“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism (via philosophybits)
This is very exciting, because not only do we have more mummies to study, we also have more coffins**. They look to me to be Late Period, based on the style, and design, but I could easily be wrong.
What I want to know, is why they were in a well shaft? Shaft burials are more typical of earlier periods than these coffins look to be, so…was this always a well? Or is the well more recent? I’m also vaguely frustrated that no images thus far have shown the detail on the coffins properly, because I want to read the Hieroglyphs and the names on them.
**sarcophagi are made of stone, and coffins are made from wood. These are wooden, so they’re coffins not sarcophagi.
Since 2017, we’ve distributed 50,000 stickers proclaiming “Immigrants Welcome.” Now, thanks in part to your support, we have printed 50,000 more copies. You can order them here for the costs of production and delivery alone.
In a time when digital media is the dominant form of communication, we remain passionately committed to print media and other forms of communication that intervene in the offline world. It is catastrophic that massive technology companies control so many of the channels through which we communicate with one another. While we acknowledge the importance of utilizing these channels, we recognize that it puts us in an extremely vulnerable position to depend on state-regulated capitalist institutions for our access to each other.
We have always found it deeply fulfilling to encounter the materials we produce in the wild.
Already this year, we’ve seen several of our posts removed from social media sites on the pretext that the material violated their content policies. Across the board, these content policies are hypocritical and incoherent—for example, providers claiming to prohibit advocacy of “violence” yet gladly providing a venue for the US military, among the most murderous and destructive institutions in human history. Obviously, we shed no tears when sites like The Daily Stormer and 8chan are refused a platform via which to recruit white supremacists. We believe that no one should be under any obligation to provide services to racists or other advocates of oppression. But while we celebrate the digital de-platforming of the far right, history shows us that the next thing that will happen is that these tactics will be used against those who challenge the state and capitalism in favor of genuine liberation.
As a general principle, top-down control of communications infrastructure is chiefly useful for maintaining the status quo. The precedents set for de-platforming those who are trying to change things for the worse will also be used against anyone who wants to change things for the better. The vast majority of the agenda of the far right does not conflict with the hypocritical content policies of our digital overlords: they don’t consider it “advocacy of violence” to campaign for more state violence against immigrants, for example. If, indeed, those who seek liberation from capitalism and the state are the next to be de-platformed, the resulting vacuum will make it easier, if anything, for authoritarians whose proposals fall within the confines of those content policies to present themselves to the general public as the only ones who have any sort of proposals for social change whatsoever.
In some places, you can see posters like this one that have hung there for years.
As fascists shift their attention from maintaining their own publishing efforts to trying to force those who hold corporate and state power to shut down ours, we can expect more and more repressive clampdowns in the future. There are many things we can do to push back against this. We have to do everything in our power to popularize our perspectives, while de-legitimizing capitalism, the state, and anyone who would like to make it impossible to speak freely about radical social change.
One of the ways we can prepare for this sort of repression is to continue to focus on print projects and other ways of communicating that do not depend on digital media services. We have been a print project from the very beginning. The first CrimethInc. projects took place before the prevalence of digital communication. We collaborated by means of the postal service and landline telephones. Even if one day we find ourselves entirely banned from online activity, it would be impossible for any corporation or government to track down and destroy every single one of the hundreds of thousands of books we have distributed, or the literally millions of posters and zines we have put into circulation.
You, too, can be a publisher and distributor!
We will continue to focus on print as a medium that is less vulnerable to the whims of capitalist gatekeepers. But we can’t do this without your help. While we produce books for sale, we also offer free digital versions of zines and posters with the hope that you will print and distribute them. If you have access to a printer, you are a micro-publisher—you can spread these materials and anything else that you consider important.
Likewise, you can order stickers from us and put them up whenever and wherever, on every lamp post, in every bathroom. In a strictly legal way, of course!
that vietnam covid post really is the gift that keep on giving because it reveals more than anything else how anti-communists are literally just making up any bullshit they can on the fly to justify their pre-assumed conclusion. like so many different people have attempted to pull some variation on “uhm, actually, this is just because vietnam’s population density is way lower!” without bothering to check before they shot their mouth off whether this is actually the case.
i will never forget this one
28,000 per square meter
@theomenroom lmao i know, i’ve been bracing myself for someone to say “aha, but vietnam’s covid-19 death count since then has skyrocketed to 35!” and preparing my response where i roll my eyes and go “yeah and the USA is now at 199,000, what’s your point” but i haven’t even needed to because no one has brought it up
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