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'lol', texted the billionaire

http://humaniterations.net/2025/02/20/lol-texted-the-billionaire/

Published: June 25, 2024 10:47

“lol,” texted the billionaire, “i love it. fuck them.” And so it was announced: in four years the world would be destroyed. At first there was a flurry of editorials and think pieces. On a wet fall morning a hundred student protesters broke through the…

What’s In A Slogan? “KYLR” and Militant Anarcha-feminism

http://humaniterations.net/2024/06/25/kylr/

Published: June 25, 2024 10:47

This text is available as a zine formatted for printing. An anarchist walks out of a punk show to smoke. On her vest are anarchist patches with various standard slogans, “No Gods No Masters,” “Death To Transphobes,” “Kill Your Local Rapist,” “All Cops Are…

Against Campism and Nationalism on Ukraine

http://humaniterations.net/2024/04/17/against-campism-nationalism/

Published: April 17, 2024 10:47

I haven’t talked much about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine since it occurred, mostly just sharing Ukrainian voices and chastising a now former friend for calling for a NATO enforced no fly zone (e.g. shooting down a nuclear power’s planes). There’s something…

One Giant Red Flag, Folded Into A Book

http://humaniterations.net/2022/12/6/giant-red-flag

Published: December 6, 2022 18:16

This text is available as a zine formatted for printing. CW: lengthy and detailed discussion of abuse, rape, stalking, and apologia for such Let’s be clear from the outset: Conflict Is Not Abuse is not even remotely the same thing as the sentiment or…

From Stirner to Mussolini

http://humaniterations.net/2022/03/28/stirner-mussolini

Published: March 28, 2022 18:16

Review: The Anarchist-Individualist Origins of Italian Fascism In 1910 Luigi Fabbri and Armando Borghi abducted an anarchist woman who had shamed their friend by divorcing him. Together, they forced her into a gynecological exam so the doctor could…

Partition And Entanglement

http://humaniterations.net/2022/01/11/partition-entanglement

Published: January 11, 2022 00:16

“The entire, eons-long practice of human  movement  into  new  places  was  pushed  out  of  our  imagination — or,  perhaps more accurately, was reimagined as a national security threat. In the process, stasis was glorified as the normative way of being…

Anti-Engels (or Anti-Anti-Duhring Aktion)

http://humaniterations.net/2021/11/5/anti-engels

Published: November 5, 2021 00:16

This text is available as a zine formatted for printing. Recent years have seen a resurrection of a Great Man Of History Marxist scholasticism that fixates on some (easily accessible) Original Core Texts of supposed genius and discards all the…

The Psychological Economy Of Inaction

http://humaniterations.net/2021/09/11/psychological-economy-of-inaction/

Published: September 11, 2021 03:19

It became briefly popular for a while to focus on our limits to process choice – decision fatigue, “spoons”, etc – and to promote a kind of economizing around such. But I think it’s also illuminating to do the opposite: to economize around our limited…

Contextualizing Introversion

http://humaniterations.net/2021/05/19/contextualizing-introversion/

Published: May 19, 2021 03:19

Humans can think far faster than they can speak. This is the root of so many things, not the least of which is part of how meetings feel so stultifying and oppressive to most folks. But there are people who like meetings and who profess that they find them…

Bad People: Irredeemable Individuals & Structural Incentives

http://humaniterations.net/2020/09/06/bad-people/

Published: September 6, 2020 23:19

This text is available as a zine formatted for printing. Contrary to the assertions of some leftists there are in fact thoroughly monstrous people who are not just victims of their social conditions. Humans vary. We each follow somewhat…