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This! September 202112 min read

[A monthly link list of recommended articles, videos, podcasts, photos, tweets … you name it]

an image or two from my Tumblr
an image or two from my Tumblr
an image or two from my Tumblr


[Videos]

The great debt debate (in memorium David Graeber) – An actual debate.

Anarchism as a way of life – With cute graphics as well 😉

Cyriak Animator Pro – Anarchic as ever.

How to Make Japanese Curry Udon Noodles [youytube] – The sounds, meow.

Zerstörung Teil 2: Klima-Katastrophe – Rezo nervt, aber ist informativ schon gut.

Tenacious Unicorn Ranch Is Pioneering a New and Queer Wild West – I want to live on this farm.


[Music]

Wet Leg – Wet Dream – Saw that just today, still debating.

Macka B X The Kiffness – Cucumba (Cucumber Rap) – The Kiffness meets my other favorite Macka B.

Oneohtrix Point Never & Elizabeth Fraser – Tales From The Trash Stratum (Official Visual) [youTube] – A meeting of generations.

Kiefer – i love my friends – Jazz with Hip Hop deconstruction.


[Podcasts]

Siri Hustvedt – Women. And Misogyny [hr2.de] – Starts with the quote: “To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.” by Simone de Beauvoir. This is actually from July, but timelessly relevant? I guess 😉


[Twitter Threads]


[Articles English]

Are your patients hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine? – “This Guide supports better clinical conversations about vaccines. It differentiates common types of vaccine hesitancy that primary care clinicians may see. Browse through these types to help identify the sources of your patients’ hesitancy, and find advice and resources on how to address them.” Pragmatic.

The Last Glimpses of California’s Vanishing Hippie Utopias [gq] – “Half a century ago, a legion of idealists dropped out of society and went back to the land, creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Here, the last of those rogue souls offer a glimpse of their otherworldly residences—and the tail end of a grand social experiment.” Mostly for the images. Sad story though. I lived in a small cabin in a hippie project for a short time and it was one of my happiest times.

Gender Panic: fearmongering, fascism and the cost of changing course. | Laurie Penny [substack] – “This is the sort of stupid mistake that slightly clever people make all the time: the notion that you can fight a feeling with facts, or that a reasonable argument rationally made can compete withthe theatre of a moral panic. I have been trying to explain myself. I have been indulging in the notion that people would behave better if they only knew better.” It kills me that TERFs even exist, and they get so aggressive on twitter lately.

A World Cup Every Two Years Would Be Devastating for Football [jacobin] – “Chiefs at soccer governing body FIFA are calling for the World Cup to be held every two years instead of every four. The plan is a naked cash grab — and shows that undemocratic sports authorities will always put chances to sell advertising above the quality of the game.” Fuck FIFA.

David Graeber’s Archive Should Continue to Uphold the Ideas He Championed in Life [novara media] – “His work should continue to encourage cooperation.” Introduces a number of articles (linked in the artcile) that were published in the memory of David Graeber one year after his untimely death.

Mutual Aid and David Graeber [pluralistic] – “The folks at PM Press have just published a stunning, illustrated new edition of MUTUAL AID, illustrated by N.O. Bonzo whose neo-Arts-and-Crafts marginalia and full-page spreads are gorgeous and thrilling” This is such a beautiful book. I would say, a must have. But make up your own mind, of course.

California wildfires reach edge of sequoia grove containing world’s largest tree [the guardian] – “Firefighters were temporarily driven away as two blazes merged and made a run to the edge of the Giant Forest in Sequoia national park” This kills me.

The Frogs Are Dropping Dead In Australia | Caitlin Johnstone [substack]
“And what a shame it would be if we did not shout an exuberant yes to all of this,
even the weird parts,
even the awkward parts,
even the ugly parts,
even the scary parts,
while we still can,
before they are gone for good.” A poem for our times.

Do They Owe Us A Living? | Laurie Penny [substack] – “The great advantage of a culture war is that it’s cheap.” And it will result in uninformed masses pickering over homeopathy, vaccinations and veganism, until there is blood.

