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Climate Camp and Class
Submitted by Neon_Black81 on Saturday, 30 August, 2008 - 00:26
Adam Ford Picture the scene. The setting sun is glinting off the visors of the police lined up in front of me. It's the second or third day of the weeklong Camp for Climate Action - already I've lost count - and for the second or third time since I last slept it looks as if the cops are about to invade. I've just bolted from the opposite end of the site, where I've helped dig a defensive trench at another gate. To my left, atop a red van, a woman who sounds scouser than scouse exhaustedly screeches words of encouragement into a megaphone and somehow dances to Radiohead. subject: Activism | Anarchist | Class | Libertarian | Social Movements
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Submitted by admin on Friday, 23 May, 2008 - 16:56
Simon Yuill In the 1960s and '70s musicians devised innovative forms of notation and protocol to liberate themselves from aesthetic and social conventions. Today's digital devotees of code based production and improvisation are continuing this tradition, argues Simon Yuill* subject: Anarchist | Art | Conceptual | Improv | Music | New Media Art | Politics | Relational Aesthetics
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 6 February, 2008 - 18:36
Simon Yuill If relational aesthetics and open source were always commercial, can the musical score provide a way of thinking through different relationships between creativity and code? The return to improvisation in 'livecoding' draws parallels with experimental practices developed by maverick musicians, programmers and educators from Sun Ra, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Scratch Orchestra to Seymour Papert. Simon Yuill argues that these 'di subject: Anarchist | Art | Conceptual | Improv | Music | New Media Art | Performance | Politics | Relational Aesthetics
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 30 October, 2007 - 13:17
Melancholic Troglodytes What is radical research? Does it emanate from grass roots social movements, the universities, both, or neither? Melancholic Troglodytes review AK Press’s recent collection of ‘militant research’ with an illustrated tour following the book's line of enquiry from the ‘ivory tower to the barricades’ Professor, subject: Anarchist | AntiCapitalist | Artivism | Education | Post-Autonomist | Situationist | Theory & Philosophy
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Submitted by unterschreber on Monday, 9 July, 2007 - 20:30
Anarchist Federation This Anarchist Federation analysis of the National (UK) ID Database, parts of which are already up and running with no need for cards, needs to be read as widely as possible. A terrifying account of how much more than abstract 'privacy' is at stake, and FOR WHOM. subject: Anarchist | Class | ID Cards | Identity | Information | Insurgency | New Enclosures | RFID | State | Surveillance
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Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 27 June, 2007 - 23:58
A Murder of Crows Strong analysis of state repression from A Murder of Crows (http://www.geocities.com/amurderofcrows1/), via libcom.org. Makes the crucial connection between spectacular 'emergency' measures (SWAT teams, anti-terror laws etc) and the racially differentiated class war waged every day as 'community policing'. Repression as state strategy - A Murder of Crows Repression is a topic that is often discussed in the revolutionary milieu, but unfortunately it is a subject that is not well understood. subject: Anarchist | Border Activism | Insurgency | Race | State | Surveillance
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 30 August, 2006 - 11:54
Esther Leslie In his latest book Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination, Benedict Anderson advances his longstanding ambition to rehabilitate the image of nationalism. Through a collaged history of the late 19th century, Anderson forges uncanny connections between anarchism and anti-colonial bourgeois nationalism. subject: Anarchist | Nationalism
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 8 November, 2005 - 00:00
o.r.g.a.n.i.c. As xenophobic border regimes around the world rigidify, activist groups subject: Anarchist | Border Activism | Mapping
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 12 July, 2004 - 23:00
The Glocal Research Centre The Glocal Research Centre of Barcelona's Infoespai on the progress of the 'antiglobalisation' network Peoples' Global Action (PGA) and the challenges it faces Mayo Fuster, an active participant in the People’s Global Action (PGA), reviews the network’s progress and potential BACKGROUND: WHAT IS PGA? subject: Anarchist | AntiCapitalist | Social Movements
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 12 July, 2004 - 23:00
Rahul Rao Rahul Rao was enthusiastic about the opportunities and encounters catalysed by the Mumbai WSF. But the Forum’s commitment to inclusion and diversity coexists with exclusions – both intentional and unintentional – that can no longer be ignored subject: Anarchist | AntiCapitalist | Neoliberal | Politics
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 21 January, 2004 - 00:00
Mute Editor II The revolution shall not be criticised? IV Net.Politics Q&A subject: Anarchist | Commons | Computing | Conspiracy | Culture Studies | Cyberspace | Economics | Feminist | Government | Information | Intellectual Property | Internet | Media | Network | New Media Art | Politics | Privacy | Technology | Weapons Technology
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 18 December, 2002 - 00:00
Gwyneth Jones After summer 2002's bizarre display of jubilee-, sport- and media-fuelled nationalism, replete with bunting, flags, street parties and other nostalgic symptoms of the Po-Mo crisis of belonging, we thought the only possible response was fiction. Here Gwyneth Jones - science fiction writer, critic and author of Bold as Love - converts the psychic trauma of 'UK Summer 2002' into a short story... |
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