I want to explore some thoughts around Margaret Killjoy’s well-known dictum “Deëscalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy,” Carl Schmitt and “The Concept of the Political,” constructions of opposition in Taoism and Zen Buddhism, and the pragmatics of resistance in a time of fascism...but later on today, after coffee.
OK, this is going to be a *very* long thread, for which I hope you’ll forgive me. I’ll repost it shortly, all in one place, where you can consider and weigh what I’m trying to get at more organically, but I want to lay this all out here first. Here we go: