from back cover:
Since the reproduction of colonialism takes place on an individual level, individuality can be understood as a battle-ground; one can either choose to surrender to the pre configured meaning and values of industrial society, or assert a creative nothingness – an ungovernable terra incognita…
Possessed by identities, the humanized animal cannibalizes other (human and non-human) animals perceived to belong to inferior identities. From this point of view, consumption takes on a value and meaning of control and domination – a mirror image of the way capitalism consumes emotional space and transforms living beings into territories devoid of compassion…
Total Liberation as an intersection of anarchist theory and decolonial praxis, contrasts the statist group-think of the political left with an individual-focused self-determination that values a do-it-yourself ethic over the compulsion to organize, control, or govern others. With this comes an understanding of self-determination as a life force integral not only to the struggles of people native to the land – but to the flora and fauna that resist industrialization as well.
Decolonizing Individuality_Anarchism, Anti-Colonization & Anti-Speciesism pdf
