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“Direct action always returns us to basic questions of politics.” argues James Butler in a harsh critique of Andreas Malm: A Coal Mine for Every Wildfire<\/a> (2021). The text offers a nice recap of Malm’s thinking and illustrates their attempts to dismantle fossil infrastructure as a borderline techo-utopian fantasy. The article provides a thorough summary of a recent book White Skin, Black Fuel<\/em> co-written by Malm and the Zetkin Collective. I agree with Butler that activist-gestures are pedagogical: “There will be no flashpoint in the climate crisis, no moment with a self-revealing logic so clear as to be incontestable. Direct action can be a form of pedagogy, but it requires allies in press and politics” but I think they are reading Malm too literally; manifestos (and activist performances) are for building momentum, they are not intended to steer political movement. Also investigating climate change as a weapon of mass destruction is a potent approach.<\/p>\n

They [Malm and the Zetkin Collective] see \u2018fossil fascism\u2019 as an emergent political formation, linking \u2018primitive\u2019 fossil capital \u2013 direct extractors, which can\u2019t survive divestment \u2013 with racist politics. Aware of the slipperiness of definitions of fascism, they stick with the term because their new postulate has many of its hallmarks: fantasies of a nation purified of parasitical degenerates and outsiders; an indifference to mass death; emergence in an emergency where significant established economic powers are threatened.<\/p>\n

[…] If only we knew, we would act in the right way. But there is no obvious point at which knowledge tips into action; in an increasingly mediatised political sphere, spreading awareness ends up as a substitute for action itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trackers: The Sound of the 16-bit<\/a> (2021) Ahoy is an entertaining mini-documentary detailing how music programming for games developed into DAWs. Plug-in Capitalism<\/a> (2021) Michael Terren builds a compelling case against corporations that offer standardized tools for music production.<\/p>\n

Any historian of technology will tell you that a technology that purports to increase productivity, under neoliberal capitalism and the atomized \u2018creative industries,\u2019 will only ever redistribute or delegate labour to other technical concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Direct action always returns us to basic questions of politics.” argues James Butler in a harsh critique of Andreas Malm: A Coal Mine for Every Wildfire (2021). The text offers a nice recap of Malm’s thinking and illustrates their attempts to dismantle fossil infrastructure as a borderline techo-utopian fantasy. The article provides a thorough summary … <\/p>\n

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