Who are we?
We are a collection of makers, cultivators, and organizers seeking to prefigure a better future through action in the now. We have looked at the state of the world and have each decided organize and act collectively rather than simply keep our heads down while the world breaks down around us. We come from an array of backgrounds and are brought together by what we have in common: our needs, our struggle to meet them, and our shared values.
What is Recomposition?
Recomposition is the shared philosophy and associated toolkit that the members Recomposition adopt and practice. To learn more about the details see What is Recomposition
What is the collective?
The collective is an organized body of individual Recomposers, which is comprised of a growing network of autonomous nodes. The collective provides individual members an egalitarian structure and set of social technologies to effectively organize through. It allows them to better share skills and contribute to the shared documentation that makes up the Collective Programming.
Motivation
Each of us has our own initial radicalizing experience - our own reasons for getting organized in the face of overwhelming odds. Regardless of whatever we experienced as individuals, we all share the motivation of ultimately wanting to live and survive while finding ourselves in a society that only really knows how to control and extract.
Land? Ecology? People? It doesn’t matter; everything is for sale in this world up to and including our own thoughts and ideas. Increasingly, every aspect of our lives is capable of being surveilled as the ultra-rich pour their research into advanced technology while spinning self-aggrandizing fantasies of an immanent technological singularity. The reality of their work is that it bodes poorly for both this planet (which its production and operation significantly impacts) and dispossessed living within it (who are increasingly displaced from the workforce). The very people behind the AI push and the rise in automation are the same people who have worked in concert with their bought politicians to starve and carve the social safety nets that the global labour movement of the 20th century bled and died for.
There is no reason to believe that those who own the world will suddenly have a change of heart and turn over a new leaf as they seemingly approach their goal of total control. Instead of laying the foundations for their supposed “AI abundance, post-scarcity society” we see them funding private prisons and foreign concentration camps while building powerful organs of surveillance that connect to government and corporate security forces around the world. They have turned the fulfillment of every human need and desire into a market to be extracted from while criminalizing the poor and most dispossessed of all.
What is our motivation? Why do we organize? We organize because we want to live and live well, without leaving nothing for the next generation. We want to leave the world better than we found it and pass the torch knowing that we did everything we could to ensure that future generations would have a future worth living to see. Our motivation is that we do not want to be atomized and disposed of at the pleasure of ruling class that increasingly sees themselves not just as our masters but as our gods.
We do not struggle and work for gods or masters, but for the living world - for the dispossessed.
Goals
Our goals are to live well and provide the best chance we can at a better world for the people who will inherit this one from us. We strive to understand and connect with reality rather than try to control it or shut ourselves off from it.
Our goal is ultimately to provide a system for living and organizing on this planet that is compatible with the long-term survival of complex life and the ecologies that emerge from it. We aim to create a shared philosophy and toolkit of technologies to provide ourselves and the people who come after us with the best chance possible to survive and alter our shared trajectory as a species.
Our goal is to add something to the universal inheritance of life on this Earth besides a mass extinction event and a layer of strata full of plastic and radioactive particles.
Methodology
We will reach our goals through the development of decentralized, and eventually distributed, systems of understanding and solidarity with the living world and the dispossessed within it.
In practice this involves studying the world to identify empty niches that our people can use to survive and gain a foothold in an increasingly hostile environment. By going past individual visions of survival in a collapsing society and ecology, we seek to prefigure the spread of a movement that struggle for the restoration and adaptation of both.
We do not depend on advocacy or protest or petition in order to reach our shared goals, instead we seek to utilize prefigurative politics of action in the present to build a better future.
In practice this means encouraging and supporting independent learning and skill-development in our members while providing them the tools to establish local modes of the collective. We work to create local support systems that identify and transform viable substrates into useful products and inputs. We utilize these systems, inputs, and products to provide for the needs of our members and their communities.
For more info see: What is Recomposition?