ESSAYS: MONTH #145
"getting the intuition that the divide in approaches in the later development of anarchism going either to more stern social ecology to a more burlesque carnival modality can be actually seen as one and the same and that the creation of a temporary autonomous zone like the ark within the ship can in fact lead to an ecology and that the very utilization of a zone or better a structure is the premises for it to develop in a nuclear reaction fashion that can take over with its energy the ship and turn it into an island where social ecology can in fact be born and thrive”"
ESSAYS: MONTH #146
"coming to see in the end all artists as those individuals who in the history of power-structures have unawaredly reenacted the tasks of the people living in stateless societies taking care of the humanness and nature and now thinking of arkists as doing pretty much the same but with awareness and with in mind the idea at one point to get together and come to constitute a full alternative to the system pursuing as much as possible the nurturing of their locality and individuality so as to counter-affect their clerk neighbours and reach other arkists establish the net that could tip the balance and the ship overall"
ESSAYS: MONTH #147
"concluding that the second wave of anarchism as advocated by the many american activists was based on a return to pre-history and concluding that the modality humans adopted in pre-history was mainly based not so much on hunting but on gathering and making a point that this is really where a return to gathering can begin by breaking all the unnecessary ties to the system and return to gathering with the idea of stowing the lifeboat which will enable humans to get back to the nature the ship-state has separated themselves from"
ESSAYS: MONTH #148
"making a first comparison between pierre clastres’ idea of indigenous societies as consciously keeping away from more authoritarian societies and people on board of the ship-state who cannot take a distance from it but can take the step to become arkist and begin to conceive lifeboats to either prepare to get off of them or prepare for the actual ship to sink in this respect not finding the lifeboat as environmental in their construction but more in their drive to be part of the environment and want to break with the ship that keep humans away from it claiming then that the lifeboat at least comes to symbolize the culture for this independence that if developed the ship might not in the long run be able to maintain within itself and will have to spit out”
ESSAYS: MONTH #149
"beginning by addressing hakim bey’s motto of going back to and not in the paleolithic and exemplifying how arkists do so in the very difficult circumstances of being cut out from the natural world and relegated to a totally artificially and highly regimented ship-state discussing how even then humans can act as hunter-gatherers and by doing so they can recover their consciousness and this consciousness alone could bring a change or a return to a paleolithic that is not literal but can be thought of as a room for experiments enabling in the meantime nature to heal herself”
ESSAYS: MONTH #150
"relating once more to hakim bey’s temporary autonomous zones and adding to it the fact that cracks in the system are not only opportunity to sing life but also to make songs or at least get an inspiration for them in this respect coming to think of poets as the sublime version of hunter-gatherers in opposition to party-goers whom in their party-going only enforce the system and make them more compliant with it rather than consciously celebrating an autonomy of being under the unpredictable but generous chances of nature in a more pagan manner”
ESSAYS: MONTH #151
"asking whether arks are just but compulsive collections and clearly seeing that they are not oriented towards profit but themselves come to constitute ecologies that the specialized clerk-minded crew on board of the ship cannot get so much of unless they do become hunter-gatherers like the very arkists using their imagination to see nourishment from the raw life stowed on the ark rather than been more and more dependent by the too processed food and culture the ship delivers them”
ESSAYS: MONTH #152
"coming to consider the many dependencies that have conditioned humans and have turned them all indiscriminately into slaves of the system seeing how this system removes the shell from each individual so as to make him or her at the service of its shell and conceiving arkism as way of making the ark as the actual hard shell needed as a step towards independence to begging with of the mind”
ESSAYS: MONTH #153
"inspired by lewis mumford reasoning further on what level could a pursuing of artistic inclination lead to a more communal type of living and seeing how every artist following the official path is pretty much encapsulated by the ship in an isolated institution that almost makes sure that any natural talent does not compromise its mechanics and to this end thinking of arkists as those rejecting to follow such a path and instead use their arks as umbrellas where to recover nature that is by definition the anti-state and where the human progress in democratic technologies can be recovered in the face of the strictly utilitarian technology of the ship keeping society away from nature"
ESSAYS: MONTH #154
"reiterating the argument that the ship has a conservative stern and a progressive bow and that there seems to be no other alternative but that of just be indifferent to it but rather than seeing what death nature will die of under the yoke of the ship thinking as a fourth alternative that of restoring a society without any power governing it and in this sense finding it useful to point out that the west that has been so much incriminated for spreading the destructive big industry to the world was in fact partly characterized by free communities with small but very functional workshops were life was considerably better as much the relation between humans and their local environment suggesting that from here there could be a restart which arkists can encapsulate and try out in the making of their arks given that the ship will not want to give in as yet"
ESSAYS: MONTH #155
"dwelling some more with the fact that there is really no common sense left on the ship and that arks are necessary like vases where people can temporarily put their roots and gain a perspective also mentioning that otherwise the only way to overcome the disillusion that living in a power-structure entails is to be destructive either towards others or oneself offering here arkism as the way to instead be constructive and in that also come to conceive and prepare for a new society off the ship without any details planning but just a well trained adherence to nature that is the key for harmony"
ESSAYS: MONTH #156
