Maps Are for Sissies!
Apr 3 2007
Anarchy Without Roadmaps or Adjectives
by Aragorn!
Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
#63/Spring-Summer 2007
Most tendencies within anarchist circles have a narrow conception of what exactly makes an anarchist, what an anarchist project is, and what the transformation to an anarchist world will look like. Whether Green or Red, Communist or Individualist, Activist or Critical, Anarchists spend as much time defending their own speculative positions on these complicated issues as they do learning what others have to offer—especially other anarchists.
Apr 3 2007
#2
jimmer wrote:
I love maps.
Cartography is oppression!
International borders are just lines on a map--thus maps and lines are bad!
Apr 3 2007
#3
Who needs a map if you're just driving in circles?
Apr 3 2007
#4
"Lost" is just a state of mind. Wherever you go, there you are!
Apr 3 2007
#5
You see, I don't like to think of myself as sectarian, and I'm probably less hardline on some things than many posters here, but when I see stuff like this I just despair.
I really fucking hate post-left anarchists.
Quote:
Many other anarchists believe that the time for Programs is over.
This reminded me of a cartoon I saw somewhere of a meeting, with a speaker declaring 'the time for action has passed! Now is the time for pointless bickering!'
Or indeed the sticker on the recent No Means No compilation - 'Talk - Action = a good dinner party'
Apr 3 2007
#6
Actually, the fact that it's written by someone who calls themselves Aragorn tells you all you need to know.
Apr 3 2007
#7
You sectarian mapists are all the same.
Apr 3 2007
#8
A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off the Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off on the winds of the world. Without the smug cynicism that seems to permeate most modern radical tales, this story is told with genuine hope, and a voice that never loses its connection with the mysteries of life, even in the midst of everyday tragedies. Wandering across Europe, the dozens of vignettes are the details of the whole—a squatted castle surrounded by tourists on the Spanish coast, a philosophizing businessman on the highways of France, a plaça full of los crustos in Barcelona, a diseased foot in a Belgian train squat, a glow bug on the dew-covered grass of anywhere—a magical, novel-like folktale for the end of the world.
Apr 3 2007
#9
Who needs maps when your parents lexus has gps!
Apr 3 2007
#10
is there somewhere in the US breeding these idiots? Is it Eugene?
Apr 3 2007
#11
Apr 3 2007
#12
revol68 wrote:
is there somewhere in the US breeding these idiots? Is it Eugene?
Aragorn! said that SRB gave him bad vibes.
Apr 3 2007
#13
thugarchist wrote:
Aragorn! said that SRB gave him bad vibes.
I'd give him bad vibes.
In the arse.
Apr 3 2007
#14
first ones up the wall?
Apr 3 2007
#16
Purges now!
Apr 3 2007
#17
Quote:
Trolling/direct linking
Do not directly link to 'hostile' websites (leave gaps in the URL if you wish to refer to them or prefix the URL with http://anonym.to?). Anyone found posting up malicious links on other sites and/or trying to stir up 'board wars' will be banned. Persistently disruptive posters will be banned.
Quote:
Be civil!
The internet is not as far removed from real life as you'd like it to be. People are real, have real feelings and thoughts. Do not abuse people because of their ideas and beliefs for no reason. Be aware that not everyone has read as much Bakunin as you. Be nice to new posters and people developing their ideas. ANY KIND of oppressive, sexist, racist, unreasonable personal abuse, discrimination etc. is not allowed and threads will be removed and offenders banned. Please respect people's privacy and refrain from posting up personal details without their permission.
regards,
p.
Apr 3 2007
#18
How bout this one from Infoshop News.
Anarchism and parkour. 
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070402202641828
Apr 3 2007
#19
Moved from thought > libcommunity
Apr 3 2007
#20
This is an article from the highest circulation anarchist journal in the english speaking world!
Apr 3 2007
#21
Aragorn! is here in the Bay Area I believe.
Apr 3 2007
#22
i talked with an anarchoid that once claimed that dictionaries are authoritarian, and was especially appalled at the idea of making a definition for Anarchism.
Apr 4 2007
#23
Apr 4 2007
#24
they seem like they'd get on with this lot from london:
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/airportising
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Throw away your oyster card and hop off that tube train: Once again, I'll see you on the streets.
Yeaaaaah! 
"I want to go to Uxbridge"
"See you on Thursday"
Apr 4 2007
#25
Yeah, as hot, crowded and generally unpleasant as it is, I don't think some Londoners fully appreciate how nice it is to have a fully functioning public transport system.
Apr 4 2007
#26
The best thing is, most Londoners genuinely don't realised how much better the transport system is than almost everywhere else in the country.
Apr 4 2007
#27
Jack wrote:
The best thing is, most Londoners genuinely don't realised how much better the transport system is than almost everywhere else in the country.
Most Londoner's don't realise there is a 'anywhere else in the country'.
Apr 4 2007
#28
revol68 wrote:
Most Londoner's don't realise there is a 'anywhere else in the country'.
Apr 4 2007
#29
You know more people use the tube every day than the entire national rail network?
The problem with that article is not the author being ungrateful for the transport network, it's that they don't realise how fucking massive London is, and how lots of people have mobility and time issues, so they can't walk miles everywhere.
Apr 4 2007
#30
John. wrote:
You know more people use the tube every day than the entire national rail network?The problem with that article is not the author being ungrateful for the transport network, it's that they don't realise how fucking massive London is, and how lots of people have mobility and time issues, so they can't walk miles everywhere.
yeah London is fucking massive and involves far too much walking even to the bloody bus stops/tube stations, the transport system is still better than many british cities. Mind you Londoners also have to deal with the fact that they are rude, unfriendly pricks who push past each other on stairs in order to save a whole 2 mins on their journey. Londoners need to start drinking more Malibu and Lilt.
I love maps.