Theory
- Beauvoir – The Ethics of Ambiguity (Bad Faith and The Serious Man)
- Tiqqun – Thesis on the terrible community
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Main Ideas
Practical necessity – running on selflessness
- Charity work; relying on emotion fuelled volunteer movement.
- Self-employed, leisure industry, flexible creative class, overwork to do the thing you love.
Utopian Isolationist
- Chasing ideal subject (fear of being problematic)
- Meaning in militancy (seeking destruction of ego in site life)
Frameworks of Propaganda
Liberation of desire
- Creepy poly dominants
- Separatist imaginary
- Sex positivism as a rule
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My Articles
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Reading / Research
Wage slavery vs Leisure work
- The emergent working society of leisure
- Surfing Liquid Modernity, Albanian and Romanian Male Sex Workers in Europe.
- New Age Travellers: Uproarious or uprooted?
- Strivers vs Skivers zine
- Why the Sex Positive Movement is Bad for Sex Workers’ Rights
- Reclaiming Work Beyond the Wage Based Society
- Farewell to the working class, an essay on post-industrial socialism
Against Totalising Politics
- Anarcha-Feminism zine
- Bash Back! is Dead, Bash Back Forever!
- Mass The Left And Other Walking Fossils
- Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism By Laura Portwood-Stacer
- #JeNeSuisPasLiberal: Entering the Quagmire of Online Leftism
- Chasing After Ghosts: A critique of anarchist organizing, and it’s worst contradictions, in the North American context
- Everything is Problematic
- Simon Critchley’s Politics of the Sacred
- boredom / happiness studies: adorno on the fetishism of suntanning & schopenhauer
- The problems with conspiracy theories
- Demoralizing Moralism the Futility of Fetishized Values – Jason Mcquinn
- Fighting in the new terrain
- Improvisation as anarchist organization
- The Left’s Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame
- Anti-Oedipus
- Anarchism and the politics of ressentiment– Saul Newman
- Gender Disobedience Antifeminism and Insurrectionist Non-dialogue
- Conspiracy theories are a mythologization of capitalism
examples of totalising theories:
- Ecology of Everyday Life: Rethinking the Desire for Nature
- Anarchism and Individualism – Georges Palante 1909
- Moral Revolution zine
- Feeding the Hand that Bites Us In Defence of Lifestyle Politics
Pathological Anarchism
- Pathological Anarchist: A Case Study
- i am no hero, and neither are you thoughts on how our histories of abuse inflect our anarchist practice
- Bad Anarchism Aestheticized Mythmaking and the Legacy of Georges Sorel
- Matters of Independence: A Study of Self-Reliance in Into the Wild
- Derive
- the most radical gesture the situationist international in a postmodern age
Spectacle
- Empire, Biopower, Spectacle: Notes on Tiqqun
- The Problem of the Head
- Pussy Riot and the Spectacle of Protest
- The Society of the Spectacle Reconsidered Good Marx or Bad Marx?
Counter-spectacle
Hitchens’s Cosmopolitan journalist ideal
- Hidden Hitchens
- Hitchens on trail
- Access Journalism
- Letters to a young contrarian
- Unacknowled Legislators
Bigoted Atheism
- 12 Essentialist Oversimplifications About Religion Badly in Need of Theory
- Bill Maher’s Dangerous Critique of Islam
- End Times by Robert Wright
- Richard Dawkins Defends ‘Mild’ Pedophilia, Again and Again
Against exporting secularism
- Saba Mahmood – Politics of Piety
- Beyond Free and Equal: Subalternity and the Limits of Liberal-Democracy
Christian Terrorism
- Email from Norway by Pamela Geller
Libertarian Vigilantism
- Extrajudicial Violence and American Vigilantes
- Queer Ultraviolence; A Bash Back! Anthology
- DANGEROUS SPACES Violent Resistance, Self-Defense, and Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender
- Toxic Masculinity and gun control
- Hell’s Angels, A Strange and Terrible Saga
- Hunter S. Thompson talks with Studs Terkel on WFMT ; 1967
- Caleb ‘Kai’ MacGilvary
- Luke O’Donovan
- Aileen, Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Transcript)
- Italian anarchists kneecap nuclear executive and threaten more shootings,
- Paris gun suspect identified as fantasist linked to ‘anarchist Bonnie and Clyde’
- Dear Dawn: Letters from Aileen Wuornos