Contents
5 Layout Working Group - Editorial9 Ilan Shalif - The Revolution's Best-Kept Secret Has Just Been Revealed
13 21st Century Practice - Nomen est omen
15 Katja - Fragments of Community
21 Rya - Community
23 A. - GemÖks -- Just Do It
29 Projetfvasions - A Love Letter
33 I. - bommunityMeme
35 Hagen Geyer > Homo Deconomicus
41 Rya beisterstadt Dortmund
43 Hagen Geyer - Need for Protection
45 Hagen Geyer - Lament of the Desperate
47 Luna - Community, But
51 Hagen Geyer - Escapism
53 Rya - Withdrawal
55 Hepa Feyerabend - Even Before Breakfast
61 fuchsia - Dreamers
63 Anonymous - My House of Freaks
65 Jona Larkin White - The Buddenbrooks - Community Leave
Editorial
Communities have existed as long as humankind. Even today, they are a point of reference for many people's longings, whether it's a return to a supposedly perfect community of the past or an experimentation with new forms of living together.
While we cannot escape society, this is only partially true for communities. We are assigned to some involuntarily and may remain in them for the rest of our lives without questioning them, like family or the workplace. Yet, it is precisely in these forced communities that unexpected solidarity can arise.
Others, however, we choose ourselves: communities of interest to pursue hobbies or improve our living conditions, or we feel drawn to them because of our characteristics, like communities of migrants or queer people.
Whether by chance, material interests, or intangible desires for connection, we repeatedly find ourselves in a wide variety of communities.
And who would we be without community? How much of who we are is shaped by distancing ourselves from others, and how much by conformity? When do communities hinder free development, and when are they a necessary condition for it? How much responsibility do we bear for our communities, and how much do they bear for us?
Especially since increasing digitalization, the loss of communities and growing isolation are repeatedly criticized. But while many people blame the negative consequences solely on technology without considering its interconnectedness with our society, others have much more positive experiences online. Those with unusual interests, identities, or problems can form communities with similar yet very different people all over the world.
In preparation for this publication and during a preliminary discussion on November 6, 2026, we collected a variety of questions, some of which we will explore in more depth or perhaps even answer for ourselves:
* How do lifelong friendships or communities function?
* How do relationships and community function without exploitation and coercion?
* Where do you experience community in everyday life?
* What do inclusion and exclusion mean in community?
* * How can I find community and what problems will I encounter?
* What images of community exist in our society?
* What compromises does community require?
* Why do we need (more) community?
* How does our personal positioning influence our relationship to community(s)?
* What might an anarchist critique of community or individuality look like?
* How do conflicts and conflict resolution function in communities?
* What are the characteristics of digital and analog communities?
* Which communities are desirable, and which are not? Why?
This zine presents various anarchist perspectives on community, whether despairing or hopeful, in the form of paintings, photographs, factual texts, short stories, or poems. It originated from two writing workshops held on September 4th and November 29th, 2025, at the Black Pigeon in Dortmund, and an open call for submissions. We thank everyone who participated in the discussions and contributed!
https://archive.org/details/DerApfelUndDerStamm/Web_2026-03-13-Zine_Gemeinschaft_barrierearm/page/n1/mode/1up
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