Hey comrade ! great writing, and very useful to see your epic trag-optimo trajectories in a bite-size sub-tract ! Nevertheless, the XLterrestrials group still have a few bones and beefs to compassionately and respectfully and caringly pick about yur last EU tour + Berlin drop, b/c your approach has inspired and provoked us equally. From our perspective, your themes seemed to fit too dangerously well with the over-spiritualized churchy granola-praying types. And we couldnt let that vibe go unchallenged in one of our most notorious punk + subkultur districts still fighting against the gentrifried. As fascism is on the rise, especially in the United Snakes, it's not a good time to paint oneself into the corners of inaction. Even though there is Big and persuasive Non-Binary trending, it also tends to let alot of people off the hook. i..e. the Hyper-industrialized Global North's responsibilities and accountability. Especially in the United Snakes. And also in Academia land ! i..e "staying with the trouble" - Haraway, who never stood up for workers on strike nor sat-in with students on an occupied campus fighting against the invasive Corporatocracy nor Biotech Industries nor MIC nor imperialism. One of the tenured types who can sit comfortably on perpetual main stage sidelines and pontificate on highly speculative and evasive outsiderisms, instead of pronouncing clear demands and calling for bold actions and/or boycotts and/or demanding the situationist-impossibles ! In the words of the great lost left coast poet-militant Boots Riley : Don't Ride the Fence ! As fascism bears its true racist + krapitalist colors, it's not time to get stuck in the wishy washy cycles of not choosing some sides, when there are many obvious lines of solidarity that need to be held by committed bodies and orgs and civil disobedients, and maybe even uncivil disobedients ! Respex ! For inspiration, we used to play this alot on the indy media + pirate channels ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVIz5jyrQAU
Thank you, one again! Earlier today when I wrote my new year’s resolution list I included “read more from Andrew Boyd”…then this latest from you appeared in my inbox. Or rather, I conjured it and pulled it out of my “existential tickle-trunk” ;) So rich in tools and references. I’m looking forward to jumping off into some of those links. Grateful Canadian neighbour here :)
Wonderful Andrew, thanks, I especially like the tools at the end and the vent diagrams.
Hey comrade ! great writing, and very useful to see your epic trag-optimo trajectories in a bite-size sub-tract ! Nevertheless, the XLterrestrials group still have a few bones and beefs to compassionately and respectfully and caringly pick about yur last EU tour + Berlin drop, b/c your approach has inspired and provoked us equally. From our perspective, your themes seemed to fit too dangerously well with the over-spiritualized churchy granola-praying types. And we couldnt let that vibe go unchallenged in one of our most notorious punk + subkultur districts still fighting against the gentrifried. As fascism is on the rise, especially in the United Snakes, it's not a good time to paint oneself into the corners of inaction. Even though there is Big and persuasive Non-Binary trending, it also tends to let alot of people off the hook. i..e. the Hyper-industrialized Global North's responsibilities and accountability. Especially in the United Snakes. And also in Academia land ! i..e "staying with the trouble" - Haraway, who never stood up for workers on strike nor sat-in with students on an occupied campus fighting against the invasive Corporatocracy nor Biotech Industries nor MIC nor imperialism. One of the tenured types who can sit comfortably on perpetual main stage sidelines and pontificate on highly speculative and evasive outsiderisms, instead of pronouncing clear demands and calling for bold actions and/or boycotts and/or demanding the situationist-impossibles ! In the words of the great lost left coast poet-militant Boots Riley : Don't Ride the Fence ! As fascism bears its true racist + krapitalist colors, it's not time to get stuck in the wishy washy cycles of not choosing some sides, when there are many obvious lines of solidarity that need to be held by committed bodies and orgs and civil disobedients, and maybe even uncivil disobedients ! Respex ! For inspiration, we used to play this alot on the indy media + pirate channels ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVIz5jyrQAU
Thank you, one again! Earlier today when I wrote my new year’s resolution list I included “read more from Andrew Boyd”…then this latest from you appeared in my inbox. Or rather, I conjured it and pulled it out of my “existential tickle-trunk” ;) So rich in tools and references. I’m looking forward to jumping off into some of those links. Grateful Canadian neighbour here :)