An announcement for site visitors : I am migrating away from my old trademark Center For Folk Culture (TM), which I don’t want to confuse with a 501c3 I had previously registered under a similar name (Center For Folk Culture Inc.) to my newer project and trade name, The Anthropocene Journal (TM) which is more focused on intellectual property due to necessity of having been dispossessed of physical property rights by the state.
In short, I barely own what I can carry and create in terms of intellectual contribution any more—everything else has been demonstably stolen from me.
My cars, my workshop, my library, my research archives, my writing at many times, my platforms, my privacy to read and formulate, and my right to play music in public or work in my trades as sources of income—all these anf more I’ve had to accept as tangled with the air of eternal nothingness due to the pogrom. They have been taken from me through sheer cruelty as though I were already dead—so while I am alive, I am trying to recover what I can for this side of the veil.
My new trade name also reflects the fact that even though I am writing, speaking, and publishing (mostly online) under duress, it is my sole real source of generating lasting property of value. I find this weightlessness at once dismal, nearly invisible, and portable in the era of mass surveillance and AI that have swept up my life in a current of geographic scale violence.
I would be engaged in the market if I were fairly allowed—but at the moment, my scope of participation is severely limited by denials of my basic constitutional (and basic human) rights both as an individual and as a sole proprietor.
So please take note of the new project namr and that it represents a trade name with global operating scope (as you can access the internet just about anywhere).
This is now The Anthropocene Journal (TM). It is still Center For Folk Culture, and will be again when I can safely recover my rights to operate an independent educational or skills training organization in the real world (as that was always CFFC’s intention—it’s primarily a cultural education and land use project, a kind of humanist geoengineering based in sensitivity to ecology and individual empowerment through community, culture, and education.)
The Anthropocene Journal (TM) is a bit more sad and ephemeral in scope. I’m just documenting what I can under these circumstances, because it’s all that I can do.
