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Riding the Oirect Action
Breaking
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Anarchist Resistance,
Why I Hate
Ecological Defense UnIITUI. liberation, pg39
Invisible
Anti-Capitalist Battles, pg4 6
"'�UllllP.
Smashing
Indigenous 54
prisoner Uprisings, pg6 6
System's Meltdown, pg7 2
to Green Anarchy, pg4
Of. Peculiarities: Fragm2e4Pn,O5t 7
Dictionary: 19-5ocPiO7e 1t y,
PO7 6
the Balcony wiWtahld oarnfSd t atplg85e r,
News, pg9 0
UVelir:tJtmrIJI Anlhfopocentrism
byT hUnec arvBeldoP cOk4 ,2 Info, pg9 8
the .spectac/e Of the usual COIIIIlersum-mit PO9 8
banality,b yJ acDoubv POa l4,9 . ... . 100
Diary Of a Female Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer ina
Eoropean Forestt/lJ1'ing the Ronm Conquest Of Gaul PO 52 You put the parts tcgether,
On My Experience with Time in Tanzania,A fEriacsa,t
and BANG!
byS teJvoer dpag5n 8, j81.
A language beyond symbolic thought
by ThToomiavsop ng6e 0n ,
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Another Thanksgiving St� by Red WaHR eturns,p g6 2
The Society Of Masterless Men, byS eWae epdg,6. 4
Seeds On the Breeze, byS cavepngg6 e8r ,
Anarchist People Of Odor (A.P.pDg.75 D. ). ,
Reclus: AnE goiGsrteA enna rcEhxipslto ration,
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Report Back: Feral VisiCoinvsi lAi20gza06a,i tnisotn
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largely imperEcseppetciitbaollte lh.yo sweh o
neesdi gnifcichaanntgt eoa routshee siern ses.
Somes pecultahtahetu manwse roen cmeo re
sensittio�v ueb tslhei fitnts h eeinrv ironment
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dangearn di mminendtelsyi racbolned it;i ons
"thaul se sfso rcreeda ctitohnaI,nt entdo I.t 's
amazintgo w atcah planctu rviet lse aves
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th·readisn steoafda singfloer cIe h.a ves urrounbdyeth de constannoti somjea,r ring
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thabtr ougmhet t hem ostj oyt,h aitn creassenda ket,h er arbee aorr m ountaliino n, the
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listetnoem dy guta ndm y hearattl easats betweuesne fduels,i r,ad balnegeronuesu,t ral,
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to be stronger, healthier, more free. Radical ¥ironment, or move on for a time. Most humans greater than ever before. Especially in the
change is hard, perhaps frightening. Most folks choose to squeeze every last drop out -and then change-time called winter: I need to rip huge .
settle for merely a little different. For a newness some rather than make changes that might amounts of wood from theforcSt to stay warm
that is mostly just more of the same. Yet we bring back a robust and healthy equilibrium. and dry against the rains and snows that
anarchists are audacious enough to ask -if not Interesting how this pattern is· reflected in our threaten to dissolve me. I need more help from
demand -enormous, unprecedented change friendships. With our loves. others who have enough to do caring for them-
from the entire world! Do we really wonder What if that restlessness, that boredom, that selves. I've known for a long time that I need
why so few are interested? need to get new things, are signals that some- to fly south before it turns too cold. But I have
The worst possrble scenario for those who thing about your way of life is hurting you? not been heeding th,e bone-deep aches of
want a wild human future is any sort of deter Or might kill you . and everything you need' warning beqmse it has become difficult to
ministic condition that keeps us in chains. If around you -too quickly if you don't change? travel alone any more. And those I love most
our brains or genes or psyche are now malfonned Out of fear of the unknown, confusion about are conteilt to stay put or have made choices
and so crave the "comforts" of domesticated how to go about it, or futile resignation, might that preclude a going.
life, how can. we imagine transforming into we be ignoring an inner voice that says The choices I've made in service to others'
free creatures? If we need to wait ideals are haunting me -'if
until Science finds the solution I had only known then what
to "fix" us, we are totally fucked! I know now' ... I am in
Scientists are not one iota con creasingly difficult to be
cerned with helping humans around. Irritable. Short
move towards a free, more primal tempered. Some even say
way of being. They are focused arrogant and self-righteous
exactly where the System has at times. I wish they were
needed them frQIll the beginning: wrong. I don't know why I
to continue refining the domes have so little patience these
tication process, designing better days. Perhaps it's because I
WeaJXlns, solving problems created see the pain and too rapid
with their previous experiments. breakdown of my body, my
To keep churning out theories psyche, reflected in the
and proofs, formulas and mate devastation all around me.
