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New PDF & Magazine: 325 #13 – ‘Back to Basics’ – 2025 (ACN)

Posted on 2025/09/22 - 2025/09/22 by darknights

Download PDF here: 325#13 -‘Back to Basics’ – 2025

Originally released in March 2025, the PDF online version of 325 #13 is out now. 76 pages of anarchist, anti-capitalist and anti-civilisation writings, coverage and news. Continues the focus on high-technologies whilst providing space for critical anti-state perspectives and a restatement of principles. DIY print and distribution. For the next generation of international struggle.

For all the nameless unknowns.

CONTENTS

#3. Editorial
#4. ‘Against Artificial Intelligence’ by VQ
#5. ‘Life Extension’ by Training and Research Cell – N.T.
#6. ‘Yes, Collapse’ by John Zerzan
#7. ‘Third Niskai: The River Wye’ by Anarchists in Forest of Dean
#8. ‘The Biolaboratory World’ by Constantino Ragusa
#13. ‘Revolutionising Power: 3D Printed Firearms for the People’ by Anons
#14. Chile: Interview with a nihilistic anarcho-informal affinity group vs Jurnal Anarki (Indonesia)
#17. ‘Fourth Generation Warfare’ by Anons
#17. Anti-State Radio Broadcasts
#18. Berlin, Germany: Open Letter by Daniela Klette
#19. ‘Greetings from Illegality’: Letter from Burkhard Garweg ‘Martin’, Underground RAF Member
#23. ‘Expropriation: Illegalist Anarchism’ by Anons
#23. ‘Against the Myth of the Many-Headed Hydra’ by Anons
#24. ‘An overview of repression in Italy’ by Cassa AntiRep
#26. Operation Sibilla Acquittals
#27. ‘Informal Organisation’ by L
#27. ‘Revolution and Language’ by VQ
#29. ‘Tavistock’ by Jim Keith
#33. ‘Humans and Suffering: Our Folly?’ by Anonymous
#35. ‘The Changing Nature of Warfare: Advancements of Military Drones/U.A.V.’ by The Uncivilized
#39. ‘Akheiron’ by Rifki Syarani Fachry
#40. ‘Restructuring of power and anarchist perspectives’ by Alfredo M. Bonanno
#44. ‘Resilience: Adapting to a toxic world’ by Silvia Guerin
#47. ‘Notable moments in cybernetics’ by Anons
#48. ‘The New Wave of Mining Industries’ by Bandido
#50. ‘Data Colonialism’ by Negre y Verde
#51. ‘Where It Lives‘ by Research Cell – N.T.
#52. Alfredo Cospito: Statement at the Turin Court of Appeal
#54. Anna Beniamino: Statement at the Turin Court of Appeal
#55. Communiqué by Nicola De Maria, Imprisoned Militant of the Red Brigades
#55. Statement in Memory of Ulrike Meinhof by Anarchist Prisoner Thanos Hatziangelou
#57. ‘For my comrade, Kyriakos X’. by Anarchist Prisoner Marianna M.
#58. Direct Action Chronology
#64-#73 Misc: ‘Anarchic Worldview’ by Confrontación, 14th Century Samurai Poem, Review: ‘The Invisible Rainbow’ by Arthur Firstenberg, Review: ‘The Red Sect’ by Enzo Martucci, Review: ‘The Unknown Revolution: 1917-1921 by Voline, Southeast Asian Library, Negazine #2, What is the Cassa Antirepressione delle Alpi Occidentali?, KSL Bulletin #116, Tameio, Prisoner address list, Counter-Info Links, A. M. Bonanno (1937 – 2023), 2000 DS Film

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Transhumanism: the ideology of the techno-world

Posted on 2025/02/08 - 2025/02/08 by darknights

Transhumanism: the ideology of the techno-world
Silvia Guerini and Costantino Ragusa – Resistenze al nanomondo

A chapter from the book: Silvia Guerini and Costantino Ragusa, The ideology of the techno-world. Resisting the megamachine, acro-pólis, 2024.
We will soon publish an English translation of the entire book on our website: Resistenze al nanomondo, www.resistenzealnanomondo.org

“The goal of transhumanism is precisely to replace the natural with the planned”¹.
James Hughes

From the First Industrial Revolution, we have come to define technological developments since the 21st century as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Developments made possible by information technology that characterised the Third Industrial Revolution. In our view, defining the developments of the converging techno-sciences as a Fourth Industrial Revolution is somewhat reductive. First of all, this definition refers to a purely industrial process when the current transformations concern life itself. We do not have a transformation of a factory system that then has consequences for society as a whole, but we have from the very beginning a process that insinuates itself into society and into people’s existence. We are not confronted with developments that simply result from previous technical innovations, but we are confronted with a precise idea of the human being that can be realised thanks to the techno-sciences that can now extend into every dimension, penetrating right into bodies and life processes. Even advances in Artificial Intelligence, for example, do not stem from some new technological innovation, but from more powerful computers, more efficient algorithms and above all more available data.

Techno-sciences become a system, they become a horizon of meaning, they become the context of people’s existence, they become inevitable. They cannot be considered as technologies that fit into every sphere of society, leaving the possibility of using them or not, allowing a dimension of autonomy with respect to them. Once inserted, they become the environment itself, merging with it, shaping and transforming it according to their characteristics and according to the transhumanist ideology they carry. In doing so they become the new normal by shaping and transforming being-in-the-world, perceiving themselves in the world, being in the world and acting in the world. Ultimately transforming the human being.

