Luxuriating at the end of a world
Erin Sexton
Critiquing capitalism as systemic exploitation and proposing alternatives rooted in solidarity and reparative justice, this piece was initially conceived for an academic context. The passionate urgency of the subjects it confronts has transformed it into a heartfelt personal–political tirade and ‘meta’ collage (pun intended). It employs multiple personas, magick, humour, and fantasy not as escape but as strategy: tactics to disarm the oppressive architectures of power.
Psychic technology, digital collage on video still from Area 51 expedition in the Nevada desert in 2018, using the surrounding barbwire fence as a radio antenna, Erin Sexton, 2021
MacGyv’r says: “Hey y’all, stop being so scared of the 'end of the world' and letting that freeze yous up! Y’all gotta just go on and GIVER for total LIBERATION ya hear!? Sun Ra said it best, like a looooong time ago: “It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?” Love y’all!!”
It's quite the pickle of a situation still, as clearly, two millennia ago, the rich didn't listen, and they still don’t... Instead, they have made rot and corrosion profitable. They accelerate it to justify perpetual extraction and increasing exploitation. They obscure their needless waste and greed by spinning narratives, rigging systems, and waging wars.
Without all this hoarding and slaughter, there would be more than enough resources for everyone to enjoy a little luxury and self-indulgence. In his essay 'Ecology, Malthus, and Machiavelli', Discordian Robert Anton Wilson explores the narratives and mechanisms that have trapped us in this absurd 'reality tunnel', concluding that: "We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear." (Wilson, 1982, p. 144) The idea that there is not enough to go around, or that over-population is an issue, is not true. This narrative simply justifies colonial expansion and genocide. Belief in this narrative enables the rich to set the whole world on fire for profit, while we remain distracted and oppressed by fear and precarity.
A note on pronouns: the use of “we” and “us” can invoke the problem-riddled idea of a universal subject. Specific lived experiences, ancestral traumas and power-privilege dynamics must not be swept aside on the path to liberation. However, given the poly-crises all Earth’s lifeforms are facing, maybe we need to hang on to the usage, as we constructively mobilize from our different positions, using any and all available tactics.
All technologies of oppression (physical, algorithmic, structural, mental, or otherwise) have weak spots. Power dynamics can shift at any moment. We don't need a perfect plan and all the answers to begin. Things often move too fast and are too complex to map in any kind of overview format... but the pathways are available, just slightly obscured. We need to trust our instincts and collaborate with others to traverse the terrain together.
Though scary and risky, revolution is also sublimely beautiful, perhaps a bit luxurious somehow, in a radical Dionysian sense: generous and wild, flooding all dimensions with all the beautiful fierce energy we need to make dreams reality. For those of us trapped in extraction zones and on the physical frontlines of global revolution, feelings of helplessness and despair are also an agonizing reality. For those of us within the Imperial core—such as Europe or North America—who are relatively "safe", drowning in such feelings are a luxury we can no longer afford. Global fascism is here and getting stronger by the day, even though it is actually a manifestation of the weakest and most cringe human tendencies imaginable. In contrast, revolution is love, powerful and majestic, steadfast and unstoppable. We have been relearning this from Palestinians every day, and we owe them everything. No one is free until everyone is free.
THE FALL OF EMPIRE, MAGIC(K), & MONSTERS
As they always do, the current empire is falling. Legendary science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin aptly noted: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings." (Le Guin, 2016, p. 115) Furthermore, commerce, trade, doing business, making a living, and other such activities that we often conflate with capitalism were around long before it and will persist beyond. Falling empires become desperate to cling to their power, resorting to tyrannical and fascist methods of control, as we are now witnessing... "Fascism is like the Wizard of Oz, it relies heavily on people being mesmerized & scared of the giant green head with flames instead of pulling back the curtain to reveal the mortal man & charlatan. This is why boldness, open rebellion & public ridicule of fascists is essential." (@BreeNewsome via @seastersjones, instagram, February 2025) Our foes and their constructs are not as powerful or inescapable as they so desperately try to make us believe...
I recently saw another quote on instagram that went something like: "If you don't think that violence is a valid tactic for resistance, how do you think we are going to liberate the people? By Magic?" Actually, yes, and I'd argue that 'magic' is an essential tactic, one that can help avoid physical violence. Beyond mere illusions or trickery, “Magick is the science and art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.” (Crowley, 1929, XVI) Yes the progenitor of contemporary 'western' occultism is complex and problematic... but his circle of mediums and entities did absolutely transmit essential knowledge into this world. The will of the people, once well-enough aligned towards common goals, is unstoppable.
