Manmade Horrors (Not) Beyond Our Comprehension
COMING SOON!!!
See you on the 31st!
COMING SOON!!!
See you on the 31st!
This meeting, with Duncombe and Debord as our guides, and vodka as our flawed but earnest co-facilitator, we sifted through fantasy and commodification, and the creeping suspicion that our desires have been outsourced to the algorithm. It was a chill night with just a few costumed comrades in the glow of colored lights, grappling with whether the spectacle can be subverted or if we are just bedazzling our own chains.We also took a moment to celebrate our graduating comrades, raising our glasses to those moving on from undergrad and into the next chapter of struggle.
Unfortunately, no revolutions kicked off. Still, maybe dreaming out loud with others, without shame or real conclusion, is its own kind of rupture.
Troublemaking 101 invited students to critically examine obedience, authority, and the role of everyday defiance through the lens of Anarchist Calisthenics and The Coming Insurrection. We reflected on how seemingly small acts of refusal like skipping an unnecessary rule or questioning the routine can lay the groundwork for deeper collective resistance.
The session sparked conversation about how to move from isolated disobedience to organized insurrection, and what it means to train ourselves for a world beyond control.
This meet-up dug into the digital terrain of modern organizing. We covered threat modeling, how to reduce surveillance risk, and the tools you need to keep your comrades safe. Privacy for activists isn’t just paranoia and we have to protect ourselves!
Also, shoutout to Signal, encrypted email, and security culture :P
This meeting cracked open the core question of radical politics: what does it mean to truly remake the world? With help from the Weather Underground and the Red Army Faction, we challenged liberal myths, re-examined historical uprisings, and discussed how revolution is not just a singular event but a long, collective process.
We left with more questions than answers— and that’s kind of the point.