taz

temporary autonomous zone, from Hakim Bey’s TAZ: Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism. Opposite of a PAZ which is a permanent autonomous zone. Any temporary liberated space (ie, a squat, a street for a party, a phonebooth for a prank/art sabotage


The women made a circle of yurts in the field and assigned armed guards to the perimeter so that their TAZ might be a safe place for the hellraising weekend to follow.

I can’t breathe

True of COVID-19 sufferers and of George Floyd. The key phrase at this moment in American history.


“I can’t breathe, said Floyd as he was being suffocated. “I can’t breathe” thought more than 100,000 victims as they were dying of Covid. “I can’t breathe” chanted countless Americans in the streets, protesting enduring police brutality.