We’re Fucked. So (Now) What? | R. Scott Bakker
“Conscious self-creation.” This is the nostrum Roy Scranton offers at the end of his now notorious piece, “We’re Doomed. Now What?” Conscious self-creation is the ‘now what,’ the imperative that […]
Tag Archives: polity
J.K. Gibson-Graham, ‘Take Back the Economy’ | Oliver Mispelhorn
from PROGRESS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY: I first became aware of the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham a few years ago, when a friend recommended that I read their seminal work The End […]
Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve | Debbie Bookchin
From ROAR Magazine – Issue #6 I am the daughter of two longtime municipalists. My mother, Beatrice Bookchin, ran for city council of Burlington, Vermont thirty years ago, in 1987, on an […]
Radical Municipalism & Translocal Futurity – Part 1: Querying the Local (1)
In this new series I attempt to work through some problems associated with local politics and move towards a non-corporatist, communistic vision of patchwork that doesn’t rely on under-determined imaginings […]
How to Be an Anticapitalist Today | Eric Wright
“Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.” For many people the idea of anticapitalism seems ridiculous. After all, capitalist firms have brought us […]
The Collapse of Modern Hope
“[H]istoricist thinking and militant practice refuse to consider depression as a cognitive element, and this is a limit, one that today, for example, prevents us from being lucid about understanding […]
Weaponized Nihil
Two invigorating quotes from the diagnostician of the dark circus S.C Hickman: “[I]in our age of nihilism, there is the aesthetic as Nietzsche would advocate: the ability to stylize our […]