Protest is a kind of collective empowerment ritual that creates such alignments. Though the results of chants and spells cast are rarely immediate, they are working, and can be expedited by various forms of civil disobedience and direct action. (@riseindigenous) As we have clearly been witnessing, our current forms of protest need to evolve in order to be effective, more immediate. People are dying and the miasma of spineless complicity lurks everywhere. However, if we can but bridge a few gaps, we already have a massive and unified enough network of forces, all that we need to shift into the next phase of global liberation. Empire's servants will be forced to retreat and hide... or they might even flip and decide to join us... as we have seen happen many times before. (@ani.says2) But still, when met with violent oppression... sometimes we have no choice but to respond in kind, and rightly so. This is not only a moral obligation, but it is literally international law... though that doesn't seem to matter much these days, sadly.
I am a pacifist in theory and believe that physical violence should always be the last resort, but learned some things the hard way when I participated in the 1999 'Battle of Seattle' / World Trade Organization summit protests: 17 year old me, a lightly seasoned activist from the Vancouver anarchist scene, in a sirens-blaring-peppery-concussion-grenade-punctuated-tear-gas-flooded realm of temporary hideouts and loosely co-ordinated actions... I learned and witnessed many things, but the standout was a crew of fairies on stilts being brutally beaten by cops and other state thugs proudly sporting their fancy new militarized riot gear. This was also a key instance where police disguised themselves as black bloc anarchists and smashed shop windows to justify said violence and spin the media narrative against the anti-globalization movement. (wiki) Subsequent liberation movements have been crushed in a similar manner, even more effectively since the proliferation of social media and fascist troll farms. Sadly, the ideal of non-violent, "pure", and "innocent" resistance has become a dangerous psy-op. Not only does it fracture solidarity with those most at risk, who have no choice but to take up arms to survive and protect their communities, but it also leaves everyone vulnerable and unprepared to defend themselves. It would be brilliant if the United Nations could actually mobilize to help protect people from genocide and oppression, as is their mandate... but it seems they are being held hostage by some very nasty forces/entities...
As relevant in 1930 as today, Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci stated: "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." (Žižek, 2010) This meme puts an interesting spin on that, as one could argue that there is nothing more monstrous than white narcissism (no shade on the fierce Sailor Moon):
Monsters are just as real as capitalism. They are assemblages of myths, fears, memories, and habits. The more people believe in them, the more powerful they become. The stock market is certainly one of them, though I think many worship it more like a god. Though monsters certainly affect the physical / material world, they cannot do this on their own, they need us to do their bidding. We can however simply refuse and decide to do something better with our time and energy. If this feels too scary, I've found that laughter is a very powerful tool. I'm talking about deep, uncontrollable, ecstatic, disarming laughter. It banishes fear and heals wounds. Even within a context of genocide and oppression, it is essential. It rips through dimensions. Some monsters might even start laughing with you, and suddenly you have a new ally, perhaps a friend. Others will simply vanish, but a few will require more effort to overcome. They have had too many believers working for them for too long, building systems that define our shared reality and limit our actions within it.
Disclosurer, Troll blasters, magick wands with stone from Area 51, gum, tinfoil, foam, tape, cord, pigment, wood, Erin Sexton, 2021
ELITE CAPTURE: THE RIGGED GAME
U.S.A.-based philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò identifies the phenomena of 'Elite capture' as one of the main reasons that most efforts to 'change the world' have seemingly failed, noting that it "is not a conspiracy. It's bigger than cynical appropriations, opportunism, or the moral successes or failures of any individual or group. It is a kind of system behavior." (Táíwò, 2022, 10) Any system that persists for long enough and becomes complex enough starts to take on a life of its own, like a monster, or more precisely an egregore. "Egregores are magical group minds, the esoteric aspect of the group mind, spirits with independent existence that were first assembled by a particular group." (Lee, 2023, 178) They are often manifested intentionally by different groups for different purposes, but can also be brought into being by accident, unintentionally, arising from the collective thoughts and emotions of a group. Without clear intention and active programming, egregores can run amok and do a lot of harm. Perhaps 'Elite capture' could be considered as such, a rouge entity, borne out of colonial control systems accidentally... or perhaps there is an icky crew of intentionally created fascist egregores in the mix, influencing events via the internet... (Feels Good Man, 2020)
Sator Æris says: "Dear humans, we realize that facing this 'reality' can be quite scary, but ignoring or denying it doesn't change anything. Egregores are simultaneously 'real', 'imagined', 'metaphorical', and 'actual'. This framework is a tool that can help you define complex forces, and thus be able to respond to them. You are empowered to perceive and utilize this tool in whichever way you choose. Please be careful, but also, be not afraid."
