THE DÉTOUR ARCHIVES

I've been re-reading The Wretched of the Earth lately and thinking about the sanitation of resistance movements in history books.

"Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence."

— Frantz Fanon

We cannot ask for freedom nicely. The aesthetics of our liberation cannot be palatable to the oppressor.

Beatriz Nascimento teaches us that the Quilombo is not just a place in the past, but a code for survival today.

Scanning some pages from an old 70s pamphlet I found at the archives. Will upload soon. The scanner is acting up again.

Reading Kamau Brathwaite today. He challenges us to reject the "Stage" (the European proscenium, the separation of audience and actor) and return to Yard Theater.

"The hurricane does not roar in pentameter."

— Kamau Brathwaite

The Yard is communal, circular, and grounded in Nation Language. It is where the community gathers not to watch, but to participate.

This is Tidalectics: History is not a missile; it is a wave.

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  ~   TIDE    ~   VOICE   ~   YARD    ~
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Refusing Big Tech is an anticolonial act. We cannot dismantle the master's house using the master's software. Here is the roadmap for The Switch:

// THE DAILY DRIVER

• Browser: Switch to Firefox (Hardened). Delete Chrome.
• Social: Move to Mastodon (Twitter alt) & Pixelfed (Insta alt). Federation > Corp.
• Cloud: Nextcloud or CryptPad. Own your docs.
• Calls: Jitsi Meet. No accounts, no logs, just a link.
• OS: Install Linux Mint. Liberate your hardware from Windows/Mac.

// THE SHIELD (High Risk)

• Tails OS: An amnesic system that leaves no trace.
• Signal: The only chat app that matters. Set "Disappearing Msgs."
• Veracrypt: Create hidden, encrypted vaults on your drive.
• ExifCleaner: Scrub GPS data from photos before posting.

REMINDER: CONVENIENCE IS SURVEILLANCE.

We do not read for leisure; we read for weaponry. Here are the foundational texts for the Détour Archives.

More zines being digitized... check back soon.