around us.

Any feedback or sharing appreciated.

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That's when you pick up a rock

The key to motivating "political" writing is to develop the skill of thinking about something so hard you get incomprehensibly angry at the world around you, such that your only options are to give in to the delirium of revolt and fight and claw and scream.......

or write an essay.

oh no are they calling for martial law? what, like Trump sending in national guardsmen to major cities to take over policing? that kind of martial law? Oh MY GOD