ian alan paul

@elbienmaspreciado@kolektiva.social
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technopolitics and anarchist thought
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📖faculty @ universitat pompeu fabra
Who needs the Devil, when humans have proved so capable of creating hell on Earth? Who needs God, when humans have proved so capable of breaking open the gates of heaven?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/immigration-detention-center-new-jersey
In a prior era they would have tried to avoid Tiananmen Square imagery (protestor vs tank), but tomorrow they'll seek it out. Power is not at all ashamed of its violent excesses, but rather wants to show you it in high resolution, to stream it to the world
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/politics/trump-military-parade-protests.html
Trump Says Protesters at Military Parade Will Be Met With ‘Very Big Force’

“I haven’t even heard about a protest,” at the Saturday event in Washington celebrating the Army, he said, but “this is people that hate our country.”

The New York Times
So often we pass through life without truly encountering other lives. We ricochet off of one another as we go to work and shop, keeping ever more busy doing what we tell ourselves we must. How lovely it is then to encounter life again, to be reminded of all it can be and become.
[Ian Alan Paul] La prueba de la anarquía – Conatus Editorial

“If communism takes shape as a weapon sharpened particularly against value, anarchy must instead arise as a forge capable of producing new weapons in response to whatever domination takes hold”

https://thefrozenseainside.com/the-test-of-anarchy/

The Test of Anarchy

Notes on Jasper Bernes' “The Future of Revolution”
https://thefrozenseainside.com/the-test-of-anarchy/

The true nihilists of our age are not those who abandon institutions, fight police, & don't vote, but those who remain invested in a society where cruelty, suffering, insecurity, & death are the norm. If any meaning survives it can only be found in the abolition of such a society.
Among the unfolding contradictions of our time is that AI will facilitate the mass facial recognition and tracking of protestors just as it will deliver flammable Waymos for barricades.

Read and share this report from @CrimethInc.

Let everyone you know that working people are standing up to fascism in #LosAngeles.

They're standing up for their neighbors and for that, Trump is sending in the military. Stand with them. Solidarity.

"DHS couldn’t control the situation. The feds were overwhelmed and begged the Los Angeles Police Department to come save them. Despite LA mayor Karen Bass saying she was “appalled” about the presence of ICE in Los Angeles, the LAPD still showed up in large numbers. A low-flying helicopter was telling people that they would be arrested and issuing dispersal orders as LAPD pushed people away from the building over the next four to five hours. Everyone left covered in pepper ball dust and tear gas."

https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/los-angeles-stands-up-to-ice-a-firsthand-report-on-the-clashes-of-june-6

Los Angeles Stands up to ICE

Participants in the clashes of June 6 describe how people came together to stop federal agents from harming their community.

CrimethInc.
Society would have you believe that a beautiful life can only be bought in the form of luxury condos, self-driving cars, and smartphones with AI assistants, but in truth a beautiful life lies everywhere in the streets, awaiting anyone with the courage to live it, free for all.