Commentary

13-Dec-2004
Cultivating Revolutionary Events: The activist with dreams of the revolutionary should turn to Nietzsche, Foucault and Deleuze for a philosophy that strengthens their ability to act in a way that will have the most damage on the State and the conceptual systems that form a symbiotic relationship with the State. [more]

01-Dec-2004
Using Information for Life: A reading of Nietzsche's "On the uses and disadvantages of history for life" aids the movement in formulating a critique of the consumption of information. This essay challenges several core assumptions concerning the utility of relying on historical knowledge to formulate the movement's objectives. [more]

01-Dec-2004
Kant, Hegel and Deleuze on War: In my own view, war is the result of philosophies that attempt to impose a rational, uniform order on the world. I agree with Hegel’s assessment that the state will always create an enemy. However, I think that Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari draw attention to a way to exist outside of the state. I think that this "nomadic thought" exists in opposition to colonization and that what is remarkable about nomadic thought is that it is able to devise new tactics of resisting the State. [more]

20-Nov-2004
Arriving: Writing an Ethnography of Resistance: The role of the ethnographer should be to document how difference can be bridged through solidarity. An ethnography of resistance would convey how solidarity is cultivated in various situations. Having described their arrival and evaluated their success in integrating into the community the ethnographer will have conveyed what is most important: how to join a struggle in progress. [more]

19-Nov-2004
Towards a Practice of Theory as Epitomized by the ISM: In experiencing the height of institutionalized military oppression, the ISMer is given access to the raw experiences necessary to pierce practical and theoretical blockages. The ISM is inherently revolutionary because the experiences that are gained strengthen what Nietzsche called “the plastic power” of an individual. [more]

05-Apr-2004
Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?: If the dense and moralist cigar-smoking reactionary bourgeois can transform him- or herself into a free-floating agnostic bohemian, moving opinions, capital, and networks from one end of the planet to the other without attachment, why would he or she not be able to absorb the most sophisticated tools of deconstruction, social construction, discourse analysis, postmodernism, postology? [more]

23-Mar-2004
'Outside Thought' in Willy Wonka's Chocalate Factory: 'Because the less people take thought seriously, the more they think in conformity with the what the State wants' we must think in a model based in the antithesis of the state's controlled flows – one of pure nomadic, deterritorialization. [more]

22-Mar-2004
Review: War in 'A Thousand Plateaus': Nietzsche's thesis that the State was created at the moment a noble race appeared as if by fate and occupied a nomadic people is complicated by D/G. Although the State expresses war, this is not the only thing created by the “war machine” nor is it the first. [more]

14-Mar-2004
Review: Long Overdue: Shutting Down the SOA: The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation formerly known as the School of the Americas is a federally funded training camp supposedly teaching “proper” international relations. In truth, students of the school learn techniques for various forms of torture and gorilla warfare.Graduates from the school have been connected with the rise of several of the despots that have plagued various South and Latin American countries. Sometimes the graduates even become the despotic rulers. [more]

28-Feb-2004
Origin of the Vampire Myth: The vampire originated as a political metaphor used to critique tyranny. In 1725 and 1732, two villages in the occupied territories of Serbia suffered an outbreak of a vampire that spurned the threat of a mass nonviolent uprising and a collective demand for respect of their cultural practices. [more]

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Al-Qa’ida on al-Qa’ida: Al-Qa’ida is neither irrational nor unable to intelligently articulate their objectives. The American government is able to disseminate propaganda globally while suppressing al-Qa’ida’s response. Thus, the English speaking world is forced to trust the analysis of al-Qa’ida provided by those who have shown themselves willing to lie in their pursuit of an unjust war. If the American public had been able to read al-Qa'ida documents they would have known that al-Qa’ida was explicit about their joy in America’s overthrow of Saddam Husayn. [more]

Protesting the Republican National Convention: We have witnessed two unjust wars — at least one American life lost each day overseas — a depressed economy, $87 billion to boost war profiteering, an environment open to exploitation, the demonization of queer Americans, a health-care crisis, the indefinite detention of immigrants, an attack on women’s right to choose, millions of children being left behind, and now this. We say, “Enough!” [more]

Ink: The Work of Anna Hook: Influenced by Dore, the American Thomas Nast, and the French Daumier, Anna Hook's inks on paper are astute political observations designed to provoke contemplation. Why War? has chosen Anna's work as an example of the emerging intelligent, critical movement. [more]