Elite capture "originated in the study of developing countries to describe the way socially advantaged people tend to gain control over financial benefits, especially foreign aid, meant for others. But the concept has also been applied more generally to describe how political projects can be hijacked in principle or in effect by the well positioned and resourced. And yet, the idea also helps to explain how public resources such as knowledge, attention, and values become distorted and distributed by power structures." (Táíwò, 2022, 9 - 10) Though applicable to many situations, Dr. Táíwò's book explores in detail how identity politics have been (mis)handled in recent history. We are in a nasty situation where solidarity has become more transactional and performative than real. All of Empire's systems are tuned to perpetuate this, thwarting trust building, amplifying conflict, and fragmenting our collective efforts towards liberation.
Nevertheless, as absurd as things might feel now, including the backlash against what achievements we have made towards equality, openness, abolition, and repair, there is always a pathway to something better. Though the machinations of power may seem overwhelmingly occult, they are still systems, and "systems-level issues are big and complex, but they are not abstract. Social systems are real: after all, we live in them. As such, they are entities that we can observe and, frequently, anticipate." (Táíwò, 2022, 11) To combat them is a question of knowledge and strategy.
"Capitalism itself is such a system: it rewards the relentless and single-minded pursuit of profit and growth–extremely narrow value systems that exclude much of what makes life worth living. But societies organized around fundamentalisms (whether religious or secular) and war have resulted in similarly warped value systems long before capitalism arrived on the scene." (Táíwò, 2022, 52) The thing about warped value systems and rouge entities is that they are actually extremely weak. They are not in alignment with one of the biggest and most badass complex entity we know of: life and it's desire to perpetuate, evolve, and thrive. If we can perceive that, believe it, and act strategically in accordance, collectively, even very loosely, the 'monsters' don't stand a chance.
We must learn to see beyond the token gestures and empty promises, and past the old military tricks of shock and awe or divide and conquer. Compassion and grace are essential, and so too is the courage to call out behaviour that is narcissistic, counter-productive or oppressive. Ideally this is done in a gentle and constructive fashion, but sometimes uncompromising bluntness is necessary. As Houston-based artist and “Liberation Weaver" Candice D'Meza reminds us through her practice, social niceyniceness—politeness that preserves domination—is an inherently colonial and harmful mode of interaction. (insta)
Ultimately, we need to refuse to keep playing the game, whose rules were developed to maintain colonial ownership of lands and peoples. "Capital accumulation is highly game-like in the clarity of its incentive structure, and its elite players have for several centuries been transforming the world so that more and more aspects of it become playable by the rules of capitalism. Most people end up playing along perforce, because the world as we find it at the level of individual interactions is an environment stocked with choices, penalties, and potential rewards that make sense in capitalist terms." (Táíwò, 2022, 59)
Gemstones provide a key example. Though they can be mined and cut locally at source in places such as Zambia, the resources are largely controlled by actors from former colonial powers. The international certification systems in place insist that these gems are exported and cut elsewhere in order to hold value. Gems cut by authorized external lapidaries are referred to as 'standard cut', while anything cut locally, regardless of quality and expertise, is dismissed as 'native cut'. Though the global South contains the majority of valuable resources on the planet, the people are robbed of the opportunity to benefit. Here, too, capitalist luxury reveals itself as structured theft—excess built on enforced exclusion.
