Frames of Reference: Transhumanism, Markets, and Personhood
I originally wrote this essay in early June of 2018, when I was still with the C4SS. They first demanded a number of changes, and then eventually refused to publish it.
I later used parts of it — particularly from section three — in a later essay, that I did publish with them.
I am posting it now because I feel that it will be useful for my new, accelerationist, direction.
- Freedom is not an endless meeting
Anarchists do not generally join massive meeting-filled organizations. We form small affinity groups. A ‘large’ group might have around a dozen members. Anything larger than that ends up breaking into factions, or being infiltrated and busted by the police, or — at best — becoming an endless and alienating meeting-filled nightmare. Not only do we not do it for practical reasons, most of us do it for ideological reasons. Insurrectionism is hegemonic in North American anarchism, and so are it’s anti-organizational ideas.
Obviously, I am not against intellectualism, or against education. I am certainly not against writing, or against theory! What a hypocrite I would be. But I am against only reading, and never doing. I wrote an essay (partially) on that very subject.
In his essay The Utopia of Rules, or Why We Really Love Bureaucracy After All, David Graeber said:
…the experience of operating within a system of formalized rules and regulations, under…
