brittberidon's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
5.0
feebeebzz's review against another edition
5.0
This book is wonderfully written! I think a lot of us feel as though taking a stand for what we believe has to be aggressive or it's not worth it? I don't fully agree with how I've stated that but you get the idea. This book challenges that and really helped me see various ways in which I can be "militant" in the way I live, the way I interact with my friends/community, etc. I HIGHLY recommend this lovely book, that brought a whole new perspective to my ever changing frustration with the world.
foxreading's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
akemi_666's review against another edition
4.0
the anti-authoritarian manifesto the left needs
compassionate and brimming with life
unstuck from the amber trickle of domination
lives unlived in futures yet to arrive
i want life lived now
in emergence and encounter
//
pure negation cannot sustain us. without a base of joy, we have no defenses against self-destruction, burnout, paranoia and resentment.
we can't heal each other with pain, only with love. if we have nothing to offer beyond critique, nothing genuinely worth cherishing, then we're reactive creatures, reproducing the very cruelties that have impoverished us materially and psychically.
inverting this power relation does not destroy it. it robs us of our own positive power, our joy of life. we become mirrors of our oppressors, desiring not only domination over them, but over our allies as well.
we have to bury the cop both within and without us. we have to decolonise our thoughts, behaviours and relationships if we want any chance of thriving and transforming this world.
we need love. not the love of passive etiquette or tolerance, but of expansion and difference. a love that transcends the familial and the commonplace. an inclusion of radical alterity and the infinity of the possible. a creative love that resists, endures and revives us from domination, reaction and the narrowing down of all lifeworlds.
a joyful militancy xx
//
ch3 (on trust) and ch4 (on distrust) really shine. the other chapters are a bit abstract (for a book ostensibly about prefigurative politics) and repetitive. would have loved more concrete examples. but it's a fantastic and much needed book to combat the misery politics of our times. the piteous fascists within us all.
//
"The crisis is not coming: it is already here . . . and Empire is administering the wreckage."
compassionate and brimming with life
unstuck from the amber trickle of domination
lives unlived in futures yet to arrive
i want life lived now
in emergence and encounter
//
pure negation cannot sustain us. without a base of joy, we have no defenses against self-destruction, burnout, paranoia and resentment.
we can't heal each other with pain, only with love. if we have nothing to offer beyond critique, nothing genuinely worth cherishing, then we're reactive creatures, reproducing the very cruelties that have impoverished us materially and psychically.
inverting this power relation does not destroy it. it robs us of our own positive power, our joy of life. we become mirrors of our oppressors, desiring not only domination over them, but over our allies as well.
we have to bury the cop both within and without us. we have to decolonise our thoughts, behaviours and relationships if we want any chance of thriving and transforming this world.
we need love. not the love of passive etiquette or tolerance, but of expansion and difference. a love that transcends the familial and the commonplace. an inclusion of radical alterity and the infinity of the possible. a creative love that resists, endures and revives us from domination, reaction and the narrowing down of all lifeworlds.
a joyful militancy xx
//
ch3 (on trust) and ch4 (on distrust) really shine. the other chapters are a bit abstract (for a book ostensibly about prefigurative politics) and repetitive. would have loved more concrete examples. but it's a fantastic and much needed book to combat the misery politics of our times. the piteous fascists within us all.
//
"The crisis is not coming: it is already here . . . and Empire is administering the wreckage."
witchphd's review against another edition
I read this with a book group and learned more from our conversations than I did from the book itself. The authors state that they want to foreground asking questions instead of providing answers or a guidebook to the problem of "toxic militancy" that arises in activist groups (and in other group settings). So, perhaps my group's conversations are a sign of the book's success? Or, perhaps we were not the intended audience?
spicewitch's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5