doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

got a couple Bureau of American Ethnology books and this one is ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians

page 8 already talkin about 'vegetal' gender, animal gender and mineral gender

@shortsightedpragmatist i don't speak or read it at all, but i got this in the hopes that it'd give me some tools for where to start!

@precatlady thank you for the offer! i'm sure i'll take you up on it some time!

the "Period Pottery" piece is actually one in a collection called The Compleat Anachronist. I wasn't familiar with this collection before seeing it at the used bookstore but each issue seems to cover either a bit of a "How To" for different historical practices or some specialized bit of historical-cultural knowledge. I grabbed all the ones I saw when at the book store, just because they seemed an odd niche object.

I've since found that they're published by the Society for Creative Anachronism (i have no idea what they are lmao) https://www.sca.org/publications-officer/ca/

i got some new books!

we've started up our new project on a new discord server and it's starting well. i really hope i can water this into greater potentials.

becoming a pilgrim of a lost fire

after this genocide piece that i'm working on i think it'd be good to start laying the ground work for a materialist analysis of leninism so that it's limits are articulated more clearly. and doing that analysis will inevitably lead to an analysis of the what constructs the liberal-order's state. this would set the stage for me to talk of an ethic that starts elsewhere.

i always return to this quote from Against the Grain

"I am tempted to see the late Neolithic revolution, for all its contributions to large-scale societies, as something of a deskilling. Adam Smith’s iconic example of the productivity gains achievable through the division of labor was the pin factory, where each minute step of pin making was broken down into a task carried out by a different worker. Alexis de Tocqueville read The Wealth of Nations sympathetically but asked, “What can be expected of a man who has spent twenty years of his life putting heads on pins"

there are so many handicraft skills i wish i knew. i wanna know how to make clothes and glass and metalwork and jewelry make. i wanna learn how to make from the ruins.

According to the Seattle Times a train has derailed north of Seattle on the Swinomish Reservation. 5000 gallons of diesel have spilled.

@FinalOverdrive yeah, i don't really consider myself a marxist, nor an "individualist" or "social" anarchist.

but my politics are such that i believe that the abolition of the state brings with it the abolition of political economy. people will act politically and it will change certain things wrt what we think of as "economic activity" ; the various labors of various free peoples.

the state and its institutions are what overcodes activity as economy, which then manages that activity through political institutions (through violence)

@FinalOverdrive insert heinrich meme

@FinalOverdrive oh i get you. i just hate that the name implies marx was doing political economy. or that he thought communism/socialism was a particular way of doing political economy.

anytime i hear someone say "marxist economics" i want to scream

after driving on freeways for 14 hours in one day my body isnt entirely sure whether or not im still in a moving vehicle, especially when i close my eyes