How To Destroy The World

How to Destroy the World is a furious, poetic manifesto about identity, power, and resistance. It argues that society’s systems—gender, race, class, and legality—are violent acts of “naming,” reducing people to categories that legitimize exploitation and exclusion. The text rejects liberal ideas of reform or inclusion, framing them as extensions of the same oppressive logic, and instead celebrates “magic” as a form of rebellion—an unnameable, chaotic power that destroys these systems from within. Through the metaphor of witches and secret power, it calls for collective acts of defiance, survival, and the creation of spaces hostile to domination. The essay concludes with a revolutionary vision: to “immanentize the eschaton,” to bring about the end of this world of control not someday, but here and now—through everyday acts of resistance, crime, and the refusal to be named.