a story that will be introduced by aragorn! from anews, called gentrification part 3, the anarchist
and for those who are interested, this is the atlantic article that was referenced tonight.
a story that will be introduced by aragorn! from anews, called gentrification part 3, the anarchist
and for those who are interested, this is the atlantic article that was referenced tonight.
clastres! and maybe anthropology for a couple weeks. we will decide. for this week we have have a chapter from archeology of violence, and one from society against the state.
other authors who were floated for future readings were graeber (sigh) and james c scott.
the stanford experiment is a notorious example of how prone people are to losing their shit when put in positions of power/lack-of-power.
Jack’s choice for the reading is here.
It’s Philip Zimbardo’s account of the experiment, who was the lead in the experiment. He’s caught a lot of criticism for both the experiment and his presentation of it… so it should be a good starting point for discussion.
Jack proposes the following questions:
What’s more surprising, how guards abused their power or how prisoners complied?
Is your life more like that of a prisoner, or a guard?
Do liberals, conservatives, socialists, etc. see themselves as prisoners or guards?
ps: the piece i mentioned about artificial intelligence and corporations is here.
an essay by timothy morton from the book object-oriented feminism.
Timothy Morton, philosopher of Object Oriented Ontology, claims it is relevant to anarchists. He is the author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence; Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics; Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People; Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World; The Ecological Thought; Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality, etc. He contributed to Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism.