Brian Johnson
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Literary, nonfiction, and TTRPG editor | Humanities research consultant | Former CRM archaeologist | Translator of grimoires | Scholar of the arcane
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![David Graeber
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as suffused with the sacred. What anarchists regularly try to do is to level a systematic and continual challenge to the right of the police, and the authorities in general, to define the situation. They do it by proposing endless alternative frameworks - or, more precisely, by insisting on the power to switch frameworks whenever they like.
Puppets are the very embodiment of this power.
What this means in the streets is that activists are trying to effectively collapse the political, negotiating process into the structure of the action itself. To win the contest, as it were, by con-tinually changing the definition of what is the field, what are the rules, what are the stakes - and to do so on the field itself.
139] A situation that is sort of like nonviolent warfare becomes a situation that is sort of like a circus, or a theatrical performance, or a religious ritual, and might equally well slip back at any time.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ofzkhjyyh4kl4a35wxgmobmm/bafkreif3w5ss6mt2nb767m6ndo3psuftmllj5tpdibwsi737qmfply6ldu@jpeg)
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