Horizontal Hostility Episode 2: Potholes, Goals, Spectacle, & Portland

Editor’s Note: Actually, what we said about the potholes was, “In our day and age where people go ga-ga over anarchists in ski masks filling goddamn potholes, one thing is clear: we need to tell the world about our movement and what it is doing.”

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Our second episode! The five hosts, now dispersed around the world, talk about how almost every ideological strand of anarchism became a self-parody in their responses to a couple folks filling potholes in Portland. We score easy laughs and praise the pothole-fillers for the greatest troll in a long time. Along the way we try to engage more seriously with the ethics of infrastructure and resistance, propaganda and spectacle, a world without work, whether anarchism is about goals, and the context of the Portland anarchist scene. The main takeaway however is that Will and Sean oppose poetry and Pax opposes their faces.