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Ewuare X. Osayande: Jesus & the Money Changers: Rioting Against the Economic Crisis 2/2 [05 Jan 2010|06:50pm] Click to Play Rioting Against the Economic Crisis As recorded in the Gospel of Mark 11:15-18, Jesus initiates a rebellion within the temple at Jerusalem in response to the corrupt and exploitative practices he witnessed there. A few days later he would be crucified. This riotous act of protest by the “Prince of Peace” has been a source of controversy within Christianity for centuries. Poet and political activist Ewuare X. Osayande will relate the story of Jesus’ temple rebellion to the current economic crisis and render a Black liberation theological critique of American Christianity. Originally published at Sasha.Miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Ewuare X. Osayande: Jesus & the Money Changers: Rioting Against the Economic Crisis 1/2 [24 Dec 2009|09:14pm] Click to Play Jesus & the Money Changers: Rioting Against the Economic Crisis As recorded in the Gospel of Mark 11:15-18, Jesus initiates a rebellion within the temple at Jerusalem in response to the corrupt and exploitative practices he witnessed there. A few days later he would be crucified. This riotous act of protest by the ?Prince of Peace? has been a source of controversy within Christianity for centuries. Poet and political activist Ewuare X. Osayande will relate the story of Jesus? temple rebellion to the current economic crisis and render a Black liberation theological critique of American Christianity. Originally published at Sasha.Miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Layla AbdelRahim: A Lullaby for the Planet 2/2 [20 Dec 2009|07:40pm] The current civilized and globalized model of parenting stems from the model of civilization and its methods of domestication. As Pavlov, the famous Russian animal “psychologist” observed, if you deny dogs access to food, you can train them to do anything you like by promising to give them a little bit. Of course, Pavlov was no revolutionary, for, civilization has been using these dressage methods from the beginning of “totalitarian agriculture”, where in order for it to work, food, forests, land, and water had to be taken away from living beings and their ability to know the world had to be stomped out; i.e. they had to be alienated from their own pain, from the pain of their children and from the suffering of the world and those who couldn’t adapt or be “educated” were exterminated. Today, daycare and school begin this dressing as early as at one month of age and drum it in continuously throughout our lives. Regaining our ability to feel and to empathize with what the others feel is vital for the process of unschooling or undressing ourselves in order to gain the knowledge of what and how the world endures so as to transmit to future generations this ability to know how the other feels so that the world and our children may live. Originally published at Sasha.Miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Layla AbdelRahim: A Lullaby for the Planet 1/2 [20 Dec 2009|07:39pm] filmed at JesusRadicals Conference, Memphis, Tennessee on 15 Aug ‘09 The current civilized and globalized model of parenting stems from the model of civilization and its methods of domestication. As Pavlov, the famous Russian animal “psychologist” observed, if you deny dogs access to food, you can train them to do anything you like by promising to give them a little bit. Of course, Pavlov was no revolutionary, for, civilization has been using these dressage methods from the beginning of “totalitarian agriculture”, where in order for it to work, food, forests, land, and water had to be taken away from living beings and their ability to know the world had to be stomped out; i.e. they had to be alienated from their own pain, from the pain of their children and from the suffering of the world and those who couldn’t adapt or be “educated” were exterminated. Today, daycare and school begin this dressing as early as at one month of age and drum it in continuously throughout our lives. Regaining our ability to feel and to empathize with what the others feel is vital for the process of unschooling or undressing ourselves in order to gain the knowledge of what and how the world endures so as to transmit to future generations this ability to know how the other feels so that the world and our children may live Originally published at Sasha.Miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

John Zerzan: Anarcho-Primitivism versus a Darkening Reality 2/2 [20 Dec 2009|07:05pm] John Zerzan is an anarchist and philosopher whose critique of civilization and call for a non-domesticated form of life has been described as “primitivist”. Zerzan has analyzed agricultural and industrial society in detail and has drawn on anthropological research on prehistoric and other “primitive” societies in describing egalitarian and non-alienated ways of communal life. Zerzan has contributed to anarchist theory for decades, especially on topics of ecology, anti-technology, post-leftism and postmodernity. He is the author of several books, including Against Civilization, Running On Emptiness and Twilight of the Machines. He has also served as editor of Green Anarchy: A Journal of Anti-Civilization Theory and Practice since 2001. Originally published at Sasha.Miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

