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I have been thinking about how knowledge is socially defined. The schemes through which we interpret our world are themselves built by the structures of our world. The separation between epistemology and the study of social systems is not real, even though they were often conceived as different fields. Specific social structures correlate to specific structures of our knowledge. Even our own feelings and our deepest intimacy are read and constructed by ourselves through socially mediated patterns of comprehension.

This social definition of our understanding also means that all knowledge must be framed in relation to a social system and is always geographically situated. Just imagine the most skillful programmer being transferred to our deepest countrysides where traditional agriculture is still a means for life, to a wooden boat in the middle of the sea, to one of the last remaining mountain settlements of an original tribe in Timor. What knowledge would this programmer have in their new environment? What comprehension of the social order? This also applies to the temporal dimension. What if they went to the Middle Ages?

Against these made-up scenarios, one may argue with more made-up situations. "Ok, but in our daily world there are less and less places that are isolated from our technological world, the programmer in the countriside could become a bridge between the local population and a global economy...". This, far from being a counter-argument, agrees with the social spaciallity of knowledge. The skills of the programmer would become knowledge only from the moment they are able to put them in relation to a social system.

Probably this is a reason why it is so hard to imagine a different world sometimes. This is capitalist realism. There is no nature (nor human nature) that is not socially mediated via our socially situated knowledge. That is also a reason why it is so important to create autonomous spaces here and know. Also a reason why reformist and authoritarian "blueprints" about how society should work will never be more than a fantasy. Any change in society will also change ourselves, if we want to change ourselves we will need to change our material context, by changing society we will also changing ourselves. If we want to prefigurate a new world, we must build these autonomous spaced inside of the old. Non-commodity economies based on solidarity and mutual aid, mutual care networks, pirate libraries and free spaces for sharing learning materials, re-framing the ways in which we relate to others in our daily life...

Nothing of what I said is new. Actually, I am of the oppinion that no one "says" anything new, we are just specific moments in a greater shared discourse. Classic anarchism had already talked much about how the "unavoidable authority of society" shapes us and how we shape others by the mere act of participating in social exchange. That's also a discussion on material liberty and positive freedom, in opposition to burgeoise conceptions of "negative freedom". Malatesta talked about how our individual bolitions are shaped by our material environments in his introductory text "At the Café".

Capitalist relations set what is knowledge and what is not, which interpretations of the world are valid and which are not. And, even when we create alt spaces where to "prefigurate" new relations to ourselves and our surroundings, these spaces would still be placed in a greater capitalist context. That is a limitation to the degree of autonomous organization that can be achieved inside of our spaces, and that's a paramount contradiction that we are forced to manage in our daily struggle. The inner organization of our spaces being limited by capital and contextualized into a capitalist economy, also our schemes of knowledge and the means by which we relate to ourselves and our world would also remain utterly rooted in relations of domination, hierarchy and authority.

This brings to the necessity of constantly destroying and re-creating our spaces and ourselves, in accordance to the urges of our time. I am skeptic of organizations that remain the same for decades without being rebuilt nor assuming inner transformations. For example, for most spaces, it is impossible to survive without accepting, at least circunstamcially, to use money to acquire materials and supplies. But these spaces and organizations should remain cautious in order not to internalize too much the rolle of money and conceiving it as essential. It is not, and that's how we beging reifying capitalist relations inside our very organizations. We must be conscious about how the ways in which we organize influence the ways in which we see and think. By transforming our material contexts, we will also transforming our understanding of the world.

I read some anarchonihilists online saying that also in an anarchist world would be revolutions. And that is true. It *needs* to be true. Anarchism is not a goal, but a means. Or better, it is a means that is also a goal, a process of perpetuate destruction of the old and re-construction of the new in accordance to ourselves. The world will never stop shaping us, but it is in our hands whether to be pasive objects or active subjects in this process.