Noisy neighbours spark 67% rise in police complaints [the guardian] – “Cash-strapped councils ‘struggling to deal’ with spike in anti-social behaviour reports” When they are suddenly all home all the time, you notice what annoying asswhipes they are.

Global Climate Report – August 2021 [ncdc.noaa.gov] – “The August 2021 global surface temperature was 0.90°C (1.62°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F). This was the sixth warmest August on record. Nine of the 10 warmest Augusts have occurred since 2009. August of 1998 still ranks among the 10 warmest on record. August 2021 was also the 45th consecutive August and the 440th consecutive month with temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th century average.” It’s still happening.

How Judy Baca Redefined the Intersection of Art and Activism [hyperallergic] – “Coming of age in the late 1960s, Baca was active in Los Angeles’s anti-war, feminist, and Chicano civil rights movements. She knew she wanted to be a different kind of artist. “I somehow wanted my work to matter. I didn’t want to create work that went to white boxes,” she explained to me when we spoke. “I wanted to make work to go to where my family was and where my community was.” Chicano mural culture.

Outrage: the hidden cost of solar panels [architectural review] – “Solar panels on buildings produce green energy, but they are not a silver bullet for a sustainable future” Nothing is a silver bullet within this system, we need a system change.

Where We’re going, We Don’t Need Platforms | Laurie Penny [substack] – “When does free speech absolutism become moral cowardice?” See also bellow, Grace Laverys older article.

Judith Butler: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman’ [the guardian] – “The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.” This should link to the interview before it was censored. Which, the fact that it was censored, remains a scandal.

The Limits of a Paradigm: Agamben, the Yellow Star, and the Nazi Analogy [the paris institute] – “Though Agamben would dismiss the arguments of liberal critics (ultimately, for him, democracy and totalitarianism are both built on the structure of the exception; if anything, Agamben can be said to embody a very sui generis form of anarchism28), it is not only the liberal democracies but rather all forms of communal life, even anarchist ones, that are construed through and upon the limitation of individual freedoms. Every positive collective project implies the curtailing of individual liberties toward the common good. Total and boundless freedom is a “fetish,”29 and when it becomes a dogma it clouds even the sharpest minds.” How Agamben fell into an intellectual ditch.

David Graeber’s Real Contribution to Occupy Wall Street Wasn’t a Phrase – It Was a Process [novara media] – “He showed us consensus-based politics actually works.” See above for an overview of all the articles.

Random Street View – images from all over the world. – Just what it says on the tin.

Stop Being Stupid About Abortion [gawker] – “Decentering doctors is also an essential step toward recognizing that abortion is not something magnanimously granted to a pregnant person by an official third party, as the state would have us believe. I grew up with a fuzzy idea of abortion as a complicated surgical procedure, something that could only be accomplished with sharp, invasive implements, and was therefore often lethal when performed outside a clinic. It suits the government for people to believe this, because it minimizes what we can do for ourselves and for each other.” It should not have to happen but it might just have to.

Billionaire Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settlement [ars technica] – “Several states already plan to appeal what the judge himself called “a bitter result.” This is so so so so so wrong.

Up to half of world’s wild tree species could be at risk of extinction [the guardian] – “Global study calls for urgent action to prevent ecosystem collapse, with farming the biggest cause of die-off” Humans are assholes.

No Access: LGBTIQ Website Censorship in Six Countries [the citizen lab] – “For marginalized populations in particular, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) people, the ability to virtually connect and securely communicate is a lifeline. Yet, state-sponsored online censorship is on the rise globally, targeting LGBTIQ activists, human rights defenders, journalists, and political dissidents, among others.” In 2021. OMG.


[Articles German/French]

Statement zur geplanten Veröffentlichung von M. Binswangers Buch – Michele Binswanger is a bully. This makes me so sad, I used to really like her, when we grew up together.

