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
i feel compelled to say something about the essay ‘when the doll speaks’ that was dropped by talia recently. i expected discussion on transmisogyny and racism. i did not expect completely cutting out antiblackness from the conversation. black isn’t even said once. not once.
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 wish we could have this conversation in a way that more robustly apprehends what is being reached for. the waters get muddied beyond belief when we use this kind of language and framing.
A lot of people on Twitter are not prepared to do the work of organizing normal people. Echo chambers make for radical aesthetics, but not radical action; standards for cooperation which are so exclusive that they will never weather confrontation with reality.
don't get it twisted. it's still free Palestine. It's still free Haiti. It's still free Sudan. It's still free Congo. Genocides & ethnic cleansings anywhere are a direct negation of all the world's supposed ethics and values. they r the most damning indictment of the world order
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.
this is why i don't blame people who don't believe in solidarity or community--even in spaces of "transgression" (like queerness), (the) colonial desire (to taxonomize) overrides all other concerns
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
@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
I’m actually so fucking sick of y’all, everyone is always trying to act like addressing anti Blackness is an overindulgent luxury, rather than a foundational precept
y’all need to be honest about this: twt is designed in such a way that builds and reinforces hierarchy. To subvert this, you can’t just tell people “don’t see me as a leader”. Just like hierarchies in meat-space require organizing to dismantle… so too do hierarchies in bit-space
@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.
There’s so many levels of fuckery here, but even at its most basic: robbing a term that refers specifically to and was made by/for Black trans women, just to not acknowledge them directly is comically evil, whether in a vacuum or when you take in the context of the discourse!
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*
you say this, and maybe is seems true, at least ostensibly. but i have a question: are the bodies you're wielding against insurrection currently protected? is "democracy" providing for them? or is it using them as fuel, just like whatever fills the void will if we aren't ready?
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 👍🏿
like i can tell they have *read stuff* but that they've also not meaningfully questioned reactionary presuppositions--just pure technobabble and dubious reasonings
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?
I used to like the idea of a "community-based" justice system before I met a teenage girl who was being raped by her stepdad. Her neighbors banded together to tell her not to report him. Later, after she did report him, they showed up in court to support him.
need y'all to understanding 2 things:
1. policy is epiphenomenal. if it becomes law, it was already happening, for good or for ill
2. acceleration doesn't lead to action--we end up in the most advantageous situations when we build autonomous power irrespective of politics.
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
@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
@lNDlGO555
i really think this is a result of liberalist understandings of racism that only focuses on the (most shallow) cultural and discursive aspects.
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.
I pray every day for freedom from ableism so that folks have to actually use their alleged smarts to form an argument with substance (and much more importantly…stop marginalizing ability and mental difference)
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
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.