Raw Zambian amethyst, cast tin hippo by Bwalya Bwalya Kangwa and Victoria Duffee, precision cut amethyst by Rudolf Kangwa of Rudolf's Gems (Lusaka, Zambia), end of residency exhibition, PRAKSIS, Oslo, 2024
TECHNO-FASCIST HORROR
In addition to gemstones, copper is Zambia’s main export, mined under terrible conditions. Neighbouring DRCongo’s coltan, cobalt and lithium mines are far worse. All are essential materials for consumer and military technologies, found no where else in such large quantities. A monologue by Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist Oteanankanduro provides a succinct and compelling overview of the situation:
"Congo is bleeding. Do you know why? Because we are rich. Because beneath our feet lie gold, diamonds, coltan, cobalt–the bones of the earth, the wealth of empires. And the world does not want us to own it. So they came... They came with their guns, contracts, mercenaries, lies. They pitted brother against brother against brother, turned tribe against tribe. They called it war, but war is a lie. This is slaughter... The blood soaks our rivers, our forests, our homes. 6 million dead... And yet, the world is silent. Why? Because our suffering is profitable. Because the iPhones in your pockets, the laptops on your desks, the electric cars you drive–all run on Congolese blood..." (@oteanankanduro, instagram, February 2025)
This is luxury in its most obscene form: constant new product roll-outs and planned obsolescence, perpetual war and endless waste... enough is enough. Until we manage to reign in the tech industry and its oligarchs, dreams of Mars colonies, benevolent / useful AI, green energy, etc, are not only classist and genocidal, but also psy-ops distractions. False hope and displaced responsibility, designed to prolong complicity, to stave off the inevitable necessity of sweeping global change. Tech Won't Save Us is a podcast that explores these critical issues. "The industry has set the narrative on technology for too long. They fed us the story that their technologies were making the world a better place, then they skirted labor laws, exploited workers, expanded surveillance capabilities, and boosted fascist politics." (Marx, 2020)
Billionaires epitomize this monstrous luxury. They represent the greatest threat to our existence on this planet. Not only are they by far the highest generators of carbon emissions, they are vampires that feast on the blood and salty sweat of millions, hording wealth through extraction and destruction of the world’s most vulnerable. Their visions of luxury—private rockets, underground mansions, robotic servants—are grotesque parodies of survival. True luxury cannot be built on the dispossession and despair of others. To resist and dismantle their hold is not envy but necessity: redistribution is repair, and repair is collective survival.
Venusians, Free Mars, Fuck Capitalism, magick wands w/ copper, glow string, tinfoil, mylar, gum, Brazilian amethyst, pigment, wood, Erin Sexton, 2021
ROOMS & NAMES
Whether technological-material or psychic-relational, Empire has rigged many rooms and corridors with traps. "We need to focus on building and rebuilding rooms, not on regulating traffic within and between them. This is a world-making project aimed at building and rebuilding actual structures of social connection and movement, not mere critique of the ones we already have." (Táíwò, 2022)
On that note, time to address some elephants in the old world's rooms. Some are loud and obvious, easy to spot. Many seem friendly enough, but charge at the slightest provocation. I've run into several that were painted pink and surprisingly dangerous. Quite a few sling mud around and try to provoke conflict. Many more sulk and kick up dust resentfully. There is nothing 'supreme' about them, but they are called 'white supremacy'. Centuries of guilty collective conscience have driven them mad, but make no mistake: beneath the ridiculousness is deadly violence, a system that has destroyed countless lives and continues to shape the world we live in. Even if you can avoid being trampled, they still manage to hide in blind spots and warp minds. We all need to do the work of ridding our worlds of their influence, but imho, 'white' or generally 'privileged' people need to step up and do a lot more. Our ancestors broke things and it is our responsibility to ensure they are fixed. Rupture and repair. (Candice D'Meza, 2025, link1, link2)
The first step is to stop pretending you don't see these ghosty fake elephant monsters. If it feels safe enough and prudent, call them out and dispel them on the spot. If you can conceptualize and articulate a distinction between the confused, misguided, kinda possessed person and the invasive ghost monster, this could be easier to achieve. Otherwise, a more sneaky approach could help, either in the moment if you can, or later when you are somewhere safe. Name that 'elephant', perhaps Chad, or Karen, or something nonsensical, anything else that feels 'right' to you. Focus on it, experience how it makes you feel, what thoughts and images pop into your mind, and any sensations in your body that arise. Is it inside you somewhere? Floating around the room? Inhabiting another person? Use your instincts to try to understand how it operates and on what or whom. If at any point this becomes too overwhelming, best to stop, shake it off, and find some friends to continue the process with at a later time. If you feel comfortable continuing, try to detach from the impressions you are experiencing. You could imagine them contained within a kind of amorphous bubble, which you then visualize floating away or dissolving into another dimension. As this happens, you might experience tingling, a feeling of warmth or cool breeze, perhaps a bit of pain, or even a sticky slowness, like the bubble is hanging on to certain areas of your body or the space around you. Focus on these abstract sensations for a few moments, without judgment or fear. Begin chanting the name you chose, either mentally or aloud. Each repetition will shift the relations and empower you, explore and tune this a bit. Then start chanting the name faster and faster, until the syllables become jumbled and nonsensical. This fills your awareness completely, the bubble and the 'elephant' are gone. Allow your scrambled mental or vocal speech to give way to whatever emotional expression it needs to become, take your time. I always recommend finalizing a banishing with deep resounding laughter. As mentioned above, it rips through dimensions and heals wounds.
