Letters Journal's Blog, page 6
September 22, 2010
September 19, 2010
Cul de Sac
This article was submitted to the magazine Fifth Estate and was printed in the Summer issue of 2010. Unfortunately, is was edited without my consultation and parts were also re-written without my consultation! Thus, one of the major arguments of the article was lost and, in fact, something was put in which goes against the whole point of what I was trying to say. The point of submitting the article to FE in the first place was to try to engage 'anarcho-primitivists', but the editing and...
September 16, 2010
September 11, 2010
I Do Not Act Locally
Most of my friends here do not know I edit a communist magazine. When I planned the tour in August I did not consider a tour stop in Lexington because I did not want to explain it to my friends. I feel like they will find out about the journal on their own or they won't. I feel like someone I know finding out about the journal and talking to me about it – while they do not know I am the editor – would be magical and amazing and worth not telling people about it. I...
August 31, 2010
Arrival
Every Beggar is Odysseus
On the heels of a week-long tour of the Midwest, we present the fourth issue of LETTERS , our anti-political communist journal. Issue four includes a beautifully illustrated journal as well as a literary supplement, both printed and bound by our friends at Eberhardt Press. The journal and the supplement are presented in a screen-printed envelope.
In the journal, we explore topics outside of the usual focus of communist analysis: fate, friendship, theology, and being...
August 29, 2010
Fate
1. Human 'subjectivity' is constructed from:
a. absolute autonomic processes (internal biological and environmental pressures)
b. arbitrarily autonomic processes (the unavoidable inheritance of accidental historical and economic developments).
b. ongoing processes of that which is becoming autonomic, (i.e. the processes by which dead labour is actualised in the world around us and which we take to be our second nature).
c. subjectivity, or inter-subjectivity itself (i.e. the forms of...
