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Since the millennium change John Zerzan has been expressing his anti-civilization views on his one hour live radio show, "AnarchyRadio." By audio streaming (KWVA 88.1 FM) you can listen to "AnarchyRadio" live each week on Tuesdays at 7pm PST and express your views by calling 541-346-0645 during the live broadcast.

Listed below are the archives of "AnarchyRadio."

Looking for the latest show? If the annotated list of shows below hasn't been updated yet, you should always able to find the latest Anarchy Radio at the top of this archive.org search results page.

 

11-12-2024

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Election aftermath. archive.org SNAFU. New Thoreau book. Mass shootings, increasingly severe weather (e.g. drought, fires). Evolved Nest basics. COP29 absurdity as environment goes to hell. AI invasion. Anti-authoritarian media review. Three calls. Next AR November 26.

10-22-2024

[audio] Artxmis on the KC Anarchist Book Fair; Uncivilized Podcast with Sovenian anarcho-primitivist. "Anti-civvers" in recent novels. Faith in Nihilism? by Jason Rodgers. JVL's review of Graeber & Wengrow in Hunter-gatherer Review. The Naming Game by JZ. Last Born in the Wilderness podcast with M. Abdou. How to ignore online tech hoops. Action news, two calls. Next AR November 12.

10-08-2024

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. ILA "strike" and illusions about unions. JZ's publisher, Houellebecq's Annihilation novel. Discussion about how to value radical projects. HURRICANES: is Florida becoming uninhabitable? "Could AI be your beloved therapist?" "The Chit-Chatbot: Is talking with a machine a conversation?" by Jill Lepore. Resistance briefs, two calls.

09-24-2024

[audio] Poems by Sara Littlecrow-Russell. Genocide against the Palestinians worsens by the day; weather/climate extremes also. Anxiety among children increases, "evidence of despair." Isolation news: solo dining up 29% in 2 years. Answer to growing homelessness: repression. "Telephone"? When few take calls? 9/19 conversation with Leah Gordon e.g. what does enclosure mean today? Bjorn on healthy traditional lifeways. Was Social Media a Good Idea? Young People Don't Think So" (9-12 NYT). Next Anarchy Radio October 8.

09-10-2024

[audio] Memoirs. Munich conference. Latest genocide for Palestinians. Late summer outbreaks. Incredible over-heating. Loneliness, the Good Grief Network. Recent columns. Smartphone toll. Jamie reports on gathering Up North, Artxmis on new indigenous critique: Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Sean Coulthard.

08-27-2024

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Stranded astronauts. Groundwater crisis. Each younger generation more lonely, more cancer prone, devastated U.S., U.K. youth. Darcia Narvaez, work in technologial society. Gaza. Next broadcast: September 10.

08-13-2024

[audio] Earth inferno, hottest in 100,000 years. Pollution Olympics (soon too hot to be held). High tech genocide in Gaza. Five Star Strange by Kat Tang. WIRED: infrastructure widespread in Europe. James C. Scott R.I.P. Singularity next? Conversation with two members of Negativland. Next Anarchy Radio August 27.

07-23-2024

[audio] (Pre-recorded due to Covid) Immense record IT fail 7/19. Now poliovirus in Gaza wastewater;,what now, anti-vaxxers? Robert Putnam's classic Bowling Alone 20 years later, dashed hopes,for renewed connectedness in society. Fine recent work from rotn, 110 page Oak#6! Film work with Dutch anti-tech Dani Ploeger. "AI's Insatiable Energy Use Drives Electricity Demands (7/15 NYT). "The Growing Nihilism of Young Men" by Michelle Goldberg. Pop music steadily less complex, 1950-2023. Next Anarchy Radio August 13.

07-09-2024

[audio] Jamie's report on Earth Kin gathering. Ever hotter. Second half of JZ's "How Philosophy Fails." Being stuck in failing civilization. New Fifth Estate. How to attack? "The Represented and the Real" by JZ. New titles: Can Machines Have Free Will? and Literary Theory for Robots. Lots of latest horrors of technology. One call. Next broadcast July 23.

06-25-2024

[audio] "How Philosophy Fails" by JZ. Earth becomes an oven. Social withdrawal. The Anxiety Club. Phoney U.S. Gaza aid pier. Anarchist acts & bookfairs. Tech fails, recalls. What happens to morality in the anthropocene? Anti-smartphone/social media sentiment. Toll from video games, AI, lithium mining. Half of U.S. kids have cellphones by age 11. Recycling hoax. One call. Next broadcast July 9.

06-11-2024

[audio] "Last Rites for a Dying Planet" (even some on the left get it, sorta). "The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes of Brazil" (NYT 6-2-24). HEAT. Social withdrawal. Recalls, rising seas, Neanderthal makeover. Resistance briefs. Culture-crushing Apple ad. "Brutally lonely" boys (online). "Soft biotics" ad: Bringing Robotics Into Everyday Life. "AI Robot Gives Commencement Speech." Two calls. Next show June 25.

05-28-2024

[audio] Werner Herzog on The end of culture . Zeitgeist of doom prevails. Horror upon horror for Gaza, paid for by U.S. Ever greater storms, heat, homelessness. Paleo news. Reviews, columns. Phones are not for conversation among the young. AI, robotics in ascendant but dumbphones are hot. Topic of violence. Action briefs, two calls. Next show June 11.

05-14-2024

[audio] Floods, storms, Gaza. The Great AI Zombie Take-Over. "Ecosystems are getting nightmarishly worse" (Aeon May 10). Prehistory's tools. New issues of anarchist zines, Bush Manifesto, action reports. New books: Techno Sleep, The Immersive Enclosure (VR). Dumb phones on the rise. Consensus as conformity. Nightlife in big decline. One call. Next show May 28.

04-23-2024

[audio] Pro-Palestinian protests erupt on campuses. Discussion of anti-vax positions. Bizarre high-tech advances (e.g. Miss AI competition, computer-generated celebrities). Global heat news. Recalls, cyber fails. Brain-computer interfaces: "This is just the beginning" (Wired). Chat GPT invasion, metaverse in classrooms. Action briefs, three calls. Next show May 14.

04-09-2024

[audio] More death, Gazans turn to foraging. US classrooms empty/silent increasingly. Importance of human touch. Global deforestation on rise. The whys of conspiracy theory. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer. Language far older than thought(?) Zero privacy. Universal digital access and radiofrequency radiation threat. Griefbots. Anarchist sources, news. Two calls.Next show April 23.

03-26-2024

[audio] Initial broadcast channel confusion. Anarchy Radio switching to 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month; more manageable. Gaza genocide not sparking radical renewal. TOTW "Is Anarchy Sufficient?" discussion with Artxmis. Baltimore bridge: industrial failures mirror crumbling civ. Global air pollution. How to combat phone-based childhood, social media. Action reports. One call. Next show April 9.

03-12-2024

[audio] Megafires in Texas, Amazon. Heat records for 9 consecutive months. Two bad boy novelists probe society deepest. Loneliness crisis, dis-ease rampant. Work not central in lives. Artxmis's KS talk, Graffiti #11, 2 columns by JZ, Plastic in Utero, Backwoods #4 coming soon. Resistance briefs. Tech popularity puzzle. "Falling in Love with AI." Tech fails, outages. Damage by screens, "Love, Dementia and Robots. No Anarchy Radio on March 19; next show will be broadcast March 26.

02-27-2024

[audio] Odysseus-moon lander and civ navigator. Enormous temp swings, homelessness ever growing. Threat of fascism? Bret Easton Ellis. Chatbots make us stupid. East coast slumping into the Atlantic. Aaron Bushnell suicide protest. The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann: AI chains us to our limitations. Resistance news. Two calls. No Anarchy Radio February 5, next show will be broadcast February 12.

02-20-2024

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Hysteria over Trump as society and planet go under. Mass shootings abroad, California hit by monster storms. Crisis of "social fitness." Disagreements within anarchy - how to proceed. US-Israel axis of death. Report from earth skills gathering in Mexico (Israeli primitivists among the 500). Resistance shorts. Three calls.

02-13-2024

[audio] Gaza: mockery & murder. Rafah. Super Dud in Las Vegas. Hotter and hotter. Planes, helicopter fails. UK: "burnt out nation"? Worsening global health news. Graffiti#10. Autonomous a-p vs. organization fetish of anarchist Left. Driverless car trashed in SF. The Machine ever more mediating, invasive. Obituary spam(?) More on Vision Pro (creepy, isolating), smartphone addiction. One call.

02-06-2024

[audio] Crazier weather, mounting global heat. "Civilization is Like a Jetliner." Neuralink brain chip - 1,500 animals killed in trials. Politics of Earth First! "Talking About the Invisible Prison Cell of Cell Phones." Flattened, blank culture via algorithms. Latest mad geothermal scheme. Stay on your phone, get ADHD. The Left on technology. Is everyone now a luddite? Action briefs. New Hegel bio. One call.

01-30-2024

[audio] Resistance to Christianity, 700 pages by Raoul Vaneigem. Old King by Maxim Loskutoff (Ted in the woods). Suicide plague, students very messed up. Aging anxiety in Gen. Z. David Brooks: high culture will save society(!) Uncivilized Podcast. Gaza mega-horrors, war widens. Changing attitudes toward work. More on Vision Pro. Is everything unsafe as civ crumbles? Action news, Laundry Room#5. One call.

01-23-2024

[audio] The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak: balance and elegance--and non-symbolic. More Andreas Malm: large-scale sabotage needed. Virtual porn, even deeper estrangement. Severe cold, severe heat = death. Killer dope. Anarchist events, attacks. Failures of EVs. More on digital dementia. Solar vs. indigenous. After World by Debbie Urbanski (AI vs. humanity). Two calls.

01-16-2024

[audio] (Pre-recorded due to snow and ice) Announcements, new anarchist projects, resistance news. Collapse of ancient cities....decisions against complexity, hierarchy. Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown by Andreas Malm. Some girls now reach puberty at ages 6 or 7. Absenteeism in schools, autism up dramatically. Cyber kidnapping. Early onset dementia: children ruined by time online. Rise in screen time in schools. High tech pollution e.g. wind turbine blades in landfills, rocket launches. "The Great Disconnect" a family's healthy refusal of the internet.

01-09-2024

[audio] Latest from Uncivilized Podcast e.g. Klee Benally interview. Radical Anthropology Group's Camilla Power's take on The Dawn of Everything. JVL's Human Rewilding in the 21st Century.IDF censorship of journalists. Earth's hottest year, boreal forests being eradicated. !st mass shooting of the year.The Sphere, $2.3 billion dollar screen of screens. "The Rapid Progress of AI Will Continue" (NYT, 01-09-24). Four calls plus several crank calls (!).

01-02-2024

[audio] Klee Benally RIP. A more nuanced account? of trans/TERF. Sports in shambles, one more sign of collapsing civ. More mainstream notice of anti-domestication (e.g. Never Alone author on NPR Jan. 1) Huge drop in time spent with friends. Children killing children. 42.9% rise in obesity, almost 10% morbidly obese. Failure of "cool streets." Firebomb's swan song, Action news, one call.

12-26-2023

[audio] Gaza bludgeoned and starved, no functioning hospitals. Crazed global weather. Online slander. From microplastics to nanoplastics. Deaths due to smartphones. Homelessness, "Deaths from despair" thesis. All of us Strangers. JVL Rewilding book now available. Ellul discussion. "How Else Is It Possible" poem. Action briefs. One call.

12-19-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Blind murder in Gaza. Homelessness at record high as are suicide rates.,Maternal mortality, childhood obesity rise. Severe global weather swings as COP28 flunks. Anews lacks ideas, James Van Lanen does not! The Earthing movie, unsafe Tesla. Chatbots continue take-over. Machine "learning. Lawrence Anarchist Book Fair. Endless smartphone damage. Anti-Israel resistance, one call.

12-12-2023

[audio] "Rewilding" on NPR (Dec. 8). Gaza: 10 weeks of genocide, paid for and protected by U.S. COP28 climate summit: "death warrant" for nations immediately threatened. More on Woman the Hunter. 1 million more Britons in mental health care than 5 years ago. 3.3 million Americans with chronic fatigue syndrome, no cure. Resistance news. AI imperialism & its fake regulation. More smartphone toll. Four calls.

12-05-2023

[audio] Genocide in Gaza. COP28 absurdity. Aral Sea now desert as planet sizzles. MSNBC's 'The New Luddites' segment. Artxmis reports on Lawrence KS Anarchist Book Fair. Flowerbomb's 'Oblivion: Anarchy and the Collapse of Industrial Civilization.' Maureen Dowd(?): AI represents 'annihilation.' Lots of resistance briefs. Two calls. Recommended 'The Milagro Beanfield War.'

11-28-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Ways news media keep us in the dark. Over 600 mass shootings so far this year. Ozone hole, eco-anxiety grow. Women in prehistory better hunters than the men. No "off" switch for AI. "Digital dementia.""Life Really Is Better Without the Internet."Anti- transphobia action in Portland."Slow Burn: Civility and the White Community."

11-21-2023

[audio] Meaning of positive response to bin Laden's 2002 public letter. Ward Churchill's fate for his "free" speech. Plastic in Utero #2. HOT planet as bogus climate summit nears. New anarcho writing. Action news. Drive-thru food, less human interaction. Death of the phone call. "Smart" technology a loser. Local newspapers disappearing. Plastics unchecked. One call.

11-14-2023

[audio] Most heat-trapping gases in 800,000 years. Horrific air pollution in New Delhi. Fires. Enviro poetry from California, lyrics from Oklahoma. NY minister of loneliness. Isolation, sedentism. "Where's the Remote?" by JZ. New offerings. Anti-work youth in China. Orwellian bureaucracy in Chiapas. Phoney anti-AIspeak. 'Degenerative' AI. Space trash.

11-07-2023

[audio] Israeli genocide - is it sparking a new era of resistance? Latest enviro bad news, life declines.Message from Tina, action briefs, events. "AI Safety Summit"(!) in UK. AI revealed, tech addiction(nomophobia). News from Chiapas. Adverse tech health effects. DEVO on tour at 50: "We arekind of like the house band on the Titanic." Walking down, pedestrian deaths up. More inert, less alert.

10-31-2023

[audio] Mass shootings. Fires. Hurricane surprises. Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. 10 billion fewer Alaskan snow crabs. West, now East Antarctica melting fast. Enormous temp rise records for 2023. No chance for global overheating to come in under 1.5 Celsius increase. Weird new health pathologies. Anti-work, anti-tech sentiments. Tele/tech health is a fraud. AI- "More than Human" says Harvard magazine. Action/political briefs. One call.

10-24-2023

[audio]Kathan co-hosts. Anti-Israel sentiment, local pro-Palestine rally. Seth Kaplan: Society, not political system, in grave peril. Role of war in civ breakdown. New books, action reports. One long call-in. If AI can do anything we can do, it does not just replace the boring tasks, it replaces all the tasks." No guardrails on tech, chatbots march on. Schools ban smartphones. More screen time, less mental health.

10-17-2023

[audio]"We Live: A Late night Conversation" by Nazel Pickens. Gaza. Heat, drought news."Zombie Virus" awakens after 50,000 years. New anti-tech books, Anews wakes up to tech question?? New AI 'advances'. OSPREY -anti-social media group. "Levi-Strauss Revisited" by JZ. Action briefs.

10-10-2023

[audio]Uprising from Gaza. C. Levi-Strauss revisited. Pope on "collapsing" planet. Plant extinctions imperil many medicines. Recycling failures, carbon offsets a joke, "green colonialism." Bob Black on anarchism. Resistance news. "Outshining the Stars, Blocking the Heavens" (more and bigger satellites]. AI energy drain, blindness to the blight that is technology. Two calls.

10-03-2023

[audio]Constant cop murders of Blacks, Almaden Street anti-eviction struggle. Brazil dolphins dying & other HEAT news. Extinction, recall briefs. Report on Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. NYC is sinking. Fashion models - no smiles in 30 years. "Leave the World Behind", "The Creator" movies. Sabotage AI as AI moves forward e.g. into art. Anti-smartphone testimony. Resistance news. Two calls.

09-26-2023

[audio]Over 500 mass shootings so far this year, August was planet's hottest month ever. New Orleans' water supply threatened as salt water creeps up the Mississippi. 480,000 year-old wooden structure found in Zambia. Higher and higher on the loneliness scale.Geo-engineering 'solutions' fail. Chatbots take on ever more roles and functions, robots for kids. 14 deaths in NYC lithium battery e-bike fires. Anti-smartphone sentiment. Resistance news. Discussion of Robin Wall Kimmerer. Two calls.

09-19-2023

[audio]Jesus Sepulveda discusses his Poetic Reason in the Age of Digital Control. Two deserts: Sudan and Burning Man. Hottest, wettest summer globally. Earth: unsafe for humans and others. Eco-anxiety, absenteeism, "zombie trout" in Montana. Recalls, youth cancer on rise. JZ in Portugese. No to smartphones. Hands-free toothbrush. New films by Bjorn, "Beyond the Screen, the Stars."Two calls.

09-12-2023

[audio]No broadcast because no sound engineer showed up (medical emergency)

09-05-2023

[audio]Bad Idea Publishing author in studio next week. Claude Levi-Strauss on some hunter-gatherers in Brazil. Crisis in cosmology, disconnect in how economy is perceived. Burning Man flooding. Peak Sand. Invasive species spike, ground-water disappearing. Strikes/contracts follies., resistance shorts. Tech work sucks. How cities cannot be viable. Chromebooks hell for students. One call.

08-29-2023

[audio]Unstoppable mass shootings. Rise of fires, heat waves. Idalia--and more to come. Women hunters in prehistory. "Conspiracy 'theory'" by JZ. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat," by Beres et al. "The Case Against AI: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" by Judy Estrin. Phoney opposition to chatbot AI to general embrace, in days. "Electric Cars Are Made of Pollution and Human Misery," by Kathryn Porter. Screen time makes kiddies stupid. "Quiet quitting" still with us. Two calls.

08-22-2023

[audio]"We Are Witnessing the 1st Stages of Civilization's Collapse" [The Nation!]. Hyundai: "Progress is our law of nature." Spread of mass shootings. Why are we so sad, mean, insecure? Kids bereft, incapable. "The Age of the Urban Inferno is Here." Polycrisis is a term. Chatbot as life coach, comedian, etc. Action briefs, two calls.

08-15-2023

[audio]Maui, HI: apocalypse now. Trump cult and those obsessed with it. Heat + isolation = disaster. Conversation with Jessica Kraft re: her Why We Need to be Wild book; parallel with Darcia Narvaez' Evolved Nest book. "My Mom Will Email Me After She Dies." "We thought the internet could change society. Instead it became society." "Why Is America such a Deadly Place?" Resistance news.

08-08-2023

[audio]The HEAT. Bronze Age Pervert's recent call. Diseases tick up. The Great Dechurching.Conspiracy theory 2.0. "Moxie"- a talking robot (chatbot) to teach kids "social skills." World- view projects 8 billion facial recognition links to cryptocurrency. New podcasts, action news e.g. Russian recruitment center arsons. One call.

08-01-2023

[audio] Fern's talk at Sam Bond's. West is ablaze. Southwest becoming unlivable. N. Atlantic current may soon stop. Weekend carnage. Homelessness as damaged people. Sharp overall health decline. Island of Tuvalu going under; virtual future. Robots with chatbot brains.Technology as pandemic. New zines, books, gatherings. Resistance reports. One call.

07-25-2023

[audio] Where is it NOT burning? Oppenheimer...and Barbie: radiation vs. a plastics world. Which is worse? Spread of mass shootings. Online all the time (mental health crisis). Fake summit re: controlling AI. Grunts who power AI, problems of EVs. "Yes, Collapse" by JZ. Fern at Sam Bond's 7/30. Resistance reports catch-up.

07-18-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Globe is a furnace. Nowhere to hide. "US Sets Record Mass Killing Deaths." Daniel Everett interview: Fidias Podcasts. JZ on Uncivilized Podcast. with Artxmis and friends. Chinese youth are "lying flat." Douglas Hofstadter is horrified by AI. "Stop the [tech] Carousel, I Want to Get Off," Houston Chronicle. Myth of AI as 'just a tool.' New black metal from indigenous Sga'gahsawah. One call.

07-11-2023

[audio] Earth sizzles, floods. Records fall as extremes mount. Climate crisis changing the planet's rotation. Learning sinks as tech surges. Scary health news. Domestication boosts disease risks. Hunting very common among hunter-gatherer women. Asteroid City by Wes Anderson. AI redefining the social.. "A Trilliion Little Pieces," E. Kolbert on plastics as definition of modernity. Jamie, with the Hadza in e. Africa. The Contemptuous #5. Two calls.

