One of the few truly transcendent experiences I have had in a screening. RIP Béla Tarr.

Good thread

I. The present order of the world is now giving way, and a new order now struggles to emerge and take hold. This struggle is at once being waged at the scale of the Earth, but also within the microphysics of everyday life. thefrozenseainside.com/nine-theses-...

​I. The present order of the world is now giving way, and a new order now struggles to emerge and take hold. This struggle is at once being waged at the scale of the Earth, but also within the microphysics of everyday life.

The US knows it is not capable of winning wars of sustained occupation, so it wagers that it can win at the level of spectacle instead. But the desperation of such a move reveals only that the present order is in actuality quite fragile, vulnerable to reality crashing through.

«(Estamos en) un proceso contrarrevolucionario de carácter global, donde, la guerra, en sus diversas modalidades se extiende a todas partes ... Lo que está sucediendo en estos momentos en Venezuela se encapsula en este proceso de guerra civil global» colapsoydesvio.noblogs.org/post/2026/01...

Anarchists are often dismissed as idealists, but it is in actuality those who maintain faith in states who are the true idealists, remaining firmly detached from reality, holding on to a fantasy that only obfuscates the catastrophe of a world organized on the basis of statehood.

Trump is immune from all prosecution and yet anyone in the world can be subjected to the jurisdiction of the United States at any moment. If it wasn't already clear, the supposed "rights" of the liberal democratic order concern only the right the dominate at will.

The U.S. kidnapping of Maduro is just a reminder that the state has come to be nothing more than the logic of the police applied to the entirety of the Earth.

Men in suits delight in playing war and lining the pockets of arms manufacturers. It is not enough for them to live an impoverished and meaningless life, they must impose their poverty and meaninglessness upon the rest of the Earth as well.

the fascist obsession with aesthetics “the disposability of images => the disposability life => the disposability of the world” ~ Ian Alan Paul

By separating beauty and life, the world objectifies & determines what is beautiful. We're thus content to live lives largely deprived of beauty, happy to occasionally glimpse it at museums & on screens. Grasping the beauty in/of life is nothing less than a refusal of this world.

What is taken to be "common sense" is more often than not an ideological mirage. For all of the talk of the fascist turn in the U.S., only 32% claim to support mass deportations. Meanwhile in 2020, 54% said that burning down a Minneapolis police precinct was justified.

“Every year should be one day longer than the preceding one: a new day, on which nothing has ever happened, a day on which no one has ever died.” Elias Canetti, The Human Province

“When a crowd forms, when teargas fills the streets, it makes the kidnappings impossible to ignore. Our neighbors, loved ones, and community members deserve for their disappearance to be met with forceful resistance. When in doubt, escalate.”

On Zeno's Republic, his response and polemic against Plato's Republic: “Make your own city, with your own friends, now, wherever you happen to live”

“Prevent ICE vehicles from leaving the scene with our community members, fight them if you can, slash their tires ... (turn) an otherwise quotidian reality of life under an authoritarian regime into an event, set apart from the flow of daily existence” 🔥 livingandfighting.net/When-in-Doub...

All of the images that are seamlessly generated, quickly scrolled past, and then forgotten are simply evidence of the meaninglessness of these images as well as of the culture and society they represent as a whole.

The true promise of AI is that it will be free to generate images in the morning, summarize books in the afternoon, and write poetry in the evening, while you remain stuck in the misery of ever more degraded and degrading work.

Contemporary waves of revolt spread as rapidly and widely as they do because they take shape as an ethical refusal of life's degradation. Struggles against political and/or economic degradation look different as they emerge within diff. contexts, but share the same ethical truth.

“Since the future is alienated and freedom cannot operate within the dimension of the future, it will be ... an operation of pure destruction. Since the positive is obtained through oppression, freedom will be pure negativity.” -Sartre, Notebooks for an Ethics

From the viewpoint of domination, the dominated are an essentially degraded form of life, and by dominating and thus degrading them, domination reconfirms its own point of view.

The West is so drawn to kill and dominate, and at the same time is so committed to insulating itself from the reality of suffering and death. What is experienced as abject and violent is not torturing or killing, but having to recognize human fragility and mortality as such.

