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Anarcho-Nihilism 7 Contents Introduction 5 Anarcho-nihilism 7 Collision 9 The Ceaseless Lager 11 Introduction to concentration camp resistance 13 Absolute Subjugation ............................. 13 Precluding Resistance ............................. 14 The Conditions for Resistance ......................... 17 Sabotage and pure negation 22 Sabotage in the Lagers ............................. 23 Pure Negation ................................. 25 Jouissance .................................... 27 Spontaneous resistance & Time 29 Spontaneous Resistance in the Lagers 30 Lager-time, Despondency, and Timelessness . 32 Anarcho-Nihilism, Progressivism, and Futurity . 35 Messianic Time ................................. 37 Organizations & Major Uprisings 39 Overview of Organizations in Lagers ..................... 39 The Resistance Movement in Auschwitz & The Sonderkommando Uprising 40 Anarcho-Nihilist Critique of Organizations . 46 The Sobibor Uprising ............................. 48 The Treblinka Uprising ............................ 51 Anarcho-Nihilism and Informal Organizing . 53 Reflections 57 Cruel Optimisms ................................ 57 Insurrectionary Memories ........................... 59 The Void .................................... 60 Glossary 62 2 Levi, Primo. 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This has been theorized in a thousand ways, trieved online from 325.nostate.net described in environmental, social, and political terms, it has been prophesied, ab- Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. stracted, and narrated in real time, and still we are unsure of what to do with it. Stanford University Press, 1998: Stanford. The underlying point is that the progress of society has nothing to offer us and ev- Anarchist Federation In Italy. “Anarchist Federation statement on kneecapping erything to take away. Often it feels like we are giving it away without a fight: when of nuclear executive by Informal Anarchist Federation”. Libcom.org. 20 May 2012. we sell our time for money, allow our passions to be commodified, invest ourselves in Web. the betterment of society, or sustain ourselves on the spoils of ecological destruction, Anonymous. Actualising Collapse. Retrieved online from interarma.info we openly (though not consensually) participate in our own destruction. Anonymous. Attentat. Pistols Drawn, 2013. The question hangs in an ethereal and ghastly voice: Why do you let yourselves Anonymous. Bæden: Journal of Queer Nihilism. Vol. I. Seattle, 2012. be led to the slaughter like sheep? As Hermann Langbein addresses in Against All Anonymous. Bæden: Journal of Queer Heresy. Vol. II. Seattle, 2014. Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps, the survivors of those most Anonymous. Desert. explicit of human slaughter houses have been plagued by that question for decades, Anonymous. Do Or Die: Insurrectionary Anarchy — Organizing for Attack! Issue to which some have simply replied: we didn’t.1 #10. Retrieved online from theanarchistlibrary.org What can stories of resistance inside of the Nazi concentration camps teach us Anonymous. Uncontrollable: Contributions Towards a Conscious Nihilism. May about our own situations? How can we relate to the resistance of those immersed 201 1. Retrieved online from theanarchistlibrary.org in “the most frightful and hopeless struggle the world has ever witnessed?”2 Anonymous. You Can’t Shoot Us All: On The Oscar Grant Rebellions. Retrieved Underneath the ubiquitous sheep-to-the-slaughter metaphor is buried a profound online from bayofrage.com historical possibility: wherever the Nazis sought to impose domination and violence, Arad, Yitzhak, Yisrael Gutman, Abraham Margaliot, eds. Documents on the people resisted. Behind the images of people wearing armbands, boarding trains, Holocaust, ktav Publishing House: New York. and walking placidly into gas chambers, lies a rich history
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