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The Dialectic of Transformation: On the Merits and Dangers of Defiance

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:33:09 -0400

The Dialectic of Transformation: On the Merits and Dangers of Defiance:

Over at IEET, Maria Konovalenko writes against aging with characteristic transhumanist élan. Such enthusiastic rejection of limits serves as the basis for my continued affiliation with the movement. However, Konovalenko argument simultaneously raises perennial questions about to navigate a world of horrors and overwhelming diversity. Although I’m sympathetic to the strident anti-aging stance and consider it especially useful as a corrective to hegemonic discourse on the subject, the construction of aging as abhorrent holds worrying implications for the millions coded as old or elderly – especially coming a normatively attractive young person who mentions beauty. Konovalenko derides Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s promotion of adaptation and demands total victory over senescence, but what does mean in the present?

anarchotranshuman: 15 Post-Primitivist Theses by William Gillis, republished by...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:31:09 -0400

anarchotranshuman:

15 Post-Primitivist Theses by William Gillis, republished by Anarcho-Transhuman.

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You Are Not The Target Audience

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:08 -0400

You Are Not The Target Audience:

mandroo:

Great article about anarchism, protests, and about how to respond to people who criticize violent tactics.

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Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:51:49 -0400

beeaaarrrr: “Anarcho-pride, class against class”

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:42:18 -0400

beeaaarrrr:

“Anarcho-pride, class against class”

tatatitita: Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now. via TED.

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:41:01 -0400

tatatitita:

Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now. via TED.

Future riots may be controlled with chemicals

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:40:36 -0400

Future riots may be controlled with chemicals :

uk-newsportal:

Police look at firing chemical irritants at rioters in search for ‘less lethal’ weapons, such as plastic bullets, to deal with civil disorder.

Future riots could be quelled by projectiles containing chemical irritants fired by police using new weapons that are now in the final stages of development.

The Discriminating Irritant Projectile (Dip) has been under development by the Home Office’s centre for applied science and technology (Cast) as a potential replacement for plastic bullets.

Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal that last summer’s riots in England provided a major impetus to Home Office research into new-generation riot control technology, ranging from the Dip to even more curious weaponry described by Cast technicians as “skunk oil”.

The briefing by Cast for the Police Service of Northern Ireland says that last year’s disorder sparked a surge of ideas to the Home Office from the public as well as companies manufacturing police technology. To capitalise on the interest, Cast convened a “brainstorming” event in October. Participants included police from London and Northern Ireland, the Police Federation, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.

“No ideas too stupid or ‘off the wall’ to consider,” the briefing notes record.

The November briefing, The Development of New Less Lethal Technologies, suggests that the Dips would be loaded into guns used to fire the existing generation of plastic bullets. They would be intended to be accurate at a range of up to 65 metres.

It is understood that the Dip, which was originally supposed to have been introduced in 2010, would be loaded with CS gas, pepper spray or another irritant.

Other parts of the briefing, released under the Freedom of Information Act, refer to a need in the short term by police to develop “counter laser dazzle” technology to protect officers from being dazzled by people using lasers like those used in recent Greek riots.

Large sections of the briefing were redacted by the Home Office, which designated them as “commercially sensitive”. However, the Guardian understands that the “less lethal” technology discussed included heat rays and sound weapons. One weapon that particularly interested police officers was something Cast technicians referred to as “skunk oil”.

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josephstalinmpreg: Well I guess I need to play Eclipse Phase...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:39:17 -0400

josephstalinmpreg:

Well I guess I need to play Eclipse Phase now.

(And also because it’s a kick-ass setting, the dudes who made it offer all the books for free online, and because it’s a fairly neutral, non-fetishistic view of the singularity/transhumanism.

And also for baboon/octopi knife fights)

http://www.aleph.se/Nada/Texts/MorphologicalFreedom.htm

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:38:08 -0400

http://www.aleph.se/Nada/Texts/MorphologicalFreedom.htm

"Humans evolved to be dependent on their tools; we’ve had an intimate relationship with our..."

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:37:12 -0400

“Humans evolved to be dependent on their tools; we’ve had an intimate relationship with our technology from the start. We’ve been cyborgs from the moment we sharpened our first stick.”

- Aaron Diaz (via gyrrakavian)

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Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:36:53 -0400

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Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:36:47 -0400

aflameoffreedom: “Had they given me another five minutes, I...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:01:31 -0400

aflameoffreedom:

“Had they given me another five minutes, I would have killed another president.” - Sante Caserio when asked by an official if he regretted the assassination of French President, Marie François Sadi Carnot.

The knife in the photo is a replica of the one used against the President, and “Recuerdo” is Spanish for “Remember.” Never forget those that gave their lives for their beliefs, for anarchy.

Sante Caserio (8 September 1873 – 16 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic. Sante Caserio was the son of a boatman, who named him after the Apache famous for resisting white expansion in western North America. Sentenced to eight months in prison for distributing antimilitarist pamphlets, the young Caserio was forced to flee to Switzerland, then France. There, he assassinated French President Sadi Carnot, leaping upon his carriage during a parade and plunging a red and black dagger into his chest in retribution for Carnot’s refusal to pardon other anarchists condemned to death. Caserio was executed by guillotine in Lyon at precisely 5am, 16 August 1894. In front of the guillotine, he exclaimed “Coraggio cugini—evviva l’anarchia!” (“Courage, cousins—long live anarchy!”).

Remember our dead and fight like hell for the living!

butterflyrevolt: Indigenous Feminism/Anarcha-Feminism in...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:01:09 -0400

butterflyrevolt:

Indigenous Feminism/Anarcha-Feminism in Bolivia

I really love the historical context that the older Aymara woman places Bolivian anarchism in.

Counterculture, Academia, etc...: Brains of the world!! Anarchy Transhumanism Occultism Politics Superheroism FUCKING-SHIT-UP-ISM

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:58:00 -0400

Counterculture, Academia, etc...: Brains of the world!! Anarchy Transhumanism Occultism Politics Superheroism FUCKING-SHIT-UP-ISM:

rebelphuckers:

I am here to promote all that is controversial. We live in an artificial world and we are WASTING OUR POTENTIAL. Wake up people! The world is fucked up and we CAN fix it! Maybe we can’t reform it, but we can make it less fucked up than it is now! Get up, get moving, get armed, this is a call to…

b-theory: Morphological Freedom is the right of individuals to modify their body using the latest...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:56:34 -0400

b-theory:

Morphological Freedom

is the right of individuals to modify their body using the latest medical technology.

Anarchy- Love it or leave it: Sometimes

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:48:00 -0400

Anarchy- Love it or leave it: Sometimes:

mokarnage:

Sometimes I get the feeling that tumblr/facebook/twitter etc. are largely used by activists to get into I’m more PC than you are pissing contests.

I see a lot of cliquey/non-productive/negative/snobby sorts of images and posts. Most times I don’t see how these are actually intended to start a…

"We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a..."

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:24:23 -0500

“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.”

- Buenaventura Durruti
in response to Pierre van Passen’s claim that the revolution will leave the people “sitting on a pile of ruins” (via theharbingerum)

sigma-x: Spain 1936 - anarcho-syndicalist workers in the CNT...

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:35:49 -0500

sigma-x:

Spain 1936 - anarcho-syndicalist workers in the CNT construct armoured cars to fight the fascists in one of the collectivised factories

Taken from libcom.org, and their article on anarcho-syndicalism

anarchotranshuman: Liberate Not Exterminate by the Curious George Brigade,...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:31:21 -0500

anarchotranshuman:

Liberate Not Exterminate by the Curious George Brigade, republished by Anarcho-Transhuman.

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