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Why Physics? By William Gillis – Download

Physics is where I finally fully satiate my yearning humility, and my desperate need to never give up my agency in some foolhardy or naive gamble. I am not a physicist because I’m an anarchist—because I want to make the world a better place—if it was only so I might instead be content to build cheaper solar panels or even train as a sniper. I am a physicist because before any of that I care about getting things right. Because I am a radical. Unlimited in audacity while driven by an infinite humility that refuses to take anything for granted.

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An Introduction to Anarchism in Archaelogy by Lewis Borck, Matthew Sanger – Download

Archaeologists are increasingly interested in anarchist theory, yet there is a notable disconnect between our discipline and the deep philosophical tradition of anarchism. This special issue of the SAA Archaeological Record is an attempt to both rectify popular notions of anarchism as being synonymous with chaos and disorder and to suggest the means by which anarchist theory can be a useful lens for research and the practice of archaeology.

Mathematical anarchism: Root out power so that freedom can flourish wildly by Evo Busseniers – Download

I’ve always been passionate about both mathematics and anarchism. I have a problem with authority, with power, and with everything that restricts my freedom or coerces me. And thus I want to find out how we can create a world where no (or less) coercion is present.

But by thinking about this, I came to the conclusion that these concepts are less easy to define than I thought. Also because in today’s world, coercion is often less explicitly visibly than before, where there was a clear hierarchical structure with, for example, a king on the top of the pyramid. Today the source of a perceived lack of freedom is less easy to find. For example, technology creates alienation and addiction: we have thousands of friends in Facebook, but lack true, deep connection. We work nine-to-five in a boring job to make a living. Nobody who forces us to do so, and still we have the feeling our lives aren’t in our own hands.

And to understand these things better, I turn to math, or wiskunde in Dutch, which you could translate literally as the art of erasure. To me, math is about going to the essence, to distil common mechanisms, relevant to your question, out of a bunch of phenomenons. By simplifying to basic concepts, you can go further: you can let your imagination go wild on them, and construct things which would be way to complicated when starting from the messy reality. And these imagined concepts can be brought back to reality, to make dreams come true there. Radically going to the root of things, so that freedom can grow wildly.

Anarcho-Transhuman #1: Feminism + Queering All The Things by Kate Mulich, Smashy-3000 and Various

Anarcho-Transhuman is a journal of the uncontent, of those who refuse to ever settle or temper their demands. In the words of anarchists throughout the ages, we don’t want any one thing, we want everything.

Contents

On the Importance of Being a Cyborg Feminist by Kyle Munkittrick
Technology Is Making Queers Of Us All by Dale Carrico
The Floating Metal Sphere Trump Card by William Gillis
Penis-In-Vagina Politics: Physical Realities & Social Constructions by Summerspeaker
Vagina Dentata and the Annihilation of Rape by Hyena

Anarcho-Transhuman #2: Science As Desire & Resistance by Nathan B., William Gillis, Kate Mulich and Various