[A monthly link list of recommended articles, videos, podcasts, photos, tweets … you name it]
[Videos]
From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes | David Graeber [36c3 media.ccc.de] – “One apparent paradox of the digitisation of work is that while productivity in manufacturing is skyrocketing, productivity in caring professions (health, education) is actually declining – sparking a global wave of labour struggle. Existing economic paradigms blind us to understanding how economies have come to be organised. We meed an entirely new discipline, based on a different set of values.”
[Music]
Kate Tempest – Unholy Elixir (Visualizer)
Billie Jean But Every Instrument Is A Spring Door Stopper
[Podcasts]
Es lebe die Anarchie! – Im Netz der Macht [swr] – “Um Unzumutbarkeiten aller Art wirksam zu begegnen, hilft es oft, ein wenig anders zu denken. Und die Verantwortung für das eigene Handeln zu übernehmen.”
The war on Muslims [vox] – “Mehdi Hasan discusses the rise of global Islamophobia on The Ezra Klein Show.”
Solecast w/ Cindy Milstein : Confronting the Despair of the 21st Century [solecast] – “Cindy talks about the resurgence of Jewish anarchist organizing in the states and its relation to the upswing of anti-Semitism we have seen in the past few years. We explore the themes of a panel Cindy did with Aaron Lakoff and Sharmeen Khan at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair in 2019 entitled “From Another World Is Possible to the Possible End of the World.” We talk about the despair of these times and how to think about building a foundation in which cultures of resistance can thrive.”
[Articles English]
No Man Is An Island? [current affairs] – “Why you should (or shouldn’t) take to the sea and build your very own micronation.
Libertarians Can’t Save the Planet [jacobin] – “Libertarians once claimed they had the answer to the environmental crisis. But the reality of climate change has simply exposed the futility of their creed.”
Putting The “Nazis Were Socialist” Nonsense To Rest [current affairs] – “Since they liquidated socialists by the score and opposed everything we believe, Nazis were not leftists.”
Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours [the guardian] – “My life seemed to be getting busier, faster: I felt constantly short of time – so I stepped outside it for a day and a night and did nothing.”
The Power of Solidarity Is How Sanders Will Beat Trump | Naomi Klein [intercept] – “But defeating Trumpism also means confronting forces that are harder to pin down — like the hypernarcissism cutthroat individualism that Trump so perfectly embodies as a reality show star made famous by firing people for sport, encouraging contestants to step on each other’s necks to get ahead. A man who now rules the country according to the same forces that torment his own psyche, a never-ending sense of personal grievance and a bottomless need for more power and wealth.”
Anti-Fascists Are Waging a Cyber War — And They’re Winning – “Inside the world of antifa researchers as they build an online army to battle far-right extremism”
The Rise of Digital Neo-Colonialism [hackernoon] – “Companies in the supply chain space will need to carefully consider whether or not their value proposition for investors comes at the expense, and exploitation, of the producers they claim to help and empower. The real danger at the cusp of freedom is that the same technology we bring to liberate, might prove dangerously tempting exploit as well.”
The Radical Equality of Lives [boston review] – “We have every reason to be absolutely enraged by the systemic and local injustices in our world. Not a day goes by under the present regime when I’m not seized with rage of one kind or another. The question is: What can be done with rage? We don’t always think about that, because we view rage as an uncontrollable impulse that needs to come out in unmediated forms. But people craft rage, they cultivate rage, and not just as individuals. Communities craft their rage. Artists craft rage all the time. Collective forms of crafting rage are important. They don’t deny rage, but they also choose not to enter into the cycle of violence. They seek to expose violence and counter it.”
HackCurio: Decoding the Cultures of Hacking – “Hack_Curio is a video portal into hackerdom that helps explain why hacking is one of the most important phenomena of global culture and politics in the late 20th and early 21st century. Our site features short video clips that are accompanied by a brief explainer about the footage.”
[Articles German/French]
Joe Kaeser und die Klimaaktivistin beim Jahresempfang des BVMW 200127 Berlin
Mit Koalas, Schnaps und Delegierten [woz] – “Drei Tage zu Fuss nach Davos: Die Winterwanderung für Klimagerechtigkeit hat den Widerstand gegen das Wef wiederbelebt – und zeigt, dass die Bewegung dazugelernt hat.”
«Entwicklungshilfe hat wenig gebracht» [tagesanzeiger] – “Wir müssen aber dennoch an der Hoffnung festhalten, eines Tages werde sich die Überzeugung durchsetzen, dass die Welt allen gleichermassen gehört, die sie bewohnen – ob Menschen, Nicht-Menschen oder geologischen Kräften. Wir müssen daran besonders heute glauben, da die Erde so in Gefahr ist durch die Verwüstung, die wir angerichtet haben. Wir müssen daran glauben, dass es die Aufgabe der Menschheit ist, die Erde zu reparieren. Und dass eine der Bedingungen dafür darin besteht, sie so gerecht wie möglich zu teilen. Der Akt des gerechten Teilens ist der einzige Weg, die Existenz der Erde und die Existenz der Menschheit zu sichern.” Interview mit Achille Mbembe.
[Older articles, still great]
Anti-Fascism Beyond Machismo: Gender, Politics, and the Struggle Against Fascism [north-shore.info] – “Feminism cannot be defined at the surface level…It’s a struggle that is only renewed by restoring the historical memory of our women fighters, those who have been forgotten in the dustbins of revolutions… We cannot think of a feminism, an anti-patriarchy, without anti-capitalism, without anti-fascism, without anti-racism and without class struggle”
R.I.P.
Elisabeth Wurtzel
Terry Jones
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