rials that convince us. They are And so I push too hard
in the right when managing against what I interpret as a
if not controlling -the unruly, stubborn resistance to think
organic matter pressing against ing deeper and doing things
Their fragile order. To push in radically different ways.
predictability to the nth degree, I am also not so polite or so
often by keeping us guessing accepting of others' imposi
which direction to turn; unable tions as I was too much of
to predict what change will be my life. I am breaking free
foisted on us next. from as many remaining
Humans are big animals. We bonds as I can,t hat continue
have big needs, big desires, big to entangle me, that keep me
ideas. It makes sense that our con when I want to go. Before
tinuum was more nomadic than it's too late. Sometimes
fixed. Sedentism has brought with those that care for me the
it dangerous habits. We keep gct most, hold me the tightest.
ting to that oh-so-familiar point Sometimes, the heaviest
where we've taken too much, for chain of all is love.
too long, and our environment Have I turned my loathing
begins to suffer enough, to grab of the mundane and predict
our attention. Of course, we able inward? Do I cling to
suffer right along with it in our an illusion of a different sort
struggle to keep things together as weather, "Move on for a while. Rest and heal your of haven, a more intuitive and chaotic stability?
water, soil, animal and· plant life become self, but come back. At least to see if the If the way I lived was itself an act of defiance,
nonsupporting to human life. Some folks cope places you came to know and love are also a revolt against all that is killing me long before
with consciousness-altering rituals or substances, returned to health. Return, but with a lighter, my time, would I, could I feel more settled? I
but even that gets old and we need more. .. more sensitive touch." don't know. .. but soon I think, a change is
something. We get antsy,fight more with our coming, a big one. I feel it in some deep, inde
families and friends. Ignoring the signs inside I am going through The Change now. It is a scribable part of me. Will I be the agent of that
and out; warning us that things are sliding in a critical time of my life, I think. The way in change or 1ts victim? I know this; it is for me to
dangerous direction. Eventually (and the which I acknowledge and adapt to each new decide. Alone. Are my vivid dreams and flights
timing is quite variable depending on where body alteration, mind warp, bizarre of fancy that have become my refuge, the
and when) we begin to exert a pressure that can dreamscape is keyt o what my remaining days mainstay of impassioned exploration and resis
no longer be sustained without breaking some will be like. For if nothing this change is tance hints of what might soon be? 110st my
thing. Setting off the chain reaction that keeps a reminder of the ultimate change -death. The fear of death a good while back, but I am so afraid
on and on. And we have only so many options: impacts we have on each other - the earth of dying in resignation instead of rebellion.
do nothing, change our ways, change the en- beings around me and I during this time are
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Alsion t ltiisss uwee,t oothke opportutnoip tryo visdpea cfeo vra rious
(81):
perspectiovnte hse S ituatiIonntiesrnta tionaal s.i gnifiyceatan tt ,
timelsi mitaenddd iverngtie,n fluenocnet haen ti-cividliiszcaotuirosne .
We usetdh oec casitoopn r iann te wltrya nslaltaetdwe orr kb yf ormer SI
memberR,a ouVla neigeemn,ti tlLeindes of Flight: To Liberate the Earth
ofC elestial Illusions and Their Tyranny. Anda,s u suathle, i ssuiesfi lled
witha lylo uarn ticipfaatveodr i(toneros t A)n.d o,f c oursleo,to sfa ction!
