Posted by: lettrist on: November 17, 2009
The following four vignettes have stuck with me since I watched them first in 2006, following the worldwide curiosity pique with the virtual world phenomena. As a filmmaker, when I first explored virtual worlds I wanted to document their religions like an anthropologist. I planned to make an hour-long film about the religious centers and [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: November 13, 2009
University websites can sometimes be a great store of new ideas. Stanford has a project called The Spatial History Project working toward an intersection of geography and history. The scholars are using the InfoGraphics Lab to integrate GIS and graphic design tools, combined with a contemporary cartographic design aesthetic to produce historical, graphical maps.
These include [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: November 12, 2009
The Paris Commune, that pervasive theme of French leftist history, hangs like a shadow over European politics, indeed, world politics.
Just like in the 1870s, 80s, and 90s — the heyday of leftist anarchism — we seem to be reinventing ideas of the anti-authoritarian, anti-political left today, such as ‘the commune’. Our [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: November 12, 2009
Biopower is literally having power over other bodies, “an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations” (Foucault, History of Sexuality, Vol.I, p.140).
Biopower for Foucault contrasts with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign. In an era like ours where [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: November 5, 2009
It’s amazing how much people in general can shift their views with enough time and psychic manipulation. “Communism is weakness on stilts” is something I wrote in an online forum four years ago here. I was apparently debating “religion vs. the will to power” on philosophyforums.com. I got the phrase from Jeremy Bentham who once [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: November 4, 2009
I lie alone
I lie in my bed
I watch the ceiling
“Take your temperature” it says
OK full body check:
I am still pulled in by the sound
My heart is pulsating
I remember everything even the things
No one else saw
No one else heard
No one else felt
Knowing every cell of my own flesh
Knowing the taste and feel of everything
Knowing
The wild wins
The [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: October 28, 2009
Click here for the automatically-generated insurrectionary anarchist communique. If the one you get is total bullshit, just hit refresh until you find the gem you’re looking for.
This raises a good question. What is a communique supposed to convey? Who are they written for? As the present culture increasingly becomes separated from society and from people’s [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: October 1, 2009
“Reporters are nothing but corporate employees.”
If we take the definition of “the proletariat” as provided by the SI – that anyone not in control of their own life and the creation of their situations is a proletarian – then the majority of the fifth estate is proletarian, too. “Journalism” is an [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: September 22, 2009
In case you missed it, available here is the powerpoint presentation presented at the Tacoma Anarchist Book Fair. (FYI Some slides in the presented are incomplete, some fonts re-sized incorrectly with Google.)
Key Concepts of the Situationist International (powerpoint)
The video clips shown in the presentation were from the following films:
Can Dialectics Break Bricks? [part 1] [part [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: September 17, 2009
Josh Simpson and Benjamin Lewis from Fort Lewis Iraq Veterans Against the War on Venezuela television:
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