Category Archives: anarchism

imminent rebellion #9 out now

The stock-standard announcement (I hope to start blogging a bit more soonish):
imminent rebellion #9 is fresh off the printer! (In fact we’re still high off the ink) Weighing in at a staggering 108 pages, imminent rebellion is making a come back after 3 years of hibernation as an irregular anarchist journal from deep in the [...]

On the Problem with ‘Lifestylism’

I’ve been having an ongoing discussion about the the distinction between ‘political’ action, and ‘personal’ or ‘lifestyle’ action with a friend of mine. Lifestylism is considered a political slur amongst anarchist circles, and is almost as bad as petit-bourgeois is considered in Marxist circles. However, I feel the debate around it is really quite ill-thought [...]

Dear Brothers in Anarchy…

Somehow a pair of right-wing libertarians, calling themselves “Brothers in Anarchy”, managed to get themselves a column in Victoria University’s student newspaper Salient. My response:
Dear “Brothers in Anarchy”,
By some feat of luck it appears you have managed to gain a regular column in Salient – I only wish you would make better use of it.
I [...]

Revelation Vertigo

From Fifth Estate… worth a read:
Revelation Vertigo
Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomy is both the goal sought after and that whose presence–virtual–let us say, has to be supposed at the outset of an analysis or a political movement. This virtual presence is the will to autonomy, the will to be free. – Cornelius Castoriadis
There exists a tendency, shared across [...]

ANZAC Day Must Be Opposed

ANZAC day should be opposed for at least two reasons. The first is the most obvious: rather than being a day to remember those who have died in various wars the New Zealand State has sent its soldiers to fight and kill in, rather than being a day to resolve “never again”, and far from [...]