06-27-2023

[audio] Whatever happened to 'post-left'? Anarchist dregs vs. fresh advances. Heat, flooding extremes: even more erratic. Unprecedented hopelessness in Britain. Record global cocaine use and production. "Betrayal of Innocence" by JZ. Plastic in Utero launch. "Chronic Noise Proves Deadly." Loads of anarchist book fairs. Action news. Industrial scale solar in desert: destructive, like social media. One call. No broadcast next week.

06-20-2023

[audio]Kathan co-hosts. Darcia Narvaez film "Reimagining Humanity." Severe heat so soon. Is technology "exponential and irreversible"? Emma Goldberg: "People Are Rethinking their Relationship Not Just to Work but to Time." Rising tide of mass shootings. Isolation, absence of trust blamed on "social" media. Is the Singularity already here? New drugs: even more lethal.Resistance news, In Plastic Utero, Unravel.

06-13-2023

[audio]"Who's Joking?" by JZ. The Joker (2019) - 24 carat nihilism. Death of Ted K, Unabomber relevance,in a violent technoscape. (Indigenous) kids survive 40 days in Columbian jungle. Collapse in the heat. Trump sideshow. Resistance briefs. The Machine advances, occupying more of what was once intimacy. Chatbot 'literacy.' Plastic in Utero zine unveiled. Three calls.

06-06-2023

[audio]Death of a friend. Fires, train derailments, apt. collapses. Lonely reality,wages of grief. Uninsurable housing, racehorse death culture. Apple's Vision Pro roll-out, as AI combats thought. Cloud data storage centers spread like the stinknet weed that is devouring the Sonoran desert. More from The Contemptuous, LBC announces end. Stay tuned for Human Rewilding in the 21st Century: Why Anthropologists Fail. Action reports.

05-30-2023

[audio]Memorial Day weekend carnage. Extinctions: much worse than thought. Red Sea coral die-off. Big increase in weight loss surgery for children and teens. Record police killings in past year. AI is feared and unpopular. Anti-tech Chicago Med TV show. e-skin, e-fake media.What's up at Thacker Pass. Anarchist book fairs galore, resistance briefs. Bison rewilding project in Alaska. One call.

05-23-2023

[audio]Severe global warming impacts. Tohono O'odham ceremonial person shot 38 times by Border Patrol in Arizona at his front door. The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World without Choice by Jacob Ward.. 45 minute interview with Darcia Narvaez by Evan, Kathan and Jamie.

05-16-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Big recall fever. Broken sociality. Where is the social in a landscape of loneliness and isolation? The Age of (Techno-) Acceleration. Doug Rushkoff jumps ship: gives up on the internet. "The social fabric is fraying in a thousand ways," David Brooks.Growing global fungal infections imperil planet's food supply. Darcia Narvaez interview next week. Two calls.

05-09-2023

[audio] Hair-trigger violence: "Why Are Americans Shooting Strangers?" Mass shootings increase and occur in other countries. Surgeon General: a more and more lonely and isolated populace is a public health crisis. "Chatbots & the Apocalypse" by JZ. 'Godfather of VR, Geoffrey Hinton: AI might eliminate humanity itself when it controls its own codes. Has Social Media Destroyed a Generation? by Jean Twinge. Action reports. The Contemptuous' fine critique of the Left in all its guises.

04-18-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Rewilding and resistance theme. Unending wave of mass shootings, anywhere, everywhere. Is 'undiagnosed mental illness' the key? Millions are messed up in a fundamentally wrong world. Discussion with Artxmis. Insane weather. "Social Media Is Doomed to Die." Chatbots march on, replicating symbolic culture. Announcements. One call. No broadcast next week.

04-11-2023

[audio] Mass shootings: "It's Everywhere!" Quit Social Media discussion. Graffiti #3. Diseases spreading, species dying off. The youth ain't buyin' it. Ad of the week: AT&T "Connecting Changes Everything." New AI brings 'catastrophic thinking.' 'existential anxiety.' E. Gudkowski counsels 'nuke it all!' Green EV ruins planet. A machine to read your mind. New Fifth Estate, new John Gowdy book. Action news, one call.

04-04-2023

[audio]Foul-up at the station: no broadcast, no recording.

03-28-2023

[audio] Oak#5! "If We Don't Master AI, It Will Master Us." More on domestication; civ and childhood. The multiverse: no here-and-now. Global climate anxiety among youth. London's Lonely Girls Club. Epidemics, crazed weather. Ad of the week: National Conservancy plugs AI. Recalls, tech fails. Facial recognition, 'augmented reality' on rise."Poverty?" by JZ. Resistance briefs.

03-21-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. UN: We have less than 10 years to avert global catastrophe. Extremes of drought, storms prevail. Surgeon General: Dire mental health of kids is mental health crisis of our times. Ad of the week: creepy Xfiniti for kids. Dependence on GPR leads to dementia(!) "Writing Your Wedding Vows? AI Can Help." Chatbots bid for friendship. 5,000 mile, 10 million pound rotting seaweed tide hits Florida, Mexico. Slow down technology?? Plastic in Utero zine, Plant Anarchy book, resistance briefs.

03-14-2023

[audio] California underwater. Banks, trains fail. Parade of scumbags. "Mrs. Davis": Nun fights AI.Enviro calamities. Shootings. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, by Jenny Odell. "The Last of Us" ends. Technology swallowing everything. Bananas, coffee, chocolate may be gone by 2050. Meta blues. What hunter-gatherers show us. Chatbot does Nirvana tune (crap). "This Changes Everything" by Ezra Klein. One call.

02-28-2023

[audio] James Van Lanen's talk at Sam Bond's. "Beware Creeping Biophobia." Nurses, teachers quitting in droves. War on Drugs: a 50 year flop. Earliest human capacities. Light pollution. Algiers new album. Christian Anarcho-Primitivism by Bison Van Zanten. Resistance reports.Remote kissing, What's real, animate, what's a chatbot? B of A ad of the week. More space travel, more pollution. "Youtube Gave Me Everything. Then I Grew Up." Two calls.

02-14-2023

[audio]Valentine's Day. Love is in the air? Turkish quake tied to climate crisis, not a 'natural disaster.' Teen girls engulfed in sadness and trauma. Mass shootings. Avian flu spreads to other species. Failures of modern systems. Fires ravage Chile. High-rises for China's pigs. Nihilism explored. At Work in the Ruins by Dougald Hines. Ohio train wreck. Squarespace Super Bowl ad of the week. In- destructible wind turbine blades. ChatGPT tune for Decemberists. Latest geo- engineering madness: magnesium hydroxide in the oceans.Three calls.

02-07-2023

[audio]Turkish quake magnified by civ. Thomas Zeitzoff. "Primitivism" seminar U of O Feb. 20.Robin Wall Kimmerer. Crisis of Great Salt Lake. Potent solidarity for prisoners; Italian embassies fearful. New grass-roots zine, Graffiti. Apple surpasses 2 billion e-devices. "The Teenager Leading the Smartphone Liberation Movement" (NYT Feb. 2) "In the Age of AI, Major in Being Human" (NYT Feb. 3) Huge costs of 'green,sustainable' technologies. Two calls.

01-31-2023

[audio](Last week's show mostly not recorded because of technical difficulties.) Jesus Sepulveda at Sam Bond's; series now on Community Television. "We weren't meant to live like this," says JZ neighbor, "chained to an 12x18 screen." Pig culture on display at Memphis. Anti-work presence. Erratic climes. Earliest obsidian tool, prehistoric amputation. Ford recalls. Atlanta struggle,prisoner support actions. Smartphones or else. Price of technology. Lithium, chatbots, barren zeitgeist of the technoverse, one call

01-24-2023

[audio] Mass carnage, shootings a part of pathology of civ imploding. As scary: how the juggernaut of technology is enveloping everything. Weather, health, extinctions.The Deluge by Stephen Markley. Nothing outside plastics. Deep fakes uber alles. What next? Online drives fatigue. "How Technology is Bringing Dead Relatives 'back to life'". Light pollution. Atlanta and varieties of solidarity and resistance. Two calls.

01-17-2023

[audio] Special guest: Fern Thompsett on efforts to live outside tech society in the Pacific Northwest. Climate extremes worsening by the day. AI chatbots unleashed', crises ensue. Major fails of the week, one call.

01-10-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. California drowning, homelessness crisis. Electric substations attacked. 988 suicide line very busy, expanding. AI robots moving in, seek consciousness. New tech at CES e.g. e-skates, high tech toilet! Invasive, dis-abling 'progress.' UK space program flop, recalls. Microsoft embraces unionism. One call.

01-03-2023

[audio] "As 2023 lies before us is there anything that isn't disfunctional in society? More blight, erratic weather, shootings. Southwest Airlines failure, the EV hoax. Many high tech glitches, outages. Wm. Shatner: this earth is all we have. Screen time ruins kids, social media fizzles. "How to Use Your Smartphone to Cope with Vision Loss"(!) Resistance attacks in France, Germany, Greece, US.One call.

12-27-2022

[audio] "Blizzard of the century," similar toll in Japan. More extreme weather projected for 2023. 37 million new Covid cases in China in one day. Failure of Southwest Airlines IT: again the vulnerability of tech systems. HBO "The Last of Us" series--based on a video game as pop culture dumbs down. Tesla flops, so do supermarket checkout kiosks. Geo-engineering, apps instead of memory of thinking. Attacks on electricity substations, more on ChatGPT. One call.

12-20-2022

[audio] [Recording delayed due to brief power outage.] Hydrogen saviour? Warming in the Anthropocene. Arctic Alaska rivers turn acidic orange. Post-apocalypse novels. Shootings, child homicides: a public health crisis. Trees, crops faiing in U.S. P. 22 L.A. lion meets end. Rewilding news. Strikes, foraging, more on the Luddite Club. Action news, "Uncle Ted's Cabin" (!) Recalls and child labor. Robot vacuum cleaners spying on folks, metaverse failing. One call.

12-13-2022

[audio] The "promise" of nuclear fusion (?) To keep doing what should've never begun. Environment crashing, accelerated ruin on all fronts. Ads of the week: Samsung (Let's Go Outside...VR) and Boston University (Data Reigns). BBC's Burn Wild series(?) Resistance reports. Girl Scouts tout 5G for merit patch. "Living Off the Land," Kayla Sulak. Elon Musk booed off SF stage. :What Twitter Does to our Sense of Time (12-13 NYT). AI Art, ChatGPT replace human creativity, artists hail luddites.Two calls.

12-06-2022

[audio] Tales of deepening isolation. Worsening contamination, extinction, and other die-offs. "All There Is," a CNN special on grief. "Waiting for the End of the World: Should We Be Rooting for the Apocalypse?"(!) Anti-Technology Is Not Dead, new zine. Resistance briefs. Giant EU roll-out party for the metaverse is giant dud: 6 show up. EV boom vs. environment. "How To Replace the Sky" comic by Matt Huynkh. Tesla follies. Fern Sunday night at Sam Bond's.

11-29-2022

[audio] No Thanks No Giving. World Cup background. Mass shootings at even higher levels. Older people live alone increasingly. "Journey to Doomsday" re: Florida-size Antarctica glacier. Amazon forest beginning to collapse. 90% of U.S. counties have had disaster designations. Downfall of civ is ever more clear. Tuvalu turns to metaverse as rising seas threaten its existence. Resistance news, upcoming anarchist events. "The World Can't Recycle its Way Out of Plastics Crisis."

11-15-2022

[audio] Deana Dartt Sunday. Record emissions for 2022 despite phoney COP27 climate summit.We're now at 8 billion. Shootings news. COVID and depression. QAnon drops ignored. Action reports. Backwoods#3. From "Lying Flat" to "Let It Rot!" "The Age of Social Media Is Ending" by Ian Bogast. AI 'art.' FTX crypto collapse. Big tech's big problems.

11-08-2022

[audio] Kathan co-hosts, Jolly Heretic misfire: my confession. Global climate summit nonsense.2022 already termed hottest. Mississippi River drying up, California woes. "We're All Losing Ground, not Just Students." Record election spending, shootings, pediatric care crisis. The Axle Grinder of Revolution: death to commuters - a new ITS or satire? Generation Isolation"as kids retreat from the social to online. Action briefs. New Fifth Estate. One call.

11-01-2022

[audio] 45 days in, "Women, Life, Freedom!" in Iran. David Brooks on "The Rising Tide of Global Sadness." Excellent "Six Notes" poem by David Baker. Very weak major "Envisioning Life after Climate Change" by David Wallace-Wells (10-30 NYTM). Environmental ruin, mass deaths in mass society. Conversation with It's Going Down folks. Metaverse - looking like a big flop. Our dependency on an increasingly vulnerable techno-world grows.What can't those on the Left see?

10-25-2022

[audio] UK news: "The Teenage Mental Health Crisis Is Now a Societal Disaster.""Obvious cause...is the internet." In New York a teen Luddite Club abandones smartphones. Scary rise in respiratory illness among kids. Fires in Midwest as drought spreads from West Coast. Election blather. "Undercurrent of rebellion among youth in China. Action news. Gamers more apt to be racist, sexist. Heavy tweeters declining in number. Tech fails, Metaverse in doubt. The plastics menace and false solutions. One call.

10-18-2022

[audio] "How Can We Revive Generations of Lost Knowledge?" by John Schandlenmeier. U of O's Designing for the Flourishing of All Species (?) Two Wyoming colleges are phone-free with very curative results. 5.3 billion phones will be discarded in 2022. Metaverse's woes. ACT test scores lowest in 30 years.Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marras. Resistance news. The Knowing. One call.

10-11-2022

[audio] Kathan is co-host. How bad does it have to get? Uprising in Iran a month in, 80 cities, all 31 provinces. World heat waves as climate crisis "spirals out of control." Darcia Nardaez' important book; Human Animal Project podcast: "It's TIme to Rewild!" The Cult of Civ by Tom Murphy from Resilience. Fall Camp news, action briefs, one call.

10-04-2022

[audio] Ian: hurricane of the future. Rocket fails. Fear of leaving civ. Heat officials huddle as Arctic, awash in plastics pollution, acidifies. 300 killed or injured in Indonesian soccer stampede. Mass shootings now daily. Online vs. learning. Foraging, a Palestinian film. Stephen King's new horror novel, Mr. Harrigan's Phone. Carbon capture nonsense. Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection. Action briefs, one call.

09-27-2022

[audio] Tech problems at KWVA recently, especially last week (see below). Hurricanes worsening. Iran, Russia in crisis. Mass shooting in w. Siberia. More blackouts ahead for California. Noise pollution out of control. Oak editor Steve Kirk is call-in guest: Where are we at?. UN: 'world in peril, and paralyzed.' Cascade of new ways tech cuts us off from reality, from direct experience itself. Cybersickness foils VR. How To Blow Up Pipeline film. Resistance news.

09-20-2022

[audio] This is the link to the most recently recorded show. Because of a technical problem in the studio the 09-20-2022 Anarchy Radio show was not broadcast, streamed, or recorded. Here is a summary of program content: The Myth of Normality by Gabor and Daniel Matte. All-time most expensive residence as inequity reaches new heights. Adults need Anxiety Screening; mental health in tatters.Pig atrocities, new dis-eases. Coyote comeback in So. California. Noise levels ever greater. How To Blow Up a Pipeline film: property damage absolutely required. Action briefs. Tesla storage facility burns. Cybersickness means no VR. Lithium means destruction. Who needs human touch?

09-13-2022

[audio] This is the link to the most recently recorded show. Because of a technical problem in the studio the 09-13-2022 Anarchy Radio broadcast/stream was not recorded. Here is a summary of program content: Death of a parasite. Eco tipping points vs. 'Resilience and Adaptation.' Insomnia for all. Violence is rife. Lynda Barry on crippling effects of being online. The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher, Digital Madness by Nicholas Kardaras. Chatbots hated. The rich try to escape the collapse of civilization. "Eco-conscious" Chromebook (!) New anarchist voices, No Path, Breaking the Alphabet, action news. Vice deal with Saudi Arabia. Long-termism, one call.

09-06-2022

[audio] "Doomsday" Glacier in Antarctica threatens several-feet oceans rise. Even more extreme weather fluctuations. Mass killing in Canada. Evictions.Plummeting health for youth; declining longevity.Neurodiversity.Three calls: Fairy Creek struggle in B.C.; community television status; high-tech"Fawn" project.

08-30-2022

[audio] Pakistan underwater, big "heat dome" heads for California. Great Resignation persists. An "uncontacted" Amazonian people goes extinct. Mass shootings weekend. Artemis on horrors of tech context of teaching. Doubts about VR, AI, Metaverse. What We Owe the Future: dud of a new book.An anarchist autumn? Sam Bond's Book Club to be on CTV. Resistance briefs. Pamyua indigenous music. Anti-cyberspace documentary coming from UK. Two calls.

08-23-2022

[audio] Upcoming anti-civ talks. Cooking reduces energy expenditure of chewing; major evolutionary impact. Author-activist-anarchist Allan Antliff is call-in guest (postmodernism, Camas Books, Victoria Anarchist Book Fair).Anarchist actions, book fairs. Smartphones as deadly distraction. U. S. life expectancy declining. "Love" in the Metaverse. Is radical energy returning after 20-something years in U. S.? One call.

08-16-2022

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Catastrophic climate stuff. Citizen M Hotel: High-tech horror. More intense surveillance, worker monitoring. Tech fails, recalls. Ezra Klein: "This is anything but an argument against technology, were such a thing even coherent," (NYT 8/14). Victoria trip; Camas Books collective thriving. Fairy Creek uprising. Earth First! Journal responds to K. Tucker's challenge re: decolonization. Action reports, two calls.

08-02-2022

[audio] No show August 9 (JZ in Victoria BC). The now-usual extreme heat, fires, flooding. Pelican extinction. A crime to be poor e.g. LA's war on the homeless. W hat's new at Meta, in the cloud, apps, algorithms. Dangerous if ubiquitous robots. Amazon and solar big enviro problems. Anarchist events, disconnect attitudes, post-civ vs. anti-civ, action briefs, 4 calls.

07-26-2022

[audio] California ablaze. Monkeypox is latest pandemic. Solar power weakens with extreme heat.Alpine glaciers melting at record pace. Coeur d'Alene Lake debacle. Conversation with Artxmis,anarchist writer and Uncivilized podcaster. Technology de-skills us. Walk the Distance, augmented reality hike app (!) New novels paint bleak picture. Breaking the Cycle film for renewal of life. Action briefs, two calls.

07-19-2022

[audio] World is burning, civilization dying. Bizarre disease eruptions.988 suicide line - texting as himan life-line?? New anarchist books, music, actions.Conversation with James Van Lanen on CHAGS,food autonomy in Italy.(two calls)

07-12-2022

[audio] Rampant Covid. Mind of mass shooters. "The New Slovenliness." Phone SNAFU:no Artxmis Graham Thoreau conversation. Drought & fire. Declining mental health. 200,000 year old mattresses. Recalls. Rewilding reports e.g. The wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde, action briefs. Lithium rush aka green extractivism. Condition of art: "Welcome to the desert of the virtual." Analog vs. digital. Canadian telecom failure, other tech hazards.

07-05-2022

[audio]Mass shootings, of course. Independence Day or "Hostage Nation"? Unarmed Wayland Parker shot 60+ times in Akron. Some shoot back. iPhone is 15 years old: "almost impossible to conceive what a world without smartphones would look like." More extreme, erratic weather. "Not post traumatic stress disorder.It's ongoing stress disorder." As society can no longer hide its ugly, empty, oppressive features as anarchist energy seems to be emerging. CHAGS preview.

06-28-2022

[audio]Monkey pox.global food crisis. Roe v. Wade and The Myth of Human Rights by Bob Black. Global heat waves. Workplace stress. Earliest humans 1 million years older than thought. JZ columns for Eugene Weekly. Barry Lopez empty suit. Project Unabomb podcast series.Action reports. Metaverse news,other tech projections.One call.

06-21-2022

[audio]Jan. 6 Committee side-show. How now, anti-vaxxers? World droughts, dead penguins. Congo rainforest ravaged; recalls. Australian activism. Fifth Estate locked into "radical solidarity" (the Left as albatross, fail). Ecology Contested: primitivists are eco-fascists:more leftist garbage, Full-page NYT ad: "Meta - Virtual Hearts Will Help Real Doctors Save Lives." Action news, more tech fails, falsity, lies. "Everything is crashing."

06-14-2022

[audio]Kathan co-hosts. Who can gun laws locate, shooter-wise? Weather getting increasingly extreme. Varieties of denial and lies to cloak systemic ruin. Lithium mining = "irreversible air and soil contamination"; "green sacrifice zones." Highlights of Oak#4. Language chat-bot (LaMDA) is sentient, has consciousness of a 7-8 year-old, says Google engineer. Anti-abortion offices attacked, anti-militarism, ant-tech action in Sardinia.

06-07-2022

[audio](NOT Ohio State football game) Even more mass shootings. Congressional hearings on Jan. 6 attack. Enviro catastrophe news. Diseases rising, work culture questioned.Techno fakery, U of O study on smartphone effects - conducted via smartphone. World "rapidly becoming one giant farm." Internet hall of mirrors: where is meaning/truth? Walmart bans cocoanut milk made with forced monkey labor. "I Don't Want Your Progress!" essay.

