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autonomoustweekazoid · 7 months
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"We are not drifts of snow moving through reality. Things have happened. Choices have been made. These choices can be evaluated, not from a timeless doctrine but from a human scale. By this human scale the size, the scope, of the choices made is beyond comprehension. This being the case, and as the desire of conscious bodies is to understand, a frame of reference to begin to impact the world can be based on one of two options. Either shrink the world that you desire to understand and touch or assert yourself onto a world gone mad in such a way as to transform scale. Institutions, ideologies, systems, schools, family, capital, government and revolutionary movements have all developed beyond the body. Nihilist anarchism isn’t concerned with a social revolution that adds a new chapter to an old history but the ending of history altogether. If not revolutionaries then possibly epochanaries, for the transformation of society without a positive program."
- Aragorn!
Anarchy and Nihilism: The Consequences
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111seedhillroad · 2 months
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My underrated anarchist reading material list:
Sascha Engel - Plant Anarchy; Breaking the Alphabet
Ramon Elani - Dark Virtue: Daoism and the Rejection of Civilization
Alejandro de Acosta - At Its' Core is Negation; Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism
Jacques Camatte - The Wandering of Humanity
Aragorn! - Nihilist Animism; Locating and Indigenous Anarchism
Fera Silvain - On Subsistence and Slavery
Benjamin Weiss - Where the Wild Things Are(n't)
Seaweed - Permanent Subsistence Zones
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crimethinc · 3 months
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Today marks four years since the passing of Aragorn!, a tireless polemicist and curator of anarchist infrastructure.
In this elegy, we explored the ways that his legacy challenges us, concluding with remembrances from comrades who shared some of his journey.
https://crimethinc.com/2020/02/19/aragorn-elegy-for-an-antagonist-on-hostility-and-its-limits
You can also read this interview conducted in summer 2018, in which he recounts his childhood in Grand Rapids, his youth in the hardcore scene, his introduction to anarchism, the motivations that drove him, and what it means to commit oneself to a life against the grain—traversing four decades of anarchist history.
https://crimethinc.com/2020/02/19/a-hell-of-a-mistress-the-beautiful-idea-an-interview-with-aragorn
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xartus · 5 months
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Imo, as an anarchist, the best way to create change is to foster communication, understanding, and mutual interests between people. To change the mores of society from profit and individualism to community, well being, and peace.
Violence is complex and almost always begets further violence. Violence is not somehow "good" because YOUR side is doing it. Your side doesn't get an excuse for atrocities or cruelty because you morally agree with them.
Honorable war doesn't really exist in real life and if it does it look like whatever the fuck Aragorn was doing.
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nando161mando · 11 months
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Anarchist Library: Gardens of Resistance, Aragorn!, Artnoose, Ariel, The Anvil Review - Insurgent Summer
"Author: Gardens of Resistance, Aragorn!, Artnoose, Ariel, The Anvil Review - Title: Insurgent Summer - Subtitle: The Anvil Review #2 special insert - Date: 2010 - Notes: Notes as they appeared in The Anvil Review #2 special insert: Insurgent Summer was an on- and off-line cooperative discussion, held during the summer of 2010, of Fredy Perlman's epistolary novel, Letters of Insurgents. These are brief notes based on those discussions. And thanks also…"
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cock-holliday · 11 months
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Anarchist naming themself after the infamous anarchist writer, publisher, and theorist Aragorn!, but without the boisterous confidence. Call that guy Aragorn?.
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mobilefruit-gundam · 2 months
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“Animism (grand, capital A) began to die as the city was being born. This does not mean the urge does, but that urge primarily moves us against ourselves and towards camping trips, Eschatology, and faith-based approaches to the sickness of this world. Our question is whether mediated experiences are the only ones we are capable of. If that is the case (as is likely), then our capacity for revelatory joy is similarly curtailed, all arguments to the contrary. If we are indeed broken are we capable of NOT being broken? As anarchist who have an interest in how the world operates- -and perhaps how we could perform as wooden shoes to it- -we are naive about what it looks like today to grind gears. We have an urge but little wisdom about the unforeseen consequences of our little strategies. This existential gap, between our desires and our capacity, is also the reason why we are so hungry for the possibility of animism.
