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The Nihilist’s Dictionary

From back cover: “Those who still say that technology is “neutral,” “merely a tool,” have not yet begun to consider what is involved…Today we experience control as a steady reduction of our contact with the living world, a speeded-up Information … Continue reading

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Memory Loss: Collected Communiques from CLODO

“Memory Loss” presents a history of the French group CLODO, which attacked and sabotaged computers in the 1980s. The zine contains a timeline of action, two communiques, and an interview of the group. Along with these items, there is a … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

From back cover: “The state will use machine learning to filter surveillance footage for criminals and potential criminals; capitalism will use machine learning to identify ways to appropriate resources and maximize profits…This doesn’t mean, though, that anarchists could appropriate machine … Continue reading

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Weaponizing Sobriety: Feral Anarchy Against Intoxication Culture

From back cover: “As an anarchist, I refuse to tranquilize the chaos of my jouissance with inebriation. I exalt life vehemently against the pacifying qualities of marijuana, the cancerous addiction of tobacco, and the “correctional” anesthesia of psychiatric medications. The … Continue reading

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Technological Addiction

Text from back cover: “In order to effectively perceive and confront the problem(s) of civilization we must be able to look at our relationship to it. This relationship is framed by domestication, through which our experiences therein are controlled and … Continue reading

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Deserting the Digital Utopia: Computers Against Computing

Text from back cover: “The Internet has often been compared to the Wild West: a largely unregulated space rich in opportunities, in which people may experiment with new relations. Most commentators miss the full implications of this metaphor. The Wild … Continue reading

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The Smart Phone Society

Text from zine: “If you define a cyborg society as one in which human relationships are mediated and shaped by technology, then our society certainly seems to meet this criterion, and our phones play a starring role. But our relationships … Continue reading

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War Against the Information Age: A Future of Mass Social Control

From back cover: Anarchistic and nihilist ideas are anathema to the information-age, they are the glitch in the database society which escapes classification and control. The imagination walking; dangerous and capable of unforeseen actions and moments of interconnection. The future … Continue reading

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