Thingsh aveb eeinn teresatiswn eg l ivoeu rl ivaessc ompletaesl y
possiabnldec ontintuope u to uta j ournatlh arte maipnrso vocaatnidv e
interesAtsiw neg p.r eseonutrn ows emi-annual coomfpa inltaition
civiliztahtieoonar nyd p ractciocnes,i sotfii ndge adsi,s cusspiroonsse,,
contemplastoinognessm,,o tiovniaslu ianlt ensietticwe,es a ,r ea,su sual,
stiulnld efinionugr selAv epsr.o jedcuta lblays ebdo tihn E ugenaen din
rurSalo uthern Orfeogclroo nst eo t woy earnsow G,r een Anarchy continues
tog ot hrouag shi gnifictarnatn sformFaotrit ohno.swe h oh atues a nd
painutsi ntaob oxw,e p robabdloyn 'lto omku chd ifefrenSto.m ec ritics
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froumn iqauneg laensd a v arioefto yu tlooykesrt,e maincionngs isitne nt
general ofnoeca ugsa,i ncsitv ilization.
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inta ov ariety thoefm eso,f tmeonr ed ifficuwlitt ahs horttiemrse c hedule,
andi ta lsaol lofwosur s t oe xplotrheev arieofta ys pecatnsde xperiences
Water, Water, and more Water. ..
ofa nu n/de-civeixliiszteebdne cyeo ntdh mea gaziTnhee.s fea ctojrosi,n. e d
Life is wet. Iti sd rippiIntg .f loonwt sh rough atnidsm pea cLei.f iesa witthh er elatimvoedleyss ti zoefo urc ollecitnil viego hftt hec ompre
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landscape ssuesepmiecdi ionucsolmyp lienyt oeu dre ficienQcuye.n chingi ny our hands, and wiinlMl a rccoham)ne d a o Fuatl llWinitsesru e
thet hirosftt he dRaeyv.i vitnhgew earayn dr eplenisdhrienagm s.( duoeu ti nS eptembDeure)t .ot hicsh angwee,h avdee cidteoid n crease
Thew atebrr okae b;e autiful teacher to this continually new earth. ourp agec ounsti gnificawnitltyh,oi untc reathsei npgr icWee. h opet his
AsW intneorw c oncludSepsr,i ng ins aestt sh er ains wagnente arn,d metamorphowsiilsbel supporbtyet dh osweh ov aluet hiem portaonfc e
Summeirsi nt hneo sto d istant futurteo,p eewokeu otbf et ghitenr enchetsh ipsr oject.
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The Daily Grind at Green Anarchy. ..
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If :'re-connecting" and "re-wilding" are real
desires and goals and not just a novelty of
. another sort, why aren't we talking about and
" experimenting with ways to're-sensitize our
selves to the subtle indications that momentous
change is coming or is necessary? To become
our own curious scientists -more experiential
, and experimental. Sharing what we've learned
for and about ourselves, without assigning
good or bad, right and wrong to others'
choices. Even Science need not be wholly
discarded. Yet. But why give it more weight
than our own experiences and of those folks
we know and trust? This means making one
of the most difficult changes of all, tearing
up one of civilization's heartiest roots: the
. belief system that insist the ideas and proofs
of others, particularly those set up as life's
authorities, are superior to anything we imagine,
attempt, and experience ourselves. And that
is a change, my friends, that few seem ready
to make, no matter how rad they are, And so
we linger in agitated comfort and watch
our possibilities get swallowed up by the
deterministic few.
In the world of my dreams, the chaotic winds
cease being a single homogeneous force. They
are known for what they really are: immea
surabl� individual' entities traveling together.
We would feel their temperature and motion
as nuanced qualities that need no measure
ment. To enjoy their dance of many, that only
appears as one. And, only for a time. We would
hear again each moan and hum. Each wail
resonating inside; through, and around us,
So it would be with the rain. With our love.
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Along with tqe chokehold of power, and There is no reconciliation, no happy ending Melissa Holbrook Pierson (The Place You
some lingering illusions about how modernity within this totality, and it is transparently false Love is Gone 2006) expressed it this way:
works, the Machine is faced with worsening to claim otherwise. History' seems to have "Suddenly now it hits, bizarrely easy to grasp.
prospects. It is a striking fact that those who liquidated the possibility of reden1ption; its. We are inexorably heading for the Big
manage the dominant organization of life no very course undoes what has been passing as Goodbye. It's' official! The unthinkable is
longer even attempt answers or positive critical thought. The lesson is to notice how ready to be thought. It is finally in sight, after
projections. The most pressing "issues" (e.g. much must change to establish a new and all of human history behind us. In the pit of
Global Warming) are simply ignored, and pro genuinely viable direction, There never was what is left of your miserable soul you feel it
paganda about Community (the market plus a moment of choosing; the field or ground coming, the definitive loss of home, bigger
isolation), Freedom (total surveillance society), of life shifts imperceptibly in a multitude of than the cause of one person's tears. Yours
the American Dream (!) is so false that it ways, without drama, but to vast effect. If the and mine, the private sob, will be joined by a
cannot be expected to be taken seriously. solution were sought in technology, that mass crying ...."
As Sahlins pointed out (1977), the more would of course only reinforce the rule of Misery. Immiseration. Time to get back to
complex societies become, the less they are able modem domination; this is it major part of the where we have never quite given up wanting
to cope with challenges. The central concern challenge that confronts us. to be. "Stretched and stretched again to the
of any state is to preserve predictability; as this Modernity has reduced the scope allowed elastic limit at which it will bear no more,"
cap:;tcity visibly fails, so do that state's chances for ethical action, cutting off its potentially in Spengler's phrase.
of survival. When the promise of security effective outlets. But reality, forcing itself upon Enlightenment thought, along with the Indus
wanes, so does the last real support. Many stud us as the crisis mounts, is becoming proximal trial Revolution, began in late 18th century
ies have concluded that various ecosystems are and insistent once again. Thinking gnaws away Europe, inaugurating modernity. We were
more .likely to suffer sudden catastrophic at everything, because this situation corrodes promised freedom based on con�cious control
collapse, rather than undergo steady, predictable everything we have wanted. We realize that it over our destiny. But Enlightenment claims
degradation. The mechanisms of rule just might is up to us. Even the likelihood of a collapse have not been realized, and the whoie project
be subject to a parallel development. of the global techno-structure should not lure has turned out to be self-defeating. Foundational
In earlier times there was room to maneuvet. us away from acknowledgement of our decisive elements including reason, universal rights and
Civilization's forward movement was accom potential roles, our responsibility to stop the the laws of science were consciously designed
panied by a safety valve: the frontier. Large-scale engine of destruction. Passivity, like a defeated to jettison pre-sGientific, mystical sorts of
expansion of the Holy Roman Empire eastward attitude, will not bring forth deliverance. knowledge. Diverse, communally, sustained
during the 12th-14th centuries, the invasion We are all wounded, and paradoxically, this lifeways were sacrific�d in the name of a
of the New World after 1500, the Westward estrangement becomes the basis for com unitary and uniform, law-enforced pattern of
movement in North America through the end munality. A gathering of the traumatized may living. Kant's emphasis on freedom through
of the 19th century. But the system becomes be forming, a spiritual kinship demanding moral action is rooted in this context, along
"mortgaged to structures accumulated along the recovery. Because we can still feel acutely, with the French encyclopedists' program to
way" (Sahlins again). We are hostages, and so our rulers can rest no more easily than we replace traditional crafts with more up-to-date
is the whole hierarchical ensemble. The whole do. Our deep need for healing means that an technological systems. Kant, by the way, for
system is busy, always in flux; transactions take overthrow must take place. That alone would whom property was sanctified by no less than
place at an ever-accelerating rate. We have constitute healing. Things 'just go on", creating his categorical imperative, favorably compared
reached the stage where the structure relies the catastrophe on every level. People are the modem university to an industrial machine
almost wholly on the co-optation of forces that figuring it out: that things just go on�is, in and its products.
are more or less outside its control. A prime fact, the catastrophe. (",oV\tiV\IJed OV\ V\e.xt po,'ge)
example is the actual assistance given by leftist
regimes in South America. The issue is not so
much that of the outcome of neo-liberal
economics, but of the success of the left in
power at furthering self-managed capital, and
co-opting indigenous resistance into its orbit.
But these tactics do not outweigh the fact of
an overall inner rigidity that puts the future of
techno-capital at grave risk. The name of the
crisis is modernity itself, its contingent,
cumulative weight. Any regime today is in a
situation where every "solution" only deepens
the engulfing problems. More technology and
more coercive force are the only resources to
fall back on. The "dark side" of progress stands
revealed as the definitive face of modem times.
Theorists such as Giddens and Beck admit
that the outer limits of modernity have been
reached, so that disaster.is now the latent
characteristic of society. And yetthey hold
out hope, without predicating basic change,
that all will be well. Beck, for instance,
'calls for a democratization of industrialism
and technological change-carefully
avoiding the question of why this has never
'
happened.
