As a project, anti-capitalism has seen immense intellectual energy expended in its name. It can claim some of the most brilliant thinkers of modernity as participants. However, in terms of outcomes things have largely been miserable. There’s all the genocides, police states, and conquests that were justified in the name of socialism or communism. But…

Por Willian Gillis. Artígo original: Transhumanism Implies Anarchism, 16 de maio de 2016. Traduzido para o português por p1x0. Transcrito de uma palestra dada na IEET’s Future of Politics conference em 2015 Quanto mais meios as pessoas possam usar para agir, mais fácil se tornar atacar e mais custosa se a defesa se torna. É…

Por William Gillis. Artígo original: Highly Derivative: Accelerationism’s Inability to Make a Clean Break, 8 de agosto 2015. Traduzido para o português por p1x0. Atualmente há um crescente sentimento de crise na esquerda radical. Tendo se jogado em um primitivismo implícito ao longo do século vinte, agora que este barco está afundando, muitos na esquerda…

William Gillis. Artículo original: Highly Derivative: Accelerationism’s Inability to Make a Clean Break, del 8 de agosto de 2015. Traducido al español por Vince Cerberus. Reseña del Manifiesto por la política aceleracionista y El lector aceleracionista Hoy en día hay una creciente sensación de crisis en la extrema izquierda. Tras haberse atado a un primitivismo implícito a lo largo del…

In a PBS segment Oct. 24, Judy Woodruff asked “What will Dakota Access protesters do if final pipeline restrictions are lifted?” Her guest William Brangham, who’s been covering the confrontation for PBS Newshour, elaborates: People don’t exactly know what’s going to happen. If the Army Corps agrees to this last permit and says to the…

The more means by which people can act the easier attack becomes and the harder defense becomes. It’s a simple matter of complexity. The attacker only needs to choose one line of attack, the defender needs to secure against all of them. This isn’t just true of small thermal exhaust ports, it’s true in our…

Introduction by Chad Nelson Involvement in the anarchist movement sometimes feels like a futile enterprise. How to get from here to there in a “real” world dominated by statists and authoritarians is a dilemma that confounds even the most sure-footed of anarchists. And when attaching oneself to an anarchist organization, it’s easy to be pessimistic…

There’s an increasing sense of crisis in the far left today. Having lashed itself to an implicit primitivism over the course of the twentieth century now that that ship is sinking much of the left is desperately looking for a way off. The Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek is…

We are fascinated by the image of rebellion. The present generation came of age amidst global unrest and upheaval, from the Arab Spring to the anti-austerity movements in the West. Its immediate impulse has been to identify with those in the streets, even in the case of ill-fated and dubiously progressive movements. The image of…

Last Sunday three people were killed in Las Vegas. Two were police officers on their break at Cici’s Pizza. Rather than being a day to celebrate the death of two agents of the state as a win in the fight for freedom, it is a day to reconsider the foundations of our beliefs and the…