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Very Bad Nihilist — Asterion

“I want to avoid diminishing my nihilism to ‘just’ depression and I also want to avoid romanticizing my mental illness as a source of special knowledge, and I’m worried that I’m slipping toward both those interpretations with my avowal of nihilism. So let me put it this way: One reason I’m a nihilist is because of my experience of pain, and while pain is universal it is a deeply personal, particular experience.”

Combining personal reflections on nihilism with erudite critiques of some of the most well known queer/anarcho-nihilist texts, this zine from CTRL+Z Press provides a vitally necessary commentary on contemporary nihilist currents.

Against Gender, Against Society  (This is What a Feminist Looks Like) 

“Social war is the conflict that spans all society, social war is the struggle against society; that is to say all existing social relations. The self-destructive tendency within society, so-called ‘anti-social behavior’, the desire to command and to obey, acts of rebellion and acts of reinforcement, the riot and the return to work, these are the attacks and counter-attacks in this war. Social war is the battles between those who wish to destroy society and those maintaining it. Chaos against control. Nothingness and potential against everything and the existent. Everything that holds society together insulates us from each other; each blow to domination and control is a step closer to each other, a step away from our imposed identities, our alienation and toward infinite possibility. Because society is everywhere, the only way to escape is to win the social war; to destroy society. Gender is one of the fronts on which the social war is fought.”

A zine from ninjabikeslut, negatecity, and CTRL+Z Press on gender nihilism and social war.