John Zerzan: Anarcho-Primitivism versus a Darkening Reality 1/2 [20 Dec 2009|07:04pm] John Zerzan is an anarchist and philosopher whose critique of civilization and call for a non-domesticated form of life has been described as “primitivist”. Zerzan has analyzed agricultural and industrial society in detail and has drawn on anthropological research on prehistoric and other “primitive” societies in describing egalitarian and non-alienated ways of communal life. Zerzan has contributed to anarchist theory for decades, especially on topics of ecology, anti-technology, post-leftism and postmodernity. He is the author of several books, including Against Civilization, Running On Emptiness and Twilight of the Machines. He has also served as editor of Green Anarchy: A Journal of Anti-Civilization Theory and Practice since 2001. Originally published at Sasha.Miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 11 [17 Nov 2009|01:10pm] Welcome Bikers text by Layla photos by Layla and Sasha Our visit to Digby Neck coincided with the Event of the Year: Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 10 [17 Nov 2009|01:08pm] Wednesday morning, we started for the Bay of Fundy. At the tourist office in Horton’s Landing, we met our first black person in the Maritimes. She confirmed that, indeed, she was a rare specimen in this part of Canada. “Let’s say that the social situation does not inspire people of colour to come and settle here. I’m born here, but I still don’t feel much at home or too welcome”. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 9 [15 Nov 2009|08:22pm] Halifax Monday, 31st August – Wednesday, 2nd September. Cities are known for signs. John Zerzan traces the fall of the primitive into civilisation to the beginnings of language, symbolic thought, and technology leading led to hierarchy, violence, and domestication. Walter Ong and Jack Goody presented research that linked literacy to the need to systematise oppression and hierarchy around which time cities came into being. My observation is that signs and symbols are linked to ads and billboards proposing to link people through the information of exchange but whose presence signals the fact that these people lack a presence in togetherness. For, if they were together, why would they need signs, billboards and ads? Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 8 [15 Nov 2009|04:37pm] All Roads Lead to Cape Breton. Monday the 31st brought some improvisations to our plans. After all, we went to Antigonish. Leaving the Arisaig Cliffs behind, we passed by remnants of small scale lobster trappings that, by now, have mostly been replaced by large ocean vessels and companies. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 7 [14 Nov 2009|06:00pm] Leaving Pictou, we headed north west to Caribou Provincial Park, named so after the Woodland Caribou was hunted to extinction by the European settlers in 19th century. Naming and murder are intricately connected in civilisation: as Tawd explained to Ljuba, when we arrived in Memphis and were looking for Poplar Avenue, that it was the same as with Cedar Lane or Pine Heights, or other places named after trees, because all the poplars, cedars and pine have been cut down and their space has been occupied by plastic houses. The residents of these plastic boxes and naked spaces, I added, are highly dedicated to mowing grass and cutting down anything that might grow taller than 3 inches. Sadly, the caribou is facing the same fate elsewhere in Canada as well. Their abundance two centuries ago and extinction now confirms Petr Kropotkin’s study that species and individuals flourish through mutual aid and cooperation, whereas the capitalist notion of competition, private property, and the survival of the fittest introduced by European intrusion, annihilated most of the animate species and inanimate “resources” of the world. Along the road, I noticed a man indulging in a peculiar activity: he chose one tree and was trimming it into a rounded shape. How much time of his life must he spend on battling nature and its desire to grow out to reach the skies? Why does a round tree appeal to him or his master more than the magnificence of the widely spread majestic branches of an old tree that whispers of timeless existence to the wind? Finally, on day 7 of our trip, in Caribou Park, we see a bird: And, another bird: Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 6 [11 Nov 2009|10:54pm] Towards Cape Breton We left P.E.I. in the morning on Saturday, the 29th of August, spending the day on an isolated beach in New Brunswick. In the evening, we headed towards Nova Scotia, spent the night close to Tatamagouche planning to proceed along the coast to New Glasgow and down south to Halifax, but, tuning in to the spontaneity of the universe can take one in a different direction towards the most interesting encounters with the world. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 5 [01 Nov 2009|01:05am] PEI continued. Statues of armed soldiers guard most of the churches I’ve come across in the Maritimes. The northern shore was much colder, but the red earth just as stunning: Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 4 [01 Nov 2009|12:05am] Prince Edward Island, 26th- 29th August We splashed and swam in the shallow and warm waters of Northumberland Strait and in the evening of the 26th drove to Argyle Shore on Prince Edward Island. The sky was deep, the Strait shivered with violet waters, and Confederation bridge, like Jack’s beanstalk, vanished into the night. This picture is the day version of our experience: Source for photo: wiki Upon entry into PEI, the license plate was photographed just like they do at the border with the U.S. Probably to keep people away from stealing potatoes and pesticides. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 3 [31 Oct 2009|01:40pm] I’ll continue on the logical path from the last picture of the farmed and industrial landscape. What attracted the European settlers to the Maritimes at the beginning of colonisation in the 17th and 18th centuries, was the abundance of fur that the invaders could steal from the animals and of fish. Later, farming, mining and quarries were added to the list of exploited «resources» and today the region is highly contaminated with the aerial sprays of DDT and contemporary pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides as well as with the mining industry. Prior to European fisheries and farming, the maritime ecology was gushing with biodiversity. Many of the peoples who inhabited the land were the Abenaki, the Algonquin, the Attikamek, the Micmac, the Montagnais, the Nipissig, the Ojibway, and the Ottawa. Across tribes, they communicated in the Algonquin language and spoke a variety of other languages. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 2 [31 Oct 2009|12:00pm] First thing in the morning on the 25th, we left Campbellton and headed further east along the coast, past Miramichi and into Bouctouche. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Maritimes 2009 – part 1 [30 Oct 2009|11:30pm] August 24th — September 5th Text by Layla; photos by Layla, Ljuba, and Sasha Upon moving to Quebec in June 2000, we decided that before settling down in one place to first travel and see Eastern Canada. I longed for the serene horizons, gentle flowers, and abysmal waves of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Thus, on the 1st of September that year, we set off on an almost 3 months journey around Quebec planning to venture as far as the eastern provinces and possibly even visit the dreamlike Newfoundland. But it got too cold, too snowy, and too windy too soon; so, we focused on Ontario and Quebec and postponed our plan for, what turned out to be, 9 years. Finally, early morning of the 24th of August 2009, we headed east. View Maritimes 09 in a larger map We took Champlain Bridge off the island of Montreal and drove through the scattered suburbs of the Southern Shore, following route 20 past the city of Quebec to Sainte Flavie along the southern shore of St. Laurent river and Gaspesie driving through the Quebec landscape of suburbs, refineries, and the forever hazy grasslands. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at travel.miltsov.org. Please leave any comments there.

