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Frank interviews archeologist Adam Green on his article Killing the Priest-King: Egalitarianism in the Indus Valley Civilization. He explains both his arguments for why the Indus Valley Civilization was (probably) an egalitarian mass urban commercial society that operated in a bottom-up fashion and had really nice houses/sanitation. Also included are tangents on the history of archeological frameworks and categorization, noisy and hidden elites, and questions of information processing and signification.

For the second installment of 2021, we spoke with a passionate thinker and activist whose approach to political philosophy is both charming and challenging. Join as we dissect our guest’s unique perspective on egoism, spirituality, anarchist tactics, and more. Alex McHugh is the new Coordinator at the Center For A Stateless Society. He’s an anarchist and activist based in Philadelphia, who’s interested in community building, mutual aid, the importance of civic institutions, and mysticism.

Marxist, teacher, and professional podcast guest, C. Derick Varn comes on the show to have a sprawling conversation about various societies, 21st-century politics, the history of American political movements, the impact of technology on politics and culture, the legacy of the Cold War, emergent dynamics, philosophy of science, string theory, anthropology, New Atheism, free will and more. --- Show Notes --- -Neoreaction (for dummies), Nick Land https://web.archive.org/web/20170720102354/http://www.xenosystems.net/neoreaction-for-dummies/ -The Density Divide, Will Wilkson -What share of people are online?, Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/internet#what-share-of-people-are-online -Could an iPhone fly me to the moon?, Graham Kendall https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/apollo-11-moon-landing-mobile-phones-smartphone-iphone-a8988351.html -Helen Viola Jackson, last known Civil War widow, dead at 101, Elizabeth Elizalde https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/helen-viola-jackson-last-known-civil-war-widow-dead-at-101/ -The End of History, Francis Fukuyama -Francis Fukuyama interview: "Socialism ought to come back", George Eaton https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2018/10/francis-fukuyama-interview-socialism-ought-come-back We Stand on Guard, Brian K. Vaughn https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/we-stand-on-guard Reality Check: Being Nonreligious in America, Secular Survey https://www.secularsurvey.org/ The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death Terror Management Theory, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory The Rise of Post-modern Conservatism, Matt McManus https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-24682-2 Reactionary Modernism, Jeffery Herf Self-domestication: In Humans, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication#In_humans Frans de Waal, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal Humans, not climate, have rapidly driven rising mammal extinction rate, Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200909100244.htm Governing the Commons, Elinor Ostrom https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-the-commons/A8BB63BC4A1433A50A3FB92EDBBB97D5 Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph Tainter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/477.Collapse_of_Complex_Societies -Mortal Science Podcast https://soundcloud.com/mortalscience -In the Enemy Camp, Swampside Chats https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats/sets/in-the-enemy-camp Pop the Left YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFad02vA5AOH8vV8rUp6mwkACCa77u2UM C. Derick Varn reads five poems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnteApw_4DU

For the first installment of 2021, we spoke with a prolific writer and activist whose ideas are as eclectic as they are thought-provoking. Today we’ll be highlighting a few of her interests, including Agorism, Environmentalism, problems with the ”justice system”, and how we might go about building a better one. We also talk about the intentional queer community she’s building, the exciting event she’s planning, and the unfortunate legal situation she currently finds herself in. Logan Marie Glitterbomb is a writer, Breadtuber, and podcaster under the branding of Green Market Agorist. She’s a Fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society, an agorist, and an anarchist-without-adjectives. She’s also a gun-rights activist, hardcore police and prison abolitionist, a longtime member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and a co-founder of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the Libertarian Party. She has lived collectively for a number of years, making a living as an agorist and freelancer, while dedicating her free time towards community organizing. Links- Follow Logan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MakhnoTits Logan’s C4SS Writings: https://c4ss.org/content/author/logan-glitterbomb Green Market Agorist: https://greenmarketagorist.wordpress.com/ Logan’s Legal Fund: https://gogetfunding.com/legal-defense-for-logan-glitterbomb/ Coup De Gras 2: Electric Luau: https://agorafest.wordpress.com/

Join us for the 7th installment of All Power To The Imagination as Frank explores Francis Fukuyama's infamous 1992 book, The End of History. After the defeat of fascism and communism, are we destined to become liberal last men without chests or is there something else in the cards? The End of History? (1989 essay) - https://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm The End of History and The Last Man - https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-... Transhumanism: The World's Most Dangerous Idea (Francis Fukuyama) - https://www.au.dk/fukuyama/boger/essay/ Our Posthuman Future - https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/our-p... Transhumanism: The World's Most Dangerous Idea? (Nick Bostrom) - https://nickbostrom.com/papers/danger... Matrix Ending Scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq5Uh... Complexity Rising - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkzse... Preview YouTube video The Matrix (1999) - Ending Scene (With Original Score) [HD] Preview YouTube video All Power To The Imagination #1 | Complexity Rising - Solo Cast --- Thanks for watching! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- Listen to the Non Serviam Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and more. If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow us on Instagram @nonserviammedia View our full, downloadable catalog online at https://nonserviam.media/

When first hearing about anarchy and its aspirations, many people dismiss it as utopian, dangerous, or impossible. If you're an anarchist, you've probably come across this knee-jerk reaction lots of folks seem to have when initially coming into contact with the ideas. It’s in these moments I’m reminded of a quote attributed to Mikhail Bakunin: “By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward”. It’s important to remember that our understanding of ‘the possible’ is embedded in a cultural context that often attempts to cage our ambitions and silence our desires. We who have the audacity to defy these psychological borders and strive for a social reality beyond domination have challenging terrains to navigate. How do we go about expanding cooperation in a world obsessed with coercion? And what led humans to adopt these destructive ways of relating to one another, to begin with? There is much to be learned and unlearned and, in this episode, we discuss how states originally formed and how we can move beyond them. Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist, activist, and writer whose work has come to be known by many as foundational anarchist literature and essential canon for anarchist thought. The titles of his books are Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation, The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy, Anarchy Works, and How Nonviolence Protects The State. Follow Peter on Twitter- https://twitter.com/PeterGelderloos Become a Patron- https://www.patreon.com/creator-home View the full Non Serviam Catalog- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1V-roBXM8ftztU3pDyeLyA?view_as=subscriber

2020 has been a wild ride, and at the moment things don’t seem to be cooling down. In this episode, we focus on a topic the presidential debates did not cover, gun control, and firearm freedom. With a looming threat of a right-wing coup, or of a presidential administration who will inevitably be hostile to firearm freedom, this conversation is especially timely. We also discuss censorship, free speech, and how social media is reacting to the chaotic climate we find ourselves in today. Kelly Wright is an activist, public speaker, and writer who focuses on a host of topics ranging from anarchism, queer and trans rights, and privacy. She graduated from Ohio University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics. She currently lives and works in New York City with her cat Grimes. Follow Kelly on Twitter: @anarchakelly Follow Non Serviam Media on Twitter: @nonserviammedia Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia --- Thanks for watching! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- Listen to the Non Serviam Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and more. If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow us on Instagram @nonserviammedia View our full, downloadable catalog online at https://nonserviam.media/

Crisis of Democracy wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cri... Complexity and the Limits of Revolution https://necsi.edu/complexity-and-the-.... Image shown: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/... Opening and closing audio is Francis Fukuyama in this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9J99... --- Thanks for watching! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- Listen to the Non Serviam Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and more. If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow us on Instagram @nonserviammedia View our full, downloadable catalog online at https://nonserviam.media/

Cory Massimino studies philosophy at the University of Central Florida. He is a Fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society. His research focuses on virtue ethics, market process economics, and anarchist political theory. His writings have appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, The Independent, and Playboy. Cory began his political journey on the libertarian right. His political philosophy is now more closely associated with what some might call left libertarianism. The libertarian left in America has many tendencies that separate itself from or are sometimes even hostile to thinkers such as Ayn Rand or Murray Rothbard. However, my guest today challenges us to not throw out the baby with the bathwater and feels that it’s entirely possible to reject and to criticize the reactionary shortcomings of some of these thinkers, while also highlighting the contributions they made to a kind of libertarianism that may be worth taking inspiration from. In this interview, we discuss a variety of topics ranging from immigration to egalitarianism, to free market- anti capitalism, and more https://c4ss.org/content/author/cory-massimino https://www.borderangels.org

Frank interviews Enspiral co-founder Richard Barlett on decentralized organizing, the primacy of experience, metamodernism, the failings of postmodernism, and radical alternatives. Organizing beyond organizations: Good news stories from Spain and Taiwan - https://c4ss.org/content/50824 Rethinking Humanity, Rethinkx - https://www.rethinkx.com/humanity The Culture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cul... The Listening Society - https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Soci... Lumio - https://www.loomio.org/ Scuttlebutt - https://planetary.social/ Walkaway, Cory Doctorow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkawa...) How to change the Course of Human History, David Graeber and David Wengrow - https://www.eurozine.com/change-cours... Enspiral network - https://enspiral.com/ OODA loop - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop --- Thanks for watching! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- Listen to the Non Serviam Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and more. If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow us on Instagram @nonserviammedia View our full, downloadable catalog online at https://nonserviam.media/

