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Welcome to an-archos, we build dynamic publishing websites and online communities with an arts focus and link them altogether into one community network. This site is an RSS aggregator of all community news and updates, feel free to subscribe to the feed.
This is also the home of the Anarchy Media Player for WordPress, WordPressMu and standalone websites. It detects and embeds any simple href links to flv, mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp, wmv, avi and asf media files in their respective players on the web page. Flash swf embedding is also included via SWFObject.
As to the term an-archos, taken literally it means here the negation of the leadership principle. In the context of this community network it voices a communitarian philosophy whose eudaimonic criteria for the good is a probably hopeless ideal, and that is ‘may all beings be happy’.
Restated in terms of social libertarianism that means true democratic freedom, peace and happiness for all humanity without exception and includes safeguarding the biosphere and all forms of life as a whole.
In terms of libertarian anarchism that would require every individual taking full responsibility for their own well being whilst always recognising a mutual benefit in the well being of others.
In political terms that means a strong peace held together through a global community of mutual social concern for the whole. Its fundamental concepts are love in the unity of the good, the true and the beautiful as human openness to the mystery of being.
December 16th, 2006 at 5:31 am
Wow!!! Thanks for the player, and your company philosophy is awesome. Thanks again,
Orion
January 8th, 2007 at 7:17 am
thanks
February 11th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Great plugin! Now if only we could do something about the logo you’re using for your site’s upper left hand corner and the browserurl icon, it’s just all so damn disturbing, even if it’s a no-symbol over a swastika.
February 19th, 2007 at 3:18 am
It’s meant to be disturbing as I find our world an increasingly disturbing place to live in what with the developing terminal global energy crisis and its intensifying predatory resource wars threatening nuclear war along with the collapse of our insane growth based global economic order, the collapse of democracy and the rise of of authoritarian police states, while completely overwhelming our capacity to deal with the deterioration of our utterly profligate modern way of life over the next decade and beyond. But not to worry as runaway global warming should provide a final solution to the human problem by 2050 and thereafter.
The swastika ban is an-archos, the negation of leadership which is the actual form of our global modern order. I see no leadership anywhere, only the contingent, reactionary and meaningless autonomic responses of global ‘leadership’ elites mindlessly driven by the competitive demands of modern technology. We’re a ship of fools with no one at the rudder or charting a course and we’re headed for planetary catastrophe.
http://www.polemos.net.au/
http://heidegger.an-archos.com/cat/zeug/
May 5th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Just a small contribution to logo discussion:
Swastika BAN on your logo is OK.
Problem is that people (or maybe just I personally) perceive the SWASTIKA like the very first symbol at your pages.
I must admit I hesitated a bit IF I should continue to read your pages, when I saw your logo.
My first reaction was: OOPS! Wrong direction, away!
Fortunately I suppressed my first impression and continued reading.
Regards
peter
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Creat player Except
Anarchy Media Player needs to support .ogg files
( Ogg Theora+Vorbis )
Regards
Creator
August 9th, 2007 at 5:28 am
I don’t agree with the anology we are a ship of fools with no one at the rudder; those at the rudder are ruled by greed and accordingly, all decisions made by them are based on that concept. The greater majority who vote in to power (what I refer to as) corporate government, do so because they either feast right through to barely exist on the left-overs.
Only those who live outside the loop are truly ‘free’, however, that doesn’t mean they are free of the negative ramifications of those in the loop.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Yes I agree, but that’s what I mean by “no one at the rudder”. If our leadership elites are just rats in a Skinner Box conditioned by greed then there truly is no Captain of the ship, there is only our dumb animal evolutionary destiny … which I guess ultimately would mean die off and species extinction.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:24 am
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” -John 8:32
Nice WP plugin. Interesting but (and forgive me) naive social philosophy. I don’t know if I have it in me to start a debate right now… not sure if I should — well — I suppose I could say that there is no such thing as true freedom in a material sense of the word. We can only approximate it, and even then it’s deceptive because it’s like a double-edged sword. On one side it plays into a libertine ideal with human creation and accomplishment as its seeming end, the other side leads to complete depravity and a loss of the will to the lusts of the senses and flesh. Ultimately the flesh wins out, because “freedom’s” ultimate goal is truly nothing more than to satisfy the desires of the flesh — which can never be accomplished. It simply enslaves the human spirit and soul into a never-ending battle with material and sensual need, which is something you are currently witnessing as your philosophy plays itself out as the political mantra of today’s culture and society.
