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The Brilliant
by The Brilliant
We dream of brillianceWe insist on brillianceA podcast on anarchist theory
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Episode 101 – Season 5 with Bellamy
Since Bellamy was here at the start of The Brilliant project it is great to check in where he is at regarding the things we are talking and thinking about. Obviously Bellamy and I have been having similar experiences in the Anarchist Space over the past few years. This episode is about some...
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Episode 100 – Revisiting (anarchist)Nihilism
Ultimately I am not a nihilist but this might be a de jure vs de facto kind of distinction that people hate hearing people drone on about. No matter how we land on this question the little thing I wrote nearly 20 years ago on the question did force it to be an ongoing concern of mine. The…
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Episode 99 – Carrie, Thelema, Anarchy
Among the people I met in the Berkeley Anarchist Study Group (aka BASTARD) are people I should have met more generally. I'm referring to the reading group this way because I have found that in the last 20 years the number of places where you might meet an (anarchist) interesting person has shrank...
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Episode 98 – Green Anarchy vs Black Seed
I was a big supporter of Green Anarchy back in the day. Even today I host a remembrance site for them, am close friends with the old editorial team (except for the Z who has feelings), and am part of the Black Seed editorial group that was deeply inspired by GA. This conversation is between the…
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Episode 97 – Duane Rousselle
Duane and I have known each other for a number of years. (At least 12!) He was one of the first people who found the first http://irc.anarchyplanet.org IRC server (which in fact used SILC) and joined the merry band that started The Anarchist Library. He was doxxed by a rival group, was lost, then...
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Episode 96 – Miekal And
I have mentioned the influence of Dreamtime Village on me quite a few times. I only visited there once before this interview but it really something. It involved an aborted attempt at a midwest anarchist network (I was living at the Trumbelplex in Detroit at the time). It was at least a dozen of...
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Episode 95 – Ian
Ian is an old friend that used to go by different names. I was passing through the midwest on the way to the GSABF and got to visit. Our conversation passes through NVC (non-violent communications), the Intentional Community scene, and a tiny bit of the recent history of Bay Area radicalism (the...
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Episode 94 – Kill All Normies
Angela Nagle's book was released at exactly the right time, with a perfect title, and great marketing. It is a leftist take on the Trump era, it is exactly on point about the intersection of a bunch of shitty tendencies, and speaks of them with surprising fluency. That said, this book is a lie.…
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Episode 93 – The Fight for Turtle Island
I put together a book. It is not a book about me. It is about a dozen other people who are, in some way, the audience and content of the book. It was a real challenge putting it together as the interview subjects did not conform to the framing I eventually put on the book. Most of the…
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Episode 92 – A Discussion of Joyful Militancy
I made a promise to Nick the last time I was in Victoria BC. I said I would meaningfully engage (I might have even promised a review) of his book (co-authored with carla bergman who I don't know) Joyful Miltancy. There are a lot of reasons to believe that I would be hostile to this book, which we...
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Episode 91 – Bellamy on Corrosive Consciousness
Getting specific is part of what Season 4 of The Brilliant podcast is about. Specifics about what a green perspective is (this conversation with BF is about the book Corrosive Consciousness). Specific about what different projects of dialogic anarchist practice looks like (namely an announcement...
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Episode 90 – What is Anarchism in 2018 with Bellamy
This is the last episode of 2018. In 2019 along with the Brilliant I'll be working on a weekly call in show called Anarchy Bang that you should check out on Sundays at noon (PST). Bellamy and I have another conversation that I'll release next week about Corrosive Consciousness but for now we...
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Episode 89 – What is Anarchism in 2018 with Andy
As this season of the podcast comes to an end… I wanted to review what we have done in 2018 and what we hoped to have done. I presented my initial sketches of what is to be done and wanted to discuss them with some people. The next few episodes will be those conversations from three different...
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Episode 88 – Chris Kortright and What is Anarchism in 2018
As this season of the podcast comes to an end… I wanted to review what we have done in 2018 and what we hoped to have done. I presented my initial sketches of what is to be done and wanted to discuss them with some people. The next few episodes will be those conversations from three different...
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Episode 87 – Ria del Montana
This interview was by request of an anarchist news thread. While Ria does call herself an anarchist their primary interests appear to be animals (in the vegan sense of the word) and native plants (in the rewilding sense). This conversation ends up being a mix. I think both of us tried to respond…
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Episode 86 – Comedy with Michael Cohen
I didn’t know how sophisticated and interesting comedy was until about five years ago. I really fell in love with this kind of comedy by listening to podcasts for hours at a time while driving. The WTF podcast in particular was really interesting to me as it was two comedians talking to each…
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Episode 85 – Seaweed
In early fall I went up to British Columbia and met with Seaweed. This is a partial record of that meeting. We discuss learning/reading, history (specifically Montreal and Vancouver in the 80s), John Zerzan and Green Anarchy magazine, and more. “It all has to go” – MW 1982 Politics as personal...
