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"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's …
At last Mouth said, "Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violent. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another."
— The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive …
Content warning police brutality
"[George Floyd] suffocated with a cop kneeling on his neck for... 10 minutes. If one person woulda thrown a brick at that cop, if one person woulda thrown a coca-cola can, he might have got off his neck and might be alive today. We have been so programmed into believing that violence doesn't accomplish anything, that it only begets other violence, that we fail to take steps to defend ourselves, because we believe that we will lose."
Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Black Panther 21
— Abolition Revolution by Aviah Day, Shanice McBean (Page 162)
keep thinking about shit like that.
and i can't put myself in foot of usians because that those cops would just shoot anything!
but still, how can you look at a human being killed and doing nothing but filming?
George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive …
yep, as i said, it's a good book to gift to that friend of yours who just realised they were living in the matrix. it's uk focused and it has a nice intersectional historical analysis of "the movement".
the last two chapters are a surprise being slightly more "radical" and "direct" than the rest of the book saying that, you know, there is only so much we can talk about. at some point, we got to do shit.
George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive ears around the world. Shortly …
In this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers …
"La negazione dell’altro interno, meridionale, nel processo di unificazione (...) ha notevolmente contribuito all’identificazione tra …
Content warning classismo, antimeridionalismo
Il rivoltante popolo di Napoli era ovunque: dapperttutto per le strade si crogiolavano, litigavano, scommettevano, elemosinavano. Nei paesi freddi, i miserabili se ne restano a casa; qui vivono in strada. (...) Non si è mai liberi dalla vista, o meglio dal contatto, con questo nauseante degrado. Nessun popolo mi è apparso così odioso; sono tanto perversi quanto squallidi e malsani.
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Non v'è poi bisogno di molta perspicacia od acume di mente per comprendere, che un popolo così decaduto ed oltracciò nutrito di errori e preguidizi grossolani, che crede alla jettatura, al fascino, alla magia, ai maghi, agli stregoni, alla stregoneria, ai sogni, al miracolo del sangue di San Gennaro, al miracolo della zazzera che cresce sul cucuzzolo del crocifisso del Carmine, ed a mille altre cose pazze e assurde tutte, possa poi pensare seriamente alla libertà, possa comprenderla, volerla, e morir per essa e con essa.
— Il rovescio della nazione by Carmine Conelli (Page 77)
la cosa divertente è scoprire di essere cresciute con gradazioni un attimino meno "feroci" di queste dichiarazioni.
da notare che la prima citazione è di un inglese, mentre la seconda di un napoletano. entrambi borghesi e liberali ovviamente, ma credo sia importante notare l'assimilazione\internalizzazione del fenomeno.
che non credo sia lontano da ciò che portava tante ventenni come me a emigrare verso questi magnifici paesi freddi.
per, poi, pentirsene amaramente...
George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive …
Policing is because capitalism is.
— Abolition Revolution by Aviah Day, Shanice McBean (65%)
it is not anything mind blowing for whoever is already part of "the movement", it can actually be too simplistic sometimes to be fair.
what i like though is the good amount of historical reconstructions of the struggles and fights in the uk and the work they do in tying them up.
refreshing and gives a better understanding of where we are.
anyway, it is the ideal book to gift for a 101 introduction to how to escape the matrix and join the real world.
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental …
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By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had …
This book was really awesome, I was most looking forward to this book for 2022. It did not disappoint.
being familiar with ME O'Brien's writing previously I was expecting an anti-state communist, luxury space communism environment with big trans vibes and it didn't disappoint. Probably more than half the interviews featured trans/agender/non-binary people and gender and it's practical abolition was a current throughout the book.
I also really appreciated the way they dealt with trauma, revolutions and capitalist crisis as violent and traumatic experiences and how people were living and building a new world while dealing with people broken people.
I thought it was thoughtful, choosing NYC as the setting and trying to modestly explore the global revolution but always linking it back to nyc so the project didn't get away from itself.
I had never read anything from Eman Abdelhadi before, but felt like you could really see bits …
This book was really awesome, I was most looking forward to this book for 2022. It did not disappoint.
being familiar with ME O'Brien's writing previously I was expecting an anti-state communist, luxury space communism environment with big trans vibes and it didn't disappoint. Probably more than half the interviews featured trans/agender/non-binary people and gender and it's practical abolition was a current throughout the book.
I also really appreciated the way they dealt with trauma, revolutions and capitalist crisis as violent and traumatic experiences and how people were living and building a new world while dealing with people broken people.
I thought it was thoughtful, choosing NYC as the setting and trying to modestly explore the global revolution but always linking it back to nyc so the project didn't get away from itself.
I had never read anything from Eman Abdelhadi before, but felt like you could really see bits of both the authors through their interviews and in the characters they are interviewing.
It's really a great book, at moments touching me and making me want to cry or laugh and taking me away to a vision of the world where the commodity form, capitalism and the state have been abolished almost the world over (sorry Australia, all the reactionaries, capitalism and fascists bunkered down there).
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By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had …
This was super fun. I thought the oral history format was a really clever format choice, like looking into a giant construction site through little windows cut in the scaffolding and only kind of being able to grasp the depth of the pit. I kept thinking about KSR's New York 2140 and how it couldve been the same world almost, but with more grittiness and trauma and explanations about how we get from here to fully automated gay luxury space communism. I'm pretty sure I have big political differences with the authors, but I seriously enjoyed it nonetheless. I'd really appreciate seeing more of this kind of fantastic dreaming from those who want a drastically different world.
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In …
"La negazione dell’altro interno, meridionale, nel processo di unificazione (...) ha notevolmente contribuito all’identificazione tra …
Content warning razzismo, antimeridionalismo
[...] l'Europa finisce a Napoli e, per giunta, vi finisce assai male. La Calabria, la Sicilia e tutto il resto sono Africa [...]
— Il rovescio della nazione by Carmine Conelli (Page 70)
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Màgòdiz (Anishinabemowin, Algonquin dialect): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler …
