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A Treatise on Ethical Seriousness and the Work of Liberation

Our opposition to lifestylism, performativism, purity culture, and political unseriousness, and the constructive meaning of our post-leftism. By Vaarla Ona Our frustration: What exhausts us is the expectation that good intentions should settle questions about what people actually support. Someone can be compassionate in their immediate relationships while defending political arrangements that expose others to exploitation, exclusion, or violence. Their […]

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The Words We Inherit

We need to become more conscious of where our language comes from, because what we choose to say and what we refuse to say both help define who we are. Internet slang is rarely neutral: words move through communities, carry assumptions with them, and often reach us after their original context has been stripped away. Some language comes from ordinary […]

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Anti-cruelty

One of the principles we need to carry into the liberatory society is anti-cruelty. This matters precisely because liberation requires us to confront people, institutions, and movements that may be actively hostile to liberation. We are going to encounter reactionaries, authoritarians, fascists, racists, queerphobes, misogynists, and people who want to preserve systems of domination. We need to be capable of […]

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The liberatory society

The liberatory society is the society organized around the idea that people should have real power over their own lives, rather than being dominated by governments, employers, landlords, corporations, patriarchal institutions, racial hierarchies, or any other structure that treats some people as rulers and others as subjects. When we talk about the liberatory society, we are talking about one broader […]

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Against Apathy: Rejecting Apolitical and Political

I have very little patience for people who describe themselves as apolitical or politically nihilistic, especially when they want to enter a community that is explicitly progressive. The problem is that describing yourself as “outside politics” usually means refusing to think seriously about the social conditions that shape everyone’s lives. Politics is not limited to politicians, and parties. It includes […]

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Antiwhiteness

Anti-whiteness is not hatred of people with light skin. It is opposition to whiteness as a political and social system. Whiteness is a historically constructed category that was used to organize privilege, citizenship, labor, property, and social status in ways that separated Europeans from Africans, Indigenous peoples, and other racialized groups. In colonial Virginia, lawmakers gradually hardened racial distinctions in […]

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Tech anxiety, AI art, and art

This one’s going to be unpopular but we need to say something that many people are too anxious, too angry, or too captured by capitalist fear to say clearly: AI art training is not automatically stealing. Learning from existing work is part of how art has always lived. No artist emerges from nothing. Culture is not born from sealed private […]

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The place I am writing from is not accidental. I exist after enchantment has been stripped from the world, after the Enlightenment taught us to mistrust participation and after postmodernism taught us to mistrust meaning itself. I can feel how deeply that loss shaped the way I think, the way I doubt, the way I hesitate every time I reach […]

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