the cosmonaut cowpoke | infatuated with the interstices of speculation, fabulation, and communization | t(he)m from a blk-quantum ontology | panafrican(archist)
I wonder if the ideological position of "humans are the ones who destroyed the earth" is connected to the fact that the way "humanness" is defined is Eurocentric
"we're all the same" when it's time to take accountability, for abusers at the interpersonal to the ecological scale
"you people" when called out or when the contradictions are highlighted
it is interesting to see "human" mean a specific kind/conception of 'Man' except for when it comes to things like "human nature", "the Anthropocene", etc, 'Man' is decoupled from human(ity) more broadly -- "inclusivity" only seems to happen when it's time to point fingers
all to say -- humans (expansive) are not to blame for the sins of 'Man'
we do have to find our own (autonomous) ways to respond to the fallout from those sins, though
(sorry this is a bit polemical) whenever popular mvmts happen, its suuuuper interesting that the "organizational" lefties are nowhere to be found, but the anarcho-punks, blaqillegalists, and other wayward travellers appear like someone called their name three times
i hate when im talking about anarchy with folks and they try to hit me with the "what if a person/group wants to do something bad/evil/mean at everyone's expense" and im like bro that literally happens NOW, WITH all of the coercive and hierarchal force concentration XD
Individualism (necessarily demarcated from individuality) is the psychological wage of whiteness (word to DuBois), and should be understood as necessary for the maintenance of capitalism
You know, we'd probably be a lot more organized to be able to strike if we'd been organizing to keep people safe this entire pandemic 👀🙄.
Let this be a lesson.
ngl i need to disengage from the recent "abolition(?)" discourse. so many people treating this as an opportunity for rudderless pontification, rather than responses to material-power relations & conditions
i am speaking on the level of structure here... obvi, organization-affiliated leftists (such as myself) are showing up, but from what i'm seeing, that's mostly in an individual capacity.
been reading a lot about how Black Feminisms do theroization through art, or how that distinction b/w theory and art-making is not rigid. i appreciate that idea. it's helped me triangulate some things for sure
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower informs a lot of my socio-political stances of the current lmao. for a fiction book to inspire, guide & help me lock tf in…incredible.
@shesunruly
didn't "bro" also cap for trump in an interview or something? i also also saw him have a conversation with candace owens and one of those alt right group people (proud boys, 3%ers or some shit idk), very big opp nrg
@g_abe0
this highlights the ways that people understand the full weight of their values. consent is useful outside of the narrow conceptions of intimacy is is usually regulated to (though this realization would beckon people towards rethinking everything)
This allows people to act as an atomized, ahistorical individual (surpassing material reality and responsibility in a nearly mythological way) to gain social power, reinforcing capitalism and coloniality while eroding locality, relationality, and communality.
the language of “centering” signals bad analysis for me & ppl who say things like “center” the most oppressed are still focusing on identity, not resistance & are likely to be against genocide but not for palestinian resistance (in all its forms)—like any liberal.
kind of scary how many people are on the "there's too many humans" train and how that train is always the EXACT SAME ONE as the "Black and Brown people should #%!"
Somewhere on this app Americans are still arguing about phrases and masks at protests. Still. If that isn’t an example of 1st world self-involvement I don’t know what it is. *shakes head*
like i can tell they have *read stuff* but that they've also not meaningfully questioned reactionary presuppositions--just pure technobabble and dubious reasonings
i think its really cool and healthy that politicians can just say untrue shit and there's no accountability! very great system, this whole hierarchical society thing 👍🏿
If we are to use these values as guides, we can’t blindly “stick” to them to the point where they become rigid. If asking someone to protect their health and my health in a community space violates autonomy, then what does that value even mean? It’s starting to sound like dogma
this phenomenon is why we have to be willing to protecc and attac, rather than just assuming that if we're nice enough the power of friendship will keep things together
PSL didn't out-organize anyone. They swooped in and co-opted marches and occupations that they had little part in creating. This is what authoritarian leftists ALWAYS do. They don't create movements; they steal them. They steal valor, they steal credit, and they steal control.
Hierarchy isn’t just “when people have differences”. It’s when specific value and amounts of power are assigned and distributed unevenly based on difference.
i pray that none of you experience the kind of direct and indirect state & cephalous violence/neglect that gives you an embodied and intimate understanding of the rotten foundations of "justice", "restoration", "reform", and "transformation" under capitalism-coloniality-modernity
@Phlegmbuoy
it's a disgusting feedback loop. kids are denied autonomy to prevent them from lashing out or acting "out of line", so they lash out and out of line to assert autonomy, and it just goes back and forth forever.
