Life in the cracks

Critique my essay, Holla Forums.

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/friedrich-rural-lucifer-life-in-the-cracks

(Note that the subheading on top annoys me. When I uploaded the piece I thought that it was a non-visible search term thing.)

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criticallegalthinking.com/2012/08/30/returning-to-tiqqun-final-warning-to-the-imaginary-party-regarding-public-space/
anarchistnews.org/content/some-recent-actions-imaginary-party
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tiqqun-bloom-theory.html
youtube.com/watch?v=v-LCKsxHShI
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vice.com/read/vive-le-tarnac-nine-407-v17n4
notbored.org/les-amis-de-Tarnac.html
anarchistnews.org/content/false-friends-commune-tarnac
opensourceecology.org/wiki/Mushrooms#Mycoremediation
youtube.com/watch?v=eXtD_dqzE9g&list=RDeXtD_dqzE9g&index=1
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didnt read lol

OP, do we know each other from somewhere? Your essay aligns pretty remarkably with a lot of stuff I've mentioned or quoted on /anarcho/ and the IRC channel.

I don't have time rn to read through the whole thing and give a good response, but so far I'm both interested, largely in agreement, and also have a few points of divergence (mostly on the question of creating meaning). If you want to discuss this at length you should post this thread on /anarcho/ or get on the IRC channel on Rizon. I'm writing something myself for publication and I'd be interested to chat a bit. As you can see from the quality of this thread, Holla Forums is pretty much a total waste of your time.

Yeah we're under attack. Sucks. Will do, can't use IRC with my tablet but will check it out soon. I'm also negroyverde on leddit.

you have no influence on it, at most you'll die

I hope you develope atelectasis during your sleep tonight

Kek

Brilliant, except that Tiqqun and later the Invisible Committee had roughly the same idea sixteen years ago and it was tried. Slipping through the cracks sounds like a fun and brilliant idea until they find you; it happened to the Unabomber, Eric Rudolph and Joseph Konopka. The first two tried to hide out in the wilderness, Montana and the Great Smoky Mountains respectively, while the last one discovered and used a collection of storage rooms and utility closets he found while urbexing in Chicago's CTA and other places. They are all serving 25 to life at ADX Florence. They all had two things in common; believing that the system wouldn't try to dig them out if it wanted to due to costs and perceived difficulty of locating one man, and engaging in political direct action. The problem with this path is if you try to engage this path, the system knows that it is going to be in for a fight for its life, that is, the potency to project its own force and police its own territory is called into question, and that is unacceptable. Once a critical mass of people stops believing in it, that is the basis for a revolution. That is why security states take so much of their time and effort to devise new strategies of policing that take into account these zones of opacity and try to minimize them, and the ones that are too fluid to be corralled are under perpetual biopolitical siege, and the government keeps a register of persons of interest to identify possible agents based on personal characteristics who transition between the zone controlled by the government and the autonomous zones, which is why gypsies and TOR nodes are under constant surveillance, etc, and why any sort of meaningful resistance is demonized and swiftly and brutally suppressed, to send the message that there is no other alternative.

Staying transient works well only if you are able to avoid the system's patrols and able to utilize the ever-decreasing marginal areas and forgotten spaces; sooner or later you will find yourself arrested for trespass or B&E, but most importantly, tired of running. Moreover, living that lifestyle will not work well for growth; how do you propose to have offspring that doesn't have their connections to their surroundings destroyed? You yourself will be cutting them; that's how Julian Assange was brought up, and he barely is scraping by. Or operate or keep secure power or machine tools undisturbed? Places like Kowloon Walled City and housing projects are deliberately made both scarce and a hostile environment for the individual by the government. You will have to put down roots somewhere, and retarded libertarian projects like homesteading an oil platform will not cut it.

This is how biopower works; submit or die. Either you die from the stress of constantly running, or you keep your head down and submit. The commune down at Tarnac was an example of state power showing what it does to such a group. Either shut up and do something radical, and stay quiet about it, or risk getting caught by the roving spiders crawling the Web that the government uses to catalog dissenting media and individuals and be rendered impotent by surveillance.

Read this:
criticallegalthinking.com/2012/08/30/returning-to-tiqqun-final-warning-to-the-imaginary-party-regarding-public-space/

and this too
anarchistnews.org/content/some-recent-actions-imaginary-party

and some more
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tiqqun-bloom-theory.html