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Defining Anarchism While anarchists often rock a punk rock vibe, anarchism is more than a feeling. It’s not nihilism or chaos. David Graeber, anthropologist and one of the leading figures of Occupy Wall Street clarifies: "Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. In reality, nothing could be furth

Inclusion is important. It inspires meaningful communication and reciprocal action between people of all races, backgrounds, classes, and sexual orientations. It allows for a certain amount of mutual understanding—and when i say "certain amount", I mean that knowledge itself does not have the power to place us in someone else's shoes. For instance, many white peop le, after seeing the video of George Floyd being brutally murdered by a police officer, felt that they now knew

"W henever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." —Mark Twain Street art by Morley. We are living in a scary time —   a time when all we know is slipping away, bit by bit. Our knowledge itself is being compromised; we are trading brain cells for convenience because of the fear of silence, of boredom. Rather than making our brain functioning a priority, we are outsourcing. Outsourcing our tasks, our choices, our ability to think . AI,

Anarchy graffiti by Banksy "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based of five thousand years of experience,...

"Return to the state of the uncarved block. When the block is carved, it becomes useful. When the sage uses it, he becomes the ruler. Thus, 'A great tailor cuts little.'" -Lao Tzu, from the Tao Te Ching I have had the Tao Te Ching in my book collection for years, and I have read it a few times — but today, I opened it up to the passage above and realized that I never really got the Tao Te Ching . Not that

The future is now. Rather than an abstract sense of "later", some unknown point far from today when scenarios like those portrayed in Black Mirror play out, our concept of "the future" is currently happening. All the sci-fi books that told of the sacrifice of privacy in the name of progress, the blurred lines between humanity and technology, dictators and madmen creating an authoritarian world — these are happening now . The Umbrella Corporation of Resident Evil is Google, Am

#1: Adaptation vs. Accumulation "If you want to become full, Let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, Let yourself die. If you want to be given everything, Give everything up." --Lao Tzu, in the Tao Te Ching   In both minimalism and Taoism, much is said about letting things go: — things , as in tangible, physical things that we most likely purchased, or things such as the need to feel secure, the need to control. And at a time like our current time, when all we know

“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious...

Humans like to think of ourselves as separate from the animal world—as if, by evolving to walk on two legs and write, invent, build, that we are somehow a higher life form than other animals. That our  use of machines somehow separates us, elevates us. The agricultural and the industrial revolutions, both arising as a result of the booming population of earth, the gathered people in cities, the invention of modern civilization— did  move us further away from our natural roots

Augmented reality headsets are not new, but the new mixed-reality Apple Vision Pro is a dystopian travesty right out of Black Mirror....

Some people out there have looked at the science, thrown their hands up and said “Oh well, it’s all over. I now have an excuse to do nothing and complain all day, because the world is ending.” Even more unfortunate is that some of these people are calling themselves Doomers, which I take offense to. I like Jem Bendell’s “Doomster”, and I find it to be a good way of replacing a word that has been used in a derogatory way to describe us—a  subculture of people who have decided

Director’s Statement: Through a series of unexpected, violent, and humorous transitions, Cosmohedron explores the connections between...

"Non Conformist" by Leslie Oldaker, available at www.deviantart.com/lesley-oldaker/art. Licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0. Resisting the...

Editor's Note: With all respect to Jem Bendell, the use of AI as part of this interview was done at the request of the interviewee, and is not a reflection of the values of Tawanda Jazz or Dilate Magazine. While searching the web for ideas for increasing my own climate change resilience about a year ago, I came upon a video of Professor Jem Bendell discussing "Deep Adaptation", an idea that I hadn't heard of at that point. I had been struggling with how to react to our curr

Something happened around 2005 or so, something that changed the way Americans (and many other first-worlders) thought about adulthood...