05-31-2022

[audio] Uvalde, endless mass shootings. Pig culture. Two recent anarchist events in Eugene. Disease/ health hazards news. Extreme weather, herbalist aspects. Can plastics be recycled? Critique of Bored Reason, by Dimitri Nikulin. Virtual Abba, AI for your poop. Anti-civ and de- colonization. Anti-military resistance in Russia, local rioting, action briefs. One call.

05-24-2022

[audio] Hakim Bey (1945-2022). Interview with Steve Kirk, Oak editor. Event at Sam Bonds tomorrow. Erratic, extreme weather; droughts, fires, scary hurricane season ahead. Poverty, isolation. pollution news. Rotn call. "Autonomous sensory meridian response" in museums re: "our increasingly isolating digital age." OnlyFans is an employment agency app: "how easy it is to simulate online intimacy"(!) Resistance briefs.

05-17-2022

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Mass shootings, racism on the rise. Cryptocurrency collapsing. What can anarchy contribute? (Eugene discussion event 5/25) Space polluted by rocket launches, satellites. Wildfire season already underway. Cliodynamics journal trashes Dawn of Everything. Happy for You by Claire Stanford: an app/algorithm to tell how happy one is. Civ crumbling on all fronts..

05-10-2022

[audio] New anti-tech CD from Arcade Fire. "In Grief Is How We Live Now" (NYT 5/8). A shredded social, personal fabric in late civ. Over a million in U.S. have suffered and died. Raging fires in American SW. "Metaverse, Number, Philosophy" by JZ. Actual cost of electric vehicles, deep sea mining: ruin has no limit. Birds die of heatstroke as India sizzles. Another new low for anarchistnews. Action news.

04-19-2022

[audio] Tech failure: the broadcast was fine, but it didn't get recorded.

04-12-2022

[audio] Mass shooting of the week. Hundreds more US billionaires, many thousands more homeless. "All the Lonely People," by JZ. Kathan reports: Birds' self-liberation and more. Baseball, Florida's manatees face extinction. MatureDose is a U of O app that measures one's time in nature(?) Four Eugene high-school suicides in 12 weeks. Metaverse, cryptocurrency problems. Endless navel-gazing at anarchistnews.org. Resistance news.

04-05-2022

[audio] Two excellent quotes about civilization. Just today's news alone reflects environmental catastrophe. Conversation with Jamie re: his upcoming Anarchy After Graeber, and more; much needed! Kids as young as 5 on social media. Drought, valley fever in California. Mass shootings, selected recalls. Alcohol-related deaths among women up 85% since 1999 (pre-pandemic). "Why Are People Acting So Weird?" Resistance briefs.

03-29-2022

[audio] Giant ice shelf collapse in E. Antarctica. Microplastics now in our bloodstreams. Call-in with Jason Rodgers, author of Invisible Generation collection, on anti-internet DIY culture. "How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?" (The Atlantic, 3-8). Prevagen, NeuroQ, etc. Is cognition going downhill like everything else? Severe bleaching event hits Great Barrier Reef. The Boundaries of Human Nature by Matthew Calarco: strongly anti-domestication re: Donna Haraway. Dematerializing human existence: the Metaverse.

03-22-2022

[audio] "Sweet Jane." Sad, shredded social landscape. Conversation with Mark Seely; his new book is Old Dog. New psychiatric illness: "prolonged grief disorder"(?) New Houllebecq novel, Annihilate. Literacy crisis; kids' reading levels falling. Tech show a big fail at SXSW. Digital detox in Japan, dumbphones on the rise. Extreme weather, action news.

03-15-2022

[audio] "Best Hope for Ukraine Lies with its Cities" (Bloomberg 3/14) (!) Remember Makhno. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Global Collapse is in View." Discussion with rotn re: Black Blossoms at the End of the World (new book). Carbon capture, energy independence - ways to guarantee further productionist ruin. Next Nature is planning a holiday in space, "How Do You Date without a Dating App?" More pre-metaverse tech horrors. New Path, a new anti-civ zine. Action briefs.

03-08-2022

[audio] First 20 minutes was of last week's episode due to tech changes at KWVA.Kathan co-hosts. Death of a granddaughter. War on Ukraine "first social media war." Covid toll nears 6 million globally. Amazon rainforest to turn into grassland. Space junk slams into moon. Tik Tok faces suits: its negative effects on youth. Teledoc offers "telehealth." Internet soon to be fully AI generated: bots not humans at the helm. Buy a car, a house from one's sofa. Drought deepens for California. Climate scientists may go on strike because no-one is listening. Acts of resistance.

03-01-2022

[audio] War on Ukraine, grass-roots resistance. Pentagon: "Nintendo Generation" new recruits weak and fragile. Global water cycle, wildfires crises. Musk's Neuralink human-computer bond development based on animal torture. Moxie robot for kids "to build social-emotional skills"(!) Replika, #1 chatbox companion." JZ at The Computer Room with Katya, a fine conversation. Galactic Starcruiser tech fantasy hotel. The myth of sustainable fashion, rise of plasticulture. Black Blossoms at the End of the World book. Next week: after two, years, back live in the studio, with Kathan.

02-22-2022

[audio] School shootings and other violence reach new levels, youth mental health in tatters."The Meta...What?" by JZ. Are we edging toward it? Ethanol dirtier than gasoline, solar inadequate power source for EV charging stations. More lithium-ion battery fires. More tech fails, anti-work zeitgeist. Encouraging new interest in primitivo. Mega-drought in U.S. West - worst in 1,200 years, as seas rise. Resistance victories in Canada re: pipelines, and other action news.

02-15-2022

[audio] Even Elon Musk sees civilization crisis, as he talks Mars getaway. New Book Network interview Feb. 17, The Second Sleep, post-collapse novel by Robert Harris. Anti-vaxx truckersjoin hands with neo-fascists.Koalas face extinction, % of kids who read for pleasure at lowest point ever. Open season on cops, year-round fire season on So. California. Resistance news.

02-08-2022

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Some positive news e.g. simple stoves for the unhoused, the good energy of Bound Together Books in SF. Murder of Amir Locke, a pig video presentation. "Apocalypse Whatever" (02-06 NYT);current failure of Metaverse roll-out. Discussion of what's at stake: namely, everything. Tech imperialism aims at dominating every sphere of life. Resistance briefs.

02-01-2022

[audio] More species face extinction; 123 degrees in western Australia, all-time record for southern hemisphere. "Mining" by JZ. Fire at Big Sur: year-round fire season in California. Antarctic iceberg A68a, world's biggest, moved north and melted, releasing 152 billion tons of water. Senegal beaches awash in plastics, 9,000 barrel oil spill off coast of Peru. Reality+ by David Chalmers: hooray for virtual future. iPhones, social media at war with authentic connection. AI, suicide rate both on upswing. Winter Count primitive skills camp v. popular, sold out. Resistance news.

01-25-2022

[audio]Overheating world, part of Java being submerged. Excerpt from Mark Seely's remarkable Old Dog, JZ's preface to Russian zine Egalite questionaire. Metaverse promises new horizon of experience as its merger of digital and virtual would extinguish actual experience. Attention span, focus undone by ever-encroaching tech. "This is no Way to be Human," states Alan Lightman about a natureless world, but can only advise being "mindful" because "technology will not stop or even slow down"(!). AI chatbots for "conversation" in the global, barren techno-sphere. Anarchist news, development.

01-18-2022

[audio]A first: kids 12-17 now prefer being alone or online to being with friendsor family: the crushing estrangement of tech. Two op-eds on same day about political and social disintegration (NYT 1-14). Oceans warmest yet. The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK Jr. - dumb conspiracy dodge; Fauci, the devil? CIV is the devil. Mass shooting in Eugene. Tech failures, delays, propaganda. Resistance reports.

01-11-2022

[audio]Kathan co-hosts; maybe our last remote broadcast in 2 years. Jan. 6 anniversary hoopla -more distraction from the actual crisis. Covid rages and new, 'mystery' diseases appear (e.g. in New Brunswick). Boulder CO not a forest fire but an "urban firestorm." Superb new children's book: 24 Hours in the Stone Age by Lan Cook. "Waste colonialism" - plastic waste to poorer countries. "Focus Mode" (The New Yorker, 12-20): writer-machine interface. Action reports (esp. Kazakhstan, Serbia, Paris).blockquote>

01-04-2022

[audio]Covid and other diseases. "The Land" by JZ. Dirty mining (lithium, cobalt, nickel) for a "Green" future! Alexa tells kid to electrocute herself. "Untact" - hideous new level of estrangement: Anti human contact. The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy(life usurped by technology). More say they'll never have children. Mass shootings, winter wildfires,recalls. Taste the TV, a wonderful tech breakthrough. Arsons!

12-28-2021

[audio]Teen immiseration and despair. Dave Eggers' The Every: A must read. Anti-vax follies. Homicide by cops stays high despite protests. r/antiwork has 1.4 million members. Anti-Alexa as privacy concerns mount. Worker resistance, some of it outside Organized Labor control. Big far-Right threat?? Action news..

12-21-2021

[audio] Podcast interviews. Covid news. Schools closed Friday due to TikTok alarm, against backdrop of more school shootings. Arson attacks in Japan, mass violence spreading. Global warming now officially an "emerging threat" to U.S. economy. Tech vulnerabilities. E-sports gain ground in a tattered techno mental health landscape. Resistance news, victories.

12-14-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. "Birds Do Not Exist" - brilliant. A "Black Box" for the planet (NYT 12-11). Increased anxiety, suicidal ideation, depression among students. Suicide attempts among girls up 51%. Dream: instant "art" from an app. Mega-tornado in month least likely to see tornados. Young Latinos dying of COVID in alarming numbers (LAT 12-04). Multiple fires in dry Idaho. Re-sistance briefs. Solstice - new light - ahead.

12-07-2021

[audio] Once-radical Kingsnorth hits new low. Anti-vaxism as conspiracy 'theory'. Dire enviro news e.g. blizzard in Hawaii, prairies burn in Montana, NE Brazil becomes desert, world's worst pollution. The existential gamble of the Metaverse: tech uber alles? Miami's Art Basel now digital, virtual. Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Match- Makers by Rob Brooks. Mass shootings resume. The Heartbeat of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. Action news near and far.

11-30-2021

[audio] "Time, Domestication, Stress": Layla Abdel-Rahm presents. Hunter-gatherer references on rise. Pandemic death toll marches on, anti-vaxxers have blood on their hands Falling faith in basic institutions. Delphi: AI designed to make moral choices. More on recent books. "We're Longing for the One Thing the Metaverse Can't Give Us" : human touch. Yassification(?) Varieties of resistance.

11-23-2021

[audio] Deep Adaptation: shocking surrender-to-catastrophe movement. An anarcho-primitivist review of Graeber-Wengrow book by JZ. Sign of the times: LA's Staples Center becomes Crypto.com Arena. Desert tortoise next on extinction list. Qanon: "a threat to American democracy"(?) The Every by Dave Eggers. All glaciers may be gone in 20 years. Mental health in tatters, especially among youth. Panopto classroom surveillance. Resistance reports.

11-16-2021

[audio] Excellent a-p get-together in Portland. Phoney climate summit in Glasgow. Geo-engineering our only "hope"? The Machine marches on. Seoul city govt. signs onto Metaverse, as 3 out of 4 Americans think Facebook makes society worse. Much distrust, anti-civ ideas make headway, scaring Graeber-Wengrow types. Powerful "Zuckerberg" poem. A Hunter-gatherer Guide to the 21st Century - nothing of the sort says Mark Seely, rather a thinly -veiled transhumanist effort! Mnemophrenia movie - what is real in a VR world? Resistance news.

11-09-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Save the Atlanta Forest campaign presentation at U of O. "Metaverse? Are You Kidding Me?" (NYT 11-1). "Is the Problem Facebook? Or the Internet?" (NYT 11-4). Tech's effort to control everything. "Work? I Think it Numbs You Somehow" (NYT 11-2). Seamus McGraw's From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter: no greater silence than that between shootings. Mass society, mass violence. How to Blow up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire by Andreas Malm: why are we not seeing property damage, sabotage? U.S. life expectancy declining. Action briefs.

11-02-2021

[audio] Intercontinental Zoom conference on time and domestication.A radical thaw? Something's in the air. More erratic and extreme weather as Glsagow climate summit convenes - "the last best hope" (NYT 10-30) (?!). Being a Human by Charles Foster looks wonderful, nails domestication. 70% of Americans think social media "do more harm than good," only 20% see it the other way.Elon Musk's SpaceX has leaking toilets problems,Roblox games site down for days.Resistance briefs.

10-26-2021

[audio] Preview opinion of Graeber and Wengrow's new book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Everything. Climate crisis impacts across the board, in every field.Anti-work pervasive, Squid Game repulsive. Dune - a cautionary tale? Micro-plastics, "forever" chemicals" EVERYWHERE. Extreme heat deaths way under-reported. Byung-Chul Han's latest, Capitalism and the Death Drive discussed.Resistance notes.

10-19-2021

[audio] "The Great Resignation" (The Atlantic 10-15) and related 'revolt against work' aspects. "Presence" poem from Bill in California. Rising plastic, rising seas, rising dis-ease/disquiet. Various tech fails, outages. Upload, an opera that blurs distinction between human and machine, a popular theme. QR code tattoo popularity. Annual weight of e-waste equal to that of China's Great Wall. Wire your brain to short-circuit depression, literally.Byung-Chul Han books. Action news.

10-12-2021

[audio]Kathan co-hosts. Report on Sojourner Truth book launch In Gary IN. Two global Facebook outages last week, as it becomes even clearer how FB and its apps damage society and teens in particular. 6x more heat deaths in California 2010-2019 than thought. Deepening "eco-anxiety" according to British Medical Journal. Glaeser and Cutter's Survival of the City book is pro-city even as it acknowledges the "demons that accompany density"(!) Earth, moon dimming ("earthshine"),absorbing more heat, worsening climate crisis. Action news.

10-05-2021

[audio]Baudrillard, Biyung-Chul Han discussed. The cancer of "infrastructure," less than half of deaths by cops reported. Infants' poop has 10x the microplastics of adults.' Huge craters from methane explosions in Siberia. Amazon's Astro home robot sees, hears all. Massive carbon footprint of computers. Melting face emoji perfect fit for anxious, exhausted life-world. Action briefs, nature strikes back.

09-28-2021

[audio]Half of world youth think "humanity is doomed"(The Independent, 9/14). Mass shootings in Russia, Tennessee. TikTok news: indigenous woman, culture now media hit; trashing school bathrooms big craze. "Mark Zuckerberg's 'Metaverse' Is a Dystopian Nightmare" by Jacobin's Ryan Zickgraf. US Covid deaths surpass that of 1918-1919 flu pandemic. "Ebooks Are an Abomination" by Ian Bogost. Workers quitting in droves, action news.

09-21-2021

[audio] "Are We In the Last Days of Civilization?" (Vice News, 9/18).Latest global overheating catastrophe news. The great resignation continues. Potty-trained cows; zebras escape. Thousand of birds slaughtered by NYC high-rises. Covid deaths; ozone hole grows. "Virtual Reality Will Conquer Your Face" (NYT, 9/18), as metaverse spreads. Resistance news.

09-14-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. 9/11 and the world system. Local columnist wonders whatever happened to connection, place (R-G, 9/11). Always a tech "solution" to every manner of alienation. Workers still not working. CBS's "The Activist" series: online idiocy. Irish robot teaches many subjects (Irish Times, 8/30).Climate disaster marches on. Osaka, Japan cafe: no face-to-face contact allowed. Giant rodents attack luxury Buenos Aires gated community, LA bank trashed.

09-07-2021

[audio] Impact of overlapping disasters. Civilization itself begins to enter awareness(?) "The new norm," "the new dystopia." "Grace"by JZ. Playstation's "Season" game: experience last moments of dying cultures. Emergentism: will robots attain consciousness upon further development? Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke: massive, literal iPhone addiction. More on "metaverse" from Facebook. In Dixie Fire wolf pack survives, cattle herd perishes. 54% of youth have suicidal thoughts (CBS News, 8/26). Resistance news.

08-24-2021

[audio] David Rovics controversy: a basic tactical question. Afghanistan - history, resistance to Taliban rule. Mounting Covid death toll among cops - too stupid to vaccinate. Benefit cut-offs NOT easing work avoidance. Rainfall on highest point of Greenland's Ice Sheet, 1st time in recorded history as Greenland loses 800 billion tons of ice per year. Global inflammation at all levels. Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World by Lise Wells. Resistance briefs.

08-17-2021

[audio] FOIA request update. Two poems. Heat, fires, drought. UN Report: climate crisis getting much worse, much faster. e.g. July hottest month ever. As Covid onslaught worsens, Left remains blind, irrelevant.12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson: hymn totechnology, techno-future. Google's Find My Device for the phone-addicted. Wired: "I Think an AI Is Flirting with Me. Is It OK to Flirt Back?" (!) Mass shooting in SW England. Action reports.

08-10-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Covid rages, kills last Awa hunter-gatherer. What do we owe each other? Are fires becoming "unfightable"? "What if Humans Just Can't Get Along Anymore?" Internet deepens the problem. (NYT, 8/4) Robot "Pepper" a big flop at faking being human. Atlantic current weakest in over 1,000 years: dire consequences ahead for Northern Hemisphere."Suburbs of Surveillance" (Bloomberg City Lab, 8/4). Resistance briefs.

08-03-2021

[audio] Immiseration and technology go hand in hand. Olympics R.I.P. Devastating extremes of weather. Greenland ice is going fast. Loneliness breeds bad health and pushes authoritarian thinking. Great Salt Lake drying up. Facebook moving from social media company to "metaverse company."[VR] TERF hatred of trans folks. Tech failures, tech future (e.g. total surveillance,total plunder of the earth). Action news.

07-27-2021

[audio] Pessimism sets in as pandemic and climate fester harshly. Olympics fiasco. Covid deaths likely top 3 million in India. US life expectancy falls 1 and 1/2 years in 2020. Eric Clapton won't perform where vaccinations are mandated, a nice add-on to his notorious racism. Chris Hedges: "the great majority of antifa and black bloc folks are cops." "The Jessica Simulation: Love & Loss in the Age of AI (SF Chronicle, 7/23). Google tweaks emoji designs to make them more universal/standardized. Hyundai Ad of the Week: robots dancing with robot-like BTS K-pop band. Action news.

07-20-2021

[audio] FOIA follies. Covid marches on; thank you, anti-vaxxers! Letter from Serbia. Major study finds 1972 MIT prediction of probable collapse right on schedule. Recalls galore. "Simplicity" by JZ. Drug deaths set record, sea of shootings. Loneliness epidemic. Impacts of severe heat, flooding in Europe. Amazon now releasing carbon, not storing it.. Pathologies of late civilization and Left's basic blindness e.g. Wayne Price.

07-13-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts.Severe heat, West on fire. Covid realities vs. white privilege. NY subway system, city of Chicago: bleak futures. Where is consciousness? Brandeis U. cancels 'trigger warnings' - may themselves trigger (!) "Why Can't We Be Friends" (Real Life, July 1): social media "parasocial" interaction is false answer to disconnectedness. "Trees Give UsLife. The Fake Ones [cell towers] Give Us Tik-Tok" (LA Times, June 30). Indigenous groups stop Harvard geo-engineering project and other resistance news from all over.

06-29-2021

[audio] Tang Ping ("lying flat"): Chinese anti-work phenomenon, aspects in other countries. Robots as companions: debased response to loneliness. Mega canal planned for Istanbul area, more dead bodies of water, desert plants dying at alarming rate. Heat waves, other weather extremes. 12-story Miami condo collapse. QAnon invades New Age circles. Simlish, BTS for the brain-dead. Bismuth - clean energy of the future! Resistance news.

06-22-2021

[audio] Earth's trapped heat has doubled in just 14 years. Closing in on 300 mass shootings so far in 2021. Growing global mental health crisis over enviro devastation. Digital pet toys; robotic pets for the old who are "Home and Alone" (The New Yorker, May 31). "Regression" by JZ. "Should We Be Concerned that the decisions of AIs Are Inscrutable?" (Aeon, June 14), "Where Are All the Wild Things, Daddy?" (NYT, June 20). Climate refugees, mounting Covid-19 deaths, work refusal. Action reports.

06-15-2021

[audio] Kathan reinstated! A-p gathering in Portland. Sri Lanka's worst beach pollution ever,"sea snot" hastens death of Turkey's Sea of Marmara (already a mainly dead sea like the Gulf of Mexico). Almost 50 million Americans have only one - or no-one - to run to for help. The odyssey of an elephant herd in China. Further zombification for smartphone zombies. Apple can tell you how you are. Gigantic energy drain of cryptocurrency mining. Julian Cribb's Earth Detox: How and Why We Must Clean Up our Planet (25,000 die of contamination daily). Horrors of biotech, war on nature discussed in 2nd Nature: Scenes from a World Remade by Nathaniel Rich. Resistance briefs.