@sunflowertaters
it is so frustrating that privileged folks always do these thought experiments when there's ACTUAL history and ACTUAL examples to look at. like bro, this shit happened IRL, why tf you talking bout some hypothetical?
when someone asks "what about the fascists?" they show that they have no idea what's actually happening...that those people are able to act with impunity *because* of the veneer of polite society, of institutional "justice", that launder the centers at the expense of the margins
in general, the hacker, diy, makerspace spaces need to be devoured and appropriated by us for our ends, in ways that don't privilege the techbro types that currently are showing interest
@entierrada
also it gets into weird ethical territory about maiming vs killing? not a can of worms i wanna open but they certainly did when they didn't have to...
@EcoTechBro
ATLA = a very safe/classic thematic and narrative style that executes on each mark
TLOK = a more mature and metamodern narrative style that had to deal with capitalistic studio meddling, sexism, and colorism/racism
Every great empire thinks it will never end. The Romans thought. The Ottoman Empire. Russia’s Tsars. The Soviets. The British empire.
They ALL end.
The US is in its collapse.
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor: the classic “first contact” story done if it happened in Lagos. It deftly subverts the usual nonsense that comes from this SFF, where well-off white authors use aliens/orc/zombies etc to explore the fallout of they benefit from
ACAB is American Cops Are Bastards. The American system is bad.
You need a good system for law enforcement and people's protection in socialist countries
this !! the reason that my folks will never be freed by state structures is that even IF we were able to commandeer the state, that "single source of truth" for how society is constituted BY DEFINITION denies the plurality of its constituents. centralization drowns potentiality.
@birrion
@bluefantasyzero
@AthopeMarie
The state is the body through which the civil functions of society are monopolized in the hands of a narrow set of functionaries. There has never been a state representing the people, because that's a fantasy. Lenin was delusional.
@moonlit_misfit
I would disagree, there will always be differences between people and sometimes those differences are relevant to certain situations. If there is a project to do, it would make sense to have someone with more knowledge and experience in the topic be placed above a guy without it
love this thread and would argue that those invisibilized have been on this frequency and are constantly, throughout history, trying to sound these alarm bells.
I want to offer this as resistance escalates on college campuses. as a former activist & organizer, as someone who has been ringing the alarm since pre-2020 about the rise of fa*cism, I implore those of us who work with students to consider the following as we fight back. 1/n
*this* is (at least part of) why we have to be really careful when we say "let's do people's councils!" we gotta: (1) understand what is needed for those to be liberatory and (2) see how they can recreate colonial logics of categorization that reinforce oppressions
the way we "respond" to this is counterintutive...we create more room for "chaos". legibility run rampant is the logic of hierarchical relationships. by having multiple and fluid ways of relating, we can create an effective and equitable access to "structural power"
is there a good way to relate to this that grounds in decolonial thought and doesn't valorize pastoralism/retvrn vibes? basically im wondering how we build new relations to space that are ecologically sound & liberatory
Here’s a great example of what a “green” building actually looks like: hand-built from cob, wood, & stone, all sourced onsite, with a passive solar orientation
There is nothing “green” about a LEED-certified box of synthetic materials that’s uninhabitable without A/C
the (hu)Man that polite society is built around allows for that society to do double-speak, espousing liber(al)(atory) values while acting in a greatly authoritarian manner, as anyone who expands/exceeds the the categorical logics of (hu)Man is seen as an immanent danger.
to mentally ill to work full time, not enough class/money privilege to NOT work full time, nor enough community ties to survive off of mutual aid + support familial ties...
is anyone else noticing that a lot of popular Black leftists on here turn back on the community that was supporting them when it's convenient? It's almost like they use the Black struggle and plight to gain a following and then walk it all back once it no longer serves them.
@laymagdalene333
This feels like a situation where map =/= territory. Yeah OP sucks and folks prolly shouldn’t be *looking* for love at encampments but the sol’n doesn’t come from a sex ban, especially since the only ways to enforce that kind of thing is authoritarian
on one hand it's frustrating as shit that wypipo have to "stumble into" ideas that my folks and others with indigeneity (both of the endogenous and exogenous varieties) been hip to. on the other hand--wait. there ain't nothing else. fuck y'all.
this kinda goes back to the conversation around "unity". if talking about black shit is divisive to other people in the (lumpen)-prole or whatever, then that's a THEM issue that THEY need to sort. white supremacy loves not allowing people the tools to understand their oppression
all of my theorizations are pointing towards 3 things: (1) how to organize in a way that doesn't reinforce hierarchies, (2) how to think about space (in the geographical & extraterrestrial sense and (3) learning more about black queers in historical periods (esp cowpoke folks)
this is also why black folks don't trust y'all nonblacks -- for every person that says this foolishness out loud, nine of y'all be thinking this on the low
Just learned about the trompe: a simple device w/ no moving parts that turns the movement of water into compressed air
Every stream on Earth can yield an unlimited supply of free compressed air & we’ve known how to do this since the 17th Century
Legit makes me feel insane
a "liberatory" justice structure that acts as anything more than, at *most*, a non-compulsory space for deliberation, will serve to reinforce material-power relations along the lines of deep historical-present sites of oppression.