Month: August 2020

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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 6

August 9, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: Posts:   Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism No. 6. — Songs of Solitary Selves Just when it looked like summer had settled in for good, August delivered a bit of rain. And just when I thought I had pretty well wrapped up this set of […]
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“L’authentique embusqué / The Genuine Shirker” (1915)

August 6, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
This text, which was apparently separately published in mid-1915 and is preserved in the Paris Archives de la préfecture de police, is attributed to E. Armand in Les En-dehors: Anarchistes individualistes et illégalistes à la “Belle Époque.” It is noted as a response to an article in La Guerre sociale denouncing the embusqués (wartime shirkers), after that paper turned from antimilitarism to support for the Union Sacrée. This apparently incomplete (and perhaps not entirely reliable?) transcription has circulated online and in pamphlet form under Armand’s name. There is nothing about the prose that strikes me as particularly characteristic of Armand’s […]
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Georgette Ryner, “If I returned to your country” (1924/1926)

August 5, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
Georgette Ryner was the daughter of Han Ryner, a teacher and a regular contributed to E. Armand’s paper l’en dehors. The prose poem translated here is presented in two slightly different versions. The first appeared in La pensée française in 1924 and the second is the form in which it was published in the collection Dans la ronde éternelle in 1926. Si je retournais dans votre pays (La pensée française) Si je retournais dans votre pays, comme il serait triste ce retour au pays autrefois aimé, au pays où vous n’êtes plus ! Dans l’escalier quand je le gravirais, je […]
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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 5

August 3, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: “The Gift Economy of Property“ “Occupancy-and-Use: Neo-Proudhonian Remarks“ “Property, Individuality and Collective Force“ “What could justify property?“ Pierre Leroux in “The Present” and “The Spirit of the Age” Posts: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism No. 5. — Give and Take: The First Society I would, […]