Seemingly a whole generation of Gen Zers only really take phone calls from their parents, using Instagram voice notes and memes to connect with friends. We now live in a world where people use texts and Zoom to communicate with one another, with a study from BankM圜ell showing many millennials and Gen Z users actively avoid taking phone calls, 75 percent doing so because they’re “too time-consuming”. The clip has, to date, clocked up 113,000 views, while one of the the top rated comments reads: “Malcolm suffered a massive heart attack following this call to which he never recovered.”Įleven years on, the prank call feels more and more like a pop culture relic. I instantly uploaded the call to YouTube under a pseudonym to leave a false trail, paranoid I might get into trouble. Rob & Bria are also homesteaders and we talk about their experience of being self reliant with food production and working with mutual aid networks like the Victory Gardens Project to their ongoing efforts to provide free food to comrades, friends and neighbors.“This is my voice!” I moaned in a passionate defense, keeping an incensed Price going for just over a minute and doing my best to give the impression his yelling had ruined the day of a sweet old man named Malcolm. Fire Ant seeks to spread the words & work of anarchist prisoners, highlight their plights and help them get the material support they need. Fire Ant is a collaboration between anarchist prisoners and anarchists in so called Maine.

In this episode of the Solecast I chat w Rob Cat of Fire Ant. To preview Micol’s book “Violence Work” you can check it out hereĪnd to learn more/register from the Destituent Power and The Undercommons conference you may do so here To explore social life that evades political constraints such as citizenship, sovereignty, and governance, we seek to build upon the work of Fred Moten, Stefano Harney and Giorgio Agamben. Reveling in the fields that ground their work, the Black radical tradition and Italian Autonomia, this forum seeks to collect and share what we’ve learned from the practices and forms of life that are already breaking free of politics. On November 13th-16th, then, Indiana University’s 2020 Critical Ethnic Studies symposium brings into dialogue two zones of contemporary insurgent study: the undercommons and destituent power. We also talk about the free-to-all virtual conference they are hosting the weekend of 11/13-11/16: After a year of unimaginable suffering and resistance, the ideas of Destitution and under commons provide us critical tools for building the capacity we need to weather the storm(s) that we find ourselves in. This conversation is meant as a primer for the the concepts of destituent power and the under commons. In this episode of the Solecast I speak with author and Indiana University professor, Micol Seigel.

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