culi likes: degrowth, pirate care, compost politics, p2p theory, slow thoughts, appropriate technologies, and multispecies futures for more-than-human worlds
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A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.
“Organizing …
Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the …
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal …
‘Security’ takes many forms. There is the security of knowing one has a statistically smaller chance of getting shot with an arrow. And then there’s the security of knowing that there are people in the world who will care deeply if one is.
— The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow (Page 19)
🔥 Fear is used by capitalism to destroy our communities
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal …
The story about the way anrthropologists represented the Yanomami reminds me a lot about the story of the Ik in anthropology
aeon.co/essays/why-were-the-ik-people-vilified-as-selfish-and-nasty
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal …
Reading chapter 1 rn. I love the takedown of Francis Fukuyama, Jared Diamond, and Steven Pinker. Pinker especially has been a long time coming
There's a really cool bit where they talk about Pinker's cherrypicking of the archeological remains of Ötzi (who was found with an arrow wedged in his side) and using that to represent how violent "the ancients" were. They contrast this with many cases, including Romito 2, of people with disabilities who were well-cared for into adulthood and given fancy burials