I may or may not have binged the first 6 episodes of #Andor last light.
via @fortyseven
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Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
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> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-competitive-masculinity-of-revolutionary-violence
Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-competitive-masculinity-of-revolutionary-violence
mkb
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BestoftheLeft #1734: "Where is the Revolutionary, Anti-Fascist Art?"
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://bestoftheleft.com/1734
🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the strength of diversity that comes through in art
💙 Support: https://bestoftheleft.com/support
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#podcast #progressive #progressives #progressivepolitics #politics #leftist #uspolitics #art #politicalart #andor #revolutionaryart #protestmusic
BestoftheLeft #1734: "Where is the Revolutionary, Anti-Fascist Art?"
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://bestoftheleft.com/1734
🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the strength of diversity that comes through in art
💙 Support: https://bestoftheleft.com/support
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#podcast #progressive #progressives #progressivepolitics #politics #leftist #uspolitics #art #politicalart #andor #revolutionaryart #protestmusic
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Cancelled our Disney+ subscription through Apple yesterday…
May just watch Andor constantly until the renew date to further make the point. 😆
#andor #Disney #fascism #corporateCowardice #freespeech #freeexpression #boycott #jimmykimmel
https://lemmy.nz/post/28397398
phoenix🐧🏕🏞🚀🍝
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"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.
And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this: Try."
#Andor #StarWars #Meme #Quote #Memes #Quotes #Resist #Resistance #USPol #Tyranny
Cancelled our Disney+ subscription through Apple yesterday…
May just watch Andor constantly until the renew date to further make the point. 😆
#andor #Disney #fascism #corporateCowardice #freespeech #freeexpression #boycott #jimmykimmel
https://lemmy.nz/post/28397398
Ika Makimaki
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"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.
And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this: Try."
#Andor #StarWars #Meme #Quote #Memes #Quotes #Resist #Resistance #USPol #Tyranny
In the Change, Technically podcast;
"Ashley, a neuroscientist, and Cat, a psychologist for software teams, tell stories of change from classrooms to workplaces."
In this episode they talk about Andor and the social psychology of resistance and rebellion;
https://www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/episodes/17541876-andor-and-the-psychology-of-resistance
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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#Andor earned some of the best reviews in the history of the #StarWars franchise. Why was it still not enough to land the cast Emmy nominations in the acting categories? https://ew.com/why-does-star-wars-franchise-rarely-get-acting-emmy-nominations-11777275
#Andor earned some of the best reviews in the history of the #StarWars franchise. Why was it still not enough to land the cast Emmy nominations in the acting categories? https://ew.com/why-does-star-wars-franchise-rarely-get-acting-emmy-nominations-11777275
Melissa Fehr
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While sci-fi, horror, and fantasy hits like #Severance, #TheLastOfUs, and #Andor received multiple 2025 Emmy nominations, many fan-favorite outside-the-box shows like #Outlander, #IWTV and #TheWheelOfTime were snubbed in major categories. https://www.goldderby.com/article/2025/2025-emmys-outrage-genre-shows-snubbed/