06-08-2021

[audio] Anarchist anti-vaxxers? (reply to "free spirit"). Cyberattack frenzy. Kids with zero contact with natural world. Miami needs 20' sea wall. Tech is constant enveloping context e.g. Amazon providing high tech "ZenBooths" for stressed workers; "Tell It To Woebot" (NYT June 1); Walmart employees to be online 24/7. Lurking: How A Person Became a User by Joannes McNeil (online culture). Action reports.

06-01-2021

[audio] Fossil Men: The quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison. "A Snarky Anarky Poem" by Jen. "The Great Resignation" (NBC News May 30): Work? No thanks. New Chernobyl problem. Shootings coast to coast. Pilotless planes? Worker blues at high-tech firms. Action news.

05-25-2021

[audio] Cease-fire reached one day after Italian dockworkers refuse to load Israeli weapons ship. The pig Chauvin charged with murder day after Minneapolis police station torched. "The Flight of Abstraction" by JZ. Civ. is a work machine. Half a billion are overworked. National parks, reserves fail to protect re: species loss, deforestation, etc. Drought, fires in West as planet overheats. Moor Mother, resistance news. "How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body" (Vice Motherboard) Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America by Meehan and Turner.

05-18-2021

[audio] Zionist assault on Gaza, latest Israeli atrocity. Cyberattacks have free rein. 'Help Wanted' - Is there a revolt against work? Blackouts threaten entire U.S. West. Universal contamination of American women's breast milk. Zooming worsens epidemic loneliness. IBT Fast Start, May 11: "The advent of social media came with claims that it would bring people together and harness a new-found sense of unity. Two decades later, we couldn't be farther apart." Smartphones the "death of proximity." Oak#3,Yes, Human out now. Action news.

05-11-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. 23 ton space junk "tumbled out of control" - rather like civ is doing. Global pandemic rages on.6th-grade girl opens fire at her Idaho school. Major mining required for 'green, sustainable'(!) technology. "Why Are So Many Children Nearsighted?" (May 4 NYT): kids online not outdoors. Techo-king Elon Musk hosts SNL: The purveyors of the Industrial Revolution were hated, spat upon, not celebrated. Permalink and other bio-engineering Franken-horrors. 11 states have abolished death penalty in past 16 years but state murder continues. 'Road rage' spreads to airliners. Resistance news.

05-04-2021

[audio] "Zombie Apocalypse" in India first-hand. These are the plague days. Bone-dry West: fire season begins. California's carbon offset credits increase pollution not reduce it. "A Stark Inequality" with each breath (NYT, 4/29): air pollution and Blacks. "Driverless" cars require constant surveillance. Toyota builds a city for self-driving cars. American musical about mental health a hit across China. Crohn's Disease on rise everywhere."Be Skeptical of Virtual Medicine" by Elizabeth Rosenthat: a partial critique. The rise of big data psychiatry. "Hunting for Stone" by James V. Morgan (Oak journal #3). Action reports.

04-27-2021

[audio] Police killings, mass shootings not slowing down. How not to understand pandemic, India, Brazil reeling. "Four Lost Cities" by Annalee Newitz: Failing civs marked by "political instability coupled with environmental crisis." Sound familiar? 3 billion fewer North American birds in past 30 years. Peak sand, drought looms in the West, more autopilot car fatalities. Cryptocurrency is mega energy drain. UK postal workers exonerated after bad software convictions (false data). New podcasts, books. Action briefs.

04-20-2021

[audio] "'Mental health' of the shooter? How about the 'mental health' of the country?" (CNN!) Johan Eddebo's review of Don DeLillo's Silence. Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Plotz. Potato energy. Commies in the park. Muldrow Glacier races toward its end. Katy Perry: "Social media is trash." 87,000 O.D. deaths in one year. "Eccentrics, Artists and Luddites Find Community on a Remote Scottish Peninsula. Resistance news from Portland and elsewhere. Cancel culture?

04-13-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. CO2 levels highest in 3.6 million years, cherry blossoms in Japan earliest in 1200 years. 4,000 Covid deaths per day in Brazil. An explosion of mass shootings; 30,000 children and teens dead by gunfire in past decade. Direct action resistance near and far not to be overlooked, as April 11 "White Lives Matter" rallies flop. Revenge porn, high tech horrors (e.g. Neuralink brain-computer interface). Big seller in Japan: single serve rice cookers, as iso-lation rules. AlphaDog is a Chinese robot "just like the real thing." Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff: an anti-civ novel to lift the spirit.

04-06-2021

[audio] New books by Laurent Testot and Mansoor Khan. Mass shootings: "Permanent Half Staff."Megafauna overkill extinction myths. Wildfires already. Netflix: as much co2 released as 2.7 billion miles of car travel. AI for emotional learning, dependant on grunt work of thousands of "ghostworkers." Trust in tech companies way down. Kaczynski's "thorough" and "well-supported" (anews.org) critique of anarcho-primitivism uses falsified evidence. Action news.

03-30-2021

[audio] Pandemic of mass shootings, pigs add to toll. Fine anti-tech lyrics from The Divine Comedy (2019) and Public Enemy (2020). Rethinking Food & Agriculture: New Ways Forward, by Amir Kassan and Laila Kassan. From butterflies to Manatees to elephants: extinction looms. Mega-ship blocks Suez Canal in mega-globalized world system. Where we've gotten to:"We have to make talking about suicide a part of everyday life." (3-27 NYT). Resistance briefs.

03-23-2021

[audio] Pandemics to come. The heat, the rising seas. Climate refugees. "Why Not Now" by JZ. "Ghost forests." "Your Face Is Not Your Own" (NYT 3/21): facial recognition technology - the further erasure of privacy. Tablets wreck toddlers, songbirds can't sing, rubber trees facing extinction. Chris Colin's Off: The Day the Internet Died. Resistance news.

03-16-2021

[audio] Peter Werbe is guest. Talking about his Summer of Fire: A Detroit Novel, 1967 context. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz. Cities sinking under the weight of civilization. Singapore "diabolically" overheating. Gulf Stream slowing (could mean disaster). Paul Kingsnorth now a Romanian Orthodox Christian (reason for his decline?). Globally: allergies booming, freshwater fish facing extinction. Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans, by Michaeleen Doucleff.

03-09-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Peter Werbe is guest next week. More on Klara and the Sun. All things covid. March 1 dust-up in Portland's Pearl district. Sherry Turkle (The Empathy Diaries) and Paul Kingsnorth (Alexandria) seem to be all in for the techno future(even as basics of tech are failing) (and the Brave New World presents itself as ever more alienating). Queens of the Stone Age lyric: "Is it too late to go back?/ Is it too late to go?"

03-02-2021

[audio] Vagaries of dying civilization, disasters far and wide (e.g. entire coast of Israel hit by big oil/tar devastation). Blockbuster novel by Kaguo Ishiguru,KLARA AND THE SUN: Are we losing true humanness to the Machine? Far right groups on the wane? Anarchism--autonomy over democracy. Ever more invasive technology, methane blow-outs in Siberia. Zero accountability for murderous cops. Action news.

02-23-2021

[audio] Texas (biggest power outage in US history) and 2-21 NYT's front page "Storms Exposing a Nation Primed for Catastrophe."The next pandemic, varieties of coastal Australia die-offs. More racehorse deaths, suicidal children. "Why Do Humans Struggle to See Themselves as Animals " (2-18 The Guardian). Mars rover called Perseverance; why do we persevere on a suicidal course? Sophisticated barbed tool in Africa: at least 800,000 years old. Important Crimethinc. report: "From Punk to Indigenous Support," action news.

02-16-2021

[audio] Are we at a pivotal moment, a turning point? Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World vs. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert. No contest. "The Next Pandemic is Coming" (2/11 WSJ). Global warming news, shootings, earlier pollen/later rain. Oysters, sea otters die-offs. "Revenge bedtime procrastination." Resistance briefs.

02-09-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. New (anti-tech) tunes from Weezer, Spark. Industrial ag and the climate crisis. Heavy metals in baby foods, no plan for "green" technology disposal.Himalayan glacier bursts, killing hundreds.Wildfire smoke not only contains toxic chemicals but "mind-bending" levels of fungi, bacteria. In and outs of pandemic reality, need for grass-roots alternatives, resistance. No More Cities, Zundlumpen, Gather,Loire estuary ZAD, war on cars in Portland, other action news.

02-02-2021

[audio] "A Note on Permanence" by JZ. Sharks & rays, bees way down, as seas keep rising. High-tech Japan has 'concretized' the country; cannot safely 'decommission' Fukushima reactors. Industrial disasters, scary lack of thiamine in Pacific. Alexa and robots displace human agency & presence, amid general dysfunction. "When every company from Facebook to garage door openers is racing to collect as much data as possible, we can't really opt out unless you want to cut yourself off from 21st century life." (1-31 NYT) Lauren Oyler's debut novel, Fake Accounts, plumbs the existential reality of cyber life.Uncivilized Podcast, action news.

01-26-2021

[audio] Culture of nothingness: "Into the Void" by Kyle Chayka (01-24 NYTM). The loneliness pandemic. Stephen Leahy's "President Biden Refuses to Make our Climate Crisis Worse"(!) as CEOs are happy, boardrooms relieved with Joe. WSJ reports "A Bid Bet on an Antiseptic Future." Orbital congestion points to satellite collisions with dire consequences. Ongoing collapse of world's aquifers. How To Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm. Action news.

01-19-2021

[audio] Jeff Hendricks, fairly young anarchist, dead of Covid, one of two million. Racist pro-Trump groups splinter with Trump in disgrace."Animal Planet" (1-17 NYTM): ICARUS project tracks tagged species via satellite "to bring them closer to us." (!) Insect apocalypse: 1/3 may be gone in 20 years. "A spectrum of new anxieties" for remote workforce. Japanese man for hire, presence of one human being who does nothing. Fiery batteries, 92% of Arctic microplastics due to polyester pollution from clothing. Resistance news.

01-12-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Crimethinc:fascist USA(?) NYT 01-10: Silencing a President, Big Tech Shows Where Power Now Lies."NBC News 01-03: "a lot of negativity around technology"- 'maybe the answer is MORE tech'(?) A record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2020. 40% of hospital construction in 2020 was psychiatric facilities. Salmon farming gets worse. 60,000 flip-flops found on Seychelles island. Cities globally on course to become ovens by 2100. Dutch book to introduce anti-civ, anti-tech ideas. Action briefs.

01-05-2021

[audio] Politics of the Nashville bomber. Barry Lopez: Ain't no Thoreau. Vaccination began in 10th century China. What is the anti-vax reality? Conspiracy 'theory' and racism. Covid-19 races on. 2020: hottest ever? Obesity in China, dancing robots. Online 'learning' a flop. Anti-Line 3 movement and other resistance news.

12-29-2020

[audio] New Years resolutions detourned. Nashville detonation: apparently anti-tech. Shootings galore and not just in US. OD deaths far outpace covid-19 deaths in SF. A record 3 million Americans died in 2020, increase mainly due to pandemic. Tech failures. Dimitri Orlov on technosphere threat to everything. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta. Ad of the week: Powerlegs - "deep muscle tone without moving." Unions as police agents, action news.

12-22-2020

[audio] Dark days. "Facebook is a Doomsday Machine" by Adrienne La GFrance (typical cop-out ending). Joseph Tainter, who has shown how and why civilizations fail, is now into "sustainability"(!) Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America by Wendy Woloson (how we become crappy?). 9 mile-long traffic jam in Japan. Sandal of nursing homes: "an era of institutional rot" - or is primary problem the institution (mass society)? Streaming in HD is 8x worse for environment. Major glitches re: videogame craze.Sunflower sea star nears extinction. Music of Harold Budd.

12-15-2020

[audio] Has the Singularity already arrived? IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in our Digital Lives by Chris Steadman; Is 'In Real Life' obsolete? U of O Knight Campus for Acceleration of Scientific Impact [e.g. bioengineering] unveiled. Great Barrier Reef receives most dire rating. 130,000 year-old stone tools found near San Diego. Unidentified illnesses on the rise. Doom-scrolling. California water now a commodity traded on Wall Street. Anti-gentrification autonomous zone in Portland, Beyond the Dark Horizon zine, other resistance news.

12-08-2020

[audio] Due to a technical SNAFU, the recording of the 11-08 show was unusable. Instead, KWVA rebroadcast the 11-10-2020 episode of Anarchy Radio with Kathan and John.

12-02-2020

[audio] Indigenous folks across U.S. fight to reclaim their traditional lands. From review of Cynan Jones' Stillicide novel:"...its theme of endurance in the face of loss hints at how the genre may evolve to reflect our own continuing catastrophe, for which the most dystopian fantasies may turn out to be nothing but a dry run." "Can Sending Fewer emails Really Save the Planet?" (No). Line between real and virtual worlds increasingly blurred as hypercomplex tech is increasingly vulnerable to failure and attack. New cockroach emoji - death of the human race anyone? MORE urbanization obviously the answer. Forthcoming: Wild Skills and Immediate Return books by Jessica Carew Kraft. Action news.

11-24-2020

[audio] Hunger, opioid deaths, homelessness crises, not to mention pandemic and ecocide"-Civ Is Crisis."Why Artsakh Still Matters to American Anarchists" by Nicky Reid: radical decentralization should be our destination. Ad of the Week: Medical Properties Trust: "unrivalled" investment opportunities in human misery! The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans by Eben Kirksey. Amazon, Google expand their reach. Action briefs.

11-17-2020

[audio] "World Past the Point of No Return for Climate Change" (Scientific Reports) as Covid-19 cases shoot up. China's glaciers disappearing. Art of Caroline Turner, possible Ish production on luddite perspectives. Global hunger pandemic, measles deaths soar. From cars to 'smart' video doorbells,batteries cause fires, recalls. Education serves Dataverse. Social media and depression. An anti-tech "California memory" (LAT 11-10). Indigenous Action of election. Action reports.

11-10-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Voice of Amazonia woman, Nemonti Nenquimo, (10.12 Guardian) much more profound than Crimethinc.'s "Anarchist Program." NYTM for 11-8 features Joseph Tainter's Collapse of Complex Societies, albeit with weak,wishful thinking conclusion. Metropolis by Ben Wilson surveys urban history, with weak, wishful thinking ending. Pratt's "Output" performance: dances with robot. Distance 'learning' a failure - and a means of surveillance, like 'smart' TV.Antarctic iceberg the size of Delaware on collision with island. Woman hunting large animals in Peru 9,000 years ago challenges gender stereotypes. Murder hornets, Godzilla wasps. Action news.

11-03-2020

[audio] Covid cases soar, weather ever more extreme. Heart attacks up 67% within two days of presidential elections. UK Minister of Defense: mindfulness, breathing techniques for better killing efficiency. Plastics, staple of modernity,fed via baby bottles. Genetic engineering (Crispr) destroys chromosomes. "There's Still Time to Fix the Internet"(The Verge 10/30)(?) Warming: less arctic ice, more methane released. Geo-engineering schemes gain ground,Tidal Basin in DC submerging. Resistance news.

10-27-2020

[audio] I am a bad voter. Pandemic, opioid death counts rising. "Conspiracy Theories Are Threatening America" (NYT 10/23). Colorado burning, Siberia melting. 'Smart' cities are wastelands. Another enviro time bomb: abandoned oil tanker off Venezuela. Seabirds leaving Falkland Islands. Nature Matrix by Robert Michael Pyle: idiotic liberal blindness. Stefania Milan on "technosolutionism": excellent. Oak Journal #2!! "It Is Google's World. We Just Live in It." (WSJ 10/21). Resistance news.

10-20-2020

[audio] Psychology of conspiracy 'theory' addicts. Giraffes down to 69,000; freshwater mussel die-off in U.S. Mt. Kilimanjaro burning. Heat gap pushing global inequality.Ad of the Week: IBM Watson, 'AI Sees All.' Phoniness of Sustainable Investing. Chinese high-rise "hotels" for pigs: extreme of domestication in face of epidemics. Movies, TV series about tech taking over everything. Recommended: "Alaska Subsistence: Spirit of the Ancestors" on YouTube, "100 Days Wild" on Dis- covery channel. Action news.

10-13-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts.Extreme weather getting more extreme, electoral politics more beside the point. "It is no exaggeration to say that what the next president does - or doesn't do - on climate change will affect the world for millennia" (The New Yorker) (!!!) Scores more communications satellites, service worsens ("The Trash Nebula"). Social media ruins mental health. Barbara Ehrenreich on cave art. Dental school training robots. Action briefs.

10-06-2020

[audio] How do we cope? How do I cope? The catastrophe is upon us.But whales sing in cruise ship-free waters, greyhound racing is ending. Tech failures abound.Deepfakes threaten history, reality. Work Mate Marry Love: Machines Shape Our Human Destiny by Debora Spar. Brain-eating amoeba kill in Houston, toxic giant hogweed ravages central Russia. 40% of plant species face extinction. Matthew Cobb's The Idea of the Brain (always a tech model). Dishonesty of robo-pets. Resistance briefs.

09-29-2020

[audio] JZ books in Catalan. Bruno Latour's Down to Earth on the massive failureof modernity. Liberals retreat to Resilience Coordinating Councils, having caved utterly on the collapsing environment. More shootings, including cops. Ocean heat waves. California, a heavily manufactured place, more subject to the crises. Six times more plastic by 2030. All rivers in England polluted.Indigenous anarchism e.g. K'e infoshop in Window Rock AZ. Resistance news.

09-22-2020

[audio] Warming seas - melting polar ice, severer weather. Skilled butchery of horse 480,000 years ago. Rumor-mongering abounds. Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen: debilitated millennials. If Then by Jill Lepore: tech is all about prediction (control). 5G: claims and arson-minded opponents. WIRED:"Is the Internet Conscious? How Would We Know?" "Imagine What You Could Do If Technology Pulled Out All the Stops" (Citrix ad of the week). Jason Gay: "Hi. It's Venus. Please Leave Us Alone." New anti-civ zine - Black Moon, from Sweden. Action briefs.

09-15-2020

[audio] The West burns, worst air quality on earth. 'Gotta vote, it's a matter of life or death!' No, it's a matter or death or death. "Once and Future Humans" by JZ. Worse pandemics ahead, as with wildfires. Ad of the Week: GE: "Building a Better World." "When there is decadence, it is the experience of late modernity," Ross Douthat.Suicide rate among the young soars since 2007. Answer? Lithium in the water supply; drug the population for "community mental health." Climate crisis threatens "entire financial system." Wild-life in "catastrophic decline." Resistance reports.

09-08-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Vagaries of conspiracy theory "thinking." David Graeber: progressive, NOT anarchist. Industrial disaster of the week: livestock ship sinks near Japan,6,000 cows. "Augmented reality" depletes reality and the senses; age of cyborgs is here. Portland and other cities carry the fight: courage and perseverance. Mass shootings, opioid deaths spike in North America. Rising prevalence of dementia a "global emergency." Algorithms removing human agency.Action news.

09-01-2020

[audio] Pandemic realities (e.g. domestication, density). Hurricane Laura lessons (e.g. coastline being financially abandoned). "Sapient paradox" - why so very recent appearance of symbolic culture? Industrial disaster of the week.Mind-machine obscenities. Poverty of art today. Coastal cities of the world subsiding. Action briefs."

08-25-2020

[audio] Election mire. Facebook ad: "Every Vote is a Voice Heard." Responses to pandemic. A plot to increase govt. power, says Darren Allen."Uncertain Times" by Flack and Mitchell: "an unprecedented opportunity" for tech systems to open a "better future." Alexa can discipline kids. California inferno. Primal Roots music video: "Send in the Clowns." Light pollution reaches ocean depths. "Grading by Algorithms Results in UK Debacle." Resistance news.

08-18-2020

[audio] HOT! World burns but it's OK because we can be virtual! Dependency on grid grows. Industrial disaster of the week: Mauritius tanker. Facebook abandons sea floor equipment, chemicals. On Time and Water: Climate crisis is slow motion disaster but moving faster than many think. How Everything Can Collapse by Servigne and Stevens. Contradictionsof "Fairytales of Growth." The Right To Be Greedy. Air pollution pushes covid deaths. Major flames of resistance.

08-11-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Techno-world meets real world of disaster and resistance. Mars mission is "gloriously enthralling" (NYT editorial 8/4)!! Ad of week: "Learn to be CEO of Mars Inc." (Quantic). Alloparenting by robotics; Robots to develop kids' "social skills"; Robot to star in $70 million-dollar sci-fi movie. Hurricane season to boom. Homeless in LA hanging themselves at alarming rate. Touch the Sky film on Ferguson 2014 riots. Action news.