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Various Enlightenment figures debated the but to remind us that divided society began cost involved: lives filled with toxicity, drudg
pros and cons of emerging modern develop- with division of labor. The divided self led ery, and industrial accidents.
ments, and these few words obviously cannot directly to divided society. The division of Now there are nascent protest phenomena
do justice to the topic of Enlightenment. How- labor is the labor of division. Understanding against the all-encompassing universal system,
ever, it may be fruitful to keep this important what characterizes modern life can never be such as "slow food," "slow cities," "slow
historical conjunction in mind:· the nearly far from the effort to understand technology's roads". People would prefer that thej uggernaut
simultaneous births of modern progressive role in our everyday lives, just as it always .give pause and not devour the texture of life.
thought and mass production. Apt in this has been. Lyotard (1991) judged that "tech- But actual degradation is picking up speed, in
regard is the perspective of Min Lin (2001): nology wasn't invented by humans. Rather the its deworlding, disembedding course. Only a
"Concealing the social origin of cognitive other way around. radical break will impede its trajectory. More
di scourses and the idea of certainty is the Goethe's Faust, the first tragedy about indus- missiles and more nukes in more countries is
inner requirement of moderu Western ideology trial development, depicted its deepest horrors obviously another part of the general move-,
in order to justify or legitimate its position by as stemming from honorable aims. The super- ment of the technological imperative. The
universalizing its intellectual basis and creating . human developer Faust partakes. of a drive specter of mass death is the crowning achieve
a new sacred quasi-transcendance." endemic to modernization, Qne which is ment, the condition of modernity, while the
Modernity is always trying to go beyond threatened by any trace of otherness/difference posthuman is the coming techno-.condition
itself to a different state, lurching forward as in its totalizing movement. of the subject. We are the vehicle of the
if to recover the equilibrium lost so long ago. We function in an ever more homogeneous Megamachine, not its beneficiary, held hostage
It is bent on changing the future-even its field, a ground always undergoing further to its every new leap forward. The techno
own-because it destroys the present. More uniformitization to promote a single, globalized human condition looms, indeed. Nothing can
modernity is needed to heal the wounds techno-grid. Yet it is possible to avoid this change until the technological basis is
modernity inflicts! . conclusion by keeping one's focus on the changed, is erased.
With modernity's stress on freedom, modern surface, on what is permitted to exist on Our condition is reinforced by those who
enlightened institutions have in fact succeed�d the margins. Thus some see Indymedia as. a insist-in classic postrnodern fashion-that
in nothing so much as conformity. Lyotard crucial triumph of decentralization, and free naturelculture is a false binarism. The natural
(1991) summed up the overall outcome: "A software as a radical demand. This attitude world is evacuated, paved over, to the strains
new barbarism, illiteracy and impoverishment . ignores the industrial basis of every high tech of the surrender-logic that nature has. always
of language, new poverty, merciless remod- development and usage. All the "wondrous been cultural, always available for subjugation.
eling of opinion by media, immiseration of the tools," induding the ubiquitous and very toxic Koert van Mensvoort's "Exploring Next Nature"
mind, obsolescence of the soul." Massified,· cell phone, are more related to eco-disastrous (2005) exposes the domination of nature logic,
standardizing modes, in every area of life, industrialization in China and India, for example, so popular in some quarters: "Our next nature
relentlesslyre-enacttheactualcontrolprogram than to the clean, slick pages of Wired will consist of what used to be cultural."
of modernity. . magazine. The salvationist claims of Wired are Bye-bye, non-engineered reality. Mter all, he
"Capitalism did not create our world; the incredible in their disconnected, infantile blithely proclaims, nature changes with us.
machine did. Painstaking studies designed to fantasies. Its adherents can only maintain such This is the loss of the concept of nature alto
prove the contrary have buried the obvious gigantic delusions by means of deliberl\te . gether-and not just the concept! But the sign
beneath tons of print." (Ellul 1964). Which is not blindne�snot only to technology's systematic "nature" certainly enjoys popUlarity, as the
in any way to deny the centrality of class rule, destruction of nature, but to the global human substance is destroyed: "exotic" third world
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