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Turning a new page…

January 2, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Contr’un Revisited: If we were being precise, the “Contr’un Revisited” phase would start here, with the name change at the beginning of 2011. But, just as some posts are being imported that were not originally […]

Contr'un

An update and a call

December 27, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m taking the next month or so to write (The Mutualist #2, and “The Anarchism of Approximations”), and to consolidate the lessons of the last year into some kind of routine, both for Corvus Editions […]

Joseph Déjacque – The Humanisphere (Preface)

December 26, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Humanisphere: Anarchic Utopia Joseph Déjacque UTOPIA: “A dream not realized, but not unrealizable.” ANARCHY: “Absence of government.” Revolutions are conservations. (P. J. PROUDHON)The only true revolutions are the revolutions of ideas. (JOUFFROY) Let us […]

Jeanne Deroin, “Letter to the Associations on the Organization of Credit” (1851)

December 15, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] The radical literature that any of us are actually familiar with always seems to be just a drop in the bucket. There are masses of largely ephemeral publications in every language, and all of […]

Working Translations

Emile Pouget, “Sabotage” (from the Almanach du Père Peinard, 1898)

November 29, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

This short essay on sabotage covers some of the same ground as Pouget’s famous book, but where that work is in some ways rather scholarly, this piece, from the 1898 Almanach du Père Peinard, is […]

Contr'un

M. Corbeau’s Corvine Call – the Corvus Editions blog

November 27, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Last weekend, I took Corvus Editions out to my first juried arts and crafts bazaar, and yesterday deposited a handful of books in a brand new boutique space for goods made from recycled and repurposed […]

Corvus Editions: The Mission

November 27, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Corvus Editions is in the throes of yet another reinvention — something the current book trade makes necessary on a remarkably frequent basis — and this page will soon be updated to cover the movement […]

Contr'un

Sustainable counter-media — Radix Media on Kickstarter

November 14, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Radix Media, a Portland-based radical offset printing and design operation, has launched a modest $5000 Kickstarter campaign, to upgrade their presses and invest in booklet-making equipment. They describe the project as representing the difference between […]

Proudhon’s “New Theory” (3 of 3)

November 11, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Part 1] [Part 2] §2.—Abstention from all regulatory law in that which concerns the possession, production, circulation and consumption of things. Analogies from love and art. Mobilization of the immovable. Character of the true proprietor. […]

What is property? — Some thoughts about how to proceed

October 29, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve had a couple of useful discussions of property over the last few weeks—over coffee and ale with Apio Ludicrus and online with Derek Wittorff—where the question of the points of contact between Proudhon […]