08-04-2020

[audio] Society is contagion. Extreme weather meets pandemic. Let's not pollute Mars! ("Tread Softly," The Economist, 7/25.) "The City is a Lie" by Sam Grinsell. Virtual fans. Stock market on a 4-month high as economy craters. Online zombie? Go to SelfControl app! Teen caused massive Twitter outage, Cloud computing costs spiral. "How Do You Know a Human Wrote This?"--new GPT-3 software. Dying for an iPhone by Jenny Chan et al. 325 #12 new anti-tech collection, indigenous Nasa in Colombia are the Liberation of Mother South, more resistance news.

07-28-2020

[audio] Portland does NOT knuckle under to federal pigs. Aspects of the pandemic. Remote working, like online learning, not a success.Gates and Dr. Fauci push our species becoming GMOs as answer to pandemics. Jibo is robotic response to lack of emotional connecting. Google providing emoji replies to messages. Next financial crisis likely due tech/cloud breakdown. Maine lawns turn black. Soon: more plastic than fish in seas. No More Cities zine new from Vancouver. Joscha Bach, Layla Abdel-Rahim, action news.

07-21-2020

[audio] Brave New World streaming: dull because it's already happened. Fed police state tactics in Portland. Major social media hacks and failures. Record heat, floodings. 1.4 million year-old finely crafted bone hand ax found in East Africa. "If Life Feels Bleak, It's Because Civilization Is Beginning to Collapse" by Umair Haque. Ai Weiwei: "When science and reason someday give us the key to everything, that may be the moment we lose everything." Recommended books, good news from Belgrade, resistance news.

07-14-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts, in sorrow and anger. Coronavirus and the separation that is the technosphere. Almost 50 consecutive nights of BLM courage in downtown Portland. Alien civs die upon reaching the tech levels required to communicate with us; sounds familiar. Bicycles take over Euro cities; Civante e-bike from Yamaha - "fitness-focused" (!) Together Mode from Microsoft: unlike Zoom all are in the same VR space. Koalas, right whales face extinction, pink snow in Alps. When will anarchism turn definitively against mass society? Action briefs.

07-07-2020

[audio] On the 4th of July fewer than 1/4 of non-whites feel "proud to be American." Virus infections surge in U.S. as new H1N1 epidemic grows in China. BLM movement energy not going away. Insanely warm Arctic and fast-warming Antarctica. Flesh-eating bacteria + worms on 3 conti- nents. Global e-waste sets record, video gaming pushed as Olympic "sport." "Finger on the App" contest called after 70 hours. Mindfulness - Find the Right App. "Utopia of Free Software" (!) Raymond Tallis rips neuroscience hubris. Elephants mysteriously dying in Botswana. Hegel, Ainriail zine, action briefs.

06-30-2020

[audio] Victor Cirone + JZ on Youtube. Apocalyptic weather + "Global Warming Is Melting Our Sense of Time" by David Wallace-Wells. Saharan dust storm hits U.S.; mega-lightning bolts. Goodbye, Segway. Ad of the week: "Science Will Bring Us Back to Normal" (Pharma). "Racism and the Symbolic" by JZ. Gates pushes global surveillance and Biomilq projects. Resistance news, reviews.

06-23-2020

[audio] Destruction of racist, genocidist statuary goes forward. So does the cancer of development e.g. in Australia, Israel, Kansas to cite horrible instances. Sharp drop in Antarctica sea ice. Americans unhappiest in 50 years. "Actual Nihilism" by JZ. Deepak Chopra goes techno, Replika chatbot provides "companionship." Chomsky urges: Vote Biden! Microsoft ad: "Now our customers can unlock ever more critical data insights on the way to digital transformation." GM mosquitos approved for U.S. Resistance news and ILWU phoniness.

06-16-2020

[audio] Seattle's Capitol Hill autonomous Zone in Seattle and other advances - as killings go on. Profile of pig violence in LA. "Worries That the U.S. Is Facing Problems an Election Can't Fix" (NYT, 6/13). By a broken window in Memphis : "Artist Unknown. Civilization Unrest 2020." "Life as Civ Begins to Crumble" by JZ. Robot waiter in the Netherlands. "Reality Check: Artificial Intelligence and its Limits" (The Economist, 6/13). Action briefs

06-09-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Glories of the anti-racism groundswell. Militarization, scapegoating of anarchists nothing new. Spontaneous, leaderless explosion. Protestors may be moving past voting (NYT, June 7). Warmest May in history, highest CO2 levels in history. Massive diesel spill in Arctic Russia, national emergency. Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' grows. Mass killing sprees. Failure of remote learning, more against 5G. Resistance briefs.

06-02-2020

[audio] Racist pig murder of George Floyd sparks nation-wide fury; liberals counsel 'obey the rules'. 80 degrees in Arctic Siberia. November global climate summit in Glasgow put off (O no!). Locust plague now hitting India, a la east Africa. Blood business booming: high prices. "Lockdown Weighs on Poultry Production" - chickens as products. "Why Does Zoom Exhaust You?" The Internet of Medical Everything will bring "brighter, more promising future." Action briefs.

05-26-2020

[audio] Jared Diamond on epidemics; Rx?: 'more of the same'(!) Wonderful Werner Herzog interview. "Death and the Zeitgeist" by JZ. Weather extremes & predictions. Shootings resume. Artificial eye, robot sheepdog. Online child abuse surges, email medical reminders 100% ineffective. Action reports (e.g. cell phone towers ablaze).

05-19-2020

[audio] Industrial-scale density = pandemic toll. "Covid-19 Could Reverse Decades of Global Progress' (!) "The New Secret to Success? No expectations," Jason Gay. 18-ton space junk falls. Sea air full of microplastics not just sea. 5G, pushed for more than 3 decades, subject to more attacks/arsons, say feds. Desire for more tools, candle-making, etc. "I think our soul craves a simpler life." Online education failing, how about life skills. "Hunter-gatherers cannot domesticate anything, it's against their world view, which is based on equality and trust. Once that ideology changes, the entire structure of so- ciety is transformed and a new world is born." A new world of death is born.

05-12-2020

[audio] Zoom fatigue; social media detox needed. MORE liberal whining over Planet of the Humans. Climate change pushing pandemics. Greater CO2 rise despite pandemic shutdowns. Elon Musk's son named X AE A-12: hello cyborg techno-fascism. Extremes of global temperatures arriving sooner than expected. Robotic graduation ceremony in Tokyo. End of Black Mirror: "Life is the Black Mirror," says show's creator. 5G tower attacks not abating. Google drops Toronto high-tech neighborhood plan. Action briefs (e.g. wild elk destroy "Danger: Wild Elk" sign.).

05-05-2020

[audio] Is the pandemic "fake" (at base about social control)? More on 5G. Ad of the week: "Are We Doing Our Best for Future Generations?" (UBS). VR still doesn't deliver. More on Planet of Humans vs. green liberals skewered and angry. "Ancestor Dreams" by David Yearsley, Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones, Little Eyes by Samantha Schweblin. "Alexa, Help Me Meditate." Hackable humans; Party Royale game "a true social space." (Yes, a GAME). Politics and action briefs.

04-28-2020

[audio] Penguins on Cape Town streets. Turkish anarchists + Collapse Chronicles turn to primitivism. Oak #1 - get it! Wildfires so soon and April's 1st ever tropical depression. Rising carbon dioxide levels make us stupider. Mass shootings spread from US. You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South (digital toll on women). Terra Nullius by aboriginal woman Claire G. Coleman. Planet of the Humans by Jeff Gibbs. Arctic ice, global insects lose out. Virtual babysitting. Action news.

04-21-2020

[audio] Mutual aid projects flourishing, wildlife re-emerging. "Wild Ideas" (NYTM 4/19): animals point to a better world, which we are desperate to see..Only 9% of Britons want return to "normal" life; want the cleaner air, sense of community, etc. to continue. 5G is not safe, cellphone tower arsons spreading across Europe. Global drought worst sine 1200. Sudden collapse of ecosystems likely. Fantasy video games, magic feed denial. But revival of human voice (phone calls). Industrial disas- ters, excesses go on. Samsung adds hand-washing app to smartwatches for those too dumb to know how to wash hands. Resistance news.

04-14-2020

[audio] Don't shake hands ever again," Dr. Fauci. More on anti-5G arsons - will censorship follow? Edward Snowden: Coronavirus surveillance sets up "the architecture of oppression." Great Barrier Reef battered, mega-plague of locusts in E. Africa. Beyond the Dark Horizon, another new anti-civ zine. Dying virus patient: "Alexa, Help me." AI claims, promises. "Our trashed and overheated world is a slower pandemic," Timothy Egan. Facebook offers "Tuned" - an app for couples to talk to each other

04-07-2020

[audio] Aspects of the pandemic, aspects of denial. Continuities with pre-pandemic life. WIRED: we will triumph "through brilliant science and research, and through social cohesion." (!!!) "The land is the biggest health-care system." Wildlife, clean air re- turn for now, not emotional health as suicide hotlines are busy. Online 'life' is weak, thin. Ad of the week: Samsung - " television that will change your life." "Out with the New" by JZ. Action reports e.g. UK cell phone towers torched in anti-5G attacks.

03-31-2020

[audio] Is it Time to Postpone the 2020 Climate Summit?" (!!!) Warmest winter. Motorized leg exoskeleton--no unpleasant running effort! Anti-plastics efforts in Indonesia: cups, bags, etc. from seaweed, cassava, sugar cane fiber. Dr. Thomas Cowan: modern epidemics set off by tech developments (e.g. 5G). Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul." "Withdrawal--and Re-Entry?" by JZ in new Fifth Estate. Ad of the week: the Veil-intelligent toilet from Kohler.

03-24-2020

[audio] Who couldn't see the pandemic coming? Time for a REAL anti-globalization movement. Online 'life' advance gravely while "A Wave of Viral Anxiety Washes Over the Internet" (NYT 3/21). '. "Machine Psychology" by JZ. 'Plague dread' meets terror of climate apocalypse. Will this even greater separation, isolation remain the norm? Action reports.

03-17-2020

[audio] Conference call with Malik Rahim, Jamie, Kathan on the coronavirus pandemic and what it it telling us. Plus shootings, ad of the week (Lexus: hi-tech steering wheel for your soul), "AI is an Ideology, not a Technology (WIRED), "4 Reasons Civ. Won't Decline: It Will Collapse" (CounterPunch). Resistance news.

03-10-2020

[audio] "Primitivism" seminar at U of O today. "Unabomber: In His Own Words" now available. Coronavirus - more tech distancing. "Also A Spiritual Movement"by JZ. "Dying of Despair in America." Apocalypse Chic fashions. Robot hand can "sweat." Ad of the Week: Huawei - Connectivity Makes Modern Life Possible." Action news.

03-03-2020

[audio] Global air pollution pandemic worse than coronavirus. Election follies. Fires, already? Children, scientists find eco-grief. "Video Days" - chilling NYT story of e-emptiness. Action news. Lo-Tek: Design of Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson: indigenous approaches for living. 4 horses dead at Santa Anita in one day.

02-25-2020

[audio] One call. Goin' strong in Canada! + other resistance news. Latest civilization epidemic. Kate Eichorn's The End of Forgetting. Colin Koopman's How We Be- came Data punks out. Seas reclaim steadily more, "Solar Farms Are Taking Over the World." Social network with no people. "Don't Want Siri to Listen?" - Get the "bracelet of silence." Robots promised to "feel" before long.

02-18-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosted. Even more erratic weather. IRL vs. cyber"life." Stampedes and pile-ups - mass society. Brian Babbs wrongful death trial (vs. Eugene Pig Dept.). Death of Aragorn! Ads of the week (ARAMCO, Lexus). In 50 years 1/3 of all plant and animal species extinct. Resistance briefs, 3 calls.

02-11-2020

[audio] Mad weather, mass shootings spread globally. Pop music reflects the misery. Facial recognition on the move. "The Civilizing Sermon," by Peter Harrison. Climate change predictions suddenly switch to catastrophic. Antarctica warmer than San Diego Feb. 6. Tons more satellites, much more light pollution. "The Age of Decadence." Pan-Canada pro-indigenous resistance! Oak Journal. Action briefs, one call.

02-04-2020

[audio] Iowa caucus tech fiasco. Superb Owl as Miami sinks. Mass bus shooting, mass video arcade shooting join school shootings, workplace shootings etc etc. "One Nation, Tracked" You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy. Boffo ending to Civilization Heresies by Mark Seely. Seven S. on 'We know too much to go back' - what we know is slight, useless when Civ ends. Tech dependance ever greater. Action briefs.

01-28-2020

[audio] Epidemic coronavirus, ODs, mass shootings. "Darkness Where the Future Should Be," "How We Lost Faith in Everything." Student homelessness up 70% 2008-2016. "Divided Life" by JZ. Rewilding conference with Peter Bauer. Action reports, two calls.

01-14-2020

[audio] "Joker" and Houellebecq novels resonate. Why? Australian cataclysm, again. "My Problem with Adorno" by JZ. Peak Water. Shootings, again. Boeing/ car recalls fiasco. Ads of the week. Hideous new high tech wonders: Neon's "artificial human"; "living" robot made from frog stem cells. Compostable smartphone case! Action news, one call.

01-07-2020

[audio] War scare. Oz still ablaze. "Can't Go Back' by JZ. Virtual physical education, e-rosary. The Longing for Less by Kyle Chayka. "Man Bytes Dog" by James Gorman. Why Nihilism? (Warzone Distro). "How Our Phones Became Our Whole Lives in Just 10 Years."

12-31-2019

[audio] Elijah co-hosts. Tim Ream/ Tom Hayden: partners in pacification. Decade of Distrust, Decade of Disillusion. Home in America: On Loss and Retrieval by Thomas Dumm. "It's Not Capitalism that's Driving Ecocide; it's Civilization" by Kollibri Terre Sonnenblume at CounterPunch(!) No more birds, more on suicide. Synthesizin

12-24-2019

[audio] Elijah co-hosts. Way crazy ads-of-the-week (Xfinity, Hyundai, Michelob). "This Decade of Disillusion," new heights of obesity in the technosphere. Always climbing homelessness. Phantom Phone Syndrome. Say It Ain't So Dept: Greta Thunberg pushes "Fourth Industrial Revolution" madness. Action news. "Would You Let a Robot Take Care of Your Mom?" Ocean floor mining to push industrialism to the max.

12-17-2019

[audio] Drop-out communities threaten democracy(?), "The Hottest August" review. Climate summit absurdities. Mediterranean Sea Is Dying. Civ as epidemic: "a gradually accelerating self-annihilation." The contemptible dishonesty of Chris Hedges and Sherry Turkle. Jane Austen fans as the "avant-garde of digital culture."(!) Resistance news. Coding Campouts for kids.

12-10-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. On the rising tide of shootings. Extreme weather and global food crisis. Coyote with rat in mouth on SF street. Hunter-Gatherers: What We Can Learn from Them by Alan Barnard. Bhopal disaster 35 years ago: still happening in this industrial world. Arabs are losing faith in religion and religious parties. Action news.

12-03-2019

[audio] Americans are dying much sooner. K-pop moronism and death. Discussion of Joker with rotn. Air pollution horrors, new Fifth Estate. The Imperiled Oceans by Laura Trethewey. Madrid climate summit farce. Action news, one call. Last 10 minutes cut off by sports broadcast.

11-26-2019

[audio] Exposing the scumbag Tim Ream. Word of the Year, Oxford Dictionary: "climate emergency." Steven S's Paths from Modernity. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice. Call about the Agta hunter-gatherers in The Phlilippines, tech madness in China. "Gone to Croatan" by JZ. New anti-civ annual, Blackbird. One call, resistance briefs.

11-19-2019

[audio] Rash of shootings. "How to Talk to Kids of Shootings." Steve on Oak Journal. Serotonin by Michel Houllebecq, Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams. Comic book movies: "self imposed state of emotional arrest." "The End of Babies...Has Modern Life Become an Obstacle to Reproduction?" Superbugs: more of a threat than thought. Global resistance briefs, one call.

11-05-2019

[audio] New Delhi air: "apocalyptic." Gulf of Oman dead zone, the size of Florida. CA wildfire analysis. "Resilience work" - not resistance. New low points for Chomsky, Jensen. "World's First Poop Database Needs your Help." More eat alone. "Cali- fornia Is Becoming Unlivable." Global protests, action briefs.

11-12-2019

[audio] Crazed global weather. "Burning in Dystopian Civilization" - California is our future. "Please Touch Me." Intimacy down, suicides up. Insane tech answer to racehorse deaths. "Self-partnered" to replace "single"? A la' marry yourself? Techno "health" care. "Smart" cities - more and more surveillance. Two (Canadian) calls. Kathan co-hosts.

11-05-2019

[audio] New Delhi air: "apocalyptic." Gulf of Oman dead zone, the size of Florida. CA wildfire analysis. "Resilience work" - not resistance. New low points for Chomsky, Jensen. "World's First Poop Database Needs your Help." More eat alone. "Cali- fornia Is Becoming Unlivable." Global protests, action briefs.

10-29-2019

[audio] California inferno. Oak Journal in process. "Ritual" by JZ. Air pollution worsens. 2/3 of world's industrial emissions from 90 companies. 51% of American diet is ultra-processed food. Russian soldier shoots ten. Data-fy your baby: learn nothing. Internet 50 today...new emojis - how far we've come! Action news, including deer kills deer hunter. One call.

10-22-2019

[audio] Seattle Anarchist Book Fair comin' up. The News Shall Keep Us stupid. "Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore" - work. Religiosity on the wane but not suicide rates. Pope's first wearable is a $110 rosary. Over-heating Qatar now uses ac outdoors. Neanderthals in the Aegean 200,000 years ago. Ads of the week (Samsung and Splunk). Global resistance!

10-15-2019

[audio] War on the Kurdish experiment. Mega-typhoon hits Japan. Pigs now kill blacks in their own homes. Oil spills, high-rise collapses. California fires? Shut down the grid. New books: Mark Boyle, Christopher Ryan, Andrew McAfee. 420,000 years ago humans preserved bone marrow for future use. Machine learning, driverless cars? Not happening. "Leviathan Alive" by Jason Rodgers.

10-08-2019

[audio] D. Jensen/L. Keith hate speech in Denver - denied! Resistance (everywhere) news. Ads of the week: astounding tech lies e.g. "Innovation Has Changed the World, Moving Us All Forward." "Are We Living in a Post-Happiness World?" (NYT), "Electricity Doesn't Light Up the Soul" (WSJ), "Why Everything Is Getting Louder" (Atlantic). Iceberg the size of Oahu from Antarctica. Two calls.

10-01-2019

[audio] Napoleon Chagnon, civ defender, dead at 81. V. extreme weather events. What to do about wildfires(?) "What Will Happen after the Last Fish in the Ocean Dies?" WeWork.com debacle: no magic pill to cure work after all. Most bizarre ads. Suicides up among cops, military. "Just What Does AI Think of YOU?" 27,000 kids under 10 arrested since 2013. Action news.

09-24-2019

[audio] Global Climate 'Strike'. "Lost World" confusion. Back to school 'gear'. 2.9 billion fewer birds since 1970. Snowden's Permanent Record memoir. Ads of the week (all about DATA). 7 million displaced by extreme weather this year. The Economist: return to commons(!) Two calls, action briefs.

09-17-2019

[audio] What is Anarchy Radio? Dino Giagtzoglou's anti-tech essay, The Government of No One by Ruth Kinna. Extreme weather, more brain-eating amoeba deaths, recalls at insane levels. Precision tools 500.000 years ago. LA street fair features e-sports. Texting rules, No Tech Backlash? Action news, one call. Indigenous strug- gles in Amazonia, Steve Cutts' radical graphics. Delicious 2nd Green Scare Anarchist Bookfair statement.

09-10-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. More heat and fire, shootings. More on waning legitimacy of the reigning disaster. Death rates up, "The Age of American Despair." Ads of the week (Verizon, Inovalon), recall of the week (FiatChrysler). Tech is failing schools, robot Buddhism, UK cows online, orbiting space hotel, 3D "world-building," and more tech madness. One call, action news.

09-03-2019

[audio] Dorian: as Atlantic heats up, much more to come. "The Mad Rush to Bulletproof American Schools." "Do Something!" Savage Gods by Paul Kingsnorth: appalling narcissistic garbage. "Abandon the Death Ship" by JZ. Plastic snow in Arctic, lip-reading surveillance cams, recalls, sex robots may injure. One call; indigenous, anarchist resistance.

08-27-2019

[audio] Eve of hurricane season, of global recession, of Burning Man. Amazonia catastrophe. Heat, plastics, bad air, e-scooters. Real villain is not tech companies but tech qua tech. Siri, Alexa listening, recording you. Brain-computer interface: no privacy even for thought. But Google's DeepMind not paying off. One call, action news.

