No Demands – Reader

No Demands – An exhibition reader compiled by niilas helander.

Contents
The Society of Enmity – Achille Mbembe
Rethinking the apocalypse: An indigenous anti-futurist manifesto
A Poltergeist Manifesto – Billy-Ray Belcourt
Getting Rid of the Distinction Between the Aesthetic and the Political – Ariella Azoulay
Decolonization is not a metaphor – Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
The Philosophy of the Gift and Sami Education – Rauna Kuokkanen
What’s Normative Got To Do With It? – Jodi A. Byrd
Destitution and Creation: Agamben’s Messianic Gesture – Kieran Aarons
Let’s Talk About Class and Art – Mike Watson
Invisible Fences: Egalitarianism, Nationalism and Racism – Marianne Gullestad
Science Fiction Futuresand (Re)visions of the Anthropocene – Julia D. Gibson and Kyle Powys Whyte
The Deatnu Agreement: a contemporary wall of settler colonialism – Rauna Kuokkanen
Trolldomssak mot en samisk noaide – Anders Poulsen
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom – Sylvia Wynter

Download the texts in pdf format here

Links and further reading:

essays and articles

https://www.alanalentin.net/2021/11/02/introduction-to-racial-capitalism/
Alana Lentin

https://viewpointmag.com/2019/12/16/on-depoliticization/
Asad Haider

https://thepointmag.com/politics/politics-without-guarantees/
Asad Haider 

https://www.indigenousaction.org/accomplices-not-allies-abolishing-the-ally-industrial-complex/
Anonymous 

https://feministkilljoys.com/2018/11/08/queer-use/
Sara Ahmed 

https://illwill.com/things-seen
Julien Coupat 

http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2021/01/01/part-one-a-declaration-for-life/
Zapatistas

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/preparing-end-world-we-know-it/
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures

https://barrikadi.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/hva-er-autonomi/
Per Inge Østmoen

https://zoestodd.com/2014/10/24/an-indigenous-feminists-take-on-the-ontological-turn-ontology-is-just-another-word-for-colonialism/ Zoe Todd

http://www.revolutionreader.com/
Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler

https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/the-right-not-to-be-a-perpetrator-ariella-azoulays-statement-in-support-of-bds/
Ariella Azoulay

https://barrikadi.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/notes-on-anti-work/ niilas helander

https://abolishfrontex.org/

https://www.ianalanpaul.com/climate-capitalism-control/
Ian Allan Paul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PzTpAJxHVc&ab_channel=UWinnipeg
Dr. Caryn Recollet

https://vimeo.com/259409100
Eve Tuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXKuaNt6ST0&ab_channel=CTETRRU
Shawn Wilson

poetry & poetix

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-112/
WE Poem by Ghayath Almadhoun

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/perhaps-the-world-ends-here
Joy Harjo 

http://cordite.org.au/chapbooks-features/fogarty/cops-are-poets/ Lionel Fogarty 

https://www.lassagammi.no/valkeapaas-multimedia-reindeer-herd.5562644-315481.html
Harald Gaski

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/autumn/poetry-field-jake-skeets 
Jake Skeets

https://my-blackout.com/2017/11/29/anna-mendelssohn-what-a-performance/
Anna Mendelssohn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ89lZDBDR4&ab_channel=Fatpie42
Amiri Baraka

https://my-blackout.com/2020/07/04/sean-bonney-anna-mendelssohn-minds-do-exist-to-agitate-and-provoke-this-is-the-reason-i-do-not-conform/
Sean Bonney on Anna Mendelssohn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7O-dVU_lBE&ab_channel=Nils-AslakValkeap%C3%A4%C3%A4-Topic
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

https://forfatternesklimaaksjon.no/2021/01/01/enna-wera-saether/ Wera Sæther

https://koro.no/kunstverk/beaivvas-manat-leve-blant-reptiler/
Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari