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For the 32nd episode of the podcast, host Joel Williamson spoke with Jason Lee Byas about Anarchy Beyond Territory. In our previous episode, we spoke with William Gillis about the promise of distributed, fluid networks of trade in a world beyond the trappings of patchwork or endless meetings. This episode explores similar themes but with different areas of emphasis. Our primary concern in this conversation is the popular tendency to build political models within the confines of territorial control. This impulse is so tempting that even political theorists who oppose states have difficulty resisting it. There are, however, coherent, cooperative models within political philosophy that reach beyond the coercive state and the restrictions of territorial-based governance. Tune in as we explore this and more with Jason Lee Byas.

Jason Lee Byas is a fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society (c4ss.org). He is also a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His academic work focuses on punishment (and its alternatives), rights theory, and justice beyond the state.

Frank interviews academic and “Not-China expert”, Leif Johnson on China, his experience teaching the children of elite Chinese, the challenges internal immigration posed for China's planned economy, why Western companies have been okay with China's rampant intellectual property theft and the spread of global protest culture / tactics.

Chuang https://chuangcn.org/

Gongchao https://www.gongchao.org/

Made in China https://madeinchinajournal.com/

Seeing Like a State https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-c-scott-seeing-like-a-state

Import Substitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrialization

The Guardian view on global protests: passing it on https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/14/the-guardian-view-on-global-protests-passing-it-on

DDOS Secrets Myanmar Investments https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Myanmar_Financials

Bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/

Ba Jin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_Jin

For the 31st episode of the Non Serviam Podcast, we spoke with William Gillis about an anarchy worth having. It’s hardly controversial to point out that some proposals made by anarchists for post-state coordination suffer from similar issues proposed by non-anarchist opponents of the status quo. In this episode, we explore how said schemes tend to cause unfreedom through the suppression of complexity, or through the total bureaucratization of human life. As a solution, Will promotes distributed, fluid networks of trade in a world beyond the trappings of patchwork or endless meetings.

What’s a meaningful way to distinguish between centralization and decentralization? What are some examples of distributed efforts expanding freedom? To what extent would New Municipalist or Ostromite common resource management strategies be utilized within anarchy?

We explore all these questions and more with piercing critiques, in this exciting conversation with William Gillis.

William Gillis is a second generation anarchist, lapsed physicist, and transhumanist, who is interested in exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Introduced to the ideas of anarchy at age five and organizing by age thirteen, Will has gone on to become a prolific writer and political theorist who has undoubtedly made a mark in anarchist history. William is the former Lead Coordinator at C4SS who identifies most with Voltairine de Cleyre's "steal bread for the hungry'' style of market anarchism. Will’s writings can be found at C4SS Dot Org and Human Iterations Dot Net.

Will participated in a video interview with Non Serviam back in 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leW18Q8SnMk) and has appeared as a headlining speaker at one of our in-person events in 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbDtjv_S55w).

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Will suggested listeners donate to the project’s linked below (instead on Will’s Patreon):

https://bangladeshasf.com/

https://onsiteinfoshopphilippines.wordpress.com/

https://www.patreon.com/etnikobandidoinfoshop/posts

https://twitter.com/rechelon/status/1393046705688436736?s=21

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Will’s Website:

http://humaniterations.net/

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Relevant Articles & Links:

http://humaniterations.net/2015/04/17/anarchy-is-a-scale-independent-proposition/

https://c4ss.org/content/52295

https://c4ss.org/content/53476

https://c4ss.org/content/51379

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This audio was taken from a video interview series called Anarchy In Oklahoma and was originally published in 2016.

View the original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a0v4X8o_vk

We sat down with Charles Johnson to pick his brain on left market anarchism at Exploring Anarchism, a conference organized by Students For Liberty and Students for a Stateless Society in Norman Oklahoma in 2015.

Charles is a self-described individualist anarchist, a web developer, a left-libertarian writer, a student of Philosophy, and sometimes- teacher of Logic. He is the author of several articles published in magazines and journals, including The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Free Voices, The Industrial Radical, and the Southwest Philosophy Review. He is the editor of Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty.

You can find Charles online at http://radgeek.com/

on C4SS at https://c4ss.org/content/author/radgeek

You can purchase Markets Not Capitalism here https://www.amazon.com/Markets-Not-Ca...

and you can download the audiobook at https://c4ss.org/content/12802

For the 30th episode of the Non Serviam Podcast, we sat down with Tim Holland, who is better known by his stage name, Sole. Tim is an anarchist, producer, and prolific underground hip hop artist from Portland, Maine. He is one of eight co-founders of the record label Anticon, and beyond making bad-ass insurgent rap music at a professional level, he also hosts a couple shows of his own called Propaganda By The Seed and The Institute for Post American Studies.

