Essay
Egoism and Cooperation
Embody your egos, communally.
dip
The cosmonaut cowpoke who's overly online. Infatuated with speculation (hella lying), fabulation (kinda lying), and communization (stealing). Classified as a level ∞ black-quantum enby, by way of (trans)feminist pan-african(arch)ism.
Organizing 100
An ecology of liberatory movements
TLDR: Understanding social movements primarily as an ecology of organizations allows us to (1) model organizations using a system that is living, complex, and adaptive, and (2) analyze the relationships between them for the sake of creating anarchic social change. With this knowledge in tow, we can become strategic, orienting
Essay
I kinda want to build a cyberdeck
Cyberdecks are having a moment with the socially-conscious, aesthetically-driven folks on social media. What does that say about politics and culture?
News
How to Prepare for El Niño
Thinking through compounding crises of climate shock, supply-chain blockade, and (the afterlives of) slaveholding settler colonialism.
News
Keep precolonial Africa out your mouth, unless you’re gonna come correct
Dip discusses a recent Economist article and thinks through the implications of the Continent being seen as a “model” for elsewhere.
Arts & Culture
What Artemisia Gentileschi Teaches Us About Critiquing Power Through “Radical” Art
Dip discusses the ways that Artemisia Gentileschi’s paintings exemplify resistance to domination so well that it turns the canvas into a refusal–while grappling with the impotence of such a “powerful” move.
Organizing 100
What should organizations *do*?
Dip discusses ways in which organizations of activists can think about their activities.
News
Abundance, Unless You’re Native
Dip talks about how AI sucks again. This time, they focus on how data centers are encroaching on tribal lands.
News
No, Putting Data Centers in Space Won't Make Me Less Mad When You Use "AI"
Dip discusses the intertwining of the space economy with the AI economy. They think both are shit.
Podcast: Google and Elon Musk Want to Put Data Centers in Orbit. Will that Solve AI’s Contradictions?
On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip and Scooter discuss current proposals to put data centers in space, an idea which would seem to be a win-win for communities and data center developers. They analyze the push to adopt "artificial development," what it means for our communities,
News
Tenants in Woodlawn are Resisting Removal. So Can the Rest of Us.
Dip discusses recent tenant movement developments in the area near the soon-to-open Obama Center in Chicago.
Organizing 100
Most Organizations Are Hierarchical. Here’s What Can Be Done Instead.
Following some notes on how to get involved, I want to dive into more depth about organizing. The first post was about organizing too, but, for someone who’s brand new, it often looks like activism: the tactics without the strategy. That’s fine; spontaneity is the lifeblood of any