It can be understood how in itself techno-sciences are not neutral: ‘what we consider the neutrality of technology is only our neutrality with respect to it’².

The endless debate around their neutrality and their positive or negative use could end around the simple consideration that the harmful consequences cannot be considered as side effects: as far as genetic engineering technologies and nanotechnology are concerned, these are always announced disasters that among other things serve to speed up and normalise other steps.

Just as the atomic scientists observing the results of their tests on the inhabitants of the Bikini atolls did not have before their eyes side effects, but the very manifestation of nuclear research, the researchers developing gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9 do not have before their eyes the disappearance of DNA fragments and transmissible genetic modifications as undesirable effects, but the very possibility of intervening in the evolution of living beings.

Just as a tunnel effect microscope is not a simple instrument, but presupposes a world in which matter is manipulated at the nanoscale, techno-sciences presuppose a world in which the living becomes mere matter to be engineered and redesigned, in which every phenomenon is controlled in order to direct its direction and evolution. Human beings included.

The issue is much more radical than a debate reduced and flattened to utilities, advantages, disadvantages, risks, dangers, the reflection should be taken a little further, out of their realm of quantity, out of their mechanism, out of calculations and predictions to arrive at the radical questioning of the conception that sees the living as a machine. In this conception, only what can be measured and analysed has value, and it is this that becomes the real. But what will come out of tables, diagrams, models, enclosures, laboratories, test tubes and slides will be a minced, simplified, impoverished, degraded real. Nothing compared to the love with which Alfred Russel Wallace observed the bird of paradise in the forest of New Guinea or with which Jean-Henry Fabre spied the comings and goings of a beetle in Provence. That kind of science has disappeared, precisely because a Fabre behind the flattery of the academic world and the great scientific institutions made Victor Hugo’s words his own: ”I hate the stench of death from laboratories”, referring to vivisection on animals practised as profusely in his time as still today.

If a living being is conceived as a machine, one cannot get to know it through simple observation in its environment, it becomes necessary to break it down into its parts. ”It is in this light that one can understand why scientists think it is possible to learn more about life by cutting a frog open in a laboratory than by sitting by a pond observing frogs and fish, mosquitoes and water lilies living together”³. Modern science with its quantitative and utilitarian approach already had in its assumptions the dissection and manipulation laboratory. Continue reading “Transhumanism: the ideology of the techno-world” →

Italy: Three days against Techno-Sciences 26-27-28 July

Posted on 2024/06/22 by darknights

Italy: Fifth International Meeting 28 – 29 – 30 July 2023 THREE DAYS AGAINST TECHNO-SCIENCES

Posted on 2023/07/11 by darknights

Fifth International Meeting
28 – 29 – 30 July 2023
THREE DAYS AGAINST TECHNO-SCIENCES
at Altradimora, strada Caranzano 72, Alessandria (AL), Italy

FRIDAY

12.30 p.m. lunch

15.30
Presentation of the meeting by Resistenze al nanomondo – Bergamo

16.00 – 19.00 Speeches followed by debate

Towards the biolaboratory world
The international attention focused for many months on the Wuhan biotechnology laboratory did not serve, as many have thought, to find a scapegoat in the dangerous Chinese research – especially when zoological narratives of Pangolins and Bats were disproved by the very drivers such as Fauci – rather, we were facing a new biotechnological dimension. The numbering of the security level is only to be seen as a detail where the biolaboratory with all its consequences and side effects, understood as new chimeras and biological weapons towards society as a whole, goes. A society to be surrounded first and then penetrated to the depths, where the biological alarm bell sounding will get mixed up with the bell announcing school recreastion, as it did with nuclear power. This time there is no atomic fallout to be averted, because the new biotechnological dimension with the living being at its centre is about to normalise. We are already in confidence, otherwise there would be no call for moratoriums and a techno-science on a human scale, this can never be given, because it does not exist.
Costantino Ragusa, Resistenze al nanomondo

Cellular mRNA redesign platforms, towards a humanity on a scale of gene therapies, digital identity and QR codes
The era of vaccines is opening, which would better be called the era of gene therapies with genetic engineering technologies from recombinant DNA to synthetic mRNA and nanotechnology for a cellular redesign platform. Universal vaccines – actually gene therapies – for influenza, vaccines – actually gene therapies – against cancer, these and others to be taken up also at a preventive level for a restructuring of medicine in a predictive and preventive key on a genetic basis. We will be responsible if we fall ill because we have not followed the new dictates, not an increasingly deadly society.
We will review Europe-wide vaccination campaigns for Sars-Cov 2 and other future decreed pandemics. But that’s not all, after testing it on women in African countries with their subsequent sterilisation, the trial of the contraceptive vaccine starts, opening up a further transformation: a vaccine to produce an immune response against a bodily process – pregnancy. Genetic modifications of DNA, infertility, increasingly early cancers will not only be health consequences, but will represent a profound transformation of future generations: infertile, sick, weak, ready to be hijacked into genetic engineering and artificial reproduction biolaboratories. To close the circle from the Green Pass we are coming in a big hurry to the Digital Identity that will travel with the 5G network, so at the next scanner check the QR will tell who fails to fit their parameters…
Silvia Guerini, Resistenze al nanomondo Continue reading “Italy: Fifth International Meeting 28 – 29 – 30 July 2023 THREE DAYS AGAINST TECHNO-SCIENCES” →