Monday, May 26, 2025

SHERBORNE SCHOOL OF AUTONOMOUS LIVING




A Curriculum of Creative Destruction and Regenerative Resistance
Founded: 1876 / Reopened: 2025 / Location: Everywhere and Nowhere

Motto: No Masters, No Algorithms, No Kings, No Clouds


I. CORE MODULES (Mandatory)

  1. Creative Destruction 101: The Bakunin Principle
    “The urge to destroy is a creative urge.”

    • Digital sabotage and subversion

    • Meme warfare and symbolic language

    • Controlled demolition of outdated social contracts

  2. Decentralized Mutual Aid Systems

    • Setting up mesh networks and food co-ops

    • Peer-to-peer emergency response

    • Community encryption and zine libraries

  3. Technodialectics: AI, Autonomy, and the Spectacle

    • Guy Debord vs. ChatGPT

    • Building your own anti-surveillance toolkit

    • How to recognize and disrupt algorithmic governance


II. ELECTIVES

Psycho-Spiritual Rewilding

  • Breathwork, blackout poetry, chaos magic, and gardening

  • Undoing internalized hierarchy through experimental theater

  • Dream mapping and Jungian sabotage

Anarcho-Systems Admin

  • Linux from scratch

  • Decentralized file systems

  • How to disappear from Google without disappearing from life

Art of Resistance Zines & Media

  • DIY publishing

  • Stencil graffiti, shortwave radio, pirate podcasts

  • Film history from Eisenstein to lo-fi VHS tape bombing


III. FACULTY OF ANCESTORS

  • Mikhail Bakunin (Founder, Chair of Revolutionary Praxis)

  • Ursula K. Le Guin (Spiritual Director, Department of Soft Anarchies)

  • Octavia Butler (Futurism & Survival Ethics)

  • Emma Goldman (Adjunct in Riot Choreography)

  • Hakim Bey (Guest Professor of Temporary Autonomous Zones)


IV. WEEKLY PRACTICES

  • Map your block like a cell of the Paris Commune.

  • Host one potluck, one data strike, one ritual.

  • Write your dreams in second person.

  • Recode one tool to serve the people, not profit.


V. CAMPUS LIFE

Locations:

  • Abandoned strip malls

  • Rooftop gardens

  • Discord servers and mesh networks

  • Forest squats, backroom bookstores, ferry terminals

Housing Options:

  • Geodesic domes

  • Decommed data centers

  • Night buses repurposed as dormitories

  • The ruins of Silicon Valley


VI. GRADUATION REQUIREMENT

Create a Distributed Anti-Algorithmic Lifeform

  • Part manifesto, part community tool, part prank, part hope

  • Shared through hidden folders, zines, oral traditions, and encrypted torrents



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