#indigenism

[cherrytoothache]

sorry all my friends were radicalized into hardcore socialists over the past 2 months and I turned into an anarchist-adjacent, pro-indigenization anti-statist and I’m going fucking insane listening to them bring up socialism in every fucking conversation

These were the same girlies who were like “yesss #landback” a few years ago and now they cannot comprehend life without a centralized government and honest to gods think North Korea is good

[noosphe-re]

We need to change how we view the Anthropocene. While human impact is ubiquitous, it does not mean all interactions have led to destruction. This mindset distances both us from nature and nature from us. In contrast, the mindset of indigeneity sees humans as part of nature and has evolved technologies that use biodiversity as a building block. A new mythology of technology in the era of the Anthropocene can replace the pending threat that Nature will destroy us with the optimism that a collaboration with Nature can save us.

Julia Watson, Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism

[the-merricatherine]

never forget being harassed by white Leftists on Facebook https://akashmanews.com/tag/indian-reservation/

[danzaondulante]

Manan manchakunichu, qoyllurkunatan aypachkan yawarniy ¡yawarniymi qoyllur!

Diagramando para el fanzine que se viene del taller que dicté el mes pasado.

[passafora]

[proletarianfeminism]

The following article is the first in what i intend to be an irregular series (as i overall re-energize and re-activate this blog project) in which i will lay out my now several years deep personal political project. This is an attempted synthesis of two often distant, and times thought to be opposing, radical streams of thought: Nican Tlaca Nationalism (Indigenism) and communism.

This post, and indeed the series that will follow, should never be taken as the final word though. I am constantly reading, constantly studying (not least of which is due to my primary work as a Doctoral student) and such i am always synthesizing new information, new theory, as i attempt to come to a fuller understanding of the situation facing Nican Tlaca (Native) People and the path forward to our liberation.

[fuck-the-conquistadores]

We all know the popularity enjoyed in some circles by the thesis that anthropology, because it was supposedly exoticist and primitivist from birth, could only be a perverse theater where the Other is always "represented" or "invented" according to the sordid interests of the West. No history or sociology can camouflage the complacent paternalism of this thesis, which simply transfigures the so-called others into fictions of the Western imagination in which they lack a speaking part. Doubling this subjective phantasmagoria with the familiar appeal to the dialectic of the objective production of the Other by the colonial system simply piles insult upon injury, by proceeding as if every "European" discourse on peoples of non-European tradition(s) serves only to illumine our "representations of the other," and even thereby making a certain theoretical postcolonialism the ultimate stage of ethnocentrism. By always seeing the Same in the Other, by thinking that under the mask of the other it is always just "us" contemplating ourselves, we end up complacently accepting a shortcut and an interest only in what is "of interest to us"-ourselves.

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Metaphysics