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Episode 83 – Nationalism and bolo’bolo part III
TL;DR This is an interview with Gregor of Tribes magazine. His story (and article in Tribes) is about the move from “left anarchism” to national anarchism. The discussion is about WTF is left anarchism, National anarchism, and a kindred. This third episode on the question of nationalism wraps up...
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Episode 82 – Nationalism and bolo’bolo part II
I have been wanting to talk about the line between tribalism and nationalism for years but it is a challenge. All sides take the conversation very seriously ON THE INTERNET whereas my experience IRL isn’t quite the same. I’ve found people willing to joke and tease each other about the categories...
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Episode 81 – Nationalism and bolo’bolo part I
I have been wanting to talk about the line between tribalism and nationalism for years but it is a challenge. All sides take the conversation very seriously ON THE INTERNET whereas my experience IRL isn’t quite the same. I’ve found people willing to joke and tease each other about the categories...
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Episode 80 – An introduction to Aragorn! II
I spent a week at the Labadie Collection this summer. I highly recommend it for any anarchist who wants to have a different, fuller relationship to anarchist texts. The librarians are great and very understanding of the anarchy people. While I was there I ran into the anarchist-known-as-Nikita…
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Episode 79 – An introduction to Aragorn! I
I spent a week at the Labadie Collection this summer. I highly recommend it for any anarchist who wants to have a different, fuller relationship to anarchist texts. The librarians are great and very understanding of the anarchy people. While I was there I ran into the anarchist-known-as-Nikita…
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Episode 78 – How to Disagree II: Layla AbdelRahim
Layla is a pleasure to talk to and so the fact that she is in this series of podcasts is a bit of a misnomer. Which is not to say that we agree so much as to say that our disagreements aren’t the focus of our conversation here. I’m happy to, and ended up, set Layla up to present her ideas and...
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Episode 77 – How to disagree I: Nathan Jun
Many of you will have heard of NAASN, the North American attempt at creating an academic anarchist event. It has has nine events around North America. I’ve attended about 4-5 of them and our guest this week is somehow involved in the event/project. Nathan Jun is not just an academic though, he is...
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Episode 76 – Round Table II: Aging
Rotn and I (along with Belligerence who doesn’t talk much) use the opportunity of me being in town to talk about aging, peers, and whatnot. Enjoy Email – [email protected] We appreciate correspondence (786)
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Episode 75 – Heretics III: Cody
For anyone who has met Cody (ie if you’ve been around the west coast anarchist or communization space for the past 10 years) it is highly doubtful you’ve forgotten him. He has a huge personality and is an outspoken advocate of… that is what we discuss during this episode. If a heretic is someone...
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Episode 74 – Heretics II: Rotn
The second interview is the heretic series is long time anarchist heretic Rotn. Rotn and I met just before the “battle in Seattle” that really boosted his notoriety (he appeared in 60 minutes in the following weeks) and is a great start to a two decade long friendship. During about a decade of…
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Episode 73 – Heretics I: Lew
In the process of thinking about what is an anarchist position in 2018 I was struck by how many people, and perspectives, aren’t going to fit in to any definition. This probably was what interested me in post-left anarchism 20 years ago–not that the bearded men of the 19th century weren’t…
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Episode 72 – Egoism IV: Bellamy
As you can imagine doing these little series of conversations is a tiny bit harder than I anticipated. I was hoping to have all of these available to you around the end of April. There is a ton of content locked up waiting for this to come out and I look forward to sharing it with you but……
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Episode 71 – Egoism III: birds
In this third episode my goal was to talk to someone who was newer to egoist ideas. My hope was to see how these ideas layer over time, but at an earlier time slice. Daniel/birds was gracious enough to sit through this conversation but I suspect they were agitated at the idea that they were a...
