Famous computer programmer Audrey Tang is a tranarchist #trans #anarchism

Metatalk thread with recs for books on anarchist history.

Pretty great Metafilter thread about anarchism, including some useful links sprinkled throughout the comments.

All of this is why I am writing this to challenge us further. There has been a tendency in our ranks, which Bookchin correctly noted, to succumb to a superficial analysis, that mistakes spontaneous revolts with organized insurrection.

"Cleveland bridge bomb plotters aren’t anarchists, they’re idiots"

"In this sense anarchism implies a universal decentralization of authority, and a universal simplification of life. Inhuman entities like the modern city will disappear. But anarchism does not necessarily imply a reversion to handicraft and outdoor sanitation. There is no contradiction between anarchism and electric power, anarchism and air transport, anarchism and the division of labour, anarchism and industrial efficiency. Since the functional groups will all be working for their mutual benefit, and not for other people's profit or for mutual destruction, the measure of efficiency will be the appetite, for fullness of living."

This book offers a multitude of voices on the changing character of recent social movement. The authors tell us that the graduate without a future, the loss of faith in party politics, the lack of canonical texts/media-outlets, the possibility for fast and anonymous communications and actions online, and the changing characteristics of power and subjectivity (precarity and the entrepreneuriat) all mark a move towards a more anarchic politics. Some implore social movements to move beyond their current defensive rhetoric and instead insist on new, more deeply democratic modes of organisation. Others demand that they fight back and wound capital more deeply than they have themselves been wounded. This multitude of voices is the book's strength, but it is also it's weakness: that there is no coherent strategy or responsive methodology. We are left instead with numerous provocations and numerous questions still to be addressed.