The Tree of Brass and Lead

The trajectory is like this: Israel is the last-established Settler-Colonialist project. It is also the last such project I see being feasible. Fundamentally, it is the same kind of state as America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa; other states have had Settler-Colonialist phases – such as the Japanese annexation of Hokkaido, the settlement of Taiwan, and basically anywhere you see (nation)-ification or -cization – Russification, Sinocization, Romanization. This refers to the replacement of an indigenous culture with a colonialist one. Sometimes, this is accompanied with political policies that lead to demographic shifts.

CommentaryCameron SummersMay 19, 2021Settler Colonialism, Capitalism, Israel/Palestine Conflict, Dystopia, Empire, Exterminism, No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, Douglas RushkoffComment

Living in the Burn Down

The world is burning down around us, and we’re going to work. We’re going to the grocery store and the laundromat and watching Netflix. We have no ability to productively imagine what we have to do in this situation, because the obvious option – taking to the streets, going on strike, making actual demands – are things that we have been conditioned not to do. We continue on as we have been, because the alternatives are either outright unimaginable or are the objects of horror and anti-fascination.

Time of Monsters, Written by: Cameron, PoliticalCameron SummersSeptember 30, 20202020 Presidential Election, Right-Wing Politics, Politics, Exterminism, Tacitus, The Battle of Blair Mountain, History, Historiography, Empire, Cahokia, Native Americans, Scatter Adapt and Remember, Analee NewitzComment