Зерзан в Москве [13 Jun 2009|04:58am] ;Если вы обитаете в Москве, очень рекомендую посетить: 14 июня в 12.00 в Центре современного искусства “Винзавод” состоится публичная лекция американского философа-неолуддита Джона Зерзана под названием «Примитивистский взгляд на углубляющийся кризис цивилизации». Джона Зерзана называют самым интересным мыслителем нашего времени: в своих работах Джон критикует цивилизацию, технический прогресс и символическую культуру. По его мнению, все современные общественные и властные институты должны быть уничтожены. Книги Зерзана стали теоретической базой для образования нового течения в анархизме - анархо-примитивизма. Издав несколько книг и журналов, Джон Зерзан стал настолько популярным, что на основе его интервью было снято несколько документальных фильмов, часть которых будет показана в рамках лекции. Вход свободный. Адрес: м. Курская, 4-й Сыромятнический переулок, дом 1, стр. 6, Бродильный цех (6ой корпус). В прошлом году он приезжал в Монреаль, о чем мы подробно рассказывали. И показывали. Share This Sasha.Miltsov.org | post comment

Beyond the Symbolic and towards the Collapse [25 Jun 2008|08:22am] Отснял, смонтировал и загрузил на ютуб все три видео конференций Дж. Зерзана в Монреале. Обитатели ютуба в восторге. Лейла написала подробное и чрезвычайно оригинальное вступление: John Zerzan is one of the most interesting contemporary thinkers in the United States, at least. Like everything else in life, in order to fully appreciate Zerzan’s contribution to epistemology or the philosophy of civilisation, first, one has to read his work and hear his conferences – for, here, I only present my personal interpretation of his theory – and second, consider the context through which his voice and energy resonate. His contribution becomes even more impressive in light of the processes of Western institutionalisation of Thought and commodification of Knowledge – a totalitarian context that tolerates no challenge (philosophical or otherwise) that would threaten “the American way of life… Все прелести по ссылке: http://layla.miltsov.org/introduction-to-z Если кто-то хочет сделать русские субтитры – поделюсь исходниками. Распространение приветствуется. Share This Sasha.Miltsov.org | post comment

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