beyondbeyond controlcontrol && amnesia,amnesia, impossibleimpossible brilliancebrilliance isis thethe heartheart ofof imaginationimagination andand joyjoy whenwhen wewe stakestake ourour earthlyearthly relationsrelations betweenbetween thethe embraceembrace ofof fluxesfluxes wewe areare andand thethe experienceexperience ofof selfself atat ourour corecore.. nowherenowhere lessless otherother storiesstories havehave failedfailed usus CONTENTSCONTENTS pg4, We Are Not Afraid of Their Ruins... We Carry a New Chaos in Our Hearts (rage and bile from the gut) pg 6 , , Honor Amongst Thieves (writing from the widening circles of the U.K. judicial estate) pg 8 , , New Technologies, Extraterrestrial Exploitation and the Future of Capitalism & ©Let©s Disconnect the Cables© pg 14 , , ©A Smart New World of Slaves © (the opening phases of Industry 4.0) pg 16 , , The Exarcheia Commune Rises and Defends Itself (tactics for maintaining a state-hostile zone) pg 18 , , Symbiogenetic Desire (tracing an egoist ecology) pg 22 , , Clarification on the Attack on the CGT Headquarters and On the Topic of ©Anonymous Disassociation© (on the time and place for co-critique) pg 2 6 , , Nanotechnology and Transparency & taking on imperial science pg 34 , , Market Pressurised to Temporarily Drop G.M. Product Lines After Contamination Campaign Claimed, Lombardy (communiqué: stirring the pot in civil society over our daily consumer poisons) pg 38 , , ©The Matter of Knowing Who We Are© (the enemy is a way of seeing the world) pg 50 , , What Could Compensate for the Loss of the Night Sky? & the possibilities of electrical disruption pg 53 , , ©Rejoin the Circle © (the gift as a new-old principle of existence) pg 56 , , We Can Be Worse Still (for one who died in the battle for life) pg 61 , , Who Is It ? & democracy©s discontents pg 6 5 , , Veganism: Why Not (an alienated solution to a problem of alienation?) pg 74 , , ©A t the Root of My Survival © (reflections on mutilation, facing terrorism charges, and not abandoning our own) pg 78 , , W ild Plants: Hawthorne (berries) & Sweet Chestnuts pg 79 , , Poems For Love, Loss & War pg 8 0 , , Global Flash-Points (direct action reports) pg 84 , , Rebels Behind Bars (text by prisoners & repression news) pg 95 , , Memory as a Weapon (bridging the breech in our line, uncovering some of our grounding) pg 107 , , P irates vs. Corsairs! (the sea-bourne phenomena off the Horn of Africa) pg 109 , , Fraud, Fantasy and Fiction in Environmental Writing / ©The Invention of the Tribe© / Q (reviews: Ted Perry©s ©Chief Seattle©s Speech©, various Grey Owl, James C. Scott©s ©The Art of Not Being Governed© & Luther Blisset©s ©Q©) pg 125 , , The Dark Months Are Coming (walking out into the witching hour) pg 127 , , Sources & Links WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR RUINS... WE CARRY A NEW CHAOS IN OUR HEARTS [ed. ± Written before the eventual passing of reforms to the Penal Code in the Spanish State, by the anti-psychiatry collective Asamblea de Majaras. In addition to its impact on those considered mentally ©unstable©, it legalised abandoning imperiled migrants off the Mediterranean coast to their fate at sea, raised formerly-considered petty theft to a higher level of Inmates of Swaleside prison (Isle of Shippey, U.K.), amongst the destruction of a wing during punishment, and upheld the life rioting 23.12.16; during a 26-day wave of prison unrest including the largest uprising for over 25 years (600 inmates of HMP Birmingham defeating multiple riot squads and burning the Offender sentence. It passed beside the Managing Unit with £6million damages, and attacking screws and setting fire to CCTV cameras at better-known ©Gag Law© that HMP Hull): this September another wing of HMP Birmingham was severely damaged in more disorder significantly constricts protest acts and underhandedly ©reduces© low- end jailable offensives to automatic crippling fines (thus increasing MACROCOSM: THE SURFACE CREATURES control while appearing less authoritarian by reducing jailings). Once upon a time an old country was scraped The people themselves, then, were the source of We have nothing more to add to down to its bones while a new country was their problems, not living in squares. To have this text ± which says nothing new, healthy minds, they must think better thoughts. but is written with a lot of heart ± fashioned from the scraps of other ones from healthy minds, they must think better thoughts. except that we have taken the across the seas. Square fields and then square They must make their hearts small and liberty during translation of lawns held everything anyone could possibly predictable and ladylike. amending the places where our want, and much more. Within only a few social enemies are addressed as a The New Thought fad passed, but not its hundred years, vast stretches of artificial lighting ªyouº: while we empathise with the main features, which soon