08-20-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Stunted nature of cyberspace 'discourse.' More sedentism: football, golf, and now fishing, on the decline. Robotic shorts, A Short Hike (video game!). More dead cops. Anthropology corner. Contamination follies. Frailty of online/offline grids. More horrors of modern childhood. Resistance news, 4 calls.

08-13-2019

[audio] Heat, water, food crises. Denial re mass killings, cop shootings, etc. Ag big and small destroys biodiversity. "Chernobyl" on HBO. Media then and now. "Data spills are like oil spills." Excerpt from Kevin Tucker's "Suffocating Void." Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution," by Beth Gardiner. One call, action news.

08-06-2019

[audio] SHOOTINGS - ever-worsening bloodbaths, bullet-proof backpacks. "Deaths of despair." I saw a young boy begging. Nihilism and Technology by Nolen Gertz. Tech destroys nature, steals its names (e.g. cloud, apple, stream). Amazon "Deathwatch," fires next. What are we doing? Boars invade Barcelona, Rome, etc. Antifa culture - pro soccer fandom? Resistance briefs, one call.

07-30-2019

[audio] Summer cancelled: Heat, Shootings. Bizarre current stuff from Lovelock, Kingsnorth (and Lyotard). Plastics everywhere, species not so much. Tech and its "vast digital underclass." S. Korean "You Tube Dad" when human connection has gone. "From Red Anarchism to Green Anarchy" by JZ. Action news, one call.

07-23-2019

[audio] "Art City" evening. Moon shot perspectives. Steven Pinker/Jeffery Epstein? "O Lost...?" by JZ. Mass killings, mass homelessness. Back to sailing, no shoes & other non- or anti-tech developments. "Was the Automotive Era A Terrible Mistake?" No to facial recognition, emojis. Anarcho-primitivism makes the TLS. "The earth is running a fever that won't break." Resistance news, two calls.

07-16-2019

[audio] Oregon Country Fair - hippies uber alles. Moon shot's 50th anniversary. "Re-Enchantment" - new Fifth Estate. Wild restoration. Cow cuddling, "Please Touch Me," as intimacy wanes. Anti-work grows: disconnect/ discontent threat. Happy Meal toys are killing the planet (Or is it plastic straws?) Will Van Spronsen - our John Brown. Action news, two calls.

07-09-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Visitors. Call centers as therapy sites. Disaster of the week. Toxic waters rising. Heat kills. Disease everywhere. Digitized images of a digitized world, plus robotics. Brain supplements craze in a stupefied world. Facial recognition: tech always more invasive. (Samsung iPhone) ad of the week: "One Giant Step for Reality." Resistance highlights, two calls.

07-02-2019

[audio] Protests everywhere. 2015 Eugene police shooting of Brian Babb going to trial. "The Last Black Man in SF." Latest contaminations, extinctions, sicknesses, extreme weather. "Experience" by JZ. Grid is shaky, malware take-overs abound. "Chat benches" in UK. Monopoly game gets computerized. Resistance briefs, one call.

06-25-2019

[audio] The case of Paul Kingsnorth. Refugees, melting, heart disease deaths up. "Years and Years" TV series - dystopian reality. Industrial explosion of the week. "Fully Automated Luxury Communism." Cities can solve climate crisis? Crab shells to fix plastics plague! Horns due to being glued to the iPhones. Action news. Buncha fine calls - and maybe a troll or two?

06-18-2019

[audio] Some dates/anniversaries of note (e.g. 6-18-99 anarchist eruption in Eugene). Heat waves, permafrost going fast. Rhinos, seals, insects, etc. also going fast. Brain-eating amoebas in New Jersey. Shooting of the week, (Lion Share Fund) ad of the week. Grid ever more vulnerable, undependable. Time for healing? Resistance news. Virtual celebrity, health slippages. Tech companies to lose trillions soon to cool off servers. One call.

06-11-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Bye to repulsive anarchistnews.org. Agency, Laura Drake. Plant extinctions, heat threats. On shootings/stabbings. Plastics, methane, Gulf of Mexico dead zones. Civilization ends by 2050. Recalls, new plagues. Office luddites, (IBM) ad of the week. Action news, one call.

06-04-2019

[audio] Mass shooting of the week, "America, A Nation of Trauma." The malignancy of mass society. Mass flooding, mass near-extinctions (e.g. gray whales, puffins, curlews), mass psychic immiseration, mass homelessness. Conver- sation with anti-tech partisan Laura Drake. Kids' bike riding declining big-time. Experience Industry's latest: Star Wars World, resistance briefs.

05-28-2019

[audio] MOVE prisoners released after 40 years - and a Phila. caller. "When We Were Human" by JZ. Endless disease outbreaks, contaminations, breakdowns - health of all species bludgeoned globally. Army worms, African swine flu in China. Ebola, leprosy, measles, etc. Mass stabbing in Tokyo. "Will Robots Ever Be Better Caretakers than Humans?" Laura Drake blasts tech. Tech regulation, privacy: fantasies. Major mergers. Books, not e-books, on the rise. Action reports.

05-21-2019

[audio] No more Game of Thrones! Zoltan boosts microchip implants "so long as it doesn't harm anybody else."(!) Comcast wants to track your bathroom habits. Disney World could build a nuclear reactor. 1st organism with a fully synthetic DNA code. Gene that fixes depression NOT. Millions of birds killed by industrial vacuum olive harvests. Seas rise even faster. Local landfill fires due to lithium batteries. Action briefs, one call.

05-14-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. More on "Done in from Within." Industrial excrescence of the week. E. Africa trashed by e-waste. Air Buds a recent e-crime. Ferlinghetti's Little Boy memoir. "Depression is a Disease of Civ," by Stephen Ilardi. Resilience, new phony buzzword. No military solution to mass shootings, latest suicides upsurge: teen girls. Social media as addiction and enemy of thought. Action briefs.

05-07-2019

[audio] Devastating UN report on extinctions. Greenhouse Distro. Age of cruelty, no empathy? Academics discover anti-civ. A report on Us, Relative: Scaling and Plural Life in a Forager World by Nurit Bird-David. "Done in From Within" by JZ. Cocaine in UK rivers. Connection now a commodity. Action news, four calls.

04-30-2019

[audio] What is the spirit - or dispirit - of the times? Fear, anxiety, grief...dominant zeitgeist vibe? Fredy Perlman on racism and nationalism. Eco-disaster of the week, suicide watch. Getting dumber in the techno-world. Ableism discussion. Modern Madness by Ed Lord. Birds, measles. Action news. Zuckerberg: "The future is private." One call.

04-23-2019

[audio] Due to a screw-up at the station the recording is mostly that of a U of O softball game. But at about 15 minutes in there's 20 minutes of the show

04-16-2019

[audio] We were "modern" much earlier than thought, before symbolic culture(!) "Intentional Mass Casualty Events." New books. "A Note on Freedom" by JZ. Global energy consumption rocketing upward. City Lab touts Technopolis as 100 Resilient Cities ends. "Machine learning" writes the scripts but cursive in schools makes a comeback. "Woman at War" film, resistance briefs. (Go to channel 2 at kwvaradio website for 4/23 show.)

04-09-2019

[audio] "Filling the Void" - Bruce Alexander on addiction as response to the void of the culture. More cities submerging. Synthetic biology on the march vs. health failures all over the world. Reality too "depressing"? Instagram, Snapchat ruining memories; Google's Smart Compose: bots take over writing/thinking. Cognitive tech lined up to read our thoughts. Barry Lopez's Horizon: no resistance, no alternative paradigm. Resistance briefs, one call.

04-02-2019

[audio] "Regulate" global social media technology? Weather, species, industrial calamities sampler. How to better deal with racism from an anti-civ perspective; general approach or grounded? White by Bret Easton Ellis. Use, role of fire on Homo species. Shootings, always. "This Friend- ship Hs Been Digitized." Depressed? More video games to the rescue. Garfield phones pollute French beaches. Resistance reports, two calls.

03-19-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Rupture by Manuel Castells: the global crisis of democracy. Mass shootings: Brazil, New Zealand, Netherlands. An answer to racism within Civ? Mass cynicism, mass corruption. Whale woes, industrial mayhem. Why domestication? 6-day Venezuelan black-out: "No authority." Two calls, resistance news.

03-12-2019

[audio] Latest urban disasters/growth of cities. New jetliners crash, pilots helpless re: tech. Oil spills, extinction news. Rise of conspiracy 'theories.' Homo hunted rabbits 400,000 years ago. I read my "Value and its Enemies." E-sports replacing sports, anti-depressants don't work, organized intimacy(?) Social Media Is Ruining our Memories. Those Stars in the Skies by Deba Ranjan. Action shorts.

03-05-2019

[audio] Snowed in last week - no broadcast. Crises of the seas, ever-stranger weather. Control: essence, inner logic of civilization. Ardi hominins walked like us four million years ago. 131-car pileup (perfect metaphor). Longest oil spill. Sadder lives in a pathological world that breeds despair. Debora Spar's The Virgin and the Plow: technology, paternity, patriarchy. Two calls. Raptors take out mining co. drones. New anarchist zines, action news

02-19-2019

[audio] Valentine's Day...and self-love(?) Weave: the Social Fabric Project. Pig shootings, mass shooting of the week. Mega-polluted city of the week: Bangkok. Eco-disaster tid-bits. Online instructional videos do not impart skills. Depression impacts, resistance. Email, iPhones misery. Online and failing, anxious. Nihilism not ideological? Actions shorts from here and there.

02-12-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Strikes then & now. Chomsky on "Moral Depravity." More on ASMR. "Becoming Animal." Rentafriend.com. Despair the basis of school shootings. "See Something, Say Something." Latest fashion is post-apocalypse-wear. Surprising allergies rise. "Fauxtography." Resistance briefs, one (nihilist) call.

02-05-2019

[audio] Breakdown of a friend. Biggest mass shooting: "no motive." ASMR craze. Bye, bye, ocean blue. Colonization genocide caused 'little ice age' c. 1600. Half of US adults have heart disease; obesity- related cancers on rise among young. UK schools turn to meditation re: anxiety, depression. Kids: online but not lovin' it. Air conditioning alone will be overheating tipping point. Media sources, resistance briefs. And so much more.

01-29-2019

[audio] LONELINESS - There's a pill for that! Sleepless in Society; Public Health crisis. Shootings; massive Australian drought, temps. Musk madness, Tokyo man weds robot. Super report from Rewild weekend in Portland. Conspiracy 'theories' thrive in post-truth/postmodern world. Resistance briefs, one call.

01-22-2019

[audio] Whiteaker Tales event: most of the hour's 6 calls were about issues raised there e.g. snitch culture. Mary Oliver, eco lowlights of the week. Greenland and Asia's glaciers melting fast. Bighorn sheep going under, global insect collapse. Ad of the week: Aspiration credit card. BAGR (now Wild Resistance) #6; #7 will be decolonization themed.

01-15-2019

[audio] Events reminders, enviro marker of the week. Snitch culture. "Post-Left" foibles... e.g. strikes/unions and "How fascists Approach the Post-Left Anarchist Movements" by Dimitris Plastiras. "Whopping" American weight gains. Wichi hunter-gatherers in Argentina. Desalination hoax. Problem Solving Deficit Disorder. One call, action briefs.

01-08-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. French uprising resumes, deepens. Outreach discussion; anti-civ needs to break out of current anarchist bubble. Cascadia Alive! TV shows 1996-2005 at U of Oregon archives. Monarch butterfly almost extinct. Industrial disaster of the week, mass shooting of the week. Whiteaker Tales event Jan. 19. Action news, 3 calls.

01-01-2019

[audio] Report from NZ Deep Green Bush School. 50th anniversary of Apollo 8 "earthrise" photo - what ruin required for that shot? Dave Eggers on Digital Human Rights(?) Arizonans' luddite fury against driver- less cars. Electrocution threat to wildlife, vowels Go Walking. Native students abused still. Resistance news, one call.

12-25-2018

[audio] Holiday weirdness (e.g 10PM Xmas eve is heart attack time), "climate grief." New face of social movements 2019? Read "Techno Madness." Contamination, extinction news. "Civilization Is Like a Jetliner." Ads of the week (odes to super- passive consumerism), failure of 'green' agriculture in Italy. Face-to-face world fading. Resistance briefs and recommendations.

12-18-2018

Due to tech failure this broadcast was not recorded. End of the year, end of the world. The concept of holiday. Discussion re: openness/communication among anti-civ folks. Homelessness, isolation. New tools + networks 32,000 years ago, 1st plague 4,900 years ago. Online religion; Boy Scouts, 4H on the wane. Autism factors. Resistance news, 2 calls.

12-11-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. French uprising going strong, Polish climate summit even more of a bad joke than usual. Cambridge word of the year: nomophobia, fear of being away from phone. Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee drying up. No amount of drugs can cure depression. Grimes' disgusting ode to the Machine. Carbon emissions spike globally. Resistance briefs, two calls.

12-04-2018

[audio] France on verge of open revolt; "yellow vests" eruption is uprising not protest, spreading. "It is Time We Civilised the Sentinelese," by Brendon O'Neill. Suicide, ODs, nihilism: life expectancy declining for first time. Gene-spliced humans are among us. Fortnite addiction as connection, intimacy fall off. As eco-disaster moves along, violence among caged humans increases. Resistance news. One call.

11-27-2018

[audio] Deana Dartt last week: priceless. "Natural" disasters? "Earth is in a Death Spiral," George Monbiot. Oxford Word of the Year: toxic. I read my "Art and Meaning." "Ralph Breaks the Internet," the horror of online "life." Fewer in favor of social media all the time. Arm-A-Dine is a robot arm aid to gluttony. Resistance news, four calls.

11-20-2018

[audio] An hour with pro-rewilding Chumash scholar and activist, Deana Dartt. Insights on decolonization, native renewal, health, being a guest on the land and much more. Two calls.

11-13-2018

[audio] Mass shootings at crisis point, California ablaze at an unprecedented level. Surviving hunter-gatherers under siege. Basic irrelevance of the electoral sand box. "Google is helping relieve the drudgery of email - by revealing how inhuman it was in the first place. Japanese resistance to robotics. Action news, 3 calls.

11-06-2018

[audio] Election night! Yawn. Gary Hart, luddite. Collapse of ecosystems: another very dark report. Contamination of air, soil march on. Perfectionism in complex society: a curse. Screen time makes kids dumb + fat. Bitcoin, smartphones shipments down. Isolation bad for heart, nerve cells. Telemedicine: "Take Two and Skype Me in the Morning." Ads of the week (tech propa- ganda). Anarchist Film Archive: irrelevant, inaccurate, leftist. Action news, one call.

10-30-2018

[audio] Nihilism not an ism? Horror show of this week's news. Americans spend more than 90% of their lives indoors. 3 million plastic bottles and bags produced globally - per minute.The Ringtone Dialectic by Sumanth Gopinath. The Language of depression and anxiety rules the internet. BIG recent push by Silicon Valley parents to keep kids away from all e-outlets at all times. Action news. Electric grids not only spread wildfires but caused them in CA. UK surgery students lack all dexterity skills. Google now completes your messages.

10-23-2018

[audio] UK mobile phone network's campaign against growing anti-tech sentiment in society. ITS unmasked further. Liminal by Natasha Alvarez. 700,000 year-old rhino butchery found in Philippines. Oceans, health undermined. Microplastics in your stool. Art signed Algorhythm on sale at Christie's. Resistance briefs, two calls.

10-16-2018

[audio] Against Art and Culture, by Liam Dee. "Twilight of the Evening Lands" read by JZ. BAGR #6 underway. Insidious moves by alt-Right. Frightful weather: price of beer to double. Global insect crisis. Resistance news, two calls.

10-09-2018

[audio] Landmark UN study: Enviro catastrophe soon. Delusions of democracy. Robotics follies, academic journal hoaxes, orca collapse. Alarming health news - as Facebook pushes into remote Africa and 250+ die in pursuit of perfect selfie. Action briefs, 3 calls.

10-02-2018

[audio] Mark Harris, addiction counselor and local activist, for the hour. Dope, racism, psychology, health, anarchists, history. Three calls.

09-25-2018

[audio] Why so much talk of tech on Anarchy Radio? US heating, sea turtles fading after 65 million years. No end to the shootings, OD's, or worsening storms. "Amid the Cacophony of the Modern World, a Quest for Quiet." Microsoft: "Em- powering Us All," Audi: "Progress Is Never Satisfied." Alexa everywhere. Primal Anarchy the answer to the totalizing Disaster. Action news, one call.

09-18-2018

[audio] e-sex doll brothel in Toronto closed! Super storms, gunfire (pig and otherwise). Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, BASTARD conference: almost dead? Horrific impacts of air pollution, obesity. ITS supporters outed at 325nostate. Read from superb BAGR submission "Wolf Encounters." Black and Green podcast now at primalanarchy.org. Action briefs.

09-11-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Nike bets on radical message for profits. Cartoon of the week: "What I did online this summer." Hyperobjects, by Timothy Morton. More on loneliness epidemic. Can tech be reversed? Emoji shortcuts, Rio Grande almost dead. "The Unbearable Darkness of Young Adult Literature." Hospitals' insane War on Superbugs. Resistance news, two calls.

09-04-2018

[audio] Caller-host etiquette, the Mighty international reach of Anarchy Radio. JZ reads BAGR submissions on human nature and outreach. Resistance news (mostly ALF). Anti-Pinker "Rise of Organized Brutality' by Sinisa Malesevic. Birds on Prozac, thickest Arctic sea ice melting. Google moderates 2 billion, its Smart Reply thinks, replies for us. Kids conditioned by robots.

08-28-2018

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Early symbolism but Homo not defined by it. Lure of social media fading. North America's first high tech sex doll brothel. Apocalyptic forecast for California's environment, California student suicide string. Four calls.

08-21-2018

[audio] Shudu, world's first digital supermodel, Georgia pigs taser 87 year-old salad greens seeker. Things WERE better before modernity. JZ reads "Age of Grief," Adorno and redemption. More on bad effects of sitting, iPhone addiction possibly waning even as Pacific Crest Trail hiking experience devalued by phone use. Resistance briefs, two calls.

08-14-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. AR listeners swamp free Fifth Estate offer! Neo-Nazi rally in DC: miniscule. Fires and civilization, mass shootings spread. From the Pleistocene to the Plasticene but social media corporations slide. Anarchy in Portland OR. Accelerationism? Resistance briefs, five calls.

08-07-2018

[audio] Arcata weekend. FIRES. Schools now feel need of mass shooting insurance. Read my "The Puzzle of Symbolic Thought." In-depth report on CHAGS conference. Action briefs, two calls.

07-31-2018

[audio] An hour with Peter Werbe, long-time Fifth Estate editor.

07-24-2018

[audio] Corrosive Consciousness clarified.. Severe global temps, fires; heat boosting suicide rates. News from CHAGS, Faces of wage-slavery. "People Who Do Not Need People," "The Face as Technology," anti-mortality movements. "How Tech's Richest Plan to Save Themselves from the Apocalypse." Millennials skip travel that isn't Instagrammable.

07-17-2018

[audio] "Breath at the threshold" by Joan Kovatch. 2.1 million year-old tools, pre-domestication bread. Over-heating, drought, fires, 4 mile wide Greenland iceberg event. Time now measurable at 100 billionth of a second. Good discussion of basic questions. Action briefs, 4 calls.

07-10-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. World heat wave, ways to poison planet. "Strikingly humanlike" foot of 3.3 million year-old 3 year-old. Human No More book: anthropology in an increasingly place-less cyber world. High-tech Nagano, Japan, a ghost town. ES-100 from Tanita tells you if you smell, renders noses obsolete. Should children be polite to robot voices? Hyundai - "a new mobility is coming." Action briefs, three calls.

07-03-2018

[audio] Pixar movies very anti-tech future as tech engulfs reality. Mass shootings go global, planetary over-heating updates e.g. Arctic Ocean melts into Atlantic. Japanese island hermit forced back into civ. Timehop gives one self, memory. Robots and consciousness, manners. But mostly calls re: last week's phone-ins, five calls.

06-26-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. She reports on ICE occupation in Portland. "I Really Don't Care. Do U?" :What kind of statement /meaning? Suicide watch, near and far, what it is saying. Eco disaster of the week, Racist pig murder of the week. Two calls.

06-19-2018

[audio part 1] [audio part 2] More on suicide, depression, drugs. What is AR mostly trying to do? Drought vs. flooding. Venezuela. Anti-civ getting some notice at last. (Un-)health news. (Google) ad of the week. Some resistance news, discussion of The Brilliant, Anews podcast. 5(!) calls.

06-12-2018

[audio] Two offerings on "The Case Against Philosophy." Suicide news...a culture of suicide? Fires, drought, water woes, indoor pollution. Horror movies, comic book movies. Anti- work, anti-voting. Ever more isolation. The novel Break.Up. Swedish kid drowns while crowd takes photos, blocks rescue. Driverless cars to increase congestion as Hyundai proclaims advent of "a new era of mobility." Verizon: We Didn't Wait for the Future. We Build it. Enormity of tech, of distrust of it. One call.

