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Continued Breakup Files: Illness and Revolution
In our impatience to abolish everything, we don’t open up avenues of conspiracy that use what is to do what is not yet.
Shuli Branson
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory Episode 23 - Dean Spade on How We Act When Things Get Really Hard
A conversation between Shuli and Dean Spade, about his recent book Love in a Fucked Up World
CAW Monthly Book Club!
Reading a book alone is all well and good, but have you ever talked about one with other people? While we get further lured into mediated isolation, we can still find escape from the enclosure through discussion groups around the works we love (or don't) that prefigure the
Podcasts
In Memoriam Joshua Clover - The Breakup Theory Episode 22, a rebroadcast of The Final Straw Radio interview from 2021
Today I’m re-releasing a conversation I recorded for the Final Straw Radio with Joshua Clover in 2021. I wanted to present this conversation in memoriam of Joshua, who we learned last week had died.
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Cause and Affect
With every terrible event, my mind can’t stop from focusing on its contingency: it didn’t have to be this way. It almost wasn’t. If we knew better, we could prepare.
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Trans Ultraviolence
Striking back at transphobes of any gender is just as much a part of our transition as taking hormones, wearing new clothes, changing pronouns, surgeries, access to trans social spaces . . .
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Trade-offs
Can we make sure our belief in anarchy and freedom is not just another faith that serves as an alibi and positions us above history nodding our heads? The Enlightenment runs deep, a most dangerous export of colonialism. When we concede to reason(s), we lose autonomy.
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Should We Care About the Universities?
The university prepared the way for this assault against its own power. It isn’t the institution that must be defended.
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory Episode 21 - Breaking Up With Your Therapist w/ Shuli and Caroline
We may all need therapy to a certain extent—but when do we end it? Breaking up with a therapist is a kind of practice breakup: it’s a controlled environment where you can exercise your own determination and decision and face the consequences practically and emotionally.
antimídia
Antimídia - The Rule and Ruins of Trump – Shuli Branson – Anarchist Voices #15
Don’t forget what operates in the dark. Don’t forget the damage affinity groups can do. Don’t forget the spontaneous eruptions where people come together regardless of politics or identity markers to wreak havoc on the cities that try to contain us.
Podcasts
The Break Up Theory Episode 20 with Vicky Osterweil: What Happens After the End of the Constitutional Republic
We game out possible scenarios while the administration demolishes the constitutional state. Though our conversation does engage the fear and threat of the situation, we also discuss openings for us to take bold action that uses this moment of (bad) revolution to expand our collective power.
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The Unwanted Revolution
I want to destroy the state and I want to live.