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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Not even a genre, it's just the album Skeptics Apocalypse by Agent Steel because it makes aliens sound cool as fuck

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The Marxist writer and activist Mike Davis died three years ago today. His left us an example of how to live and fight as an “old-school socialist.”

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The Marxism of Mike Davis

Historian Nelson Lichtenstein on the life, influences, and “sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism” of the late, great writer Mike Davis.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

From a Stuff article on tomorrow's strikes in the public sector. The mood of those against industrial action seems to be annoyance more than anything, but the mood for it seems to be orders of magnitude more resolute. #nzpol

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Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below. Please follow for updates and collection highlights! hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

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radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I don't think so after it's posted? You're welcome to copy/paste and post it with your own though! Thank you!

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

We are a #Ōtepoti | #Dunedin based collective, and as such all our reading/discussion sessions will be here for the foreseeable future. However we are interested in potential readers based elsewhere who may be interested in reading along or forming their own circles, so please do get in touch!

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

So, that new project I've been teasing? I'm pleased to present the Spectre of History Collective! We will be onboarding a few new readers before launching reading sessions in January 2026. Anyone interested in joining or learning more is encouraged to reach out through the email below.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I will also be hosting this in conversation with the rad @rosieoverell.bsky.social at the end of the month! We'll be discussing a wide range of topics orbiting around the core theme of social and political issues raised by/present in the heavy metal subculture.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I will be involved with this & DJing alongside some great local talent. Do come along, as this sale represents one of the last words of the Black Star Books collective which was foundational for me and many others in discovering radically left-wing politics in #Ōtepoti. #dunedin #nzpol

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

In all seriousness, this is a very valuable project that absolutely should get the support of Oceanic socialists. Subscribe, read, contribute, disseminate!

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It would probably be a hassle if billions offered to help this, but nevertheless

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I say that even as someone who believes a more social internet is, or at least was, possible. I still have a fondness of the Indymedia era!

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The Internet (TM) has largely been a negative factor in the unrest which has broken out, though. I think most people who saw the revolutionary potential of 'information war' during the 2000s and capped off by Arab Spring with some embarrassment now.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

That's true of the uprisings of the 2010s and 2020s, but with a few exceptions the uprisings of the 2000s also seemed to largely fail to even attempt a full political or social revolution. There's a declining ratio post-Cold War afaict of uprisings turning into some kind of revolutionary upheaval.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 How genocide happened

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

One of the keys to the early 21st century which we can now analyse with a bit of hindsight is the proliferation of successful political revolutions and coups which promised at least a nominally progressive overhaul but failed to really carry out social or political revolution in a meaningful sense.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Consider my reposting an endorsement of this fundraiser, Byron is great quality as a person and as a researcher of what I used to call the "lunar right" in Aotearoa (a now useless term given how close the glassy eyed moonbats are to people with actual levers of power available)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

What's a website like this without shameless self-promo, eh?

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

A few people on here may be interested in this one. I namecheck @anrchivist.bsky.social as well as Kerry Taylor, Cybèle Locke, Toby Boraman, and a couple others not on here in it. Bert Roth gets a word, as does the excellent 2002 book "On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand".

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I think that's all for now. More details on all of the above to come, but hopefully at least some of that is of interest to some people! (11/ends)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Oh, last up for real this time, I will be presenting a paper with the provisional title "Small-Town Socialism: On Researching the Politics of Socialism and Radical Left-Wing Politics in Aotearoa" at the annual NZ Political Studies Association conference in November. Keep an eye on that! (10)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

With all three, I recognise the limitations, and consider them "best of the bad options" amidst the deterioration of the social internet and its consolidation by a small coterie of extremely stupid and venal tech vampires. Mercifully, more of my work is published physically these days anyway. (9)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