06-05-2018

[audio] Tribe by Sebastian Junger, LA Book Review's "The New Primitives" by Ben Etherington. Indigenous video and panel at U of O Longhouse May 30. Weekly news of the Onslaught on the physical, social, personal worlds. Barbara Ehrenreich's Natural Causes. Domesticated fish going deaf. Eating alone, Lynq vs. lynx. Stone tools. Ads of the week, political and resistance reports. One call.

05-29-2018

[audio] "Space: The Final Socialist Frontier?" - In These Times (David Graeber's outlet). Black Seed #6: "ambiguity" its watchword(!) The Case Against Philosophy read by JZ. Almost incredible eco news briefs, ditto latest tech developments as civilization displays extremes of ever more anti-life aspects. (Suburu) ad of the week, resistance news. [Kathan co-hosted May 8 episode]

05-15-2018

[audio] A fun and stimulating hour with friend and vivid anarchist Rotn.

05-08-2018

[audio] Kentucky Derby and domestication. Oppositional energy on upswing internationally. Backwoods zine. 700,000 year-old sea voyaging to Philippines. Ad of the Week: Verizon: "We're Not Waiting for the Future, We're Building It." Disease epidemics now chronic, from e-coli to ebola. Massive pollution from international shipping. Geoengineering trashed; raves for Camila Power. Action news, one call.

05-01-2018

[audio] May announcements. Avengers(!) Varieties of violence. Japan's 'rent-a-relative' phenomenon. Water, birds disasters. Even more on loneliness. Ad of the week: Splunk (Data uber alles). Disaffection with technology? More costs of tech. Camila power, Jerome Lewis: superb radical anthropology videos. Action briefs, 3 calls.

04-24-2018

[audio] anti-civ.net, JZ on SPELLBOUND, OPB (May 2). Critique of Graeber and Wengrow essay. Ad of the Week: Dropbox (meaningful work"!), as Big Data means further deskilling among other things. People connected to nature take 90% fewer selfies, lower anxiety. Geoengineering madness possibly nearing, more on antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Extreme weather news, birds in serious decline, Atlantic circulation slows gravely, signatures disappearing. Action briefs, two calls.

04-17-2018

[audio] Elijah sits in. State of Global Air study: over 98% breathe unsafe air as civilization poisons the planet. The Disconnect - "Join us on Twitter"(!) Singer The Weekend: death and decay in society at Coachella. This Land of Strangers by Bob Hall: epidemic aloneness with mass migration to online "life." 5G iphones: a massive radiation upgrade. Action briefs.

04-10-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Apple's lie about its clean energy. Zero privacy, digital lives. "Generation Z Already Bored by the Internet." "Ardi Walked the Walk [like us] 4.4 Million Years Ago." 58,000 homeless in LA, imperialism of modern medicine, enormous oil spills. Journey Towards the Abyss #4, BAGR podcast #6. Action news, one call.

03-27-2018

[audio] Trump and Jensen Ban Transgender Troops. JZ reads "The Spectacular Growth and Failure of Cities." Earth Hour confronts climate change! World's largest cruise liner and other mass society disasters. Graeber, another disaster. Pacific plastics patch twice the size of Texas. Steph Clark, another black murdered by cops. Oxford prize paper: on genetic "disenhancement" of industrial animals. Consumer Reports: How to Quit Facebook." Action briefs, two calls.

03-20-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Stay away from Facebook! Teens, elderly anxious. "In Praise of ADHD"(!) Pop songs depict very dreary zeitgeist. SF Bay Area, Easter Island sub- siding. "How to Make AI Human-Friendly." Data is all. "Let's Put Smart To Work: IBM" "It's Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids (humanzees)." Two calls.

03-06-2018

[audio] GUNS! DGR at E-Law; Trans hater Jensen at Eugene Public Library. Failed academic and bad writer David Graeber fails with new effort. The usual eco-horrors of the week (e.g. extinction, pollution news). Digitally interact with the dead. UK kids increasingly unable to hold pens + pencils due to tech use. "Will 2018 Be the Year of the Neo-Luddites?" Action news.

02-27-2018

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. FRR's send-up of Anarchy Radio. "What's Up With Derrick Jensen?" Hunter-gatherer story-telling. 32* at the North Pole - 50 degrees above normal. "Tech Eyes the Ultimate Start-Up: An Entire City." Alexa everywhere, action briefs, crypto-currencies NOT de-centralized.

02-20-2018

[audio] Cliff and JZ on latest shooting massacre. CO2 is now 407 parts per million - hello, 350.org? ASMR: pseudo-intimacy. Orangutans face extinction, 13 year-old Gulf of Mexico oil leak, Bering Sea ice disappearing. More Dead Cops. Algorithms in law, health, etc. Jeff Bezos' 10,000 year clock, Elon Musk: we must merge with the Machine. Action briefs, two calls.

02-13-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Epidemic of loneliness, epidemic of despair. Life expectancy slipping. Pinker's new, nutso Enlightenment Now. Narcissism e.g. "The Bride May Now Kiss Herself." Few anarchists seem to notice what's happening in society at large. Missile proliferation - like the rest of technology. Open season on cops. Sea level rise accelerating, extinction crisis in Australia, enormous East China Sea oil spill. E-skin. What is resistance? Action news.

02-06-2018

[audio] Black and Green Review #5. Worsening media, recycling, mass transportation blues. My BDYHAX weekend in Austin. Childless futures, mercury from melting Arctic, species extinctions in Irish waters. Action news, three calls.

01-30-2018

[audio] Last Wed.: 50 Years of 1968 at Oregon State; next weekend: BDYHAX in Austin. Oceans strongly warming as well as rising, acidifying. Shootings point toward collapse in America. Bad coral reef, light pollution news. Mil- lennials increasingly withdrawn, stay-at-home. VR soon to include "human" touch. Devumi: fake accounts, fake users in a fake techno world. Action news.

01-23-2018

[audio] O'odham elder and activist Ofelia Rivas, by phone on increasing border militarization and surveillance. Crazed weather, (school) shooting of the week, cities in crisis globally, end of civ looming? Geo-engineering? Robot Holocaust survivor? Stores with no-one there, nature walks - by phone. Sex dolls the same as Facebook in terms of avoiding human contact? Minister for Loneliness in Britain. Wolves' comeback in Europe, action briefs, two calls.

01-16-2018

[audio] Rising level of militancy (e.g. Iran, Tunisia, Sudan, NYC fast-food workers, forest defenders)? JZ on the road, getting published - despite postmodern nay-sayer. Shooting (stabbing) of the week, E. Antarctica unstable, snow getting scarce, fresh- water acidifying. 8 million tons of plastics into oceans annually. Infoshop.org is back - back to 1800s? Latest ITS extinctionist pathology. Craft, by Alexander Langlands. Action news, calls from OH and FL. Ofelia Rivas next week.

01-09-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Bizarro weather (113 in Sydney, snow in Sahara). Shooting of the week, biggest global oil tanker disaster since 1991, tech take-over of health industry (ads of the week). Indigenous as key to un- derstanding where you live. Domestication of kids, high fatality rates of US kids. Decline of anarchism in UK. Myopia epidemic in tech-heavy countries. Can't build a forest. Action news, one call.

01-02-2018

[audio] Iran erupts, eastern North America in deep freeze. Joey from Deep Green Bush School in New Zealand reports. Late 2017 rampant violence: mass shootings, pig violence. Latest urban horrors, reefs dying, air worsening.The "Brilliant" episodes 59- 63 on technology critique: Huh? Action news, one call.

12-26-2017

[audio] 2017 music: "Glummest." Urban reality ("The Mega-City, Unleashed'"), plastics in deepest oceans. Instagram a "facade," toys spy on you. "The Postmodern Now" by JZ. Junk food globalized, US life expectancy falls. Fred Moten: Black culture's mission is "to un-civilize, to de-civilize this country." Action news.

12-19-2017

[audio] Elijah sits in. Somnox, the world's first sleep robot. California still burning, AMRAK and other mass transport crashing. Swiss prepare for end of civili- zation. World's largest airport loses power. World's largest cruise ship: "Inde- pendence of the Seas" (geddit?) Artists on VR. E-waste piling up, 1/3 of all food grown is wasted. Progress. Action news, one call.

12-12-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Fires and homelessness. Bizarre urbanism, pig violence under-reported, starving polar bears. Wind power waning due to warming. iNaturalist as forests die. Toll of loneliness. This is the Age of Horror. Emptiness of popular terms. Action news.

11-28-2017

[audio] [first 5-10 minutes did not stream, but full hour recorded] Insidious Nazi in- filtration (a heads-up). The week's oil spills, epidemics, pollution news. Stress levels, student outbursts, girls' self-harm. Going fast, social media bad for health. Nintendo "reunites you with nature." New Hampshire dr. rejects "electronic medi- cine," loses license. Olympia blockade/occupation + mucho other action briefs, one call.

11-21-2017

[audio] Anti-civ, anti-fracking blockade in Olympia WA. 21,000 gallon Keystone Pipeline spill in South Dakota. Urban Scout and Kevin Tucker by phone: rewilding, our ancestral being. Anti-digital currents. Oldsters in UK lament machine check-outs when shopping: one less area of human contact. Climate change drove ISIS recruitment in Iraq. Coastal kelp forests disappearing globally, Pacific Islands to lose 80% of marine species. Bird flu spreads in Asian cities.

11-14-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. The decomposition of just about everything. Shootings ever more deadly. High blood pressure, Zany Tech Tricks, primitivist feminism. NSA hacked. Family Romance in Japan sells fake friends and family. Digital meds (has sensors to report on patient). Dis- illusion with tech? Action briefs, one call.

11-07-2017

[audio] Latest shooting massacre(s). "Lucky." Paucity of actual discourse in society. Homelessness crises, 8 million tons of plastics dumped in seas annually, climate refugees on tap big-time. "Bushman Banter," tech/media firms mer- ging, enormous recalls. Alt-Right failing, virtual treadmills: no movement necessary. Action news, two calls.

10-31-2017

[audio] JZ reads "The Prison of Symbols." Record CO2 surge in 2016, Gulf of Mexico awash in oil. "Climate change is much, much worse than we thought." Anarchists fiddle while Rome burns. Human caring in pre-history. New AI religion: Way of the Future. "Leave Someone Behind? Your Car May Soon Warn You." Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to Sophia the Humanoid. Taro card fad. Action news, two calls.

10-24-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Rewilding Conference in Portland. "Domestikator" sculpture scandal in Paris: domestication nailed. Insect die-off in Germany called "ecological Armageddon." Power lines sped northern California fires; southern California heat wave. Global pollution mounts, adult-onset ADHD. Hello antifa, goodbye post-Left. Action briefs.

10-17-2017

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Fires uncover pollution in every case. Language 1.8 million years ago?? CNN: millennials unbelievably unskilled. Severe anxiety #1 problem for adolescents. Global obesity, starving penguins. Who volunteers any more? No way to spot mass killers-to-be. Quantum computing: a new gold rush. Action news

10-10-2017

[audio] Neither the Las Vegas massacre or the dope OD epidemic (leading cause of death for Americans under 50) bring out questioning of this stage of social existence. Blade Runner 2049. Eve of "antibiotic apocalypse" re: global resistance to the drugs. Plague rages in Madagascar. Upcoming Rewilding Conference in Portland. Need for standardized emojis. Action news, one call.

10-03-2017

[audio] Puerto Rico, Las Vegas: mounting crises in both spheres of life. Does anarchism offer anything? Blade Runner 2049, etc: apocalyptic zeitgeist. Ad of the Week: IBM "Can Offer Customers What They Want Before They Want It." Homelessness, plas- tics, extinctions, emotional dis-eases on the rise. Reality is stark, solutions are ob- vious but disallowed. Wolves near Rome, Eagles rip Drones from the skies. One call, action briefs.

09-26-2017

[audio] (Last week's show pre-empted by unforeseen sports broadcast.) Kathan co-hosts. Puerto Rico devastation has silver lining: opens door to a more industrialized agriculture(!) Opioid scourge now lower- ing US life expectancy level. Lack of sleep, sitting kills. Oil spill of the week, mass shooting of the week. Deaths of desperation, death by distraction. Peak sand, chatbots for the dying. Chicago Tribune: "The New iPhone Proves the Unabomber Was Right." Action briefs, 2 calls.

09-12-2017

[audio] Extreme weather/mutual aid. End times in the air, mass shootings. Plants vs. pollutantss. Android entered in portrait competition, online trust? Ugly art. "The Case Against Civilization," by John Lanchester, "Tech People," by Nagib Aminy @ Thisissomenoise.com. Action news, two calls.

09-05-2017

[audio] Smoked out! The West is burning. Hurricane Harvey and the future of cities. "American Horror Story: Cult," Eden" TV series and what they tell us. Tech as the new religion - while civ reveals itself all the more fully. One call (about indis- criminate violence), action briefs.

08-29-2017

[audio] Hurricane Harvey - a "natural" disaster? Chomsky now a primitivist; The Chiseler strikes again! Global over-heating/extinctions/air pollution/recalls news. Forest Defenders R back. Cliff at Seattle Anarchist Book Fair. Stephen Pinker: Enlightenment Now(!) Action news, one call.

08-22-2017

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Cascadia Cave. Rising fascist threat ??(e.g. Boston, Durham) Coral, kelp dying out globally. Barcelona jihadists "normal"! Anews editorial #25: Subjectivism 101. David Byrne, Zizek(!) on technology. A vaccine for heroin. LED eyelashes, NurturePod by Stuart Candy. One call.

08-15-2017

[audio] Alice and John do the show. Charlottesville weekend; How big is the fascist threat? Scary civ news of the week. Our 8 days in New York. Modern humans in SE Asia 20,000 years earlier than thought. Google uber alles. Action news, one call.

08-08-2017

[audio] JZ back from NYC, Kathan co-hosts. Global HEAT. Gulf of Mexico dead zone growing. Air conditioning killing planet, isolation bigger cause of death than obesity. More dead cops. Black Seed#5. The insanity of mental health via smartphones. Artificial Intelligence not panning out. Action news, one call.

07-25-2017

[audio] Check out '80s movie "Cutters Way", Laura Dassow Walls' new Thoreau biography, Affluence and Abundance by James Suzman, and Layla at Revolutionary Left Radio(!). Major drought, disease reports. China goes for astrology. Nihilism expanded. True Companion: an AI robot one can buy and simulate rape. Action news, one call.

07-18-2017

[audio] Show's over, ITS. New England Journal of Medicine: "The current level of air pollution is toxic." Full Stop. Delaware-size iceberg breaks off Antarctica. Breaking the Spell by Chris Robe. Leftist take on Hamburg G20. Death of George Romero, birth of zombie culture. Robot drowns in fountain; listen to podcasts 4x as fast. Ad of the week: Qualcomm/ in love with phone. Action news, one call.

07-11-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Hamburg!!! ITS hits new low (31st communique). Trap of high tech medicine. The proximity of an iphone - on or off - makes you stupid. "Biological annihilation" (6th mass extinction well underway). Tennis star too "bored" to win at Wimbledon. Digital theme park in Thailand opening. Air on cruise ship decks gravely polluted. Lots of action news, three calls.

07-04-2017

[audio] Shooting sprees, environmentalism at point zero, daily op-eds on no confidence in govt. India choking, China becoming a desert, Siberian fires visible from space. Urban noise = bad health. The Brilliant with Bellamy (episode 50) and Abe Cabrera (episode 49): ITS losing its "luster," nihilists in retreat? Brain-eating amoebas in Louisiana. plague in New Mexico. Action news.

06-27-2017

[audio] Cops kill more blacks, dope epidemic rages, lethal heat waves e.g. in Southwest (street signs melt, jets can't lift off, AC fails, homeless die). My ten days in Italy. Lake Chad almost gone, democracy in death throes? Nihilism leads to ITS fetish? 2/3 of all traffic deaths due to road rage. Cars, homes are traps for toxic air. Completely baseless tech claims. Girl Scouts to become cyber cops. Binky: the app that does nothing. One call.

06-06-2017

[audio] Kathan, Cliff, and Ian host. Portland MAX attack as nihilism in action? R. M. Dunbar on friendship, indiscriminate violence and morality. Four calls.

05-30-2017

[audio] "Nihilist" attack on Portland light-rail, two dead. Ads of the week. Everything is online - and often failing, paralyzing major services. OD's under-reported, mass shootings con- tinue. Birds, sea life steadily poisoned. Second Livestock, latest GMO madness, robot- ics for babies. Paul Kingsnorth: "Most of us don't want to change much."(!) Kathan, Cliff, Ian next week (June 6). International action reports, two calls.

05-23-2017

[audio] ITS, ISIS claim responsibility for Manchester Arena bombing. No more Ringling Bros. Horkheimer on the circus and domestication. Ross Ice Shelf at risk, flooding threatens Global Seed Vault in Arctic. Anti-fa at It's Going Down: pro-union, leftist, inflating the 'global rise of fascism.' Tokyo 2020 Olympics - 'greenest games of all' - stadium built of wood from rainforest indigenous Penan, destroying their lifeway. VICE UK sees pos- sible anti-tech counterculture emerging as online losing its luster. Action news, one call.

05-16-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Global hack by wannacry: no place to hide. Telehealth: be a virtual patient. Accelerationism. Murder of a young woman - latest fascist path- ology from ITS. Invisible Committee gets it re: technology; Adbusters does NOT. Shootings, oceans awash with plastic, coffee shops drop wi-fi. Action briefs, 3 calls.

05-09-2017

[audio] The Great French election abstention. Further sickening ITS garbage: kill all hikers! Domestication is here to stay! Can't go back! Chronic misery of civilization, arctic melting faster, "alarming" Long Island water crisis, record heat in US SouthWest, opioid epidemic worsens. Indian anthro- pologist regrets his role in domesticating Andaman Islanders. Resistance news, Feral Futures in SW Colorado, June 17-25.

05-02-2017

[audio] May Day action! ITS #28 and Wandering Cannibals proclaim hate and death for all humans - except themselves. Humans in So. Cal. 130,000 years ago. "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning (Online)," "Pope Tells Tech Leaders to Nurture Ties With Others." More extinctions, power outages, shootings, anxiety "disorders." Head of AMA: tech HARMS patients. Resistance news, three calls.

04-25-2017

[audio] Anti-fa? Yes, but...Zombies of the week. Documenta 14/postmodernity/March for Science. No more play for kindergartners, groundwater going. Acid attacks on big rise in UK. More nightclubs are anti-cell phone. Website best way to con- nect with ill friend. Where's the post-left, anti-civ pulse of anarchy?? Latest from The Brilliant. "Panic Attack": "society is a stew of unease, fear, rage, grief, help- lessness and humiliation." Action briefs, three calls.

04-18-2017

[audio on KWVA archive: navigate calendar to 4/18/2017, click on the date, then click the 'play' icon next to Anarchy Radio. There are several minutes of music before the show starts.] Kathan co-hosts. KZ reflects on the 47th anniversary of her felony arrest and the course of her life. More on anti-fa as a weak, lowest-common-denominator liberal approach. More spills, shootings. Earth Day?? "France in the End of Days." "How Western Civilization Could Collapse" (BBC). The ever greater lies and swindle of technology, its ever greater colonization and reach. Resistance news, one call.

04-11-2017

[audio] Shootings on rise. Creeping fascism?? Abe Contreras attacks JZ for ITS. Friendship - has it gone? Munich's Blitz nightclub bans cell phones but tech is ever more totalitarian. Kevin Tucker's "Peak Civ" column at It's Going Down. Robots for old people provide a more "deep" communication than "human-to- human" interaction. UK toy company called Technology Will Save Us. Action news, three calls.

04-04-2017

Anarchy Radio...No recording due to failure at radio station.

03-28-2017

[audio] Orange County Anarchist Book Fair says. "Abandon divisions" - anarchist trend back to leftism? Springtime rise in shootings, polar ice at record lows. US white adult death rate up sharply. Climate change worsens massive China smog, Seattle pumping millions of gallons of raw sewage into Puget Sound. My ITS death threat, theme parks going virtual. "What would your 'model' society look like?" Action news, 3 calls (2 on-air).

03-21-2017

[audio] Marco Camenisch is finally out! World Happiness Day, US not so happy. Who is healthy? Maldives sinking. Latest insane tech developments. More on Harari's Homo Deus book of horrors. Sleep in America. Stem cell treat- ments blind 3, selfies kill more in 2015 that shark attacks School shooting in France. Is anarchy confronting reality? Resistance briefs.

03-14-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Portland's anarchist pothole brigade. Alexander Kerensky in 1917 and 1966. Ted K's new book: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How. James Oberhelm, Irish art provocateur. Who's voting anymore? London air worse than Beijing's. Alaska's Cook Inlet gas line leaking since December. The Void: "truly beyond VR." Action news, one call.

