A World Map (excerpt) | Avery F. Gordon



The map charts the socio-political mechanisms by which capitalism has been attempting to solve its most recent large-scale accumulation crises. The world capitalist system is driven or powered by the need to accumulate and monopolize resources, exploitable labor and consumer markets always more and more. The accumulation of these means to private wealth is at the same time the accumulation of private, usurped, dis-representative power always more and more. Thus, the dispossession, appropriation , enclosure, redistribution , privatization and destruction of public wealth and infrastructure; the undermining of popular power and the dismantling of civil rights; the manufacture and management of servile knowledge; and the imperial expansion of military means and authority. Thus, as always, the arising, the movement, of dissenters, renegades, rebels, deserters, mutineers, abolitionists, resisters, maroons, insurgents, agitators.....



Isaac and his gang-- FRIENDS FEATHERS SCIENCE JUSTICE --battle the beasts and the state who by now has violently suppressed the striking Kelltree Dock workers and smashed the underground paper to bits killing its editor too. They receive needed and important assistance from a strange and dangerous entity, the Weaver, who speaks an attenuated poetic tongue and who recognizes fellow spinners in this anarchist band. Weavers maintain the web of the universe. without beginning or end , complicated, beautiful, torn, the rip widening .



... THIS WEB THE WEFT IS INTRICATE AND FINE THOUGH TORN... I HAVE BOUNDED UNSEEN UP TANGLING WIRES OF SKYNESS AND SLIPPED MY LEGS SPLAYED WILLY-NILLY ON THE PSYCHIC DUNG OF THE WEB-REAVERS THEY ARE LOW CREATURES AND INELEGANT AND DRAB WHISPER WHAT HAPPENS MR. MAYOR THIS PLACE TREMBLES... INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE FIBRES ARE SPLIT AND BURST AND A TRAIL IS TORN ACROSS THE WARP OF THE WORLDWEB WHERE COLOURS ARE BLED AND WAN I HAVE SLID ACROSS THE SKY BELOW THE SURFACE AND DANCED ALONG THE RENT WITH TEARS OF MISERY AT THE UGLY RUIN WHICH STEMS AND SPREADS AND BEGINS IN THIS PLACE...

