Informatic Opacity
Zach Blas

On June 7, 2013, the National Security Agency’s surveillance program was made public in news media with the aid of whistleblower Edward Snowden, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and filmmaker Laura Portrais....

Melt With Us
duskin drum & Sarah Lewison

One of the key concepts conveyed by permacultural practice is the reimagining of that which is in-between the barriers of a human built world: roads, fences, buildings. In permaculture, borders and edges are encounter sites where translation and adaptation between species encourages diversity and resiliency....

Counter Power as Common Power
Not an Alternative

Organized resistance, particularly in a form strong enough to shift the balance
of power, is hardly enough to register....

Editorial

Between the rising seas and increasing valuation we find some sort of home. Among the memories of what we thought impossible that came to eventually be. A footstep crosses one thousand footfalls of the six-footed ant but they each go the same distance.

Issue 9 (nine) of this here Journal of A & P wondered at the length of the day in order to understand what was really there. It had grown accustomed to the loud alarm and the cold morning air it insisted upon entering half dressed. A morning shower was no longer of interest, the day always started too soon and coffee had finally become something to step on until lunch...

Black Hole Base
Michael Warren Wilson

At the center of the Mira Loma, CA industrial district lies a large black pit. When scanning the area for distinguishing features, it serves to orient. It's the spiritual core of this particular 'sacrifice zone'—an area of ecological and social degradation resulting from unregulated industry and exploitation....

An Interview with Josh MacPhee
Heath Schultz and Brendan Baylor

I think we’re caught in a linguistic binary between public and private that isn’t representative of the world we live in....

The Artist's Way
Toots McSparkles

The technical asset of any horizon is that it opens up tomorrow. A general anti-capitalist horizon opens up boundaries between fixed positionalities and reveals them as possibly useful parochialisms.

Oakland 2011: A Highly Hallucinatory Sequence of Self-Emancipating Bodies
Paula Cobo-Guevarra

2011: the year of the open Agora, the expressive street, the reverberating body. The year of insurrectionary noise, the fluorescent barricade, the Europa destituyente, the emancipated student, the Cairo tweets. The year of subjective flows: lxs estudiantes, the indebted, the homeless, the immolator, the indignados, the rioters, the 99%, the communers, the subaltern, the precarious. A vast year vibrating with the song of the many voices. The lotta of the whatever; molecular ‘us’....

We Are All Sound: Poetics and Public Space in the Occupy Oakland Movement
David Buuck

It’s 9pm on the night of October 26, the day after the raid on the Occupy Oakland camp and the subsequent riots and police brutality, and some 2500 people have reoccupied Oscar Grant Plaza and convened a General Assembly to assess the last 36 hours and discuss next moves. Several comrades are still in jail or are injured, and Iraqi war vet Scott Olsen lies unconscious in a nearby hospital. The city has said that it will enforce a 10pm curfew at the plaza, arresting anyone attempting to camp there. There is word from San Francisco that the Occupy SF camp is being raided, and a call has been put out for reinforcements to come to the city immediately....

Disobedience Radio Project
Journal Editorial Collective

Audio Project documenting the historical tragectory of creative responses to power from the Cold War to the neo-liberalism of today.

On Hiatus: The Imminent Impossibility of the Art Strike
Gabriel Mindel Saloman

The artistic "avant-garde" has always been associated with a radical attempt to transform society politically through formal and social interventions into art and its institutions....

Protest Camps (an exerpt)
Anna Feigenbaum, Patrick McCurdy and Fabian Frenzel

Whether in the forests of Tasmania or the crowded streets of Thailand, to function at the most basic level as sites of ongoing protest and daily living, protest camps need to figure out where people will sleep, what they will eat, and where they will go to the bathroom. Beyond basic bodily needs, as sites of ongoing protest, protest camps develop....