
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


“Depression we may have to accept, impotent rage we may have to accept, revolutionary pessimism we may have to accept. But as e.e. cummings (anarchist poet) said, there is some shit we will not take, lest we simply become the enemy by default.”
~ Peter Lamborn WilsonToday’s essay is available from the following sources:
Today’s essay refers to Theory of Bloom, by Tiqqun.
Offer feedback to [email protected].
“Our place is to think, to continue speaking of chaos, not being stupid enough to think we can take its side. There are no sides.”
~Alejandro de AcostaThe essay read this episode, the third in a trilogy on approaches to nihilism by Alejandro de Acosta, is included in The Impossible, Patience: Critical Essays 2007 – 2013 published by Ardent Press and available from Little Black Cart.
Texts and authors referenced in Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism are available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
At the time of this posting, In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy vol.1, by Eugene Thacker, was available at the following sites.
Francois Laruelle’s On the Black Universe is included in Dark Nights of the Universe (Novo Pan Klub).
If there is a Little Black Cart essay you would like me to
“Our awareness of decomposition leads to certain insights that are disconcerting and fascinating as well; they may well be visions from outside Civilization. This awareness informs our action without distinguishing us from events. I am referring to what is most question-worthy: the passing sense of the weird and meaningless way in which things happen, beyond causality and so beyond lasting explanation.”
~Alejandro de AcostaThe text read this episode, the second in a trilogy of essays on approaches to nihilism by Alejandro de Acosta, is included in The Impossible, Patience: Critical Essays 2007 – 2013 published by Ardent Press and available from Little Black Cart.
Texts and authors referenced in History as Decomposition are available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
If there is a Little Black Cart essay you would like me to read in a future episode, please tell me so. [email protected].
“[O]ur ethics might…be defined as the provisional disorientation with which we approach our ways of living, the interminable and necessary skepticism that characterizes our thinking’s motion.“
~Alejandro de AcostaThe text read this episode, the first in a trilogy of essays on nihilism by Alejandro de Acosta, is included in The Impossible, Patience: Critical Essays 2007 – 2013 published by Ardent Press and available from Little Black Cart.
Its Core Is the Negation is available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
Its Core Is the Negation references an essay by Duane Rousselle called After Post-Anarchism which, at the time of posting this episode, was available for download from the following site.
If there is a Little Black Cart essay you would like me to read in a future episode, please tell me so. [email protected].
“[T]he point is to leave a clue, a verbal finger pointing toward the moon of one’s ideas and dreams that says just enough to find accomplices in the crime of freedom.”
~Wolfi LandstreicherThe text read this episode, by Wolfi Landstreicher, is included in Willful Disobedience, a collection of essays which originally appeared as a series of zines by the same name.
On the Degradation of Language & the Art of Listening is available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library.
If there is a Little Black Cart essay you would like me to read in a future episode, please tell me so. [email protected].
From the publisher's feed