‘The fully realized person of individualistic or communistic humanism is the dead person.’ -Jean-Luc Nancy Throughout modernity, imagined communities of fused individuals have been followed or even predicated by hoped-for networks of fused places. In these utopian spaces, presence is the goal, and absence an obstacle. Yet in recent theories of communication, political thought, and analyses of memorial space, acknowledgment of absence and loss has emerged as not only desirable, but perhaps crucial to functional society.” from: Absence in Common by Kevin Hamilton This is one of my favorite zines. I made an audio of it:
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“All of their designs are plans for a prison: our lives are its demolition. There is no design for freedom. …It becomes a skill to read the landscape and understand where the seams are tearing, where time has eaten holes, where the cinders will catch, and which strands will fray beyond the edges. What we might be trying to foster ,is a craft, much like cartography. Make a map of where the population is already acting outside the intended use of an area, where crime is congruent to the flow of human movement, where rattling the bars of the cage has shook them loose, where people have exhibited the will and desire to move lines.” from: Evansville: Heterotopia This is a local zine that touches on a lot of topics that interest me: architecture, counter-insurgency, friendship, difference, nihilism, etc. A PDF can be found at: anticedent.wordpress.com ”To us, the struggle is not limited to justice for Mike Brown and the conviction of a single cop of murder in a court of law. We are doing this for ourselves, our friends and family, as well as Mike Brown. We’ve already found this system guilty- the racism, the class structure, the government the police. When the “peace” you are continuously urged to return to looks like powerlessness, humiliation, poverty, boredom, and violence, it shouldn’t be a surprise that so many choose to fight. And to witness the ferocity with which some of us fight, it’s almost as if we’ve been waiting for this moment our entire lives. Two nights ago people took a run on the police command post forcing the authorities to call the National Guard. Previously this would have been unthinkable, but then again just two weeks ago this whole thing would have been unthinkable.” from: No, We Wont Go Home: fighting where we stood during anti-police struggles in Ferguson, Missouri I laughed and cried while I read this zine. I like that it is from a recent time and place, and regional. Somehow it still didn’t have much of an effect on Evansville; but through this zine maybe that can change. “Forming a (student) union would ostensibly have the goal of creating a bigger powerful voice to bring to the table. We are not interested in talking at a table, as we feel the time for talk is well past. Instead, we prefer to act.
…More often than not, unions are now found in the form of overgrown top down governmental styled organizations where the voices of the collective are funneled and filtered through a few powerful representatives. We choose to resist types of organizing that build hierarchies into our actions. This includes all styles that involve representative politics of any kind. Rather than creating a group of managers whose function is keeping the rest of us on task , who stand as liaisons between the administration and the rest, we would rather stand on equal footing with one another and act together against the administration.” from: Participant’s Audit of the April 2013 Strike at Indiana University-Bloomington This zine is kinda tedious if you aren’t in the midst of contemplating a student strike or even anywhere near being a student (as I am decades past any involvement) but it is a useful read if you are interested in the anti-authoritarian goings on of the region. |
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