On top of these, I'm mulling over making it possible to make donations for my work. This would at least for now be strictly a voluntary process (think ko-fi), with no obligations and nothing paywalled. Just a way to easily process a few donation offers I've had & declined over the years. (8)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Last up, I will be setting about getting my currently dormant substack account into fit shape to cross-post the remaining writing I do for my blog. Alongside that, I'm looking into setting up a kiwi socialist discord (similar to #aussoc) that'll be loosely associated with the blog. (7)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I'll post the posters for both here very soon! (6)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Also, on Wednesday the 29th October, the Otago Socialist Society will be hosting our monthly educational. I will be in conversation with Dr Rosie Overell of MFCO at University of Otago, with the topic of class & alienation in heavy metal/extreme music, our Halloween event this year. (5)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Our remaining for-sale stock of books & zines will on offer alongside (most) of our library holdings. We're currently working on archiving the remaining collection of rarities. If you want some cool stuff on the cheap, which you can peruse to some music over a coffee, then come down on Saturday! (4)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Black Star Books was a long running anarchist infoshop here in #Ōtepoti, which managed an impressive 20 years in operation (with a few inactive periods) from 2003 to 2023. The remaining collective members, myself included, decided to wind things up this year.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Second, a couple events here in #Ōtepoti / #Dunedin to keep an eye out for. I'll be helping out with and playing DJ (alongside a bunch of much more talented DJs & musicians) this Saturday 18th for the Black Star Books closing sale, to be held at Yours café (43 Moray Place) 12PM-6PM. (2)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Quick update thread on some stuff I'm getting up to in the near future, especially of interest to anyone in #Ōtepoti / #Dunedin but also maybe #nzpol generally too. First, I have an announcement for a new project I and a couple others have been cooking up here in Ōtepoti - full details in a bit. (1)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

It's an extant problem in Australia, burn season shakes out a few firebugs who invariably take the blame in conservative outlets to downplay everything from climate change to public underfunding of relevant services (emergency, enviro management, planning, etc)

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I picked this up at a book fair recently, always fascinated by the "near future dystopian occupation/civil war" genre in Aotearoa

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This one's largely for @historyiswhat.bsky.social's interest, a 1992 issue of Aotearoa anarchist periodical The State Adversary taking up the cause of the *now* (33 years later) recently released Leonard Peltier. No idea if anything else came of this, but an interesting footnote nonetheless.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I'm certain Winston would be in equal paroxysms if someone had torn a NZ flag off his flagpole and defiled it on his lawn.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

From the cover of The State Adversary, issue #20 (April 1992).

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

My only contribution to the current #nzpol discourse is this photo of an anarchist demonstration at Jenny Shipley's house when she was the minister for social welfare in 1992. It even involved light property damage in the form of a torn flag. Last I checked, Jenny Shipley is fine.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I'm still working out the best way to promote the blog (and associated projects) off social media entirely. Instagram is the next one on the list to abandon...

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Emir Hodžić @xovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Proud of my Ōtepoti Dunedin community that at short notice came out in numbers to Port Chalmers to greet Winston Peters (& Shame Jones) who recently declared to the world his governments allegiance to genocidal regimes. These NZrs said “not in my name” very loudly & clearly. #nzpol

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

There's gotta be way more detail bubbling away beneath this, it is (or was) probably the most significant alliance between a social movement and an electoral force in Aotearoa today.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I mean, after Tākuta Ferris started posting about how "Blacks" (his word, not mine) among others shouldn't even be allowed to *campaign* in a Māori seat election, I'd be a bit circumspect about the closeness of ongoing association as well. I can't imagine it helped, at any rate.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Okay, seeing as the wave of industrial actions in late October is set for the 23rd, maybe this will wind up being more of a postscript to that. Still, two major, nationwide union actions in a week (both pretty explicitly aimed at the govt on political grounds) is more than anticipated.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Re(a)d Generations is one thus far, but it's a bit multilayered and clunky to read

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Nagarjuna's Middle Finger | VarnVlog @varnvlog.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Most of the time the truth is uglier than what the pundits tell you, but the future can also be brighter than what they want to believe as well. It just has a cost.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Oh true, it is haha ~ teaches me for going off after only glancing over the account

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