Hey everyone, as the title implies this is just the text version. The audio version of my presentation will be put up tomorrow and will be via my Youtube channel. Thanks! Introduction My name is Nick Ford and for around a year now I’ve been running a site called AbolishWork.com. In that time I’ve been…
The Boston Anarchist Bookfair will be going on this Sunday and the Monday after and I figured it’d be good to let you guys know that we’ll be there through a talk (Sunday, 4:45-5:45) as well as our handouts (which are pictured above). And by “we” I of course mean me but there should be other…
On my first read through I remember this twenty-five or so pager pamphlet sucking itself. So I was hoping to title it “WORKING SUCKS - SUCKS!” but on my second read through I realized that I had gotten so caught up with this title that I had mistaken what the quality actually was. It’s not…
(Original link here (now dead)! I’d like to give my many thanks to Jason for his improvements and encouragement!) When a given structure, institution, activity, or social pattern makes up a lot of our lives as individuals, it demands our attention as individualist anarchists. Work is one such thing that takes up most of our lives…
Although I don’t necessarily agree with all of it (it seems to point any and all futurists or those interested in technologies potential for liberation as non-libertarian/anarchist) I think it makes this split apparent and its a good one to discuss either way: There are perhaps two principal, but very different, impulses for an emergent critique…
Re-Introducing the Opposition In my previous post I discussed where I was coming from in my views on capitalism and in the post before I defined what work was. To bring together the strands of both posts I am going to try to explain why work needs to be abolished. But first let’s refresh our minds…
Work -What is it good for? Presented at AltExpo #13 “Lucky” 6/22/13 Introduction Imagine spending most of your life in one place, context or situation. This situation is typically tedious, repetitive, and requires little skill. Economically speaking, it wouldn’t be too far to say that you’ve been forced into this situation. In this situation you…
…Or something like that. Not long after my original linking of this site on my Facebook a friend of mine on there who sees himself an anarcho-capitalist (no, I’m not getting into that) decided to respond (in his own way) to the site: This website has a stupid title, subheading, given definition of work, use of…