Our YouTube Launch

Our first video, more to come. Kneecap, Gaza, and Counterinsurgency

Thanks to everyone who attended our counterinsurgency class last fall. Once we completed the three sessions, we realized that we needed to retool how we structured After Empire as a project. We have since decided to make videos in order to create more widely accessible material in the current media landscape.

The learning curve for video is quite steep, and we are still figuring out the technical elements, but we want to make this a collaborative space that facilitates more interaction with our community. We have mainly functioned at a distance, intentionally avoiding the influencer model of “content” production. We remain committed to rejecting all “influencer” pretenses, though we will show our faces in our videos. We feel that this is an important standard to uphold given how corporate algorithms structure expression and blunt political clarity for the sake of attention-seeking ultimately attached to big tech data collection tied to consumerism.

Truthfully, the decision to create video content in today’s period of intense counterinsurgency is a risk. However, we have seen partisans across the world being willing to fight and to die for the liberation struggle. We must be prepared to do our part. With this restructured platform, we hope to make a contribution to the masses and honor the many heroes among us who continue to sacrifice and strive for life after empire.