Originally published by Mute. Written by Shemon and Arturo. Image above: ‘Looting rampant’ in Philly.
Glass shatters. Thick plumes of dark black smoke pour out of a burning police car stalled in the middle of 52nd street. Another black man shot dead by the police. Another rebellion in defense of basic human dignity. ‘Sir, ...
black proletariat, blackness, capitalism, orginisation, Riot, struggle
It was the proletarian general strike of the ex-slaves that truly put the final nail in the coffin of slavery. It is precisely this lineage of an emancipatory, liberatory, but nonetheless violent, civil war that needs to be updated for its second coming.
—Idris Robinson, “How It Might Should Be ...
Report from Hard Crackers on the Kenosha uprising on the first several days of the uprising following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Originally published by Hard Crackers on September 7, 2020.
What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is.
Bright EyesThe night of the shooting, bands of ...
Gerardo Munoz: You say that Afropessimism as a method or critical intervention thematizes ...
It must be taken into consideration that Earth is an assemblage; in isolation it is in a continuous becoming-toward-death. It is only through a becoming-toward-knowledge in which an entering into unheard expressive territories unveils a tuning-bridge to the plane of duality comprehension. It is necessary that any body in attempt ...
Afrofuturism, blackness, glitch, mille plateaux, ultrablack of music
taken from Ill Will
Theses on the White Proletariat
taken from illwill editions
The following is a transcript of a talk delivered in Seattle on July 20, 2020, lightly-edited by the author for readability. A video recording produced by Red May is online here. * * * * *I want to begin with a shout-out to what happened ...
blackness, Georg Flyod riots, Governance, identity politics, revolution, Riot
taken from ill will editions
“The working class in every country lives its own life, makes its own experiences, seeking always to create forms and realize values which originate directly from its organic opposition to official society.”
—CLR James, Grace Lee Boggs, and Cornelius Castoriadis, “Facing Reality”
1. The George ...
blacklivesmatter, blackness, capitalism, class, georg floyd, racism, rebellion, Riot, struggle
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
The demonstrations this week in Minneapolis mark a historic watershed in the COVID-19 era. As we argued in March, there are some things that are worth risking death for. Perpetuating capitalism is not one of ...
And from here we move yet another step, to a third type of sound. As one of the NASA scientists notes, in order to have enough galaxies in the universe to produce this sound, ‘you’d have to pack them into the universe like sardines […] There wouldn’t be any space ...
blackness, Darkness, mille plateaux, sound of abyss, ultrablackness
Laruelle often talks about the black universe and that philosophy is not dark enough. But what is black? Is black a colour and if so, can we see it?
Reza Negarestani has provided a mix of theory and fiction in his book Cyclonopedia, where he portrays the earth as a ...
Clicks & Cuts
With Deleuze or Boulez we can speak of rhythm in terms of non-periodic clicked music. There is a transversal disjunction, which is articulated in the track intern and in relation to other tracks, and this achievs the transition of „Clicks and Cuts“. Transversality is originally a topological ...
blackness, clicks & cuts, dark glitch, non-future, non-music
