“Enlightenment is all we have…. Writing has taken us to the very edge, beyond which writing may be impossible.”
~Hakim Bey
Critique of the Listener is available in Immediatism, the book of essays that were originally delivered as radio broadcasts by Hakim Bey.
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“Immediatism is our delight. Immediatism is dangerous.”
~Hakim Bey
Immediatism vs. Capitalism, the essay, is available in Immediatism, the book.
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~Hakim Bey
“[T]he secret society promises to provide a useful framework of protective clandestinity—a cloak of invisibility that will have to be dropped only in the event of some final showdown with the Babylon of Mediation… .”
Immediatism, the essay, is available in Immediatism, the book.
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~Hakim Bey
“[T]he practice of Immediatism will release within us vast storehouses of forgotten power, which will not only transform our lives through the secret realization of unmediated play, but will also inescapably well up & burst out & permeate the other art we create, the more public & mediated art.”
Immediatism, the essay, is available in Immediatism, the book.
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“The task of immediatist organization can be summed up as the widening of the circle.”
~Hakim Bey
Ontological Anarchy In a Nutshell is available in Immediatism, the book (containing an essay by the same name) from which this podcast derived its name.
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“Depression we may have to accept, impotent rage we may have to accept, revolutionary pessimism we may have to accept. But as e.e. cummings (anarchist poet) said, there is some shit we will not take, lest we simply become the enemy by default.”
~ Peter Lamborn Wilson
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Today’s essay refers to Theory of Bloom, by Tiqqun.
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“Our place is to think, to continue speaking of chaos, not being stupid enough to think we can take its side. There are no sides.”
~Alejandro de Acosta
The essay read this episode, the third in a trilogy on approaches to nihilism by Alejandro de Acosta, is included in The Impossible, Patience: Critical Essays 2007 – 2013 published by Ardent Press and available from Little Black Cart.
Texts and authors referenced in Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism are available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
At the time of this posting, In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy vol.1, by Eugene Thacker, was available at the following sites.
Francois Laruelle’s On the Black Universe is included in Dark Nights of the Universe (Novo Pan Klub).
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“Our awareness of decomposition leads to certain insights that are disconcerting and fascinating as well; they may well be visions from outside Civilization. This awareness informs our action without distinguishing us from events. I am referring to what is most question-worthy: the passing sense of the weird and meaningless way in which things happen, beyond causality and so beyond lasting explanation.”
~Alejandro de Acosta
The text read this episode, the second in a trilogy of essays on approaches to nihilism by Alejandro de Acosta, is included in The Impossible, Patience: Critical Essays 2007 – 2013 published by Ardent Press and available from Little Black Cart.
Texts and authors referenced in History as Decomposition are available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
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“[O]ur ethics might…be defined as the provisional disorientation with which we approach our ways of living, the interminable and necessary skepticism that characterizes our thinking’s motion.“
~Alejandro de Acosta
The text read this episode, the first in a trilogy of essays on nihilism by Alejandro de Acosta, is included in The Impossible, Patience: Critical Essays 2007 – 2013 published by Ardent Press and available from Little Black Cart.
Its Core Is the Negation is available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
Its Core Is the Negation references an essay by Duane Rousselle called After Post-Anarchism which, at the time of posting this episode, was available for download from the following site.
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“[T]he point is to leave a clue, a verbal finger pointing toward the moon of one’s ideas and dreams that says just enough to find accomplices in the crime of freedom.”
~Wolfi Landstreicher
The text read this episode, by Wolfi Landstreicher, is included in Willful Disobedience, a collection of essays which originally appeared as a series of zines by the same name.
On the Degradation of Language & the Art of Listening is available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
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“[S]exual satisfaction is not just a question of pleasure as such, but specifically that pleasure that springs from real encounter and recognition[.]”
~Wolfi Landstreicher
The text read this episode, by Wolfi Landstreicher, is included in Willful Disobedience, a collection of essays which originally appeared as a series of zines by the same name.
On Sexual Poverty is available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
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“[W]hen we make the choice to break the machine rather than continuing to adjust it, passivity ceases and projectuality begins.”
~Wolfi Landstreicher
The text read this episode, by Wolfi Landstreicher, is included in Willful Disobedience, a collection of essays which originally appeared as a series of zines by the same name.
On Projectuality is available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
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“The sage does not become trapped in semantics, does not mistake map for territory, but rather “opens things up to the light of Heaven” by flowing with the words, by playing with the words. Once attuned to this flow, the sage need make no special effort to “illumine,” for language DOES IT by itself, spontaneously.”
~Hakim Bey
The text read this episode, by Peter Lamborn Wilson using the pen name Hakim Bey, is available either bound or downloaded, from Xexoxial Editions, or in T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, 2nd edition, published under anti-copyright by Autonomedia, with Aimless Wandering appearing in T.A.Z. as an appendix courtesy of Xexoxial Editions.
T.A.Z. is available in its entirety, including Aimless Wandering, to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
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“[F]or its delirious rhetoric, it deserves a proud place on the shelf labeled Chaos.”
~ Peter Lamborn Wilson
The text read this episode is available in Spiritual Destinations of an Anarchist, selected essays of Peter Lamborn Wilson, published 2015 by Ardent Press, an imprint of Little Black Cart, Berkeley CA
This essay was written as a response to and review of John Moore’s Anarchy & Ecstasy: Visions of Halcyon Days, originally from Aporia Press but now out of print, which you may freely access and download in a variety of formats for your use or distribution at The Anarchist Library.
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“Is it possible to create a SECRET THEATER in which both artist and audience have completely disappeared — only to reappear on another plane, where life and art have become the same thing, the pure giving of gifts?”
~ Peter Lamborn Wilson
The text read this episode is available in Anarchist Ephemera, selected essays of Peter Lamborn Wilson, published 2016 by Ardent Press, an imprint of Little Black Cart, Berkeley CA
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