Ant trails observed by scientist. Ants, bees, and wasps : a record of observations on the habits of the social hymenoptera. 1882.

Christo, Christo wraps Little Bay, New South Wales, by David Moore, 1969.

The point is simply that huge disparities in wealth, property, and status make a mockery of freedom. The consolidation of wealth and power over the past forty years in the United States, mimicked more recently in many states in the Global South following neoliberal policies, has created a situation that the anarchists foresaw. Cumulative inequalities in access to political influence via sheer economic muscle, huge (statelike) oligopolies, media control, campaign contributions, the shaping of legislation (right down to designated loopholes), redistricting, access to legal knowledge, and the like have allowed elections and legislation to serve largely to amplify existing inequalities. It is hard to see any plausible way in which such self-reinforcing inequalities could be reduced through existing institutions […].

James C Scott - Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

Joan Miró
Lithograph from Derrière le Miroir N° 164-165, 1967

Dorothea Rockburne, Ivory Black
1966-1967

The Journal of research on the lepidoptera. 2017. Cover detail.