ian alan paul
@elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social
technopolitics and anarchist thought
faculty @ universitat pompeu fabra in barcelona
https://www.ianalanpaul.com
faculty @ universitat pompeu fabra in barcelona
https://www.ianalanpaul.com
I was lucky to study with Asad Haider while we were doing our PhDs at UCSC. I also remember sitting down with him, debating as we inspected used tear gas canisters during Occupy Oakland. He was a brilliant and generous thinker, and the world is far poorer without him.
December 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I was lucky to study with Asad Haider while we were doing our PhDs at UCSC. I also remember sitting down with him, debating as we inspected used tear gas canisters during Occupy Oakland. He was a brilliant and generous thinker, and the world is far poorer without him.
"I heard story after story of soldiers separating people, photographing them, and searching phones ... This machinery of surveillance merged with the machinery of death. We were used to drones watching us. Now lowflying quadcopters were carrying grenades"
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Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"I heard story after story of soldiers separating people, photographing them, and searching phones ... This machinery of surveillance merged with the machinery of death. We were used to drones watching us. Now lowflying quadcopters were carrying grenades"
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
"What is a Repertoire?," the afterword to The Reticular Society, is now available in Spanish. Many thanks to the translators.
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¿Qué es un repertorio? (2025) – Ian Alan Paul
La obra de Ian Alan Paul, The Reticular Society, ofrece una crítica de inspiración situacionista sobre cómo la lógica de la computación optimizada y el cálculo en red ha ampliado y profundizado el …
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December 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"What is a Repertoire?," the afterword to The Reticular Society, is now available in Spanish. Many thanks to the translators.
libertamen.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/q...
libertamen.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/q...
Gaza must remain at the center of our thought because it reveals the future. The hope that there will only be more neoliberalism, that things may slowly degrade but will nonetheless remain on course, is pure fantasy. We must destroy the present order before it destroys the world.
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Gaza must remain at the center of our thought because it reveals the future. The hope that there will only be more neoliberalism, that things may slowly degrade but will nonetheless remain on course, is pure fantasy. We must destroy the present order before it destroys the world.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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« Défendre et intensifier tout ce qui, de la vie, reste créatif, sauvage et libre »
Qu'est-ce qu'un répertoire ?
Une proposition politique de Ian Alan Paul
Qu'est-ce qu'un répertoire ?
Une proposition politique de Ian Alan Paul
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
« Défendre et intensifier tout ce qui, de la vie, reste créatif, sauvage et libre »
Qu'est-ce qu'un répertoire ?
Une proposition politique de Ian Alan Paul
Qu'est-ce qu'un répertoire ?
Une proposition politique de Ian Alan Paul
Just as policing functions to produce crime and thus produces the idea of a society which needs the police, categorizing particular acts as "war crimes" only functions to produce the idea that there is such a thing as a defensible, humane, or just war.
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Just as policing functions to produce crime and thus produces the idea of a society which needs the police, categorizing particular acts as "war crimes" only functions to produce the idea that there is such a thing as a defensible, humane, or just war.
New radical press alert 🔥🔥🔥
"In 2025, we launched Ill Will Editions, a book press for publishing both long-form works readers of the Ill Will Journal would expect and popular interventions for a wide audience."
www.illwilleditions.com
"In 2025, we launched Ill Will Editions, a book press for publishing both long-form works readers of the Ill Will Journal would expect and popular interventions for a wide audience."
www.illwilleditions.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
New radical press alert 🔥🔥🔥
"In 2025, we launched Ill Will Editions, a book press for publishing both long-form works readers of the Ill Will Journal would expect and popular interventions for a wide audience."
www.illwilleditions.com
"In 2025, we launched Ill Will Editions, a book press for publishing both long-form works readers of the Ill Will Journal would expect and popular interventions for a wide audience."
www.illwilleditions.com
"What Marx calls class struggle ... is nothing other than this internecine war that divides every people and that shall come to an end only when People and people coincide ... when there shall no longer be, properly speaking, any people." -Agamben
December 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"What Marx calls class struggle ... is nothing other than this internecine war that divides every people and that shall come to an end only when People and people coincide ... when there shall no longer be, properly speaking, any people." -Agamben
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Charting a trajectory from the punk underground of the 1980s to current struggles against autocracy, a participant in CrimethInc. projects spoke with the Woodbine podcast about the importance of institutional memory in radical politics and the case for explicitly anarchist organizing.
This conversation between Woodbine and Crimethinc remains quite sharp and clear-eyed as they reflect on the last thirty years of anarchist organizing in the U.S. as well as on the authoritarian dimensions of the present conjuncture.
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#35: CrimethInc. on Making Revolutionary Proposals | Woodbine
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December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Charting a trajectory from the punk underground of the 1980s to current struggles against autocracy, a participant in CrimethInc. projects spoke with the Woodbine podcast about the importance of institutional memory in radical politics and the case for explicitly anarchist organizing.
Some say that resistance is always already unfolding, that in each moment a subtle rebellion is at work, that 'everything is political.' In reality however revolts only very rarely occur, and yet nonetheless they remain everywhere possible, resting as potentials waiting to erupt.
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Some say that resistance is always already unfolding, that in each moment a subtle rebellion is at work, that 'everything is political.' In reality however revolts only very rarely occur, and yet nonetheless they remain everywhere possible, resting as potentials waiting to erupt.
