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Humorously provocative, Rachel Haywire's collection of essays is part autobiography, part call to arms. The mischievously anarchic streak characteristic of Haywire's work suffuses every chapter, each one calling for the radical revaluation of modern ideals. Not one to suffer fools gladly, this author takes no prisoners in her incisive exposition of the weaknesses pervading contemporary ideologies. Committedly opposed to the restrictive nature of polarisation, Haywire places herself decidedly beyond both Left and Right in their modern senses, and asserts her position as firmly apart from the ideological herd. When they said, "Rachel, one must be this or that," she replied that she is neither, or both. When they said, "Patience, parties, movements, and a well-established hierarchy are necessary for our triumph," she said, "We need instead riots, total war, and the destruction of the totems that have created your priestly relationship with life." When they demanded orthodoxy, she said, "being ruled is being ruled, control is control." Rachel Haywire is an author and tech journalist from Los Angeles, California. She runs the dissident political magazine Trigger Warning (triggerwarning.us) and was the founder of both the Extreme Futurist Festival and INSTED. Once upon a time she was also an industrial music producer and fetish model, who was featured in various anthologies about the occult, politics, philosophy, and alternative culture. She is now finishing up her degree in Philosophy, with a focus on applying Nietzsche to a modern day context. Her first book was a travel memoir called Acidexiaabout her journey through the North American zeitgeist.