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A review by graciegrace1178
How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
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Updating here so I don't have to fret over character count:
p. 78: "...as another philosopher has elucidated: 'seizing and destryoing the goldencrusted jet of a plutocrat is an eminently striking and symbolic form of protest', and 'given that the plutocrat himself is not threatened', no anti-democratic ostracism takes place"
See: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8bPZpGSCPC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Interesting that this real world event should represent the text so well as the book frequently makes references to other texts that provide direct suggestions of politically incendiary nonviolent actions
p. 85: "Pacifism has perhaps never existed as a real thing. What exists is the ability, or not, to distinguish between forms of violence. The peculiarity of pacifism is that it imbues its adherents with a self-righteousness borne out of the fetishization of one sometimes useful type of tactic. If it stays hegemonic, this doctrine will ensure that the climate movement remains, at best, the distant, well-mannered cousin of social revolt in the 2020s."
the bit that strikes me about this is "if it stays hegemonic." Like... there's a lot to unpack there, and I cannot figure out where to even begin.
P. 92 “climate fatalism is a performative contradiction…” that whole thing. Hot take. Will pull the full excerpt later.
p. 78: "...as another philosopher has elucidated: 'seizing and destryoing the goldencrusted jet of a plutocrat is an eminently striking and symbolic form of protest', and 'given that the plutocrat himself is not threatened', no anti-democratic ostracism takes place"
See: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8bPZpGSCPC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Interesting that this real world event should represent the text so well as the book frequently makes references to other texts that provide direct suggestions of politically incendiary nonviolent actions
p. 85: "Pacifism has perhaps never existed as a real thing. What exists is the ability, or not, to distinguish between forms of violence. The peculiarity of pacifism is that it imbues its adherents with a self-righteousness borne out of the fetishization of one sometimes useful type of tactic. If it stays hegemonic, this doctrine will ensure that the climate movement remains, at best, the distant, well-mannered cousin of social revolt in the 2020s."
the bit that strikes me about this is "if it stays hegemonic." Like... there's a lot to unpack there, and I cannot figure out where to even begin.
P. 92 “climate fatalism is a performative contradiction…” that whole thing. Hot take. Will pull the full excerpt later.