"getting the intuition that the kroptkin ideal of collaboration has to be extended to not only the human to human relation but especially to the human to nature relation seeing not humans has harmful to her but the very ship and its power structure suggesting in fact that rehabilitating the collaboration with nature or what there is of it on board of the ship humans can in fact become catalysts who can actually elevate life transcending the division of life that the ship actuates with its division of life in institutional organs meant only to keep itself alive and empowered"
ESSAYS: MONTH #157
"Distinguishing the sciences that deal with the past that can convince people that they were better off without any power structure monitoring them and the sciences dealing with the present which only conclude that there is a need for more authority and in this respect highlighting the role of the arkist individuals who compile their own history to get off the history ruling classes have their scholars to rewrite so as to seal their power almost as if these personal histories are like the scripts for a giant feast of life in which everyone will get together with their ark-chariots and sanction the beginning of a new society back in nature"
ESSAYS: MONTH #158
"thinking on how power has completely turned upside down the relationship humans used to have with nature now diverting the roots of humanity to its center and also seeing that this process has been carried forward especially after the scientific revolution on all other beings who are by now forced to always relate to power no matter how much ground it gives to them considering in the end only to viable movements and that are on one hand that of aspiring for power and on the other that of aiming to go back to nature in the realization that power is just a small period in the history of humanity and this period can be just a nightmare one has to awake from"
ESSAYS: MONTH #159
"considering how being violent towards authorities can only be effective where authorities are not formed like in indigenous tribes while on the ship where authority is omnipresent considering that the only form of direct action is that of committing oneself to the building of lifeboats and the actual development of ecologies within"
ESSAYS: MONTH #160
"coming up with the concept that arkists are not merely individualists who just seek to be free from any of the artificial limits imposed by the ship-establishment but they take the freedom of not complying with such an establishment because it would otherwise force them into a robot-like specialization and it would deprive them to develop the many talents they have latent within like the petals of a blossom in flower the ship establishment wants close but it can blossom within the temporary shelter of the lifeboat"
ESSAYS: MONTH #161
"pondering on a third alternative once the idea of improving the ship becomes baseless and once also all the romantic but not concrete idea of rewinding to the wild is also disregarded ultimately thinking of arkism as the individual driven transition from vertical technology to horizontal ones enabling people to relate directly to nature rather than to power and in this direct relation re-establishing the roots for an ecological living"
ESSAYS: MONTH #162
"reiterating the fact that anyone can turn into an hunter-gatherer no matter how civilized the environment around him or her is and if the ship-state represents the culmination of this civilization still there are great possibilities to pick up a hunter-gatherer way of life that is not focused in sustaining oneself but in hunting and gathering for the sake of mindfulness with the necessity of an environment or an anti-environment to relate to that becomes the ark and even making use rather than rejecting the very tools and material deployed by the ship in this respect refusing its relation to power and diverting this relation back to a straightforward relation to nature"
ESSAYS: MONTH #163
"commenting on the most liberal forms of individualism one could conceive on the ship using all sort of substances to get high but in reality in the end only doing so as a way to tolerate the misery of the system and the unnatural bureaucratic tasks it allocates making folk even more dependent to it rather than really rising as a counter force able to challenge centralization and seeing in the more constant connection with nature that arkists like hunter-gatherers to a more effective way to really boost natural ecologies within the highly gentrified and inorganic and lifeless ship"
ESSAYS: MONTH #164
"getting the intuition that human history on the planet should be reconsidered simply in three phases with one being that preceding the advent of power and than with one characterized by power culminating eventually in what all human on earth are currently experiencing being cut from their connection with nature in order to serve power eventually leading to the third age in which people like arkists attempt to cut their relationships with power to reconnect to nature having to however undergo a proceed of transition which is actually symbolized by the lifeboat and the very making that is in a way equivalent to the employment of technologies which eventually lead to power now needing to practice technologies getting away from it"
ESSAYS: MONTH #165
"pretty much declaring that it is unavoidable that the ship-state will turn into a spaceship and that there is no genius in discovering that everything is relative but that it is in the nature of nature being captive within the ship-paradigm to turn all the natural categories into relative while in fact enforcing the new and very artificial order that the spaceship requires with its hierarchies and credits finally saying that only arkists in their attempt to prepare lifeboats to leave the spaceship to get back to nature are recovering their sense of orientation creating a counter energy to the departing specaship and its certain self-destruction"
ESSAYS: MONTH #166
"acknowledging that no matter what individuals who attempt to manifest their full nature will neve be able to do so because in one way or another they are going to be either oppressed in such an attempt an that arkists’ lifeboats are necessary especially for this to enable individuals to learn to switch their focus away from power and back to nature incubating nature to such a degree that as the ship crumbles arks can release their content and merge together with that of other arks reconquering with life the wastelands the ship is leaving behind"
ESSAYS: MONTH #167
