This project is about anarchism as a radical form of grief.
To be an anarchist means grieving for everyone all at once, all the billions, who lived and died abused and oppressed. It means we are willing to carry those dead forever.
It means wielding rage like an earthquake, vengeance as a duty of care—we listen and watch, for sound or sign of all those snuffed-out buried ghosts, not listening for the voices of esteemed philosophers and kings, but those of their housekeepers, their drivers, the sex workers they hired, the children and teenagers they fucked, the wives they murdered, cast away, or crushed.
We look past them, to all the people behind them and beneath them.
Immer Autonom (/ˈɪmɐ aʊ̯toˈnoːm/) means “always autonomous.”
Here you can find essays and analysis theorizing on themes of feminism, history, anthropology, linguistics, youth liberation, queer liberation, trans liberation, epistemology, AroAce queer/feminist theory, and many other topics—above all, grief, of course—but always anarchist.
The ethos of this project is also one of deliberate epistemic and epistemological autonomy. A conscious repudiation of what might be called the ethos of “ars theoria,”—in which a student is figured as a container into whom a master deposits his knowledge—and a choice not to be shackled to the overworked theories of long-dead luminaries, not beholden to the reputations of any intellectual authorities or celebrity theoreticians. Although happy enough to take whatever material is useful from whatever sources are useful, we neither respect nor defer to any philosophical masters or “fathers of theory.”
An anarchist is no one’s disciple.
~ Be armed when you mourn,
for the silenced, oppressed dead are frequent targets of repeated murder;
Be armed when you mourn,
for some are very keen to bury the living under famous tombstones;
Be armed when you mourn,
for only you, living, can liberate yourself! ~
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