Animate Anarchy

Animate Anarchy

How to Get Nowhere and Achieve Nothing

On living as a participatory process

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Anna Mercury
Feb 15, 2025
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I didn’t watch the Super Bowl last weekend, but I heard Kendrick Lamar televised the revolution. It seems that we, as a society, have at last achieved the impossible, the thing Gil Scott-Heron so famously promised us would not be done. The revolution has now been televised.

I’ve been thinking about that poem, the Gil …

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