If that sounds a bit too woo for you, simply changing the name of something also transforms power relations. I've seen 'white supremacy' abbreviated in activist circles as 'ytsup'. That doesn't quite resonate for me, so I propose an alternative: ytsy. It sounds small and silly, easier to crush. Or we could start calling ytsy what it actually is: yt insecurity, ignorance, greed, etc. Audacity is a big one on that list too... and is clearly a problem... but if properly transmuted, and tactically engaged in right relation to the global majority... audacity is a flaming astral sword for collective liberation. All this is extremely uncomfortable for everyone... but hey, not as bad as perpetually expanding global genocides, yeah? Let's focus on the love and liberation as much as possible, pretty please, but we must also honor the process and hold space for productive rage and grief, for transmutation. I say this from a place of doing this work myself, slowly over a long period of time, and then very rapidly recently, in a fit of desperate rage and revolutionary desire. (Pentadomen instagram, 2025) We all have blind spots and different frames of reference, mistakes are inevitable. It is how we repair them that matters. Our thoughts and actions resonate beyond the multi-dimensional rooms we inhabit in mysterious ways...
Anti-fasces, paracord, pigment, wood, Erin Sexton, 2024
INVISIBLE ROOMS
Unless you are deep in a bunker, there is also a whole universe of radio in the room with you. Radio noise is literally the sound of space-time, containing traces of all cosmic events since the big bang. We surf our signals upon it and decode what we can, but it is wild and complex. It is a force of nature, eternal and all encompassing, having more in common with magick than technology. Nonetheless, when used for communication, it is easily accessible, requiring minimal power and equipment.
Amateur radio was the first global social media network and still exists to this day. Operators bounce signals off the Earth's ionosphere, enabling light-speed communication all over the globe. It is faster than the internet, as the signals need not route through complex infrastructure and cables. In times of natural disaster or war, when infrastructure fails, amateur radio operators often assist with coordinating rescue efforts and helping people find their loved ones. (Bignell, 2023) It is an essential mutual aid network that I am proud to be a part of. As this techno-fascist world accelerates towards breakdown, it is becoming essential once again... but let's try to avoid that please.
Radio and mutual aid are central in both my artistic and magickal practices. As the material conditions of the mundane world are increasingly precarious and unsustainable, I often focus my efforts on the world of collective imagination, otherwise known as 'the astral'. I find the medium of radio to be a very effective link to this alternate reality. Though I do transmission works and rituals, I most often find myself just getting lost in tuning and listening. I make a lot of recordings of lush, full frequency landscapes and shifting, resonant 'chambers', full of dynamic and mysterious signals.
Amateur radio station in Pentadomen, Erin Sexton, 2024
LUXURIOUS ALTERNATE DIMENSIONS
There is something quite luxurious about these abstract radio dimensions, which are central to one of my current projects, The Astral Spa, which I am currently developing in collaboration with Sator Æris, an ancient revolutionary elf warlock and astral architect. It is free to access 24 - 7 from any location, as it is non-local. No material technology is required, but there will soon be a lot of resources available on the internet, such as guided meditations and psychedelic radio recordings. The realm will develop in collaboration with all participants via our discord server. (invite link) The Astral Spa also manifests on the physical plane around Pentadomen, an experimental art space in the Oslo woods. As Sator Æris says: "It's trashy on the physical but epic on the astral!"
When you enter The Astral Spa, first you encounter the locker room. Here, you are invited to leave all concepts of physical embodiment behind, along with any other unnecessary baggage. There will be a variety of different realms to explore and luxuriate within. It will be a constantly evolving system, a space where everyone can relax and recharge. Even the 'rich' are welcome, as long as they follow the realm's rules... if not, they will be swiftly extracted and dealt with by The Astral Spa's guardians, which are a quartet of hijacked monster trucks. They are cute, queer, and totally badass astral warriors. Vroom vroom smash bye ytsy!
