What distinguishes Wark’s theological critique is a focus on the current forces of production themselves, just as socialists did in originally articulating capitalism. For example, Bertrand Russel was famous for making such a comparison. Such a theological analysis of Marxist thinking is not new. Capitalism, even critiques of it, have become like theology, with an ahistorical and unchanging god central to all thinking. Wark argues that not only do we face a failure to articulate alternatives to capitalism, but we often fail to analyse the present outside of the frame of capital. McKenzie Wark finds herself engaged in an act of self-professed heresy within Capital is Dead. A near wholescale rejection of an intellectual tradition always upsets. Most of the time, individuals find themselves rejecting out of hand the initial message, but slowly over time they begin questioning and probing. It feels like a pressure washer to the brain. There is something quite refreshing about heretical writing. Rob & Bria are also homesteaders and we talk about their experience of being self reliant with food production and working with mutual aid networks like the Victory Gardens Project to their ongoing efforts to provide free food to comrades, friends and neighbors.Image credit via Gerd Leonhard, Creative Commons Fire Ant seeks to spread the words & work of anarchist prisoners, highlight their plights and help them get the material support they need.
Fire Ant is a collaboration between anarchist prisoners and anarchists in so called Maine.
In this episode of the Solecast I chat w Rob Cat of Fire Ant. To preview Micol’s book “Violence Work” you can check it out hereĪnd to learn more/register from the Destituent Power and The Undercommons conference you may do so here To explore social life that evades political constraints such as citizenship, sovereignty, and governance, we seek to build upon the work of Fred Moten, Stefano Harney and Giorgio Agamben. Reveling in the fields that ground their work, the Black radical tradition and Italian Autonomia, this forum seeks to collect and share what we’ve learned from the practices and forms of life that are already breaking free of politics. On November 13th-16th, then, Indiana University’s 2020 Critical Ethnic Studies symposium brings into dialogue two zones of contemporary insurgent study: the undercommons and destituent power. We also talk about the free-to-all virtual conference they are hosting the weekend of 11/13-11/16: After a year of unimaginable suffering and resistance, the ideas of Destitution and under commons provide us critical tools for building the capacity we need to weather the storm(s) that we find ourselves in. This conversation is meant as a primer for the the concepts of destituent power and the under commons. In this episode of the Solecast I speak with author and Indiana University professor, Micol Seigel.
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