Abstract
This issue’s aim was to facilitate such work in intimate places, to do so, this issue serves primarily as a compilation of autonomously produced and locally distributed newsletters aimed at situating non-fascist thought and/or avant garde culture. This editorial departure creatively manifests our collective’s critical frustrations with the hegemonic state of normative political affairs that much of the creative and critical left participates in. So much art and politics orients to climb up the scales of power and mediation. Our frustration is not based on a question of motivation to do so. Rather, it reflects our understanding that despite serious critical and creative work occurring from the center to the far left, liberatory and cosmopolitically open enlivening politics are not advancing. While as mediaticaly present as ever, they seem to be on the governing retreat, while institutions and parties, and the need for their success seem to expand. So, while there are so many good critical ideas and creative practices produced through parties, think tanks, academic and cultural institutions, their efforts seem to be to doing little more than producing the grease that just keeps the wheels spinning.