anthropophagous

House Of Hades street art. New York City.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:04:59 -0400

House Of Hades street art. New York City.

Munich, Germany.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:01:51 -0400

"Due to toxins in the air, water and soil, residues build up inside of our bodies (i.e. in the liver,..."

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:04:49 -0400

“Due to toxins in the air, water and soil, residues build up inside of our bodies (i.e. in the liver, colon, etc.). Fasting or cleansing from time to time helps to flush these out.”

- Please pass on the pills - moving beyond industrial healthcare and towards wellbeing [via]

I thought this article had some potential up until this point. Obviously the metaphor of toxins building up in the body like this has a lot of resonance for a lot of people (seeing that i hear it all the time, even at work where i am surrounded by people educated in the biomedical paradigm) but i don’t get why people perpetuate this idea.

I mean, yeah, there are things like heavy metals and etc that can accumulate in your body. But anything that’s staying there definitely isn’t leaving just because you go on a juice fast or give yourself an enema. I know that we exist in a novel new world of chemicals, but … idk. I just find this folk medical idea that toxins are like, lining your colon to be tremendously irritating. I guess this probably makes me a pretty bad anthropologist!

graffiti. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:02:58 -0400

graffiti. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

cold and empty. Detroit, MI.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:01:52 -0400

cold and empty. Detroit, MI.

"Things that were unthinkable are now becoming thinkable…there is now a realization that past..."

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:01:49 -0400

“Things that were unthinkable are now becoming thinkable…there is now a realization that past glories are never going to be recaptured. Some people probably don’t accept that, but that is the reality.”

- James W. Hughes, dean of the School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, quoted in Detroit looks at downsizing to save city

Dr. Henry Killinger napping on my lap. Ryan found this...

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:05:08 -0500

Dr. Henry Killinger napping on my lap. Ryan found this handkerchief while unpacking today and turned it into a cat sized bandanna and Henry has been wearing it all day looking like a furry hipster. I was going to say ‘tiny’ as well, but dude is a pretty huge cat and is making my legs fall asleep as we speak. Or, uh, type.

Resto Viva. Seattle, WA.

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:03:59 -0500

Resto Viva. Seattle, WA.

"Since businesses often rely on being able to exploit migrants as a permanent underclass produced by..."

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:01:56 -0500

“Since businesses often rely on being able to exploit migrants as a permanent underclass produced by criminalization, what happens if there is no criminalization based on migration status (or very little, since there will still be some “illegal” people)? Would migrant workers still be cleaning the toilets in office buildings like so many insist the rich should be appreciative of? What I’m getting at here is, if reform legalized most or all of the migrants in the country, would the migrants’ wages and conditions improve since they are not subject to the lack of stability caused by criminalization? Or would precarity be created (or does it already manifest) in some other way? Why would businesses/capitalists allow for a more equal work force? Which leads us to ask if there will still be exploited workers, and the answer is yes, as we know that plenty of “legal” people are currently exploited. I would argue that business just wouldn’t allow something like mass legalization to occur in the first place- at least not without other benefits to the businesses themselves (as an example, over 2 million undocumented migrants were granted amnesty in 1986, but there were also stipulations that while employment of “illegal” migrants was outlawed, businesses didn’t have to verify the documents that they received and they could also participate in temporary worker programs. There was also an increase in the use of sub-contractors). But in the unlikely scenario, we must imagine that something else will be used to divide people so as to continue exploiting labor through low wages, long hours, the lack of safety protections, and that may take the shape of new ways to criminalize people, or encouraging further racial division, or something to that effect.”

- The Best Immigration Law is No Law at All

"Migration is a natural thing, while the necessity of obstructions such as border walls are..."

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:01:49 -0500

“Migration is a natural thing, while the necessity of obstructions such as border walls are rationalized by those in power to deal with threats to security against a fortress built on the backs of other people. This fortress is the US, taken and secured by force, built up by slavery and attacks on liberation movements throughout its history. The border is therefore illegitimate and we need not and must not regard migrants as helpless victims to justify their crossing. Shouldn’t’ everyone have the right to freedom of movement?”

- The Best Immigration Law is No Law at All

Rent is Theft . Berlin, Germany.

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:00:49 -0500

Rent is Theft . Berlin, Germany.

This is me & ryan’s cat dr. girlfriend (not to be...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:00:15 -0500

This is me & ryan’s cat dr. girlfriend (not to be confused with our other cat that looks basically the same except with an expression of constant surprise/a green collar, dr. henry killinger)

Ryan had her prior to when he & I started dating, but while we have been together, she & I have basically fallen in love. now she follows me around all the time, sleeps on my pillow every night and attacks him when he raises his voice at me. I consider it something of a personal victory.

The thing about that annoying crimethinc beer post is that it's simply untrue. Does this guy not realize how many indigenous brewing traditions there are/have been? That beer doesn't wait for agriculture or pottery to happen? BLARGH. All you need to brew booze is some kind of container and some kind of source of sugar and to let it sit around and catch yeast. I hate when primitivists selectively misread anthropology and draw excessively general conclusions about things.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:25:00 -0500

I KNOW

EXACTLY

I like this woman’s approach

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:59:19 -0500

I like this woman’s approach

"The history of civilization is the history of beer. In every era and area untouched by civilization,..."

