Hello from Inhabit. We’re hard at work on some new stuff for you. In the meantime, here’s a few links from around the web—what inspires us, what sharpens our thoughts, what gives us the determination to fight. We’ll see you again in a couple weeks.
“What does it mean to create a territory and what does it mean to defend one?” Kristin Ross on communal luxury and anti-development struggles via the latest Partisan Gardens.
“That is the hope that underlines the reality of native apocalypse: you lived through it, so you know how to pull together as an indigenous community through any kind of crisis.” Grace Dillon & Pedro Neves Marques on indigenous futurisms.
“In rendering one invisible to an algorithm, dazzle makeup renders one hyper-visible to a cop.” Os Keyes on the fad of anti-surveillance makeup.
“The authorities' control over communications infrastructure determines what is possible in a situation where the future is really up for grabs.” Ella Fassler on the radical ethos of meshnets.
“Rumors reveal what’s truly dangerous to the present order.” Tim Bruno on rumors during the George Floyd Rebellion.
“The question of how we fight is intimately connected with the question of how we live.” Anonymous on the end of #StopLine3.
“The notion of wilderness is one such category that has arisen from the Enlightenment and imperial processes.” Fletcher, Hamilton, Dressler, & Palmer on the concept of wilderness.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Facebook-branded set of VR goggles strapped to an emaciated human face forever.” Matthew Gault on Silicon Valley’s play for virtual reality.
“Young people, pending a vision of a different society, are developing different kinds of collective and communal practices.” Max Haiven on the emerging radical imagination.
“COVID-19 has heightened the atmosphere of rage, suspicion, and hostility that prevailed in the Trump era.” Geoff Shullenberger on Benjamin Bratton’s positive biopolitics.
“What will it take to escape the humanist nightmare of civilization?” Anonymous on green tech and desert ecology.
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