Anarchism • Zero-Sum

Burnout (Chrono-Politics, Part 4)

Anti-authoritarians used to say there was a policeman inside of each of our heads and we had to kill that policeman. We did. He was substituted by a boss inside our head. No boss can drive us like we can drive ourselves.

Involuntary Governance and the Permaculture Ethical Compass

It is time to move past the era of followers and leaders, peasants and princes, worshipers and saviors, minions and tyrants, corporations and consumers and usher in the age of self governed and self reliant human beings.

Re-assessing positions

Being able to think freely and to not have to self censor because of the fear of disagreement or giving ‘offence’ is actually very liberating!

Being vs. Having (Chrono-Politics, Part 3)

Let’s celebrate. Let us recover old holidays or discover new ones! Let us not allow our time to be taken over by the dictates of the regime of necessity.

Deliberate dispossession and our struggle for autonomy

The contemporary left’s love of industrialism seems to have been based on the mistaken belief that, in using machines to exploit the forces of nature, industrialism was not exploiting human beings.

Freedom in Time (Chrono-Politics, Part 2)

Leisure is only possible in the assumption that man is not only in harmony with himself but also that he is in agreement with the world and its meaning. Leisure lives on affirmation.

Total Work (Chrono-Politics, Part 1)

One consequence of viewing the human under the type of the Worker is that education ceases to be cultivation and development (bildung) and becomes merely training.