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A review by bamboobones_rory
Black Seed: Not On Any Map by Various
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
medium-paced
5.0
This book explores topics like taking apart green anarchism through the lens of removing the context of "political movements" and thought in European history, which shapes all kinds of "leftism", and the ways that whatever terms are used, how it can look different from a native North American perspective. Some quotes to chew on:
" The answer is that these anarchist do not expect to deal with anyone outside of their understanding of reality. They expect reality to conform to their subjective understanding of it". (pg 11)
from a quotation of Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! - Fredy Perlman: "Leviathan is turning into Narcissus, admiring its own synthetic image in its own synthetic pond, enraptured by its spectacle of itself. It is a good time for people to let go of its sanity, its masks and armors, and go mad, for they are already being ejected from its pretty polis". (pg 109)
There is a lot of talk about the tension between European tradition green anarchism and indigenous anarchism not about "how to do it" or "why" but "how to think about doing it".
Interesting thoughts on animism needing a social structure like monotheism.
"What do the stones want? What do we make of their insistent silence?" (pg 141)
It's a collection of essays so lots of different opinions and articles from different years.
Ideas about the anti-future, or how the end of the world has happened for people again and again- it's not new.
" The answer is that these anarchist do not expect to deal with anyone outside of their understanding of reality. They expect reality to conform to their subjective understanding of it". (pg 11)
from a quotation of Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! - Fredy Perlman: "Leviathan is turning into Narcissus, admiring its own synthetic image in its own synthetic pond, enraptured by its spectacle of itself. It is a good time for people to let go of its sanity, its masks and armors, and go mad, for they are already being ejected from its pretty polis". (pg 109)
There is a lot of talk about the tension between European tradition green anarchism and indigenous anarchism not about "how to do it" or "why" but "how to think about doing it".
Interesting thoughts on animism needing a social structure like monotheism.
"What do the stones want? What do we make of their insistent silence?" (pg 141)
It's a collection of essays so lots of different opinions and articles from different years.
Ideas about the anti-future, or how the end of the world has happened for people again and again- it's not new.