#epistemology #organization #anarchism #AnarchistOrganizing #ideology #anarchonihilism #liberty #freedom #reification #authority #antiauthority

In the next minute and a 1/2 supervisor Meero doesn't exactly quote #Bakunin but the wink is hard to miss ("Systems either change or die"), then we get shown how right authoritarians ("I'm right? [...]") actually welcome and celebrate " the market place of ideas"

The 3rd "theory" doesn't get named, (or perhaps it does with " "Watch your back" ....") tbh it doesn't need to be, that's the running theme of the series and that's the point that the next three episodes are bringing home: #BlessedIsTheFlame #AnarchoNihilism

In that regard the quasi-quotes would be too many to number so let me just drop a link:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/serafinski-blessed-is-the-flame

Edits: Plenty

In the next minute and a 1/2 supervisor Meero doesn't exactly quote #Bakunin but the wink is hard to miss ("Systems either change or die"), then we get shown how right authoritarians ("I'm right?") actually welcome and celebrate
" #Agorism "

The 3rd "theory" doesn't get named, (or perhaps it does "Watch your back") tbh it doesn't need to be that's the running theme and that's the point that the next three episodes are bring home: #BlessedIsTheFlame #AnarchoNihilism

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/serafinski-blessed-is-the-flame

I reread blessed is the flame yesterday (I know rereading sounds pretentious, I can't remember who stated it's the bourgeoisie never reads they always re ready and the re: I te important part in that statement)

Still, words are a mess an when able I like to precise, I re-read blessed is the flame yesterday, this was prompted by the current discourse which I believe was triggered by #Andor (at least I hope that is the reason because otherwise I need some other explanation as to why I these days wake up with nemkins voice reading quotes featured in there book)

I don't have much to say on the subject, save for the fact that I was surprised by how deeply this reading affected me, I can recall the first reading, it hit close to home, for a myriad of teasonsy some of them personal that I won't get into today
Anyways this time it hit differently. I do understand why, and this would be an interesting subject for another post. But that ain't what this about.

It just triggered me to share a bit more about my journey and political awakening, so fair warning this won't be too long but we are going into autobiographic territory.

I was raised by self professed anarchists, surrounded by ancoms and the odd socdems or tankies. My parents anarchism was more of a posture than it was an ethical imperative. My father was abuse, mysoginistic, ageist and ableist (and a de facto spicy statist socdem) as you might or might not imagine, being raised in a context where charisma (masking) and wordsmithing were the only metric made me quite wary of political discourse. (Which is simultaneously the reason why I feel the need to post this toot, and the reason why I usually have no interest in theory)

Without spending too much digital ink on the subject, let's just say that deconstructing the abuse I was subjected in these settings is something I still struggle with in a lot of ways.

The last paragraphs are just here for context (if you are French speaking I wrote a whole novel on the subject, hit me up and I'll send you a PDF)

I guess what I wanted to say is that when re-reading blessed is the flame, I realized that while in the last (almost 30 years) I identified as an ancom, an anarchist-syndicalist, a mutualist, an Anarchafeminist (and all along the way an instructionist) my life has been defined by praxis which only makes sense in the context of anarcho-nihilism, I always refuted this denomination, mainly because my self professed anarchist *actually* authoritarian father only had a superficial reading of the concept,l, rejected it and passed said taboo to me..

So once again from the top: an #Introduction: I'm an Anarchist, I always have been but there is no pride to be taken from that's just a generational mess that might require a different framework to untangle. More importantly, whatever my discourse may be, my politics (read Praxis) as (and always did -even before I came across the literature ) more to do with Anarcho-Nihilism han anything else.

(Please forgive the typos, more importantly sorry if you expected some salient point or analysis, this was never about that, I'm just thankful for people sharing their journey and I felt like giving back.)

#BlessedIsTheFlame #AnarchoNihilism #Anarchism #BookClub #Introduction #Andor #Discourse #NothingNewUnderTheSun

(Felt safe might delete/edit later)

„osoby w mundurach są gorące”

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