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Anarchy Bang Episode 47 – Holidays

Season of extreme earache torture carries on!

We are looking at Philip K. Dick’s “Piper in the Woods” and “The Erotic Life of Stones” by our friends Søren & Dominique, from Black Seed #5. My ear is all fucked up. That is all.

Sorry for the last minute post this week! We’ll give John Moore’s “Anarchy & Ecstasy” a read tomorrow. ‘Til then.

Okay, this one will be a bit long, but hopefully worthwhile. Next week we’ll read Nicola Masciandaro’s “Secret: No Light Has Ever Seen the Black Universe” and the text it is based on, François Laruelle’s “On the Black Universe”, both from Dark Nights of the Universe. All together these comprise about 40 pages, so give yourself time and come enjoy it with us on Tuesday!

This week we’ll forgo a reading in order to reflect on this weekend’s BASTARD Conference. Once we’ve said all we can say about the event, we’ll play a few impromptu surrealist games. If you weren’t able to join us on Saturday, you should still drop in, as you can experience the substance of several of the talks in our looking-back, as well as creating some weird stories, poems, and art together. Readings pick back up next week. Sorry for the late post; helluva weekend for many of us!

More from that beloved megalomaniac, Pierre Klossowski next week. His essay “Living Currency” (pp. 45-77) gets the reckoning. Toodle-oo!

The 2022 BASTARD Conference will take place this Saturday, November 19, from 11am-8pm at The Long Haul Infoshop (3124 Shattuck Ave in Berkeley, CA). For the twentieth year, we will convene for an afternoon of presentations and discussions about anarchy and anarchism, by anarchists. Our theme this year will be “Headless Action”. Join us for a day of convivial exchanges about the beautiful idea!

Next week, a pair of infanticidal texts: Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Pre-Persons” paired against Mallory Wuornos’ “Eleven Ways to Kill a Child” from Black Seed #6. See you Tuesday!

On Tuesday, we’ll look at a piece on race and identity from Flower Bomb: Destroy Race, Destroy Society. It’s laid out in imposed format though, so be careful to look at the page numbers when reading. Hope to see you then.

Pressing on with Anarcho-Blackness, as we read the next two chapters “Unpropertied” and “Uncouth”. See you Tuesday for those!

Next time, we’ll discuss Chapters 1 & 2 (“Unblack” and “Ungovernable”) of Marquis Bey’s Anarcho-Blackness – Notes Toward a Black Anarchism. See you Tuesday for that!