In this home, the junk drawer is where perfect things go to hide, lest their perfection become sullied. Usefulness, uck! Decoration, uck! Unbroken, uck uck uck! One drawer for everything, the junk drawer, where all is preserved.
(To submit a photo of your junk drawer, please contact administration. Euphemistic interpretations will not be accepted at this time.)
Firstly, certain pieces of writing will be, for now, only available HERE, or in published form somewhere out in the world.
Below is potentially everything else that is fit for public consumption, if I can get around to it.
I might note that I’m largely doing this for myself, in order to grapple with the artifacts I’ve created, and perhaps try to figure out what to do with them. Everything in the junk drawer then shall be considered “unpublished”. You will be but a friend I share my work with, in hopes of sparking alliance or conversation. All works are works in progress, very rough drafts.
My email is elsewhere on this site, if you want to begin correspondence. This site attempts to emulate an older model of web-page, wherein the visitor clicks around semi-randomly, just to see what happens. It has been de-optimized for maximum inscrutability. It is user unfriendly, but friendly in its usability. I’d enjoy a robust correspondence, one coming from a sincere place of radical camaraderie. I am an anarchist, thank you very much.*
*Not the phony libertarian kind, nor the “anarcho-capitalist” kind, which is just a form of fascism. Additionally, I’m not interested in having arguments online with people. Sincere disagreement is fine, when rooted in curiosity and a willingness to listen to other people. I’d like that, if it exists anywhere online. (It doesn’t, as far as I can see.)
Table of Junk Drawer Contents:
A Language for Animals, Vol 3: Composing and Decomposing
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[Survey, wherein one is asked to rank things according to personal priorities, Missing]
Response to a Survey:
The above ranking doesn't ultimately make sense, given how interconnected things are, but I reckon you understand that and consider the delineation a practical capitulation. I wonder if even creating a survey wherein these things are delineated and ranked creates an atmosphere that is antithetical to your goals, as there certainly are people who fail to understand this interconnectedness, and so fail to take part in radical equality and solidarity. In some sense, my ranking reflects a sorta toppling domino structure, ie: if you take care of things at the top, this will take care of things below. For example, dishonest politicians are less of a problem if we create more equitable systems in general; access to abortion isn't an issue if we adequately address health care as an issue. Perhaps patriarchy should have also been on this list, but I'll choose to throw that in with workers rights. Nonetheless, it is an imperfect ranking because maybe we shouldn't be ranking these things at all. I don't like that I'm put in a situation where disability rights are so far down on the list. They are only far down on the list because addressing that problem is in some sense not even really possible if we don't address inequality and health care, for example. An equitable economy would also necessarily mean spending less on weapons and war. Debt is a violent economic tool used to oppress working people. Maybe we do need to focus more on how all of these things connect. Maybe we need to stop being practical. A strike is not practical. Practicality is a tool of oppression. But I'm just venting here. I don't have anyone to talk to about these things. No one listens to me anyway. It's disillusioning. As for action, I am willing in theory to go to a march or protest, but I am not comfortable with large crowds and have sensitivities to stimulation that make such an environment a recipe for panic. I do better behind the scenes. I also do a lot of work towards building a better world already. Anyway, I'm quite tired and feel a little incoherent at the moment. Thank you for your work.
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