The reason we will not solve the problem like the little special snowflakes that we are is because of exactly that, little and weak. Just as monotheism has succeeded in the deception that it represents a personal relationship between you and the almighty, parsed and mediated by priests, ministers, and the dining room table, animism needs a social fabric outside of civilization to keep warm. This social fabric isn’t as simple as playing outdoors with other children, starving for life lessons from the kitchen table where the elders sit and talk, or rituals that help you understand you are a part of something larger- -but one can imagine such simple phenomenon as things that have passed by, that few people experience today in lieu of screens. While the cell phone may itself be sacred and alive the things we see on it are mundane and ordinary and make us also mundane and ordinary.
It is on this unfertile land that spiritual practitioners attempt to live. Generally they have hardscrabble lives devoid of community or anything but scraps of information on how others did what they are trying to do. In this context it makes perfect sense that racial, silly, or fantastic elements (often the same thing) often time(s) infiltrate. It’s not that we can’t ‘go back,’ it is that doing so is just as difficult as marching into the void somewhere new. It just seems easier.
What I would propose, what a nihilist animism would entail, is an acknowledgement that a spiritual endeavor comes from a social practice. It has to pass the test of I/we. If you can find a group of people who are willing to ride the tension of being individuated, having undergone the great pain of core alienation in the modern world- -while not privileging one’s own experiences in a group- -then you could begin. Beginning would look like a long waiting- -while the traffic passes overhead, while your devices beep, bop, beep in your car, while you could be doing other things- -for the world around you to expose its language to you. This will not happen quickly. It will probably take years. This language could then shape a set of principles, a path to walk, that would make sense to your set of people.”
Relations Without End: Nihilist Animism - Aragorn!
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virtue-boy · 4 months
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This book is about an epic fight for Turtle Island that is invisible to most people. It is about memory, family, and the future of a livable planet.
This book is a culmination of several years of interviews between Aragorn! and a variety of Native people who are or were in anarchist circles. Mostly the conversations are in and about the intersections of, and tensions between, indigeneity and anarchism, through stories and experiences with anarchists.
Turtle Island is the land beneath our feet and it is the imaginary place that existed before colonization and that will exist when colonization is over. It is a true myth and an impossible dream. The fight for it requires warriors, tricksters, and medicine stronger than we know. How will we learn? Who will we do it with? Can anarchists help or are they just hurting this fight?
As a place that doesn't exist (but did) Turtle Island is the type of no place usually referred to as myth. Perhaps this is true, perhaps Turtle Island is merely the fantastic story of a people who have since disappeared, or the story I'd prefer to tell about the place I live.
If I live in Turtle Island and not The United States of America, I can differentiate between my life and the life violently imposed upon me. I might be powerless to do much about it but it somehow feels important to assert that I would if I could, not an end-of-the-movie inspirational assertion about how We Are Powerful Together, but a personal declaration that I am on the side of a myth vs Manifest Destiny, that I believe in something-like-struggle if not the particulars of a specific fight, that I walk on the back of turtles and not on a spinning globe that'll be discarded as soon as the powerful are ready to leave.
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catsnuggler · 9 months
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Interrogator: You say you are an anarchist? Me: Yes. Yes, I am. I proudly, fervently, say, with conviction, that I am an anarchist. I oppose all centralized authority as tyrannical, be it fascist or liberal. Interrogator: And yet you would DIE - you would give YOUR life - for Aragorn, High King of Gondor? Me: *whimpers* You just don't UNDERSTAND. You just don't UNDERSTAND. Yes. YES! Yes, Gods... *cries*... "for all that you hold dear, I bid you: Stand, Men of the West!" *pulls sword out of my pant leg, which was somehow totally hidden, not forming any kind of outline in my pants*
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quixoticanarchy · 3 years
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The Anarchist Aragorn Meta No One Asked For
Or, why “The Return of the King” could have been “The End of All Kings” *
1) So, Aragorn has got a right to the throne through blood, sure, but for most of his life there *isn’t* a throne - and there are lots of problems in Middle-earth, obviously, but the lack of a monarchy isn’t really what’s causing them, so what’s stopping him from just saying “hey I don’t think I actually need to be king.” Like, will it be useful? Is it the best way I can use my life or am I just falling into what’s expected of me based on my ancestry and raising? Is being king really what’s best for me or the people around me? Do they want a king? Did anyone ask?