For this installment, we discussed a variety of heavy themes surrounding abolition, anti-capitalism, and our forthcoming post-american future, while also taking the occasional breath to laugh into the void. We explored what it’s like navigating the hip hop world as an anarchist, what it means to be a political radical and a parent, the promise and limitations of back-to-the-land projects, robot dogs, the Garden of EATton, and a whole lot more.

For the 29th episode of the show, we spoke with Firestorm Books about the challenges of operating a radical cooperative enterprise and the role of such a project in the broader anarchist movement. Firestorm Books is a queer, feminist collective that actively supports grassroots movements and has been developing a workplace based on cooperation, empowerment, and equity since 2008 on Cherokee/Tsalagi land, also known as Asheville, North Carolina.

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https://firestorm.coop/

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Frank has a conversation with the multitalented VINAY Gupta. They touch on blockchain, climate change, the limits of mass awakening, the relevance and future of democracy, death anxiety, the limits of standardization and aliens.

Digital gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...​

Cypherpunk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk​

Ethereum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum​

Speed of light distance measurement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_o...​

Speed of light high-frequency trading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_o...​

Slime Mold grows network like Toyko rail system https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-m...​

The entire world's carbon emissions will finally be trackable in real-time https://www.vox.com/energy-and-enviro...​

Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-rene...​

Literacy rates https://ourworldindata.org/literacy​

The crisis of democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cri...​

Terror management theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_...​

Haitian revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian...​

The purpose of a system is what it does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...​

When the US airforce discovered the flaw of averages https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/...

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Join us for the first ever live episode of the Non Serviam Podcast where we teamed up with Coup de Gras, “the most radical (digital) Mardi Gras festival of its kind” for a conversation with anarchist elder, scott crow. scott is a repeat guest with Non Serviam Media (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_fbKbIVdZ8) and someone who has had a significant ideological impact on our collective. In this installment, we discuss scott’s humble beginnings, the limits of activism, music, post-left anarchy, and much more!

scott crow is an old friend of the Non Serviam Media Collective who has been described by the FBI as a domestic terrorist and by others as one of the most significant anarchist organizers in the united states. He is an international speaker, author, and storyteller who is proudly from a working-class background. He’s an author, political organizer, educator, activist, filmmaker, dad, and musician. For over two decades he has focused on diverse socio-political issues and the explorations of creating and exercising counter-power to capitalism and the state. He’s probably best known for helping to organize the Common Ground Collective during hurricane Katrina and is currently focusing his efforts on building his record label, eMERGENCY hEARTS.

Keep an eye out for our future collaborations with scott crow!

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2020 was not the easiest year for most of us, and despite the hardships, Non Serviam Media made it through, thanks to your generous support. As a thanks for your viewership and kind contributions, we’ve put together another special episode for everyone! Because we’ve continued to receive positive feedback on our ritualistic lightning rounds, we decided to put another compilation video together which includes all of them from 2020!

We hope you enjoy this unique episode as much as we do!

Here is a list of each guest in chronological order, with their correlating full length episodes:

Emmi Bevensee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgTNDKE8B7I

Zachary Woodman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xfluucj_Q

Joe Peacott - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzYL0vKFGrY

Nathan Goodman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iXOx9NhnI

Matty (@Reverend_Banjo) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Er61D4I6UE&list=PLL7_kauo7ffItS5YufJv-pqtkORApsw8I&index=8

Antonio Buehler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X9NKXMzzbY

Cory Massimino - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqAVQ7mFy5o

Kelly Wright - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jBzNcC2Z-I

Peter Gelderloos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67JbFzm_ZcQ

For the third installment of 2021, we spoke with someone to whom Non Serviam Media owes a great deal of gratitude. If you’ve been following us from the beginning, you’re probably familiar with our original video series titled Anarchy In Oklahoma. However, you may not know that we shot every single one of those interviews over the course of two years at a conference called Exploring Anarchism. Our guest today is the person who organized these events, and nearly one hundred videos later, we finally have the honor of interviewing him. Today’s guest is not only an interesting political thinker, he’s also a good friend of ours.

Cooper Williams is an intellectual with many skills and talents worthy of admiration. He’s a machine learning engineer working in natural language processing and recommender systems.

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