Agency’s March / April Top Podcast Picks from Channel Zero

We are really excited that the Channel Zero Anarchist Podcast Network continues to expand and produce stellar content! The latest in our series of podcast reviews includes some really fantastic listening, from hardcore and metal music, to anarchist comic art, resistance to corporate and militarized tech innovations, to a new anarchist audiobook! Here’s some great […]

Quartz, “A philosopher thinks technology could make anarchists’ dreams come true”

Distrust of central authority is an idea that’s taken many forms over the years, from the Magna Carta in the 13th century to the French and American revolutions 500 years later. Anarchy is another old idea and it pushes these notions far further: The political philosophy fully rejects the state’s centralized authority and, by extension, […]

Inverse, “Masked Protesters Can’t Hide From this New Facial Recognition AI”

The recent clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville and elsewhere have shone a spotlight on masked anarchist groups like Antifa. While debates rage over the group’s tactics and how they fit into the broader fight against the far right, one thing is certain: For as long as Antifa is around, anonymity will be […]

Vice, “Not Going Online Is the New Going Online”

Many writers have already hypothesized a neo-Luddite reaction to the automation of industry. Writing for the New Statesman in 2014, Bryan Appleyard saw “Luddism in practice and in theory” as “back on the streets”, tracing a lineage from the American anarchist Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, to the hands of the Parisian taxi drivers […]

Time, “2016 Person of the Year Runner Up: Hackers”

The truth, as security researchers have shown in recent years, is both more malignant and more mundane. There are the good, the bad and every morally ambiguous shade in between. There are those sponsored by a state or a terrorist organization. There are the freedom fighters, the truth campaigners, the anarchists, the tinkerers. There are […]

BuzzFeed, “After Trump’s Win, Secure Messaging App Signal’s Downloads Increase 400%”

“There has never been a single event that has resulted in this kind of sustained, day-over-day increase,” Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Open Whisper Systems, the software nonprofit behind Signal, told BuzzFeed News. Marlinspike interpreted the jump as a reaction to Trump’s win, and anxiety over the future of US surveillance. The secure communications tool […]

Natasha Lennard: What the Hell is Ello?

By Natasha Lennard. Reprinted with permission from Vice. I found myself a stranger in a strange land. I didn’t know the way around, or how to find friends. But it was not so different from places I had lived before, so landmarks and passages soon felt familiar. The people looked the same; I didn’t need to […]