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:51:00 -0500

“The history of civilization is the history of beer. In every era and area untouched by civilization, there has been no beer; conversely, virtually everywhere civilization has struck, beer has arrived with it. Civilization – that is to say, hierarchical social structures and consequent relationships of competition, unbridled technological development, and universal alienation – seems to be inextricably linked to alcohol. Our sages, who look back and ahead through time to see beyond the limits of such pernicious culture, tell a parable about our past to explain this link:
Most anthropologists regard the beginnings of agriculture as the inception of civilization. It was this first act of control over the land that brought human beings to think of themselves as distinct from nature, that forced them to become sedentary and possessive, that led to the eventual development of private property and capitalism. But why would hunter/gatherers, whose environment already provided them with all the food they needed, lock themselves in place and give up the nomadic foraging existence they had practiced since the beginning of time for something they already had? It seems more likely – and here, there are anthropologists who agree – that the first ones to domesticate themselves did so in order to brew beer.
This drastic reorganization for the sake of intoxication must have shaken tribal structure and lifeways to the root. Where these “primitive” peoples had once lived in a relaxed and attentive relationship to the providing earth – a relationship that afforded them both personal autonomy and supportive community as well as a great deal of leisure time to spend in admiration of the enchanted world around them – they now alternated periods of slavish hard labor with periods of drunken incompetence and detachment. It’s not hard to imagine that this situation hastened, if not necessitated, the rise to power of masters, overseers who saw to it that the toilsome tasks of fixed living were carried out by the frequently inebriated and incapable tribespeople. Without these chiefs and the primitive judicial systems they instituted, it must have seemed that life itself would be impossible: and thus, under the foul auspices of alcoholism, the embryonic State was conceived.”

- The Anarcho-Primitivist case for Straight Edge: Against His-Story, Against Alcoholocaust! [via]

anarcho-primitivists!

idk i guess the idea that its basically impossible to have enough excess grain to cook down and use as a base for alcohol (also: a pretty decent way of storing calories so they don’t spoil) without having some sort of organized cultivation of said grain wasn’t an interesting enough topic for a crimethinc. pamphlet! We obv moved out of the idyllic hunter/gatherer lifestyle only because of the raging alcoholic statists amongst us. Its not like human beings/other animals would have developed reward systems that would encourage us to repeatedly engage in pleasurable behaviors (e.g. consuming alcohol) in that beautiful period before we were domesticated.

"A tendency has emerged here in Phoenix that I find very exciting. More and more, as we resist the..."

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:51:54 -0500

“A tendency has emerged here in Phoenix that I find very exciting. More and more, as we resist the leftist model, so seductive to others, of building bigger and often disingenuous organizations (instead keeping our relations intimate and small scale), I have found that many of us have converged around a familiar and familial politics that is almost entirely unique in the US. With few exceptions (probably Modesto most notably), a particular strain of class war, race traitor, insurrectionist, and primitivist influenced politics has emerged here. Many anarchists in this town defy conventions, reject orthodoxy and instead take our influences based on what makes sense rather than whatever arbitrary groupings of ideas fall under what predetermined label.
Is it the hot summers? Is it the never-industrialized vastness of the ever-growing suburban wasteland? Phoenix seemed for so long to be like the universe — vast but always somehow getting fucking bigger. A constantly growing behemoth, ever eating up more desert. Is it the proximity to the border? Is it the fact that Arizona was a segregated state? Is it the fact that you can see the horizon from anywhere in town? Or that the sun sets so brilliantly every evening? Is it because Phoenix was built on blood, for white people and to the exclusion of the native peoples who continue to make this area their home? Is it the malls that provided the plastic playgrounds of our youths? Is it the fact that almost no one living here was born here? Is it the waves of conquest, migration, dispossession and expulsion that define our history? To be from Arizona and also older than ten is a rare thing here, even in this age of economic collapse and foreclosed homes.”

- There’s no immigration law like no law at all: On revolution as the necessary conclusion of the migrant movement

233. Detroit, MI.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:27:51 -0500

233. Detroit, MI.

"After all, proper intellectual discussions always involve detachment and rationality. What is..."

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:26:53 -0500

“After all, proper intellectual discussions always involve detachment and rationality. What is rationality? Its a way of approaching emotional matters devoid of sentiment, particularly prized by Privileged People as it enables a continuing inequity of power that favours them: after all, if they arent emotionally attached to the topic by way of Lived Experience, it is easier for them to be rational.”

- Derailing for Dummies [via]

SDC11338 [via]

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:26:40 -0500

SDC11338 [via]

"Still, the obvious point here is that you can’t communize a freeway. You can only destroy it. But so..."

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:02:09 -0500

“Still, the obvious point here is that you can’t communize a freeway. You can only destroy it. But so what? There is much we will need to learn to destroy. We will have to learn to do this well, to shut down the flows and pours of capital and labor. Those who oppose this action on the grounds of a theory of property or value miss the fact that property is not a thing; it’s not matter. It’s a social relation, a form of interaction between people that is mediated by objects and signs. By commodities and commands. The freeway is no less a part of this relation than a university building. At the most abstract level, ours is a world in which there are bodies and there are values. The freeway is an instrument for circulating the former according to the self-expanding imperative of the latter. Buildings have no intrinsic value beyond this circulation – beyond the inbox of bodies and the outbox of values. As such, we must learn to attack not only the immediate place of production but its apparatus of circulation as well. We must learn both to destroy and to emancipate. It’s true that we must create new spaces, new relations, but none of this will happen without a negation of the old. When we shut down, if only for a few hours, the forms of compelled circulation that condition our lives, when we circulate against these forms, running along the freeway with banners and medic kits and black flags, with cheers and megaphones, cries of amazement and fear, we are a little part of the future, a future where all the obstacles to flow have been removed and all the flows have been blocked. I felt that. But yes, shutting stuff down is only one part of it.”

- Reflections on the I-980/I-880 Takeover [via]