32 A Letter To Lovers, by Cresencia Desafio and Katherine DiFiore

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32 A Letter To Lovers, by Cresencia Desafio and Katherine DiFiore
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Today’s reading originally appeared in the Egoist newspaper Sovereign Self and is now available in the collection Egoism, published by Ardent Press and distributed by

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31 Wandering Off from Willful Disobedience (Three Remarks and an Imaginary Title), by Alejandro deAcosta

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31 Wandering Off from Willful Disobedience (Three Remarks and an Imaginary Title), by Alejandro deAcosta
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Today’s reading is Alejandro deAcosta’s book, How To Live Now Or Never, published by Repartee and available from Little Black Cart. How To Live Now

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30 A Lesson In Desire, by Alejandro deAcosta

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30 A Lesson In Desire, by Alejandro deAcosta
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Today’s reading comes from the Repartee book How To Live Now Or Never, which is entirely essays by Alejandro deAcosta, available from Little Black Cart.

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29 That Teaching Is Impossible, by Alejandro deAcosta

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29 That Teaching Is Impossible, by Alejandro deAcosta
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Today’s reading comes from the Repartee book How To Live Now Or Never, which is entirely essays by Alejandro deAcosta, available from Little Black Cart.

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28 Becoming Animal: My Feral Individualism, by Julian Langer

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28 Becoming Animal: My Feral Individualism, by Julian Langer
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Becoming Animal at TheAnarchistLibrary.org Other Julian Langer essays at TheAnarchistLibrary.org Feral Consciousness at LittleBlackCart.com Feral Iconoclasm at LittleBlackCart.com Show notes at Immediatism.com My other podcast

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27 Symbiogenetic Desire: An Egoist Conception of Ecology, by Bellamy Fitzpatrick

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27 Symbiogenetic Desire: An Egoist Conception of Ecology, by Bellamy Fitzpatrick
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“Our sorrow and rage is not directed at some essential metaphysical Other that attacks Nature; it is directed at an immediate mutilation of our experience,

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26 Anarcho-Pessimism. Should I Try To Communicate?, by Laurence Labadie

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26 Anarcho-Pessimism. Should I Try To Communicate?, by Laurence Labadie
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Anarcho-Pessimism at LittleBlackCart.com Laurance Labadie at TheAnarchistLibrary.org

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25 Anarcho-pessimism. On Man’s Thinking, by Laurence Labadie

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25 Anarcho-pessimism. On Man's Thinking, by Laurence Labadie
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List Anarcho-Pessimism at LittleBlackCart.com Laurance Labadie at TheAnarchistLibrary.org

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24 Anarcho-Pessimism. What is Man?, by Laurence Labadie

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24 Anarcho-Pessimism. What is Man?, by Laurence Labadie
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List Anarcho-Pessimism at LittleBlackCart.com Laurance Labadie at TheAnarchistLibrary.org

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23 A Chinese Sage, by Oscar Wilde

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23 A Chinese Sage, by Oscar Wilde
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“The perfect man ignores self; the divine man ignores action; the true sage ignores reputation.” ~ Chuang Tzu Today’s reading, A Chinese Sage, is from

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22 The Theory of the Individual In Chinese Philosophy: Yang-Chou, by Alexandra David-Neel

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22 The Theory of the Individual In Chinese Philosophy: Yang-Chou, by Alexandra David-Neel
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Today’s reading, The Theory of the Individual in Chinese Philosophy: Yang-Chou, is from Neither Lord Nor Subject: Anarchism & Eastern Thought, a collection compiled by

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21 Neither Lord Nor Subject, by Bao Jingyan

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21 Neither Lord Nor Subject, by Bao Jingyan
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“…[A]ll this could have been dispensed with if there had been no oppression and violence from the start.” ~ Bao Jingyan, 300 CE Today’s reading,

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20 Absolute Divergence From the Order of Consensus, by Ludo

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20 Absolute Divergence From the Order of Consensus, by Ludo
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“Society’s most effective weapon…is to simply keep people in the dark about weapons they already possess (…imagination, creativity, entheogens, subversion, and humor)….” ~ Ludo

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19 Realism, by Wolfi Landstreicher

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19 Realism, by Wolfi Landstreicher
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“…I will face reality with weapons in hand…to destroy the unconscious social consensus, the endless conformity and obedience that create the present reality.“ ~ Wolfi

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18 Talking to Ourselves, by Ben G. Price

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18 Talking to Ourselves, by Ben G. Price
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“The more intrepid among us may prefer to challenge the consensus, despite the dangers of openly doing so.” ~ Ben G. Price The essay read

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17 Critical Self-Theory: Towards an anarchist critical theory of the self and society, by Jason McQuinn

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17 Critical Self-Theory: Towards an anarchist critical theory of the self and society, by Jason McQuinn
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“The only really critical self-theory exists where no morals, abstract ideals, or hidden constraints cloud the air.” ~ Jason McQuinn The essay read this episode,

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16 Critique Of the Listener, by Hakim Bey

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16 Critique Of the Listener, by Hakim Bey
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“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

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15 Imagination, by Hakim Bey

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15 Imagination, by Hakim Bey
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“Immediatism wants to be a game, not a political movement, & certainly not a revolution….” ~Hakim Bey Imagination, the essay, is available in Immediatism, the

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14 Immediatism vs. Capitalism, by Hakim Bey

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14 Immediatism vs. Capitalism, 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. Immediatism, the book by Hakim

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13 The Tong, by Hakim Bey

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13 The Tong, by Hakim Bey
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“[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

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12 Immediatism, by Hakim Bey

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12 Immediatism, by Hakim Bey
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“[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

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11 Ontological Anarchy In a Nutshell, by Hakim Bey

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11 Ontological Anarchy In a Nutshell, by Hakim Bey
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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

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10 The New Nihilism, by Peter Lamborn Wilson

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10 The New Nihilism, by Peter Lamborn Wilson
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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

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9 Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism, by Alejandro de Acosta

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9 Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism, by Alejandro de Acosta
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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.”

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8 History as Decomposition, by Alejandro de Acosta

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8 History as Decomposition, by Alejandro de Acosta
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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

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7 Its Core Is the Negation, by Alejandro de Acosta

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7 Its Core Is the Negation, by Alejandro de Acosta
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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

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6 On the Degradation of Language & the Art of Listening, by Wolfi Landstreicher

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6 On the Degradation of Language & the Art of Listening, by Wolfi Landstreicher
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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

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5 On Sexual Poverty, by Wolfi Landstreicher

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5 On Sexual Poverty, by Wolfi Landstreicher
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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

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4 On Projectuality, by Wolfi Landstreicher

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4 On Projectuality, by Wolfi Landstreicher
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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

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3 Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu’s Chaos Linguistics, by Hakim Bey

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3 Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics, by Hakim Bey
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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

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2 Anarchy & Ecstasy, by Peter Lamborn Wilson

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2 Anarchy & Ecstasy, by Peter Lamborn Wilson
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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

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1 Salon Apocalypse / Secret Theater, by Peter Lamborn Wilson

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1 Salon Apocalypse / Secret Theater, by Peter Lamborn Wilson
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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?”

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