Anarchism
I don’t really update this blog too regularly. If you want to read more of my recent writing, here are some links. I write occasional articles for New Frame, the organisation I work for: https://www.newframe.com/writer/aragorn-eloff/ There are a few recent pieces up on Medium: https://medium.com/@aragorneloff If academic writing is your thing, I have some stuff… Read More »
* A pamphlet I published several years to poke fun at all the insipid ‘how to live green’ type articles that are so popular in mainstream magazines and to point towards what a viable response to the ecocidal dominatorculture. 1a) Smash capitalism, the state and all other forms of hierarchy and domination opposed to the… Read More »
* An old piece written for Incendiary Times, a newspaper we used to publish at bolo’bolo. Being an anarchist can be pretty exhausting sometimes. When we’re not fanning the flames of revolutionary change, desperately trying to maintain some tiny glimmer of light amidst the growing darkness of a planet gone mad, we’re often forced… Read More »
* This was a piece developed to be read out at one of the sessions of the Cape Town Anarchist Winter School, which was run by the bolo’bolo anarchist collective in mid-2015. It is time to tell our story again; our many stories. To trace back the countless threads that lead to this present… Read More »
“Nothing more can be said, and no more has ever been said: to become worthy of what happens to us, and thus to will and release the event.” – Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense “What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.” – Ursula Le Guin, The… Read More »
I recently presented at Earth Animal Communities – a conference organised by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies in Africa, of which I am a member. Here is the abstract of the paper I based the presentation on. The full paper is downloadable here. Abstract In recent years ethical philosophy has taken up a sustained… Read More »
When people find out I’m an anarchist, some of the first things they inevitably ask me are: …but who would take out the garbage? …but what would we do without police? …but how would we manage the roads and energy provision and sewage systems? …but what about lazy people? Us anarchists have always been good… Read More »
His enemies say he was a king without a crown, and that he confused unity with unanimity. And in that, his enemies are right. It has been several months since the death of Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, predestined leader of Latin American anti-imperialist resistance to US hegemony, hero of the people, reincarnation of Simon… Read More »
The long walk to nowhere “Comrades!” The cheap sound system crackles to life, a shrill, distorted voice piercing the Saturday morning air. “Comrades, we must not march yet. There are five more buses coming.” We wait, like untold thousands have waited before us at this square, for another hour, but the buses do not arrive.… Read More »
The 20th century was the century that trusted in the future. Or, as Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi – veteran of the 1977 Italian post-workerist movement and founder of the legendary pirate radio station Radio Alice – states in the opening pages of his newest work, ‘After the Future’, “Liberalism and social democracy, nationalism and communism, and… Read More »