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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
Podcast: 2019
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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
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
24 Anarcho-Pessimism. What is Man?, by Laurence Labadie
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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
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
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,
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?”