2) Probably the biggest motivator of course is Elrond saying he can’t marry Arwen unless he’s king of both Gondor and Arnor (regardless of how Arnor doesn’t exist at the time and hasn’t for ages). But this is the same quibble I have with Beren and Thingol: when a king/powerful lord guy makes you an impossible bargain as the price for getting to marry his daughter, you aren’t *obligated* to accept. You and the daughter could just, I don’t know, decide to live your lives together regardless of the father’s unrealistic and possessive demands.**
3) Aragorn and the rangers already have a relatively non-hierarchical arrangement in which they’re not beholden to any government/state, they’re really only answerable to themselves, they work for the common good and protection of the north regions where there hasn’t been a centralized authority for longer than anyone can remember (except Elves). Anarchism in Middle-earth in many cases wouldn’t even have to dismantle a state - just refrain from creating one! But no, instead we get monarchy and empires. Which was absolutely not inevitable! And shouldn’t be taken as the natural and good end of all things!
4) Gondor is used to not having a king, and Denethor’s fall is the perfect opportunity to also ask the real questions about whether a steward who basically acts like a king is a good idea either. All these singular rulers really aren’t doing the best job - why not try something else? Do we really have to keep trying new flavors of the same failing authority structures?
5) Aragorn has a good sense of equality and justice, which I *hope* he would keep as king - but honestly, once he loses the proximity to regular people and understanding how their lives are because he’s one of them, I would worry that he’d fall prey to the standard corruption of power. He’s a good leader and a good friend and has a fair outlook on the world because he’s spent time living in it, traveling, not asking for power or credit, not using his own name, learning to love not the idea of power or a throne but the actual places and people of Middle-earth. He insists on fair treatment within the Fellowship (regarding the Dwarf/Elf conflicts in Gimli and Legolas’s early relationship, for instance), and he makes peace with Harad and the Easterlings after the downfall of Sauron. I don’t think he’s cut out to be king so much as he’s cut out to just be a good person - so let him be a good person without absolute power!
6) He doesn’t have an intrinsic desire for power or kingship - the movies hype this up a lot more and make him super angsty about the perils of repeating his ancestors’ flaws, the failing blood of Men, etc etc (I didn’t like that whole thing but that’s an aside), but still, I can’t help but think if you don’t want to be king, and you aren’t driven by arrogance and entitlement and whatnot... you could just... not be king. There doesn’t have to be a king. Mind-blowing.
7) Aragorn could have still used his status as Elendil & Isildur’s heir to their advantage in baiting Sauron into treating him as the major threat, he just didn’t have to actually become king afterwards. Imagine if he’d been like “psych! fooled you twice! first you fall for me being the real enemy you need to focus on, now joke’s on you I don’t even want to be king. no more kings.”
8) “Hands of a king are the hands of a healer” - I would argue that Ioreth got this backwards. The hands of a healer happen to be the hands of a king, in this case, but Aragorn was a healer first - he’s been using athelas the whole time, and wasn’t king yet officially when he healed Éowyn and Faramir and Merry. Being king is a political and social position! It’s not an essential characteristic! It’s not “in the blood” oh my god. He’s only a king when he’s crowned as one - sorry but you can’t sell me on this whole bioessentialist monarchy thing. Probably a whole other rant.
9) Since the story makes a point to emphasize that regarding “deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere” (Elrond), it would have been a nice trajectory if the small hands of the world ended up actually with greater power to determine their own lives. For all the hobbits are the unexpected heroes, most of the named characters are still important people with social status and political power - why not make that dynamic one of the things that draws to an end with the Third Age? Why not a Fourth Age that is the time of the ordinary person, not just the start of a new king’s reign? Obviously Aragorn and Éomer and the other good-guy kings aren’t Sauron by any means, but I think a fuller rejection of absolute power, no matter who it’s wielded by, would have been both interesting and relatively narratively cohesive.
* This isn’t actually me saying “I think this is exactly how the story should’ve gone, god damn you Tolkien for not writing it exactly like this” - this is a self-indulgent counterfactual for me to play with my ideas about power structures in Middle-earth and the possibilities if all the people striving to change the world had gone further in a more radical direction than they did in canon.
** And before you think I have no sympathy for Elrond - I do. The guy’s life is unimaginably tragic, and Arwen’s choice is salt in the wound of losing Elros to mortality, etc. - but Elrond. Listen. Thingol is not the ancestor you want to emulate. Setting ridiculous quests for your daughter’s mortal lover? does not end well, as a general rule. Honestly he’s lucky it didn’t go as badly as Thingol’s challenge for Beren did. 
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111seedhillroad · 7 months
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Self-determination should be read as the desire for people who are self-organized (whether by tradition, individual choice, or inclination) to decide how they want to live with each other. This may seem like common sense, and it is, but it is also consistently violated by people who believe that their value system supersedes that of those around them. The question that anarchists of all stripes have to answer for themselves is whether they are capable of dealing with the consequences of other people living in ways they find reprehensible.