Another speculative approach to the concept of luxury was discussed by Mark Fisher and Judy Thorne, putting the emphasis on time rather than materiality:
"JT: ...Putting the concepts of "luxury" and "communism" together does not make much sense, and it is from this lack of sense that a new idea emerges... creat[ing] a kind of libidinal energy. Luxury communism provokes you to imagine what would be possible in a world where we held all wealth in common and applied it to advancing the joy of humanity as a whole; where everything was for everyone... Our luxury is not the pleasure of possessing exclusive goods, but rather the pleasure of luxuriating: the sensual joy of having to do less work, time to be unproductive, and the possibilities for more intense sociality, eroticism and adventure this opens up...
MF: ...I suppose one obvious objection to luxury communism is... ecological limits: a society based around the principle of "everything for everyone" would, it has been argued, only be possible on the basis of practices that are simply not sustainable.
JT: Yes, within the capitalist conception of luxury, luxury for all would immediately lead to the destruction of all life on Earth... But what we... need to pull off is the idea that, as the neoliberal status quo begins to melt, dystopia is not inevitable...
MF: ...One way of seeing neoliberalism – and the broader neoliberal culture – is as a set of practices specifically designed to obstruct consciousness-raising. Perhaps the most potent weapon in this struggle has been time poverty... Thinking about having time to luxuriate makes us realise the extent to which time poverty is endemic now. Even the rich seem to lack this capacity for luxuriating...
Capitalist luxury is always in the service of distracting us from the very real possibility of liberation from work; communist luxury would exactly be about awareness that we could work less and that we can determine our own needs and satisfactions." (Thorne/Fisher, 2017, 146 - 166)
BE NOT AFRAID
Belief defines reality. And lives depend on it. To act against Empire’s luxury is to stand with those whose survival is under assault. Actions on every scale propagate through many dimensions. We each have the power to create the worlds we wish to inhabit. They can be luxurious and amazing, no matter who or where we are, as long as we ignore the creepy old whispers of Empire and define the parameters for ourselves. In many cases, we will also need to fight across many dimensions to create this space of autonomy and liberation. The process can be swift and sublime or slow and meandering, but we need to always take the time necessary to rupture, reflect, grieve, repair, luxuriate, and transform. (D'Meza, 2025, link)
"We should set our sights on different scales, from local fights like community control over land, housing, and energy to global ones over debt cancellation in the global South. These fights, especially when they are planetary in scope, make it possible to totally revamp our global social system–to rebuild the house we all live in together." (Táíwò, 2022, 113)
Let's do this, for real. It will require fearlessness, humility, adaptability, and creativity to get there, but it's not only possible, it's essential to our survival on this planet. It is not only never too late for change, it is the only inevitable. We but need to believe, come together, and act, however we can... like now, ja?
@palestine_protect – https://protect-palestine.com/
DAPWIGY
(a spell for community empowerment, created at Pentadomen by PRAKSIS residency 28 participants, transmitted via amateur radio into the aether, now swooping around the cosmos forever...)
REFERENCES
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@BreeNewsome via @seastersjones, instagram, February 2025
Crowley, Aleister. Magick in Theory and Practice by the Master Therion. Lecram Press, Paris, 1929
Žižek, Slavoj. A Permanent Economic Emergency, New Left Review 64, July/August 2010, London, https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii64
Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O. Elite Capture: How the Powerful took over Identity Politics (and everything else), Pluto Press, London, 2022, p. 9 - 11, 52, 59, 113
Feels Good Man, a documentary by Arthur Jones, 1 h 32 mins, 2020
Lee, Dave. Primordial Chaos, Egregore Entities for the World, The Universe Machine, Norwich, 2023, p. 178
Candice D'Meza, 2025 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLqxCKetYdh/
https://www.candicedmeza.com/cmn
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK-S_dLSnOi/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK-TWkLyRqC/
Rudolf's Gems (Lusaka, Zambia)
Pentadomen instagram, 2025 https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE4MDQ5Njc0MTEwMTg4Nzkz?story_media_id=3674529415685058690_69943871929&igsh=MXJwaHZmMnYwanNoZA==
@oteanankanduro, instagram, February 2025
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Luxury Communism: A conversation between Mark Fisher and Judy Thorne, Futures & Fictions, ed. Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed, Simon O'Sullivan, Repeater Books, London, 2017, p. 146 - 166