Freedom has come to represent the human “right” to carry on selfishly and without any regard to morality or decency. Oddly enough, the worldly pursuit of it ends as a negation of the human will, the assertion of which was actually the goal it had initially set out for itself. At its best it will leave you living like a backwoods transcendentalist, which is a selfish and Godless pursuit if ever there was one. Humans are invariably a fallen and devolving creature, and without the intervention of God Himself, will ultimately lead themselves to doom — with, or “without” the influence of decent political leaders. True freedom — or the lack thereof — is a spiritual matter at its core. Liberty and “happiness” can and will only be found in coming to know God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the messiah, The Saviour — however offensive that may seem to one’s intellectual sense.
Regardless, may God bless you in your search and I truly hope and pray that you eventually come to know what it is you are looking for. Thanks again for the cool plug-in.
Humbly and earnestly,
Brian
p.s. You truly cannot serve two masters at once, and to believe you are serving none at all is to be serving the devil, whether you believe it or not. Only God knows what is best for humanity and unless you know (and obey) His will, then you are simply shooting in the dark, no matter how good you believe your intentions and understanding to be.
p.p.s. Not that it matters, but I considered myself to be a libertarian and an “anarchist” in the past. I did study a fair amount of political philosophy and I remember it was disputed as to whether or not true anarchy, like true democracy, was even possible. It appears as if no matter how much society attempts to beset itself of leadership, leaders (or tyrants) just keep popping up out of the woodwork… like flowers or weeds I suppose…
p.p.p.s. “In terms of libertarian anarchism that would require every individual taking full responsibility for their own well being whilst always recognising a mutual benefit in the well being of others.” – Interesting statement, but communism shows us that humans in their natural state will often fail to recognize the mutual benefit in the well being of others when the self is seemingly put at risk. I say seemingly because perceived risk is a subjective thing, whereas most humans consistently see themselves as being “at risk”, we have this (although well-intentioned) objective rarely being realized in actuality. On the other hand, acting in an effort to realize some mutual benefit to oneself seems rather loveless to me. I understand the logic behind collective action, but it requires certain environmental conditions to be constantly met. In the absence of coercion, and in terms of game theory, the cheating individual always wins in a game where the winning strategy benefits the whole to some extent, yet the cheater to a slightly greater extent. Honestly, I’ll give you the fact that people appear to be “selfless” in this way when most, if not all of their basic needs are being met, but strip them of those comforts (or the possibility that they may never be realized in this lifetime) and the system breaks down entirely, and becomes one in which individuals are coerced into acting accordingly. …anyway, I’d rather not take any of these up as talking points… unfortunately, your ideals are based on a significant misrepresentation of whom and what we are as human beings, unless you assert that some of us are in fact “demigods” and are somehow exceptions to the rule… in which case I will tell you need to read what I wrote above (in my first postscript) a few times at least…. anyway, that’s a lot of p.s., and I feel like I’ve said a lot here. If you’ve made it this far, I appreciate you taking the time to read it. God bless you and forgive me if I’ve misspoken in some way.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:42 am
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August 20th, 2008 at 7:26 am
… to anyone who reads what I posted above, I really want to apologize for sounding like a jerk and a know-it-all (read pompous ass). I didn’t mean it that way at all, but a friend of mine pointed it out in a roundabout way that it sounds like that. Anyway, I hope that whoever reads it can see past that and realize that I sincerely meant what I said there, if not in so many words. Thanks. -Brian