Notes and links from 12 Sept

Banana time is when the rabbits show they love me. Very much a rest day today. Was hoping to pop along to the Woodland Games but nope, no energy available. Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’ New book (written with Astra Taylor) incoming. Ever since No Logo, Klein has had this uncanny ability to take the disparate threads of whatever I’ve been thinking about and arrange them in a coherent manner, something that my brain is very grateful for. This book is titled End Times Fascism and looks like it follows the seemingly bonkers shit Peter Thiel believes and ties it in to long-term authoritarian trends. In End Times Fascism, Klein and Taylor raise Walter Benjamin’s concept “jetztzeit”, literally “now time”, a moment so pregnant with the spirit, the urgency of revolution that it marshals the energy of all movements that went before it. Again, it’s poetic, but it’s also literal, observable. If we want to oppose this new fascist strain, we…