"while acknowledging that the whole idea of the techo-industrial system as a ship came from kaczynski claiming that arkists have no other way to go but mastering technology for the sake of creating the framework in which to develop their eco-systems away from the control of the ship framework and its centralizing-power in this sense considering arkists as slaves of their own will in this commitment liberating not only themselves and humanity but also possibly the planet from the suffocating ship dominance which whether leftist or rightist will ultimately face a titanic-like shipwreck"
ESSAYS: MONTH #168
"arguing further that if the system is a spaceship and those who are most successful in it are those who mostly conform to it arkists are those who conform the least because they see how detrimental the spaceship is for a humanity separated from nature and from a nature fully exploited by the spaceship until nothing of it is left and new planets and resources will be sought thinking then of arkists as not only those who are active in preparing the anit-ship to return to planet earth but also as those who are able to retain a warm human-heart making the effort to do so and not just becoming effortless in acepting their destiny in the rather automated system of the spaceship"
ESSAYS: MONTH #169
"coming to the conclusion that yet the ship and the crew within and the nature around is becoming increasingly fragile and that there is a concrete risk of the worldly power holding up the ship becoming religious like the cadaver of an old aristocrat seeking for redemption"
ESSAYS: MONTH #170
"disclosing a propaganda of agitation of the ship so as to keep its capitalist system at work and presenting more concretely the alternative of an open constellation of communities seeking for the durable good of their societies"
ESSAYS: MONTH #171
"still basing myself on mumford and his analyses on how devastating the industry depending on non renewable resources has been in the past and how this old industry has been just simply moved out of the sight of the first class ship citizens but is still present along with a new industry exploiting the peoples very nature now considering how arkists ought to prepare themselves so as to think of an automation-free industry for their libertarian communities
ESSAYS: MONTH #172
"considering the concrete possibility of scaling down the industry by removing the element of automation which in the past centuries have cause the misery of people and disclosing the fact that because of this big industry people had to learn to be disciplined and the nation-state was to some degree born to put in place this necessity also pointing out how the situation have not really improved given that the industrial process is just more hidden and relegated in third world countries"
ESSAYS: MONTH #173
"comparing the crew with arkists saying that yes all skills are accessible to anyone but the crew members have limited time and space to develop and only setting up a lifeboat to escape the ship one can really begin to conceive an understanding on how to deal and be part of an ecology taking care of it with love rather than for profit also once again pointing the finger at all the official moralism on board of first class ship so worry about equality within it rather than looking at the great unjust its industry has created having millions of workers enslaved in factories in third world countries"
ESSAYS: MONTH #174
"still applying a rather mumfordian reading of the industry and how it upset a more ecological order becoming intrinsically bigger and coming to constitute a large global set up with its ruling classes and part of the world population dedicated to the administration of this set up and part enslaved to actually make it run with all getting invalid of their human faculties in their own way"
ESSAYS: MONTH #175
"taking in more careful analysis the fact that no society with the current centralized and centralizing big industry can become anarchic also due to the fact that the products this industry produces require much regulation from above and that only rethinking the industry as smaller in scale and more focused on products that require the effort of humans rather than substituting it the anarchist society can be envisioned"
ESSAYS: MONTH #176
"positioning arkism in the discussion between anarchists advocating for neolithic societies as their role model and anarchists advocating for more paleolithic societies claiming for an in between approach not getting rid of technology or the industry more maintaining the big industry in a syndicalist fashion but preparing for a light weight industry where human powered tools are produced for the sake of a more durable and smaller scale society and underlining how without this preparation the transition to it can be most miserable once the corporate ship state collapses"
ESSAYS: MONTH #177
"discussing the implications of the ship wanting to turn more sustainable but in this way turning more sophisticated and disabling its crew from a more healthy return to nature talking how necessarily arkists ought to renounce to power and move out to the periphery of the ship to build their lifeboats already by so doing configuring an archipelago of future anarchists and ecological communities"
ESSAYS: MONTH #178
"addressing the fact that the industry is the result of nation-states wanting to put up their armies and put up their predatory campaigns but also acknowledging that there could be counter-industries that diffuse power rather than concentrate it and that spark local identities and micro-cultures and ecosystems as much as those that arkists are commited to create in fabrication their ark lifeboats in this sense promoting an industry for life in opposition to the industry of death of the ship nation-states"
ESSAYS: MONTH #179
"finding rather trivial to discuss what technologies should or should not be kept in a society of the future since it is really in the intention that can spark within each individual that this society can be determined and already in the attempt to constitute one's own autonomy from the system an individual is becoming both at the same time a primitists and a futurists hunter-gathering but also hyper skilled in a multiplicity of craftsmanship so the fact that there is a ship to counterbalance with a lifeboat already shape and prepare the alternative future without the need for a grand plan or a puritan approach in wanting a total return to hunter-gathering"
ESSAYS: MONTH #180
"reacting on kaczynski's revolutionary thoughts displayed in his letters and realizing that arkists go beyond a mere revolutionary group that is highly rational but that the commit to the building of lifeboats to make it off the ship that is keeping all of humanity in captivity and that is on the other hand depleting the environment in order to sustain itself considering the better than only be rational revolutionaries wanting to go back to a paleolithic modality the building of arks is in itself a transition leading arkists to this modality but in fact practicing autonomy rather than only preach about it"