As a philosophy and as a practice, Anarchism has always had a special interest in the topic of education. Just as we call into question the social role of police or question what it means to be a citizen, so do we critique the role of a teacher or what it means to be a student. Power dynamics pervade in our society, manifesting in overt and subtle ways with varying degrees of obviousness to each individual. Anarchism seeks to make them apparent, to abolish them, and to replace them with infinite freedom.Domination maintains not only through coercion, but also through the cultural support of ordinary people for whom hierarchy plagues the very fabric of their psyche. This way of relating to one another is modeled and forced upon a forgotten class of individuals, youth. Through precious formative years that can’t be given back, compulsion, punishment, and obedience is worshiped. It’s no wonder so many adults simply can not imagine a world without such restraints. Luckily, some people are actively fighting against oppression and building alternatives to the toxic status quo. It often seems that being a mover and a shaker naturally stirs controversy, and my guest today is no different. But the truth is, if you’re not making someone angry, you’re probably not doing it right. Antonio Buehler is an american educator, anarchist, and activist who co-founded Peaceful Streets Project, an organization dedicated to building and empowering communities to fight police abuse. Antonio is also the founder of Abrome, a learning community which helps young people identify and engage in deep, meaningful, and enduring experiences through self directed education. Having dedicated a healthy amount of his time and energy to documenting police violence, Antonio is no stranger to the horrors of the police state. Because of his dedication to holding cops accountable, he has also been arrested several times, and targeted for state surveillance. He’s a passionate and provocative advocate for police abolition and youth liberation. In this installment we discuss the problems with schooling, cops, and prisons. We also explore youth liberation more broadly, the importance of smashing white supremacy, and grassroots solutions to overcoming privilege and power. More on Antonio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Buehler Our previous video interview with Antonio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0aQcIWp_GI&t=2s More on Abrome: http://www.abrome.com/ Follow Peaceful Streets Project: https://twitter.com/PeacefulStreets?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Silvio Gesell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_... John Maynard Keynes - general theory of employment, interest and money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gen... Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_... John Robb, Brave New War https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-... David Graeber, The New Anarchists https://newleftreview.org/issues/II13... Taneer Greer, Explaining Conservatism Generational Civil War https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2... Matt Lewis, The Insidious Libertarian-to-Alt-Right Pipeline https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ins... Jeffery Tucker, Against Libertarian Brutualism https://fee.org/articles/against-libe... 2012 GOP Autopsy https://online.wsj.com/public/resourc... On Flying Cars and The Declining Rate Of Profit https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flyi... --- Thanks for watching! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- Listen to the Non Serviam Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and more. If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow us on Instagram @nonserviammedia View our full, downloadable catalog online at https://nonserviam.media/

Matty is an anarchist from West Virginia who has written about Max Stirner, Appalachian religion and its relationship to class struggle, folk music, and Japanese egoist anarchism, and more. He is also a member of Whither Appalachia’s editorial committee, which is a journal and blog dedicated to critical analysis and a radical understanding of Appalachia and its future. In this installment, we discuss anarchist communism, individualist anarchism, and anarchy without adjectives. We also explore the intersections of religion and politics, Max Stirner, and the process of folk music. --- Thanks for watching! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- Listen to the Non Serviam Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and more. If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia

Nathan Goodman is a PhD student in the Department of Economics at George Mason University. He earned his Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Utah. Nathan has worked as a research fellow for the Center for a Stateless Society, a program intern for the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University, and a summer fellow at the Fully Informed Jury Association. His research interests include defense and peace economics, Austrian economics, public choice economics, and self-governance. What would a world beyond cops look like? What is a healthy way of organizing defense in any given society? And how might theory or and actually existing examples of communities without cops, inform our hopes of living in a world without coercive authority? Nathan Goodman has spent some time researching and writing on related topics, and in this episode, we discuss these issues and more in detail. More from Nathan and the organizations he mentions: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3111065 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Ue5NBMAAAAJ&hl=en https://c4ss.org/content/author/nathan-goodman https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory http://criticalresistance.org/

