Dispatches from the Analog Underground

Systems of control have moved online. So we moved off. While digital organizing becomes increasingly surveilled, sanitized, and sold back to us as content, we return to what works: paper, repetition, and friction.

The Underwing Dispatch is part of an analog strategy. Inspired by Gene Sharp’s catalog of 198 nonviolent tactics, we focus on Method 9—leaflets, pamphlets, and posters—as an untraceable channel of circulation. Not nostalgic. Just useful.

This system isn't about visibility. It's about presence. A sticker on a light pole stays up longer than a story highlight. A vending box in the street doesn’t ask for your data. It asks for your attention.

Digital platforms have become closed loops—followers talking to followers. Physical media interrupts that. It creates contact between strangers, not just algorithms. And in an age where everything is tracked, anonymity is not a flaw. It's protection.

We operate in overlooked zones: alleys, bus stops, bulletin boards. These are not glitches in the system. They’re the system now.

Not for everyone. Just for the ones paying attention.