- JOCK Palfreeman, the Sydney man accused of murdering a university student in Bulgaria last month, is enjoying cult-like status on the Internet. Palfreeman, 21, who bears a striking resemblance to actor Matt Damon, is now the subject of at least four websites and is receiving movie-star attention. Although two of the sites have been dedicated to his alleged victim, Andrei Monov, 20, they have been flooded with messages of support for Palfreeman, an old boy of St Ignatius’ College. Three of the four sites – The Trial Against Mr Jock Palfreeman – Guilty Or Not?, In Loving Memory Of Andrey (sic) Monov and the 356-member Jock Palfreeman Is Not Guilty – are powered by Facebook. The fourth, slackbastard, is run by Palfreeman’s close friends…
I began blogging in earnest in December 2005, originally at blogspot, then migrating to anarchobase on May Day, 2006. Over 1,500 (!) posts, 7,000 comments (in total) and — on anarchobase at least — two-and-a-half years later, the blog has received between over 200,000 (SiteMeter) and (since June 12, 2006, according to ClustrMaps) 280,000 visits — despite largely being ignored by others in the Australian blogosphere (in which anarchists are relatively rare). As such, while having a relatively tiny audience, slackbastard is probably the most popular source of information on anarchism and related subjects comin’ straight outta Compton Melbourne.
Whoopee!
(For hatemail and some plaudits, see : Who the hell reads this thing anyway? (November 21) | slackbastard : critical reflections (September 21, 2007))
On the anarchy bloggy front, the struggle for World Domination Global Liberation continues… Geeks Unite & Take Over!
¡Amor Y Resistencia!
Love and Resistance: documenting anarchist resistance in the americas * documentando la resistencia anarquista en las americas
Anarchoblogs
Nice one Charles!
Who are you?
Anarchoblogs is a collection of blogs from self-identified anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, anarcha-feminists, anarchists without adjectives, libertarian-socialists, autonomists and other assorted anti-statists. We use free software to syndicate our weblogs, in order to raise awareness, bring together anarchist voices, promote cross-linking and discussion between anarchist bloggers, and to archive and index anarchist materials on the Internet, while we’re at it.
Anarchoblogs in English is a hub within the Anarchoblogs network for anarchist blogs from anywhere in the world which are written in English. There are similar hubs for anarchist blogs written in Spanish and German, and plans to add more as we grow.
Anarchoblogs began life in September 2004. It was founded by Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath, and run with a Planet aggregator at anarchoblogs.protest.net. Technical difficulties caused anarchoblogs.protest.net to disappear from the web in late 2008, so Anarchoblogs contributor Charles “Rad Geek” Johnson contacted former contributors about establishing a new Anarchoblogs aggregator at anarchoblogs.org, with new software and some new features (including localized hubs, archiving and indexing of posts by date, tag, and author, and a updated, semantically-richer set of aggregated feeds). The new Anarchoblogs has been live since December 2008.
Fugitive Desire
“Please, come in. Welcome to our studio: A place for play, experimentation, and creation – only we’re not dealing with clay or oil paints, but with ideas. You will find here fragments of fugitive desire; lines-of-flight always proliferating and recombining, forging new paths outwards towards the event-horizon; the borderlands between reality and dreams where the world as it is kisses the world that might be. Why don’t you stay a while and let’s co-create something together? Here, let us make you a cup of tea.”
Open Anthropology
is an excellent site, among other things, being:
…in its most basic sense is a project of decolonization, growing out of a discipline with a long history and a deep epistemological connection to colonialism. The aim is to transform anthropology into something that is neither Eurocentric nor elitist. The inspiration behind this effort was the New World Movement (click this, that, and the other). It is an attempt to redefine the craft of anthropology into one guided and inspired by decolonization movements and by the struggles of indigenous peoples, Africans in the Americas, and various elements of anarchism. The preferred medium for this effort is the Internet and a mixture of media within the Internet…
See also : David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2004 [PDF].
the anarchic tendency to run around in circles
“nothing, and nothing can be about something, where something is nothing in essence, as i write this up, i feel nothing, and nobody shall take a sense of something from nothing. it is about disappointment, it is about encouraging engagement, it is about it is about time a fucking collective effort take place, it is about please fucking wake up, [it is] about [getting] motivated, it is about why the lack of inspiration – express it, let us know. for we know nothing, and if we know nothing, nothing shall happen from something.”
Quite.
For other anarchist blogs, see anarchoblogs and links to the right under ‘Anarchist Blogs’.
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