Frank Miroslav interviews Jahed Momand about Johanna Bockman's Markets in the Name of Socialism. They discuss venture propaganda, right-wing socialist printers that go brrrr, the assumptions behind neoclassical economics and communist billionaires. Jahed proposes anarchist public policy and confirms that Jeffery Sachs is Actually The Worst. Markets in the Name of Socialism, Johanna Bockman https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=21002 Philosophy of Economics, Don Ross https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18690307-philosophy-of-economics Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Nations_Fail Jeffery Sachs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs Market Socialism Wikipedia Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism Economic Stars Swing Left, Noah Smith https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-01-07/economics-stars-swing-left Being in the World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heideggerian_terminology#Being-in-the-world Capital as Power, Jonathan Nitzan Shimshon Bichler https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Power-Creorder-Political-Economy/dp/0415496802 Critique of the Gotha Program, Karl Marx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_the_Gotha_Program Socially Necessary Labour Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_necessary_labour_time Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs Zero to One, Peter Thiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_to_One Competition Is For Losers, Comrade Peter Thiel https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536 Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Kevin Carson https://kevinacarson.org/publication/hir/ Cost Disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol's_cost_disease 3d printing medical hardware https: https://glia.org

Joe Peacott is an individualist anarchist writer based in the United States. He’s a well-respected thinker and theorist in radical spaces, who seems to be criminally underground, even within the underground. He’s a leading figure at BAD Press, a publishing outlet for individualist anarchist philosophy, and has a noted involvement in anti-war activism. His economic and sociological work has been published by the Libertarian Alliance and referenced favorably by leading anarchist scholars such as Kevin A. Carson. He opposes both capitalism and state socialism and is a proponent of both market exchange and a society where people are able to realize the full value of their labor. Joe has written extensively on economics but has also explored esoterica surrounding sex, drugs, and other related topics. In this installment, we discuss individualism, labor freedom, anti-capitalist markets, healthcare, american libertarianism, historical anarchist spaces, and more. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/creator-home Subscribe to out youbube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1V-roBXM8ftztU3pDyeLyA/featured?view_as=subscriber

Welcome to All Power To The Imagination; an expansive adventure through interesting texts and conversations, guided by our host and producer, Frank Miroslav. Frank Miroslav does technology stuff by day and writes at the Center for a Stateless Society by night. You may remember Frank from Non Serviam Podcast Ep. #4, where we discussed free-market-communism, neoclassical economics and it's relationship to socialism, neoreaction, corporate domination, anarchist tactics, and more. If you're not already familiar with Frank and his perspective, definitely check out that episode before you listen to All Power To The Imagination Ep. #2 next month! In this first episode of All Power To The Imagination, Frank introduces us to the show format and jumps right into a discussion of complexity; one of the main themes of this new show. To follow along with the discussion check out the resources below: * Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile: https://necsi.edu/complexity-rising-f... * How to Change the Course of Human History https://www.eurozine.com/change-cours... * Society is Too Complicated to Have a President, Complex Mathematics Suggest https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wn... Connect with Frank on Twitter @mutual_ayyde --- Thanks for watching! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- Catch All Power To The Imagination on the Non Serviam Media channel on your favorite podcast platform: iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! If you'd like to help us create more emancipatory content, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @nonserviammedia View our full, downloadable catalog online at https://nonserviam.media/

Join us for the 17th episode of the podcast where Joel is joined by a couple of thoughtful friends to discuss useful, and not so useful ways of practicing emancipatory politics. We touch on the radical & practical potential of cooperatives, how they relate to anarchism, and our most recent plans moving forward with Non Serviam Media. Be sure to stick around to the end of this one to hear a quick chat Stephen had with Frank Miroslav about his new show called All Power To The Imagination.

At Non Serviam Studios we're trying to do our part during these difficult times, so here's something a little different to pass the quarentime! We've slapped all the Non Serviam Podcast Lightning Rounds of 2019 into one super Lightning Round Compilation episode. It's a lot of fun, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Before the turn of the year, in Wuhan China, an epidemic broke out that took the world by its grips. They called it the coronavirus, or COVD-19. From China to Iran, to Italy, and even the United States, the virus has taken thousands upon thousands of innocent lives. As global supply chains threaten to fail us, as ordinary people continue to lose their jobs, and with few signs of the coronavirus slowing down, it’s difficult to not feel a bit anxious under the weight of a pandemic seemingly capable of tremendous destruction. What caused it? How can we stop it? To what extent are states responsible for this mess? Can anarchism bring anything useful to the discussion? The slogan for this podcast is “radical voices in precarious times''. It’s possible that this episode captures the spirit of those words better than any other interview we’ve released. Dr. Michael Laufer is the first person to appear twice on the show. He’s is the Director of the Institute for Autonomous Medicine and the Chief spokesperson for the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. In this episode, we discuss anarchism in the time of pandemic. We covered how Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has responded to COVID-19, how states have responded to COVID-19, the importance of mutual aid, and even dabbled in some post-pandemic forecasting.