enough formed the need for cathartic expression, we would make the night sky safe: Nothing slithers, backbone of what became known as the self- don©t direct dialogue towards those nothing crawls under here! help and mental health fields . Herein one we aim to negate, even as a poetic exercise. The authors can contact And yet not everyone handled the transition constantly examines one’s inner life for incorrect us if they want to talk about this.] well, then or now. What was the meaning of a or negative thoughts and hedonistic emotional life spent in squares? Some fell ill, in various excesses, especially in the case of positive and We proclaim from our ways, and called out for help. cognitive-behavioral psychologies [ed. – see madness, rebellious and Return Fire vol.1 pg14]. In the popular culture, But the medicine people were long gone by contagious, that we don©t care But the medicine people were long gone by even cruder New Age-type tenets, in which bad then. Called alternately or overlappingly about the penal codes and then. Called alternately or overlappingly things such as disease happen due to incorrect traditional healers, shamans, wortcunners their reforms because we do traditional healers, shamans, wortcunners personal vision, still reign. (knowers of herbs), midwives, wise women, not believe in their laws or in their disorders. witches and other things depending on language Chemically and/or mechanically suppressing and tradition, these were the wild ones who negative thoughts and feelings has become Since we were born we have dwelt beyond village and hedgerow, at the edges almost a national religion, thus returning us lived in turmoil and subjected of jungles and mountain hollows. Their full circle back to Calvinism. The poor are poor, to the rule of law, the family, conceptions of the world included nuanced for instance, because poverty is all they strive religion, medicine, school, sound and odor, creatures above and below, for. In this land every negative thought, feeling work, husband, father, state... portals inner and outer. Their medicines came or circumstance is ultimately one’s own fault. and disobeying them all, and from stone and root and flower and meal and for that reason they have touch and prayer. And so the people never did learn to fully touch labeled us with their or see their own grief, their anger over living in despicable assortment of Naturally the medicine people were some of the squares. There is no cultural container for a incurable and chronic first to be suppressed, as always, no matter the longing for the wild within and without. Strong diseases. continent. emotions are supposed to play out on screens, They condemn us for life even And so new kinds of medicine people had to not through bodies, unless they are bodies before we are born, and we be developed in the new country, the kind shown on screens. will continue shitting on their who could think in squares, to stitch together This Imbolc[1] season let us begin to reclaim our scientific, political, economic, social and religious truths, the people’s minds and hearts. The first wild interiors, our sadness, our anger, our because obedience and psychologists formed an abstract mental irritability, our depression and disease and dis- submission are the only true medicine they called New Thought. ease. Let us start here in the long reclamation of ease. Let us start here in the long reclamation of diseases. Inharmonious thoughts, they said, were the the wilds without, knowing that refusal of grief source of all disease. This was in line with the and death refuses also sensuality and rebirth. We began a long tormented dominant religious sects of the time, so New journey in which we were torn Thought looked a lot like old Calvinism [ed. – from our natural environment see Return Fire vol.4 pg23]. In either case, 1. ed. – Part of the Wheel of the Year annual cycle of festivals to join the system of a world to observed by some modern Celtic-inspired pagans; the first emotional spontaneity of any kind was cross-quarter day following Midwinter (varying considerably which we do not want to extremely suspect. in name and date depending on the group celebrating it). adapt. We will always be uneasy, unstable, critical, 4. irritating, miserable, emotional, passionate, They, who deny our right as women to know that we are facing a restless, resistant, distracted, loving, decide on our bodies, at the same time disproportionately unequal struggle, but we hyperactive, overflowing... and warriors, that they violate the bodies of the will uphold our dreams and we will take not because we will not give up germinating indigenous or those that they consider a step back. That is why they fear us. our madness in the face of the blackmail ªless validº with sterilization [ed. ± see They are afraid of the overflowing wrath of and emotional conflicts with which they Return Fire vol.3 pg29]..