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Title: Accelerating Anarchism
Author: Blueshifted
Date: 1 January 2018
Language: en
Topics: anarcho-transhumanism
Source: http://www.blueshifted.net/

Blueshifted

Accelerating Anarchism

"To be human is to want to be more"

"To the daring belongs the future"

Times have changed. Wild technological fantasies of early anarchists

like the internet, the pill, hormone therapy, and 3D printing have come

true, dramatically expanding human agency. At the same time the

landscape has changed. Anarchists have too frequently focused on the

immediate, or preocuppied ourselves with re-fighting yesteryear's

battles, and failed to adequarely prepare for future struggles and

challenges. It need not be so.

Anarcho-Transhumanism is the recognition that social liberty is

inherently bound up with material liberty, and that freedom is

ultimately a matter of expanding our capacity and opportunities to

engage with the world around us. It is the realization that our

resistance against those social forces that would subjugate and limit us

is but part of a spectrum of efforts to expand human agency—to

facilitate our inquiry and creativity.

This means not just being free from the arbitrary limitations our bodies

might impose, but free to shape the world around us and deepen the

potential of our connections to one another through it.

It means the tools we use should be openly knowable and infinitely

customizable; it means bodies that are not locked into processes in

which we have no say. It knows that the hunger for choice behind birth

control, regrown limbs and sexual reassignment is the same hunger that

organizes workers and sets fire to prisons. It is struggle to live free…

and do so for one more year, one more decade, one more century. It means

not just transcending the strictures of gender, but of genetics and all

previous human experience. It means fighting to be allowed the fullest

actualization of who and what we want to be, whenever we want to be it.

It means challenging and altering the conditions that might otherwise

govern us. It means when the tools exist to better our lives they should

be used; that no one should starve when such scarcity can be eliminated.

It means vigilantly engaging with nature rather than bullying or

surrendering to it. It is the knowledge that victory for the working

class will only truly arrive when every worker individually owns the

means of production—capable of fabricating anything and everything for

themselves. It is proactive engagement with the environmental conditions

that force hierarchy and inescapable collectivism. It means freeing our

society from the hierarchies of two dimensional landscapes, to move our

destructive infrastructures outside the biosphere and to eventually

shake off sedentary civilization and take our place as hunter-gatherers

between the stars.

It means cryptography—unbreakable channels of private communication

added up into an unbreakable hive of ideas and knowledge. It also means

the abolition of public privacy—the creation of a world where the

actions we take with one another are sharable and verifiable in an

instant. And ultimately it will be the freedom to surpass the limited

bandwidth of language and connect more and more directly to one

another—to merge minds and transcend individual subjectivities as

desired.

Anarcho-Transhumanism is all of these things and any one of them.