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Episode 70 – Egoism II: An Enemy of Society
In this second part of our series on egoism I discuss illegalism as the natural answer of “What is to be done? with regard to egoism” with the editor of the LBC book Enemies of Society. We discuss the context of France around the turn of the 20th century. Bonnot and crew are discussed.…
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Episode 69 – Egoism I: Wolfi Landstreicher
This is the first part in a series (part of the over-arching theme of The Brilliant in 2018) on egoism. While not an egoist myself I consider myself a fellow traveler and consider egoism to a core theoretical concept in anarchist thinking for better and worse. Post-left anarchism is a modern…
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Episode 68 – Scott Crow and Change
Scott Crow has been a good friend for nearly a decade (!!!). We agree on almost nothing except on how to disagree. As a grown adult I’ve probably had the longest conversations on record with Scott. We are both talkers. We both have a bit too much pride in our ability to convince people by using…
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Episode 67 – Dominique and Indigenous Anarchy
Dominique is a close friend. If we didn’t live in the big city we’d probably be closer but here we are. Two particles flying around the same center at different speeds. I’m slowing down. He is speeding up. We have been working around the conversation of Indigenous Anarchy for a number of years…
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Episode 66 – Klee Benally & TIA
Most recently Klee has been a movie maker but is also known as a musician and media activist. I interviewed him in the first few issues of Black Seed but that really isn’t where our relationship begins. I’d say our friendship begins exactly where most should, in humor. Klee is one of the first...
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Episode 65 – What is anarchism in 2018
In this season three opener we review what the intention is for the 2018 season. This initial set of four conversations (of which this first is more of a presentation) cover four themes. Second Wave Anarchy, Indigenous anarchism, the (im)possibility of social change, and Earth centeredness. This…
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Episode 63 – Technology V
The goal of this series is to discuss our critique(s) of technology and how these critiques have changed in the past few decades. Specifically we are discussing new technologies like mobile and Internet technology. Communication has changed. How we access information has changed. How has this…
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Episode 62 – Technology IV
The goal of this series is to discuss our critique(s) of technology and how these critiques have changed in the past few decades. Specifically we are discussing new technologies like mobile and Internet technology. Communication has changed. How we access information has changed. How has this…
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Episode 61 – Technology III
The goal of this series is to discuss our critique(s) of technology and how these critiques have changed in the past few decades. Specifically we are discussing new technologies like mobile and Internet technology. Communication has changed. How we access information has changed. How has this…
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Episode 60 – Technology II
The goal of this series is to discuss our critique(s) of technology and how these critiques have changed in the past few decades. Specifically we are discussing new technologies like mobile and Internet technology. Communication has changed. How we access information has changed. How has this…
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Episode 58 – Exclusion IV
This is a discussion with Andy Robinson. One of my favorite recent AJODA authors. Part of my interest in discussing exclusion was to begin to formulate a Grand Theory of Exclusion (I am only partially joking) to describe the why, how, and whatnot of why so many anarchists (that interest me) are...
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Episode 57 – Exclusion III
This is the third of four conversations about exclusion. This is an interview with Mitchell Halberstadt. He wrote a provocative essay back when I was with AJODA and I’ve stayed in contact with him every since. That said he has burned every anarchist bridge available to him since then. He’s been...
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Episode 56 – Exclusion II
This is a discussion with Soren and Dominique. You have met Soren before as she was the star of episode 52 and before that we had a brief conversion on a TOTW about her “art” experiment of torturing Internet creeps. Dominique was introduced to many of you in our Black Seed #3 conversation that…
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Episode 55 – Exclusion I
This is the first of three conversations about exclusion in the @ space. In the old days I used to say that the only interesting people in punk were the ones in bands, doing zines, putting on shows. The active punks. Today I think it is fair to say that many, if not most, of the interesting…
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Episode 54 – Isaac VII – The Pharmaceutical industry
This is the last of the pre-planned hour long conversations with Isaac Cronin. We intend on doing at least one more episode on questions listeners have for Isaac so ask them as a comment to this episode or email them to The Brilliant email address. In this hour we see how the situationist…
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Episode 53 – A Round Table discussion I
As most listeners know The Brilliant is related to a few other public projects, namely Little Black Cart (LBC) a publisher and distributor of anarchist books and material. Recently LBC has been called out and generally indicted by a host of individuals and projects for publishing texts by and…
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Episode 52 – Soren Cate
This is a discussion with Soren Cate who is a local anarchist friend of mine who I interviewed a few months ago for the @news podcast and mostly we discussed an art project they had worked on that explored the crossover between heteronormative internet dating culture and suffering. They have also...
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Episode 51 – Dr. Bones
Dr. Bones is a phenomenon that can only exist on the Internet. They are currently of face of egoist communism and only heard of Stirner through (social media) memes and who covers their face with a hammer and sickly scarf. A practitioner of Hoodoo whose most recent picture upload features a…
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Episode 50 – Concerning ITS with Bellamy
There have been quite a few critical essays, rants, and podcasts about how horrible any curiosity about ITS by anarchists is. This chatter has increased in volume and intensity since ITS Communique 29 which threw down the glove on any illusion that ITS didn’t mean it. This communique admits to…
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Episode 48 – Isaac VII Call it Sleep
This is the seventh interview with Isaac Cronin and it pertains to all the specifics of the film he made with his partner Call it Sleep. If you’d like to discuss any aspect of this podcast email us (832)
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