This is less of an explainer about me and more of me suggesting the best approach to what I’ve written. As I’ve gotten older and with my various issues, I’ve realized how much of a struggle reading was not by the reading itself, but by not having a prior context or frame of reference for understanding something. I don’t fuck with the Invisible Committee or Tiqqun, but to use an example here, as I read their works, they referred to Antonio Negri, who I also don’t fuck with (a typical Marxist a few decades late to coming to the same conclusions as anarchists, although I do appreciate his imagery and some word choices), and I hadn’t read Negri, so did not understand the totality of what they’re saying.
Most of my writings are in-references, if I do reference something I do try to explicitly source it such as the Red Sunshine Gang’s Anti-mass (1970). I will most likely miss some things because my brain does not function that way and I get sloppy. That said, what I can do is offer the order in which may be best to read my writings. You can read any alone, but some you may appreciate more if you’ve read another prior because the writing itself is not posted in the order it was written. Against the Sisyphean Mass, for example, I’d say was my first writing of this year, but it’s the fourth post on this site.
Thank you for sparing your time to read me.
I guess to also summarize me: I am a former union organizer whose an informal organizer that happens to be in a lot of formal spaces, particularly anti-imperialist and anti-colonial spaces. I’ve always had a critique of these spaces, but the current political situation has exacerbated my anger associated with these critiques and the failure of radicals within the so-called US. The main influences on my writings are authors on insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-civ, and anti-mass organizing. My biggest concern is simply that these writings have the respect of those I respect. Unfortunately, these writings frequently emerge from me engaging with legalitarians rather than my peers and sometimes the word choices reflect that. I ask for some grace in that regards.
Order of Readings: