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5 Types of Bullshit Jobs, with David Graeber DAVID GRAEBER: I’ve been doing a sort of research project where I made up a Gmail account called doihaveabsjoborwhat@gmail.com. I’d been advertising on Twitter. I’ve got about 250 testimonies now. I have broken them down into five basic types. There are flunky jobs, which are basically people…
Murray Bookchin: Urbanization without Cities The Rise and Decline of Citizenship. 1992.
Notes on the anarchist culture wars | Contr’un: Anarchist Theory [This is actually a social media status that took on a sprawling life of its own. It is not exactly a response to Alexander Reid Ross’ essay “The Left Overs: How Fascists Court the Post-Left,” but rather some more general thoughts on the dynamics that…
The Left-Overs: How Fascists Court the Post-Left | anarchistnews.org Much discussed article about fascism’s influence on anarchism.
Murray Bookchin: The Open Road Interview (1981) In September 1981, the Open Road editorial collective in Vancouver interviewed Murray Bookchin while he was finishing his magnum opus, The Ecology of Freedom (yes, the legend is true: he spent some of his time correcting the galley proofs in a local MacDonald’s). The publication of The Ecology…
To Kill an Ideology spoiler: If the anarchists’ history is any indication, it is unreasonable to expect jihadism to die out anytime soon. Even if the movement’s most influential leaders are killed, their vision will no doubt live on. Many of the most famous jihadists — bin Laden, Azzam, al-Zarqawi, al-Awlaki and the Blind Sheikh,…