Pourquoi les flics sont-ils tous des bĂątards ? [lundi.am] – “L’époque dans laquelle nous vivons a ceci de particulier que plus personne, ou presque, n’y croit. On ne croit plus au pouvoir, on le subit, on ne croit plus au gouvernement, on le tolĂšre faute de mieux et parce qu’il nous faut bien survivre. Face Ă  cette profonde vague de discrĂ©dit et Ă  ce sentiment diffus d’humiliation, le capitalisme n’a plus d’autre choix que d’assumer la violence qui le fonde et donc la brutalitĂ© de ses forces de l’ordre . Des Gilets Jaunes au mouvement George Floyd, de la gestion quotidienne des quartiers populaires Ă  l’intensification des moyens de surveillance technologique, la police s’impose dĂ©sormais comme l’ultime rempart Ă  mĂȘme de protĂ©ger ceux qui nous gouvernent.” Bastarde semantisch.

Nicolas A. Rimoldi gefĂ€llt das [republik] – “Vor einem Jahr posierte Nicolas A. Rimoldi auf Fotos mit Maske. Heute will er den Bundesrat hinter Gittern sehen und trĂ€umt vom «Volks­aufstand» gegen die «faschistischen Zwangs­massnahmen». Und im Chat seines Vereins Mass-voll wird zur Gewalt gegen Politikerinnen und Journalisten aufgerufen. Die Geschichte einer Radikalisierung.” Very good journalism.

Andy Grote: Was fĂŒr eine Pimmelei [netzpolitik] – “Jemand nennt den Hamburger Innensenator Andy Grote „Pimmel“ auf Twitter. Der Innensenator stellt einen Strafantrag wegen der Beleidigung und die Polizei durchsucht eine Wohnung. Peinlicher geht es kaum.” Pimmel.

Syndikalistischer Frauenbund: Berlins frĂŒhe Anarchistinnen [nd aktuell] – “Eine Initiative erinnert an die Aktivistinnen des syndikalistischen Frauenbundes” Lovely photos.

Das wird dir gefallen [republik] – “Und so hören wir zunehmend in völliger Vereinzelung Musik, in algorithmisch ausgerechneten Gebieten, die nur wir selbst bewohnen. Zu den erfolg­reichsten Formaten auf Spotify gehören die personalisierten Playlists. Sie heissen immer etwas anders, die Start­seite ist in stĂ€ndiger Entwicklung.” I am so not sure.

500 Jahre Leid und Widerstand in Mexiko [daslamm] – “Nach einer 50-tĂ€gigen Schiffsreise ist Mitte Juni in Spanien eine siebenköpfige Delegation von Zapatistas aus Mexiko eingetroffen, von wo aus sie nun bis in die Schweiz gelangten. Vergangenen Donnerstag bis Sonntag fanden auf dem fĂŒr den Anlass besetzten GelĂ€nde unter der Dreirosen-BrĂŒcke in Basel Aktionstage rund um die Ankunft der revolutionĂ€ren Gruppierung aus den autonomen Gebieten von Chiapas statt.” Zapatistas my amor.

Texas: Netzaktivist:innen bringen Anti-Abtreibungswebsite zum Absturz [netzpolitik.org] – “Texas verabschiedete das „Heartbeat-Gesetz“, das die große Mehrheit von SchwangerschaftsabbrĂŒchen kriminalisiert. Das rief Pro-Choice-Aktivist:innen auf den Plan: Sie fanden Wege, sich dem Gesetz entgegenzustellen – und haben einen ersten Etappensieg errungen.” Resiste.


[Older articles/videos, still great]

Fail: Idiot drives thorugh flood (Darwin award?) – We laugh, but.

Masked thieves use stolen digger to rip ATM out of Derry shop – Muscled approach.

Graham Linehan Should Be Kicked Off Substack – by Grace Lavery [substack] – “Graham Linehan, an anti-transgender activist, makes a living out of libeling, insulting, and stirring up hate against members of the trans community. This puts him in flagrant violation of Substack’s Terms of Use. Substack’s repeated failure to do anything about this problem creates the impression that they are willing to bend the rules in favor of anti-trans hate speech.” Thank you Grace.

Circa 1986-1987 Part Three – Postpunk dancers.


R.I.P.

Norm MacDonald – Love this routine.


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