Unexpected Items Issue 2

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From the editorial:

In these pages, our second issue of hissing vitriol to hit the streets of London, readers will find ferocious criticisms of more than a few facts that have been promoted to universal acceptance. Facts like the inevitability of scientific progress and the great efficacy of modern medicine. They will also find noisy jubilation over some limited attacks on certain (in)famous personalities and 'critical national infrastructure'.

Given that we are anarchists, it could well be asked what we think these kinds of very peripheral ideas and acts have to do with the realisation of a world without rulers or ruled? What do they have to do with a revolution that releases each one's personal powers and capacities in an unlimited way, across all the domains of life, from sexuality to food-cultivation, from philosophy to the use of weapons? After all a profound ingratitude for the commodities and costumes we all get to choose from is not a popular position--it is difficult to map it onto an idea of revolution based on the massive withdrawal of consent from the present social arrangement. In the end, reconciliation and broad consent are the order of the day.

But there exist exceptions that do a great deal more than prove the rule. Gut-level rejections of both the worst constraints of mass conformity and its most appealing invitations may be hard to find, but these spasms of liberation still, inconveniently, exist. Although they are certainly the preserve of individuals who find themselves morally and materially isolated by such uncompromising choices, despite this no one can deny that another outbreak of this unhelpful activity might come from anywhere...

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The second downloadable issue of this new periodical. Death to the Data Centers; Welcome to Hell (on waymo, automation, and tech in general); Psychiatric Disorder (on medicated mediocrity); Laughing All the Way to the Biobank (on biotech); Eatherly or Eichmann (excerpts from a letter by Gunther Anders to the sanest of the Hiroshima bombers).

Issue 2 – June 2026 – For Printing.

Unexpected Items Issue 2

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