This conversation between Woodbine and Crimethinc remains quite sharp and clear-eyed as they reflect on the last thirty years of anarchist organizing in the U.S. as well as on the authoritarian dimensions of the present conjuncture.
www.patreon.com/posts/35-cri...
www.patreon.com/posts/35-cri...
#35: CrimethInc. on Making Revolutionary Proposals | Woodbine
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December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This conversation between Woodbine and Crimethinc remains quite sharp and clear-eyed as they reflect on the last thirty years of anarchist organizing in the U.S. as well as on the authoritarian dimensions of the present conjuncture.
www.patreon.com/posts/35-cri...
www.patreon.com/posts/35-cri...
"It is only through a collective multiplication and refining of repertoires that uprisings can emerge not as a form of disorder that remains fleeting and isolated but as a form of disorder whose scale and force is world historical."
illwill.com/repertoire
illwill.com/repertoire
What Is a Repertoire? • Ill Will
Afterword to Ian Alan Paul's "The Reticular Society"
illwill.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"It is only through a collective multiplication and refining of repertoires that uprisings can emerge not as a form of disorder that remains fleeting and isolated but as a form of disorder whose scale and force is world historical."
illwill.com/repertoire
illwill.com/repertoire
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In this new afterword to "The Reticular Society," Ian Alan Paul traces the history of technological domination over human gestures, and the conditions for its overturning.
illwill.com/repertoire
illwill.com/repertoire
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In this new afterword to "The Reticular Society," Ian Alan Paul traces the history of technological domination over human gestures, and the conditions for its overturning.
illwill.com/repertoire
illwill.com/repertoire
The new afterword of The Reticular Society is now up on @illwilleditions: “What is a Repertoire?”
The book will be coming out w/@PMPressOrg in the Spring (also with a beautiful introduction from Serene Richards), and can be preordered now on their page.
illwill.com/repertoire
The book will be coming out w/@PMPressOrg in the Spring (also with a beautiful introduction from Serene Richards), and can be preordered now on their page.
illwill.com/repertoire
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The new afterword of The Reticular Society is now up on @illwilleditions: “What is a Repertoire?”
The book will be coming out w/@PMPressOrg in the Spring (also with a beautiful introduction from Serene Richards), and can be preordered now on their page.
illwill.com/repertoire
The book will be coming out w/@PMPressOrg in the Spring (also with a beautiful introduction from Serene Richards), and can be preordered now on their page.
illwill.com/repertoire
«Lo común de la comunidad es la condición de posibilidad del principio de individuación, único e irrepetible, por el que cada miembro de la comunidad llega a ser lo que es, pero lo común de la comunidad no es asignable a, ni preciable de, ninguno de los sujetos que la componen.»
December 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
«Lo común de la comunidad es la condición de posibilidad del principio de individuación, único e irrepetible, por el que cada miembro de la comunidad llega a ser lo que es, pero lo común de la comunidad no es asignable a, ni preciable de, ninguno de los sujetos que la componen.»
NYC showed us yesterday what remains possible everywhere today and tomorrow.
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
NYC showed us yesterday what remains possible everywhere today and tomorrow.
“Sometimes Doing Is Undoing and Sometimes Undoing Is Doing,” Francis Alÿs, Afghanistan, 2013
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“Sometimes Doing Is Undoing and Sometimes Undoing Is Doing,” Francis Alÿs, Afghanistan, 2013
The spectacular nature of our society has evolved such that nothing desires to be hidden. Fascist hate, corruption, and state violence all aspire only to magnify their power by appearing in full. The response must invert this move, growing more as a threat the less it appears.
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The spectacular nature of our society has evolved such that nothing desires to be hidden. Fascist hate, corruption, and state violence all aspire only to magnify their power by appearing in full. The response must invert this move, growing more as a threat the less it appears.
"the path between a fascist or decolonial future runs directly through Palestine"
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"the path between a fascist or decolonial future runs directly through Palestine"
The most devastating insult of our time:
“Four point five out of five,” Claire Fontaine, 2020
“Four point five out of five,” Claire Fontaine, 2020
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The most devastating insult of our time:
“Four point five out of five,” Claire Fontaine, 2020
“Four point five out of five,” Claire Fontaine, 2020
Finally wrapping up the first section of my next book project.
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Finally wrapping up the first section of my next book project.
It's difficult to grasp that there are other epistemes (historical structures of knowing/thinking) b/c we're always in our own, but then you see the human depicted as humors (1574) / a factory (1926) / a cybernetic system (1966) / a neural network (2019) and then it makes sense.
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It's difficult to grasp that there are other epistemes (historical structures of knowing/thinking) b/c we're always in our own, but then you see the human depicted as humors (1574) / a factory (1926) / a cybernetic system (1966) / a neural network (2019) and then it makes sense.
The character of our moment is above all else ethical. Revolts don't take shape around any shared political program or vision, but simply in defense of the dignity and immeasurable value of life, in pursuit of a life worth fighting for and worth living.
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The character of our moment is above all else ethical. Revolts don't take shape around any shared political program or vision, but simply in defense of the dignity and immeasurable value of life, in pursuit of a life worth fighting for and worth living.
The Roman stoic Seneca cited the proverb ‘totidem hostes esse quot ’ (as many enemies as you have slaves) when he attempted to convince masters to free their slaves, but it is better that we adopt it as our own ethical appeal to live up to being true enemies of what dominates.
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Roman stoic Seneca cited the proverb ‘totidem hostes esse quot ’ (as many enemies as you have slaves) when he attempted to convince masters to free their slaves, but it is better that we adopt it as our own ethical appeal to live up to being true enemies of what dominates.