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: 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: July 27, 2009
Memetic Engineering: This is the idea that the propagation and quality of information can be studied and managed. It’s a new term for an old phenomenon capitalism and religion have known about for a long time. Memetic engineering is a term coined by Richard Dawkins, and has been elaborated upon by [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: July 11, 2009
Posted by: lettrist on: July 5, 2009
“All our services are provided for by volunteer staff”
Most people my age volunteer at events or businesses not because volunteering is do-goodery they can afford as luxury, but because there are no jobs elsewhere and being a volunteer is perceived as the only way to possibly secure one. Hardly anyone is hiring right now, but [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: June 26, 2009
This video is the simplified, dinner-table outreach version of the World Bank argument put forth by Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian economist famous for saying that capitalism is failing in Third World countries because of complicated legal systems. De Soto and the World Bank advocate widespread privatization of extra-legal and squatter [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: June 19, 2009
A laundry co-op, like for instance this one in Ottawa called Community Laundry Co-op, would make a low-cost laundromat possible through a cooperative management. The cooperative in Ottawa works closely with the Ottawa Mission for Men, a faith-based NGO outfit that provides food, clothing and shelter for homeless men. Members at the Ottawa co-op pay [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: April 23, 2009
I picked up a bunch of old pamphlets written by Stalin while I was at the anarchist book fair in San Francisco last month, and brought them back home with me to Tacoma, WA. Most of these pamphlets come from the “Little Lenin Library, vol. 25,” published by International Publishers in New York City. They [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: April 21, 2009
There are several ways to talk about a situation, and I want to talk about ways hierarchy is assumed in how we talk about situations.
Some people will look at a clear hierarchical situation, say, a union battle pitting managers against workers, and tell you what they would do if they were in a position to [...]
Recent Comments