Aragorn! Locating an Indigenous Anarchism
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crimethinc · 1 year
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Today, it has been three years since Aragorn! passed away—a tireless polemicist and a fierce partisan of anarchist infrastructure. His absence still haunts us. https://crimethinc.com/Aragorn Please read Leona's and Klee's eulogies and Aragorn!'s text "Locating An Indigenous Anarchism," all here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-black-seed-issue-8
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bio-fluorescence · 5 years
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Aragorn voice: i think we should abolish the state
Faramir: but infrastructure Aragorn: communal ownership Faramir: hmm true.
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baeddel · 3 years
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several friends of mine got into collapsology and i'm a bit worried coz theyre getting veryyyy anxious and closed-minded about it, i'd like to give them more anticiv/anarchist takes on the subject. i've read desert a while ago and liked it, do you have any other anticiv zine recs ?
unfortunately i dont know anything other than Desert honestly. Desert obviously has a good bibliography, especially Sam Mbah & I. E. Igareway's African Anarchism and the Fifth Estate article on that topic. but its principle reference for the climate science, James Lovelock, is a guy who's work was fringe in the 70s and is now tremendously outdated. it's kind of strange that Desert wants to rehabilitate them, i think thats just a reflection of what the author/s had access to.
Bordiga of all people wrote a proto-anticiv pamphlet called "Onward, Barbarians!"—late in his life Bordiga's thought seems have developed in an esoteric direction focusing particularly on the indigenous American situation, but in a manner more like Montaigne's than Aragorn!'s, for example when In Junitzio Death is Not Scary he praises human sacrifice and says that we only think it's a bad thing because of capitalism. we are already not very far from Zerzan who would like to abolish language and all the rest. the pamphlet is fine but it's alternative vision to collapse is weakly presented & its mostly attacking state socialism which isn't so much of a problem these days!
i went to look and see if Wolfi wrote anything about this and he did, called Barbaric Thoguhts: On a Revolutionary Critique of Civilization, and scanning it it seems good to me. he gives a useful somewhat technical definition of civilization as "areas of concentrated human population separated from the areas where this population gets its sustenance" which is the best i've encountered so far (the term is a very problematic one). Wolfi is also pro-revolutionary while Desert is anti-revolutionary so they might complement one another. He also attacks primitivists who make arguments from what he calls 'biocentrism' by saying that "in reality, biocentrism does not challenge humanism at its roots. It simply seeks to expand the moral values of humanism to include all of Life and not just the Human" and that in place of revolution they await an imminent civilizational collapse "where civilized reality is simply peeled away to immediately reveal a pristine undamaged Wild Nature" which is funny to me because its exactly the same criticism that Nyx makes of primitivism in Cyber-Nihilism. he spends a few paragraphs attacking collapsism, what such a collapse would entail and so forth in a way i find convincing. this might be a good one for your purpose. he also attacks Montaigne!
looking up "collapsism" (preparing for an immanent collapse) i found another attack on the idea, the Ideology of Collapse, but it's crap. the arguments are either basic fallacies, non-sequiturs or unsupported assertions. but if the situation is really serious you can puff up something like this by saying "as you can see, it's already been dismantled here..." with a lot of confidence, or else adding it towards the end of a list of resources and hoping they don't click on it. whether or not the situation warrants cheap tricks like that is up to you.
idk, anyone else got anything?
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nightlyponder · 2 years
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@oneshortdamnfuse
I was gonna make this a DM but then realized I was gonna be linking a lot of sites so figured I'd make a post for you so here's a couple of the Indigenous and Black communists, anarchists and revolutionaries I've been learning from.
Indigenous sources:
The Red Nation - https://therednation.org/about/
Anarchist author Aragorn! - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/aragorn
Indigenous Anarchist Federation - https://iaf-fai.org/about/
Indigenous Action - https://www.indigenousaction.org/indigenous-anarchist-convergence-report-back/
Black sources:
Frantz Fanon - any of his works really but definitely the Wretched of the Earth
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lorenzo-kom-boa-ervin-anarchism-and-the-black-revolution
Black Anarchism: A Reader - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/black-rose-anarchist-federation-black-anarchism-a-reader
And there was recently this tumblr post that curated quite a few Black anarchist works and from other non-European anarchists as well
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