Do Artifacts Have Politics? (faculty.cc.gatech.edu)
Lengthy PDF discussing how certain technologies such as nuclear power shape power dynamics around them towards authoritarianism.
Anarchist Calisthenics, by James C. Scott (harpers.org)
Aaron Bastani on why Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism is the most important the British left has produced this century. (www.tiktok.com)
Seeds of Change - 37C3 (events.ccc.de)
GNU Taler for local currencies. (nlnet.nl)
Available in the latest release.
OpenSource Civics (bioharmony.substack.com)
Remember, if Fascism wins it is YOUR FAULT. (slrpnk.net)
Saul Newman explains what he means by micropolitics (kolektiva.media)
From an unfinished documentary on Anarchism filmed in 2010. Interesting because it presages the term ‘Infrapolitics’ by several years. There is a different nuance, but also has a lot in common.
The Myth of a Free Press: Media Bias Explained (yt.artemislena.eu)
Opposition to capital and alternatives
This is a niche topic and I’m not sure this is the right community. Let’s say we start to move on to a society less focused on capital. Not perfect but on the way there. There are still companies and there is an overall economy running around small businesses. How would a small business get started without access to...
Technofeudalism has just arrived... Read the Preface here (www.yanisvaroufakis.eu)
New book by Yanis Varoufakis
What Do You Mean By "Culture Jamming"?": An Interview with Moritz Fink and Marilyn DeLaure (Part One) (henryjenkins.org)
Weapons of the Weak - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
Full text available from the Internet Archive and Void Network.
Play, Church Ladies and the Struggle for Reproductive Autonomy: An Interview with Benjamin Shepard (www.cairn.info)
“The street is always two steps ahead of theory”...
Against Economics by David Graeber (web.archive.org)
Paywalled New York Review of Books link...
Expressivism and Resistance: Graffiti as an Infrapolitical Form of Protest against the War on Terror (www.cairn.info)
Excerpt:...
Paint it Black | The Sardinian Village Where Anarchist Graffiti is Encouraged (amuse.vice.com)
Anarchism and Its Misunderstanders (theanarchistlibrary.org)
Andrewism on justice (youtu.be)
Hope this doesn’t break any rules, I think the discussion of justice is germane to infrapolitics....
Prefigurative politics (en.wikipedia.org)
James C. Scott on Infrapolitics (theanarchistlibrary.org)
Just as much of the politics that has historically mattered has taken the form of unruly defiance, it is also the case that for subordinate classes, for most of their history, politics has taken a very different extra-institutional form. For the peasantry and much of the early working class historically, we may look in vain for...
The Internet was always anarchist, so anarchists must learn to become responsible for operating it (c4ss.org)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/12769...
How Gen Z TikTokers Replaced Doom Scrolling With #Hopecore (archive.today)
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/439246...