doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc
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Something that distinguishes contemporary capitalism is that many of the technologies that compose the means of production/circulation also compose the means of control. Logistics systems coordinate shipments of cargo & tear gas, face recognition tracks employees & rioters, etc.
i should make a thread where i @ all of them just to say hi
theres a lot of people following me who have never posted
to say it in a way that shows whats at stake: how do we think praxis while our praxis is so often used to keep the gears of the enemy machines running?
something else we're going to have to talk about soon is the way left-wing humanitarian efforts (even efforts of direct resistance) against the crises produced by the current configuration of power are "salvaged" by those in positions of power.
someone like Emma Goldman would say that "direct action is the consistent method of anarchism"
but is putting every activity within only immediate means desirable? is it even possible? what's the subjectivity that has "immediate" means? can groups have immediate means to goals or is it reserved only for individuals?
i'm also reminded of Schmitt's discourse on the Sovereign. The Sovereign as the Decider Of The State Of Exception thus needs a Normal Situation by which to judge something to be exceptional. The Sovereign Makes and Maintains the Normal Situation that it judges its subjects by.
What mediates the sovereign?
i think its time to start a discourse on (im)mediacy within revolutionary currents.
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for the first time in a loooooong time i caught a lady glaring soooo angrily at my collar
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“Luana Ross's study of Native American women incarcerated in the Women's Correctional Center in Montana argues that "prisons, as employed by the Euro-American system, operate to keep Native Americans in a colonial situation/'87 She points out that Native people are vastly overrepresented in the country's federal and state prisons. In Montana, where she did her research, they constitute 6 percent of the general population, but 17.3 percent of the imprisoned population. Native women are even more disproportionately present in Montana's prison system. They constitute 25 percent of all women imprisoned by the state.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
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According to new report Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen all use prison labor in production in #Germany. Those companies really stick to traditions... #Prison
Also producer of children toys for water "Tinti" is used prison labor.
https://fragdenstaat.de/blog/2023/06/22/fuer-diese-firmen-arbeiten-strafgefangene/
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NEW: More than 100 artists including Rage Against the Machine, Wheatus, Jill Sobule, Anti-Flag, Speedy Ortiz, Deerhoof and Boots Riley have signed a pledge to boycott venues that use facial recognition.
We launched the letter with a Rolling Stone exclusive this morning. Still taking signers!
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tom-morello-zack-de-la-rocha-facial-recognition-concerts-boycott-1234775909/
good morning, everyone!
i tried to nap yesterday and ended up sleeping soooo long its now 5am
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I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.
When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.
I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps.
EDIT: Replies tell me that this doesn't function in the UK without a VPN.
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in further genocidal news: conservatives are currently violating patient privacy protections to create lists of queer people so they can be tracked down and attacked with the might of the state.
i should pick a project to research that has absolutely nothing to do with genocide so that i can convince my brain to continue research
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Tired: we live in a society
Wired (on crack/Whitehead): any collection of actual entities and eternal objects is a society. Therefore life itself is a society just as much if not more than "we".
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@exiliaex a rly good book i was reading was about this, and it was p good tbh https://www.amazon.co.uk/States-Liberation-Dictatorship-Democracy-European/dp/1487542143
Basically, it talks about both west/east germany and how these laws compare, plus explains the years before and after. I'd definitely recommend.
if you want to read more it's called Paragraph (or Section) 175.
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