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There is a reason we call each other "comrades" and not "friends" on the Memefest network.

Here a new book From Jodi Dean: Comrade
An Essay on Political Belonging

When people say “comrade”, they change the world

In the twentieth-century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as “comrade”. Now, it’s more common to hear talk of “allies” on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relation of political belonging that must be built, sustained, and defended.

In Comrade, Dean offers a theory of the comrade. Comrades are equals on the same side of a political struggle. Voluntarily coming together in the struggle for justice, their relationship is characterised by discipline, joy, courage, and enthusiasm. Considering the generic egalitarianism of the comrade in light of differences of race and gender, Dean draws from an array of historical and literary examples such as Harry Haywood, C.L.R James, Alexandra Kollontai, and Doris Lessing. She argues that if we are to be a left at all, we have to be comrades.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3060-comrade

Vida
1 year, 5 months ago

Thanks Oliver, sounds like an interesting essay. Especially for those of us who grew up with this notion of camerade.
Cheers

Yeah, I have found myself using thisalot lately!

"I really like the italian couple Eva nad Marco Mattes:
http://0100101110101101.org
There are clas..."

"During the introduction of a recent speech by Donald Trump at Turning Point USA Teen Student Action Summit, someone — reportedly by accident and has since been fired from Turning Point — pasted into the slides a 2016 faux seal created by Charles Leazott that features an eagle holding wads of cash and golf clubs with a ribbon that says, in Spanish, “45 is a Puppet”. Score one for the resistance."

https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/45_is_a_puppet.php

Walk. An intervention in public space.

Walk. An intervention in public space.

CALLING FOR EXTREME SUBMISSIONS

For those who are interested in how to build and run a small social network site, certainly an alternative to Facebook or Twitter, here is a great guide:

https://runyourown.social

"Keeping the social network sites small is essential for customization that will meet everyone's needs. Kazemi doesn't suggest going over 100 users. Smaller communities are easier to manage both technically and socially, but it also creates an intimacy where it's possible to know everyone in the group, creating a truly private, curated space. "

Full article here:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzmjde/facebook-and-twitter-suck-so-heres-how-to-make-your-own-social-media-network

Food Democracy is sold out!

Walk. An intervention in public space.
We have been thoroughly interested in the urban space and the possibilities of its decolonization fr...

CALLING FOR EXTREME SUBMISSIONS
A CALL TO RESPOND
Issue six of the Equal Standard finds us delving into the world of extremes. Let ...

Donald Weber writes about photography as a discipline, profession and practice, which still has a long journey to make for to be able to think the conditions of its own production. This work is part of a larger body of work Donald and I are developing, one day it will be a book. A next text related to the ideas Donald is talking about here is in the making. Highly recommended reading!

https://tinyurl.com/y6d9fhtg

"@Bernadette- you mean from 'Global Liberal Media" into "Democratic Media"?..."

"Thanks for this SanFrancisco- if you have any more examples on Culture Jamming coming from Argentina..."

The Baffler on Spotify and how its main value for brands and advertisers is to know really a lot about our emotional states via their mood based playlists.

https://thebaffler.com/downstream/big-mood-machine-pelly

Global Liberal Media Please

Global Liberal Media Please
We have lately again become interested into Culture Jamming, a practice we have been very involved i...

Yes, I'm just drafting the rationale for the next issue now! The theme is 'extremism'.

https://www.peterdrewarts.com

oliver
1 year, 7 months ago

Thanks for this Gabriela, I saw some of his posters, now I know who is the author! He really makes an effort, I mean putting 1000 posters around the country is a big achievement.
BTW, I am still giving your zine to selected people... Will you be able to do another one?