Pirate Archivists doing the good work: All of Spotify has been scraped, backed up, and made available for future generations ☠️🏴 annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

"We can think abstractly about the world only to the degree to which the world itself has already become abstract." -Jameson

The entirety of the internet is now designed to make you think less and less about more and more things.

an excellent listen about Adrian Wohlleben’s Ill Will Editions essay ‘Revolts Without Revolution’, a development of the memetic theory & why the kids will lead the way. here’s the essay for those of us old farts who prefer reading to listening.

A helpful conversation concerning the relation between tactics and strategies, as well as the shifting forms of insurrection in the 21st century: www.patreon.com/posts/e317-y...

The mobilizations against ICE should be embraced as a model generally. These militant and everyday practices of coordinating w/neighbors, defending the autonomy and dignity of life, and preparing for possible contingencies can easily be adapted for climate, economic crisis, etc.

In capitalist society, work and nonwork are only two faces of the same desolate whole. Each life is condemned to the misery of work in order to afford a life beyond it, and then is condemned to consume the miserable spectacles, products, and forms of leisure produced by work.

The true power of thought is not to grasp the world as it is, but to grasp the world as it is such that it is clear how thought remains distinct from the world as it is, and thus to grasp in thought itself what otherwise is and could be.

« Ce qu’il faut interrompre, c’est d’abord la manière dont on attend que vous remplissiez la tâche qui vous est dévolue en propre dans l’ordre consensuel, le genre de machine que vous avez pour charge de faire tourner. » abasbruit.org/2025/12/06/e...

Aristotle writing about 322 BC and 2025 AD: “From the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.”

This is the only kind of monument the West remains willing to build. 68 million tons of rubble, roughly the size of ten Pyramids of Giza.

“Why did we look up for blessing—instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon ... in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”

"Revolt is not integrated into the harmonious development of the world; it does not wish to be integrated but rather to explode at the heart of the world and to break its continuity." -Simone de Beauvoir

Liberation demands that we reject the notion that it is a bad human nature which has produced a bad society, and that we see instead that it is precisely the poverty of our society which is now reflected in the impoverishment of our existence as such.

That the present destroys all meaning in our lives and that it destroys the world itself are simply two complementary dimensions of the same violence. The demand is that we remain satisfied with ChatGPT, Amazon, & Netflix and thus unbothered by immiseration, fascism, & genocide.

I was lucky to study with Asad Haider while we were doing our PhDs at UCSC. I also remember sitting down with him, debating as we inspected used tear gas canisters during Occupy Oakland. He was a brilliant and generous thinker, and the world is far poorer without him.

"I heard story after story of soldiers separating people, photographing them, and searching phones ... This machinery of surveillance merged with the machinery of death. We were used to drones watching us. Now lowflying quadcopters were carrying grenades" nymag.com/intelligence...

"What is a Repertoire?," the afterword to The Reticular Society, is now available in Spanish. Many thanks to the translators. libertamen.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/q...

Gaza must remain at the center of our thought because it reveals the future. The hope that there will only be more neoliberalism, that things may slowly degrade but will nonetheless remain on course, is pure fantasy. We must destroy the present order before it destroys the world.

Ill Will is launching a book press. We need your support. illwilleditions.com

« Défendre et intensifier tout ce qui, de la vie, reste créatif, sauvage et libre » Qu'est-ce qu'un répertoire ? Une proposition politique de Ian Alan Paul

Just as policing functions to produce crime and thus produces the idea of a society which needs the police, categorizing particular acts as "war crimes" only functions to produce the idea that there is such a thing as a defensible, humane, or just war.

New radical press alert 🔥🔥🔥 "In 2025, we launched Ill Will Editions, a book press for publishing both long-form works readers of the Ill Will Journal would expect and popular interventions for a wide audience." www.illwilleditions.com

"What Marx calls class struggle ... is nothing other than this internecine war that divides every people and that shall come to an end only when People and people coincide ... when there shall no longer be, properly speaking, any people." -Agamben

Charting a trajectory from the punk underground of the 1980s to current struggles against autocracy, a participant in CrimethInc. projects spoke with the Woodbine podcast about the importance of institutional memory in radical politics and the case for explicitly anarchist organizing.

Some say that resistance is always already unfolding, that in each moment a subtle rebellion is at work, that 'everything is political.' In reality however revolts only very rarely occur, and yet nonetheless they remain everywhere possible, resting as potentials waiting to erupt.