03-07-2017

[audio] Tabling at ELaw with Ian; good stuff. Read out "Death." Anarchy Radio is "gossip and NYT reprints"(?) YouTube: a billion hours a day. Bird flu is back, French towns "fade", zines not obsolete despite internet (see Black and Green Review!) Action news. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology" as social media produce more social isolation. Sleeplessness, spills, Colorado River declining, two calls.

02-28-2017

[audio] Local Girl Scout scandal: need for AUTHORITY. Facebook calls for "global community" (read integration into world Machine). Age of Disbelief, More Dead Cops, Peak Sand? Walden Pond "stillness" from a video game; Toxic online "discourse" - Rx is more tech- nology; sense of smell - AI's algorithms are better. Toys spying on families. Anti-authori- tarian resistance - not nihilist enough?

02-21-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. How urbanism fails globally. How fixating on Trump fuels science and technology. Homo Deus, another hideous, tech-worshipping book. Scurvy makes a comeback in a disease-ridden world. Older Americans hooked on mind drugs. Elon Musk on human-machine interface: needed to keep up! Are egoists and nihilist anarchist? Resistance briefs, three calls.

02-14-2017

[audio] The Brilliant on Atassa/eco-nihilism. "Thoughts of the Week on Anarcho- transhumanism"? Zoltan's "Immortality Tour." Chemical pollution in extreme ocean depths, biodiversity expiring, addiction as a condition of society. Antarctic ice shelf nears end. Work of Layla AbdelRahim, Chellis Glen- denning, Zygmunt Bauman. Action news, seven calls (two off-air).

02-07-2017

[audio] Cliff co-hosts, Super Bowl ads of the week. Severe eco assaults in China, India. US attack in Yemen echoes Obama. Anarchist action in Berkeley tops the charts. Resources on online damage to kids. "Dark Night" details "numb, narcotic mood" across America. Internet source of global warming. Action briefs. Desire and hope ...and egoism.

01-31-2017

[audio] Trump, anti-Trump...any significant anti-authoritarian quotient? Will there be? "Our Dissolving Social Glue." Latest oil spills, primate extinctions. Chile on fire, Bay of Bengal's giant dead zone, superbugs winning against antibiotics. Dutch orangutan on Tinder. Ad of the week (hermes as nature). Action news, 3 calls.

01-24-2017

[audio] Alice co-hosts. Global over-heating is accelerating; "Experts Foresee Profound Threat to Civilization." Super-rich seek safe redoubts. Pipeline news, including repression and theft by Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council. We discuss our three weeks in Egypt. High-tech isolation mounts. Ads of the week, anarchist action briefs, two calls.

01-17-2017

[audio] What was anarchy in 2016? Shootings, extinction news, drought in French Alps, pollution in London worsens. New issue of Black and Green Review. Is the Invisible Committee "commie"? Latest Earth First! Journal. Massive global corporate corrup-tion - a new stage? Human-robot marriage by 2050. Three calls. Egypt with Alicenext week.

01-10-2017

[audio] Kathan and Ian discuss approaches to spirituality (e.g. animism)and technology. One call.

12-20-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Standing Rock comments. Disturbing China news. The Brilliant, IGD. Crazy Arctic warming, porpoise extinction. Spike in drug use, mental dis-ease. Mark Boyle goes anti-tech, digital "education." Ad of the week: $720 self-lacing shoes. Action briefs.

12-13-2016

[audio] Heretofore hidden politics of Standing Rock. Eugene Weekly and DGR organizer Sam Krop. More of "Fake News," spawn of postmodernism. Denver "Autonomous" Assembly vs. actual autonomy? Artforum's empty "Imagine a World" feature (Nov. issue). Extinction news, opioid epidemic. Ads of the week e.g. ask Google how to make your infant laugh. Why driverless cars. Action briefs, three calls.

11-29-2016

[audio] Read my "Night" and "Black Friday". Maddening high tech ads. A very violent week. SF's Millenium Tower sinking, tilting. "Fake News" - who can say(?) Third Stage en- vironmentalism after 30 years. India bans fireworks to reduce pollution(!) Chess vs. computers. roblosricos@wordpress.com. Anarchist (mostly) action news, two calls.

11-22-2016

[audio] Fifth Estate, Submedia-TV, even Leonard Cohen, come under scrutiny. More Dead Cops. North Pole last Thursday: 36 degrees above average. Post-election hate acts - what to do. Peak Oil?? Apps for doing good, for avoiding death-by-selfie. Philosophy Talk, Ad of the week. Action news, two calls.

11-15-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts and reports on awesome Portland resistance ($1 million damages Nov. 11). Ayahuasca: a consumer fad? Hydro power = mercury poisoning. The South is burning. Polluted Danube, need for our own resources health-wise, not techno "solutions." Artificial daylight. Bank of No Money touts autonomy, not leftoid organization fetish. Action news, one call.

11-08-2016

[audio] Voting is not the way out. Air pollution severe in Asia. Children made dumber, fatter by technology. Suicide rates, mass shootings, cops getting shot - all rising. New books. Again, "Will Standing Rock Give Anarchism a Soul?" Mono- polization increasing, Chomsky a self-described Bernie liberal. Action briefs, two calls.

11-01-2016

[audio] A tale of two occupations; inside Standing Rock. Earth First! review of BAGR#3. Low energy pop culture, labor unrest. "Will Standing Rock Give Anarchism a Soul?" Modern Madness by Ed lord, Feral Consciousness by Julian Langer. Every company a tech company. "Opioid Poisonings Surge Among Children." Tech ads of the week. The Rhino GX. Call- out for G8 Hamburg July 2017! Action reports, four calls.

10-25-2016

[audio] Local pro-cop media. Tom Hayden vs. Eugene anarchists (2000). Excerpt from Don DeLillo's fine Zero K novel. Desertification of China, mammal extinctions, shootings of the week. EZLN now firmly Left: politician land. Black Mirror, oil and chemical spills. "Disappearing Middle Eastern Neighborhoods Find New Homes Online", Toyota's new Kirobo Mini, a robot baby. Anti-authoritarian news,

10-18-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Trump=fascism? "Sully" movie is anti-tech. More clown hysteria. Resistance in Portland. The Moth Snowstorm celebrates nature and its continuing beacon. "The First Farmers" - domestication was imperialist. More cops shot. Children of the New World (They Delete Their Kids). Space travel and dementia. Latest v. diluted product from Derrick Jensen. Action news, one call.

10-11-2016

[audio] Nihilist jokes, "Someone Mailed Feces to Four Philosophers." Clown panics: jumpy people. Regresion #5: Saving the world is the "highest form of domesti- cation," in latest ITS-style lunacy. Worsening cities, air, as robotics marches forward. Cops killed in So. Cal, anarchist/anti-authoritarian resistance. Five calls.

10-04-2016

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Re: last week's call from rotn: nihilism and what's the point? Anarcho-primitivist Ria Montana on Which Side. Exploding batteries, cars, washing machines. Technology weakens us, displaces human interaction. iPal robot keeps kids quiet and surveilled ("companionship"). Stress overrides diet in terms of general health. People reading much less over past ten years. Anarchist resistance briefs.

09-27-2016

[audio] Tulsa, Charlotte - and next week? More rampage shootings. Dispossess #5: egoist vs. primitivo. Rotn calls in re: nihilism. Ben Rivers' "Two Years at Sea" film. Dodge Charger: "Domestic not Domesticated." "Machine learning" solves problems that need not exist. Resistance news in brief.

09-20-2016

[audio] Ode(s) to nihilism. Egoist-nihilist offering from Greece: Anti-Social Evolution (self-indulgent despair). 1 or 2 things about The Brilliant #32. Some of the week's violence, water woes, 1.5 billion birds gone. 3.66 million year-old footprints: walked just like us! LA man who walks people for a living, child suicides, resistance news.

09-13-2016

[audio] Vagaries of 9/11, including Ward Churchill's fate. Standing Rock update. Nicholas Carr's Utopia is Creepy: And Other Provocations e.g. "Technology promised to set us free. Instead it has trained us to withdraw from the world into distraction and dependency." Ayuhuasca craze. Yet more anti-anarchist ITS crapola. Violence, eco-disasters. Resistance news. "Multinaturalism." (Dell) ad of the week and other astounding tech developments. One call.

09-08-2016

[audio] Isaac Cronin on The Brilliant. Read my "Two European Thinkers to the Rescue!" No stopping motorists texting while forests, elephants, mussels, handwriting, health, coastlines disappear. Quakes, air pollution, loneliness on rise as Johan Norberg's Progress says things couldn't be better. Tech promising everything, solving nothing. Action news, two calls.

08-30-2016

[audio] Interchange and live music with Nazel Pickens! Green Anarchy and Black and Green Review. Elon Musk on "unborn" cars; elusive nihilism; "emotionally fragile" students." 13th ITS Communique: hydrochloric acid in the Coca-Cola. Online = "digital heroin." Resistance News - especially growing Standing Rock, 3 calls.

08-23-2016

[audio] "Lo and Behold," Herzog's fine critique of the high-tech pitch. Read my "Meaning in the Age of Nihilism." A-p reply to the ITS-type "The Calusa: A Savage Kingdom." "Dispossess" and the anti-primitivist anarchists who claim to be anti-civilization. "Hand Writing Just Doesn't Matter." (Samsung refrigerator) ad of the week.. Resistance news, one call.

08-16-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Role of Anarchy Radio. Tattered spectacle: Rio follies. Milwaukee uprising. July hottest ever, California ablaze, explosive rains seen globally. Yellow fever to follow Zika as scourge as tech marches forward. More violence in all directions. Anarchist responses in terms of projects e.g. architecturally? Artificial light weakens us. Action news, three calls.

08-09-2016

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Rio Olympics debacle. Eco-Nihilist critique of Black and Green Review. "Fifty States of Anxiety." Varieties of violence. Despite phone problems, 4 calls; 2 counseled more attention to affirmative projects. Brain-eating amoeba, complexity=breakdown. Resistance news.

08-02-2016

[audio] Who is "JZ"? Troll of the week. Debord: ideas should be used up in battle. Aragorn! on internet and anarchism. Flash flooding, heat waves. New Panama Canal not big enough for bloated globalization. Mass shootings 50 years old. Cannibal gulls, space travel bad for hearts. Action news, two calls (AR,MO). Good faith interaction with anarcho-primitivism: let's have some. Reminder: deadline looms for BAGR submissions.

07-26-2016

[audio] My "Concluding Anti-History Postscript." Istanbul anarchist on post-coup situation in Turkey. Cop shooting of the week. Water woes, "natural" disasters? Are we at the end of anarchism? Done in by technology and nihilism? "Binge TV Watching Can Kill You." Ads of the week. Merger mania. Wild birds help African foragers find honey. "Depression is a Disease of Civilization." by Sara Burrow. How to set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball.

07-19-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Vets shoot cops in Dallas, Baton Rouge. "terrorist" label too easy. Much discussion of nihilism in general and ITS-type nihilism in particular. More hiding in dis-abling, dis-connecting technology. Facebook aims at total planetary reach; drive to produce synthetic 'human' genome. Hello Kitty infantile consumer culture. More tech, even more epidemics. Anarcho-primitivism the target of those who preach giving up.

07-12-2016

[audio] Less Afghanistan troop removal, more to go to Iraq. 5 white cops killed in Dallas, dominant society goes crazy; 9 blacks killed Charleston church last year, not a crisis. Billboard of the week (China): "Civilization is the Most Beautiful Scenery!" Computer perception requires reality to change, not the machine. "What Americans Drawn to ISIS Have in Common." World's lakes, forests drying up, dying off. Action news, 3 calls. Recording failure: last 14 minutes lost.

07-05-2016

[audio] Fear of slaves, indigenous evident in Declaration of Independence. Adventures in podcasting; Hillary-booster Chomsky declines dialog with JZ. "No Going Back" - really? Rio Olympics "catastrophe". The answer to VR's fake world? More VR! New ITS interview: same no-hope-ism. Income inequality still growing. Florida Atlantic coast fouled, global air worsens, dam-building craze continues. Ad of the Week (afiniti). Fine report on Fireflies gathering. Action news, three calls.

06-28-2016

[audio] Brexit - phoney anti-globalization. The "anti-globalization" movement at its peak 15 years ago. Nihilism and its close cousin, post-modernism. Peak sand? Local fat cats cash in as poor lose health coverage. Eugene Anarchists for Torrey (2000). Europe's growing army of robots may become "electronic persons." Internet "Stirs grief...we're all more alone than ever," Virginia Heffernan. Man marries phone in Las Vegas. Ad of the week (Cylance), one call.

06-21-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts, at new KWVA digs. Cities sizzle, California burning. Orlando, etc: Why Does This Keep Happening??" asks Obama, but not anarchists(?) ITS/RS pro- claim dead-end nihilist meaninglessness. Hunting for alien life i.e. tech life(!) Have a "true African cultural experience": go on a safari to see hunter-gatherers in Tanzania (!) "Russian Robot Gets a Few Hours Freedom after Escaping a Lab(!) Shanghai Disney opens: truly "cross-cultural"(!) Action news, upcoming events. One call, two attempted calls.

06-14-2016

[audio] Orlando massacre, related enveloping violence. Fearful, anxious children. Failure of anarchy to face challenge, offer analysis. Internet of Everything not succeeding, not even arriving. "Hobbit" species seafaring 700,000 years ago. PTSD - even war preferable to dead civilian life. Center for Applied Rationality - think like a computer! "The End of Reflection" by Teddy Wayne. One call, resistance news.

06-07-2016

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Muhammed Ali - how out of fashion. Varieties of violence and heat. "Kill button" for robots? Already internal one for species? VR better than this "grey reality." Fabulous new products: LucidCatcher e-headband for dream control, Bedtime VR Stories for remote parenting. Action news, one call.

05-31-2016

[audio] Memorial Day and our FREEDOMS. Giant Fort McMurray fire unleashes contaminants. Trump=Fascism?? Transgressing species divides with Thos. Thwaites and Chas. Foster. The Four Dimensional Human by Laurence Scott. Last resort antibiotics failing, world's biggest dam slated for Congo. Great Barrier Reef dying - Australia tries to censor UN report. One call, resistance news, ads of the week.

05-24-2016

[audio] Most insane product of the week : smart shoes. Facebook follies - who does JZ's? (not JZ). Political dis-integration? Paiutes vs. liberal "defender"? Huel (like Soylent); Fast Food Aid in Tokyo (to junk food eaters). Horrors of pollution in India. Heat, emissions rising sharply. Ad of the week (Cisco), resistance briefs. Utter irrelevance of new issue of Anarchy magazine. Four calls.

05-17-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Movement in Brazil, zika virus globalizing. Rydra's statement at anews. RS-type arson in Helsinki: nihilism. Role of the spirit. World cities and air pollution. Anti-civ comics at gabbysplayhouse.org. Action news. Four calls.

05-10-2016

[audio] Canada burning, nihilism spreads (e.g. Rome bombed by RS-type group, suicide rate climbing). The usual eco disasters, weasel brings Large Hadron Collider to halt. VR sex suit unveiled in Japan, VR used to treat severe paranoia - one flight from reality replaced by another. Robots R Us, ISIS collapsing? Stabbing sprees in past two days. Inner peace options: Dalai Lama or smartphone app. BAGR#3 out this week. Resistance briefs.

04-26-2016

[audio] No broadcast next week (5/3) due to travel. Earth Day? There's an app for that. Shootings, recalls news. Suicide rate climbing, life expectancy slipping. Read my "Modernity Takes Over." DeLillo's "Zero K" novel questions tech's ultimate claims. Lies about urbanism courtesy of techno-ideology.

04-19-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Quakes in Japan and Ecuador: crushed by civilization. A nihilist talk in Portland. AK Press won't carry BAGR, Zerzan. "A New Dark Age Looms" as warming reaches ever new heights e.g. year-round fire season. Anti-civ perspective grows. Minecraft, chatbots, wacko high-tech ads. "Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Capitalism." Tasty action briefs, calls from Arkansas and Ohio.

04-12-2016

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Virtual Reality and other tech colonization, impoverishment. Digital sweatshops. Scary water news world-wide. Indigenous suicides in Canada spike. High-tech Ads of the Week. Social media hold-outs, drop-outs. Action reports. Superb spring issue of Earth First! Journal. Order Black and Green Review!

04-05-2016

[audio] Obesity reversing life expectancy, "Global Warming Making U.S. Sick." Fear is endemic, future seen more and more negatively. Emojis are "the new language of the heart," kids learn less due to technology. OD's spread, Zika heads north. more train accidents despite new tech, Great Barrier Reef dying, Antarctica ice melting faster. Resistance news, three calls.

03-29-2016

[audio] (The first two or three minutes of the broadcast did not get recorded.) Report on Rojava: Paul Z. Simons in studio. Radical developments in northern Syria discussed, also collapse, nihilism, what is at stake. 2.7% of American kids are healthy, 3/4 of UK kids are outside less than prison inmates. AI-produced novel almost wins Ja- panese literary prize. Eugene Morozov: tech firms now run things, not govts. Action news, two calls.

03-22-2016

[audio] Primitivist week at anarchistnew.org. Postmodern twins: Trump and Aragorn!. Self-lacing sneakers, wired homes that "listen," automatic brakes vs. Marshall Islanders who've navigated for thousands of years without instruments. Infectious diseases increase, traffic everywhere worsens. Huawei ad: Decades of patient investment for a moment of divine clarity." Resistance news.

03-15-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. My Arcata gig. Time to kick Trump ass? Ads of the week. The Age of Fact is Over: postmodernism and technology have erased the quest for truth. Pigs being offed, for a change. Increasing obesity, diabetes. UK is fragmenting, isolation on rise. Seas rising faster than thought, action news.

03-08-2016

[audio] Recent gigs: Tucson, E-Law (our BAGR panel, horrid DGR recruitment effort); on to Arcata 3/11. "The End of American Idealism", "Use of Heroin in Plain View." Killer germs, "Seeking a Zika Dividend." Robot art critic and other Stupid Tech Tricks. China most dire, South Korea's juvenile pop culture, Fiji sinking, lithium batteries exploding. Action news.

02-23-2016

[audio] A single Universal Time coming? Seattle trip (Left Bank Books evening). Interview with traditional O'odham resister, Ofelia Rivas; Upcoming Speakers Series in Tucson. Toxic blooms head north; seas rising, heating faster; selfies kill dolphin. Action news, Kesey Square fight (Eugene), three calls.

02-16-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Zika virus may be caused by anti-mosquito larvacide(!) Science/tech claims/projections so often fail. Scalia and "the Air We breathe." Records fall: wild tem-perature swings in US. Mekong Delta gravely imperiled. Rampage shootings - now in Saudi Arabia. GPS, etc. "erode our cognitive maps." Action news, one call.

02-09-2016

[audio] 82 degrees on Oregon coast February 8. The stink of big money everywhere. Adorno on freedom; Mandylas on nihilism. Recall mania, runaway pollution, suicide stories. Results of stress; the joke of voting. "Facebook friends almost entirely false." App of the week, re-sistance briefs.

02-02-2016

[audio] Zika scourge spreads. "The End of Food Has Arrived, Finally" (Soylent); "my" Facebook page; new ITS communique. Nihilism, decadence.. Google now #1 in the world; Coca-Cola Pushes into Africa. Bolivia's second-largest lake is gone; US urban homelessness rises. Microsoft wants to cool big servers in ocean - but it won't add to ocean warming! Action news.

01-26-2016

[audio] Cliff is back! (No stream/radio signal first 15 minutes.) Marvin Minsky: death of a techno-nazi. Killings in prehistory (E. Africa): hunter-gatherers or domesticators? GMO monkeys in China: how to confront autism(!) Mass recalls, Zika virus surges, plastics swamp oceans, record addiction levels. Anarchistnews suppresses Anarchy Radio. Action news, one call.

01-19-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. More on Malheur occupation: govt. bows to white racist scumbags. 62 own as much as 3 billion others Massive gas leak in San Fernando Valley? Air as bad in rest of LA! Nightclubs fading out in Europe. Japanese addicted to cutesy mascots, retreat to tiny VR spaces. Tesla creates full-body VR: no unpleasant outside reality. Why journal? An app can do that. Scary health news. Action briefs, two calls.

01-12-2016

[audio] Read "Decadence and the Machine." Right-wing occupiers in e. Oregon, David Brooks predicts "giant cultural explosion" from millennials, new opera composers are dystopian. Whales beaching globally, record heat wave in S. Africa, friendlessness=ill health, etc. Action news, one call.

01-05-2016

[audio] Reactions to AR and JZ. anarchistnews.org - how to run? Gerald Vizenor in Black Seed!? McDonald's as China's new community; Raccoons Invade Brooklyn; School make kids standardized - and sick. An app to prevent deforestation. Supermines. Rush to exploit Antarctica. Adorno: "The freedom in philosophy is nothing but the capacity to lend a voice to its unfreedom." Key question - What does that unfreedom consist of? Resistance news.

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