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Practical support for microenterprise
I’ve been featuring the 500 Friends of Reading Frenzy! Kickstarter project in the sidebar here since it was launched. It’s now in its last week for funding, and 75% on its way to a goal […]
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Trajectories: Proudhon and Property
I’ve been working on bookbinding and papermaking as much as property theory lately, trying to put together the first two issues of “The Wing: A Journal of Attractive Industry” (a very nuts-and-bolts, often how-to zine […]
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Responses to Anarchism: the Rhyme of Ravachol Needham
[From P. R. Bennett, Ducdame; a book of verses. 1912.] The Anarchist [A critic in the New Age suggests that modern thought can submit no longer to the tyranny of rhyme and metre.] Ravachol Needham […]
Anarchism
Max Nettlau, Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?—Both
ANARCHISM: COMMUNIST OR INDIVIDUALIST?—BOTH By Max Nettlau. ANARCHISM is no longer young, and it may be time to ask ourselves why, with all the energy devoted to its propaganda, it does not spread more rapidly. […]
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E. Armand, “The Gulf”
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] This short piece by E. Armand appeared in Horace Traubel’s The Conservator in 1910. It’s an interesting piece to have appeared in a magazine dominated by the shadow of Walt […]
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For the well-adorned radical…
There are several bookfairs coming up, and while books and pamphlets are cool and all, it’s a well-known fact that the business really runs on buttons, stickers and t-shirts. As an ever-so-slight bucking of the […]
egoist anarchism
W. Curtis Swabey, “The Ethics of Stirner” (1912)
When I first encounter the French version of this text, I was aware that I might be translating a translation, but the article was interesting enough to make the work worth the bit of time […]
anarchist individualism
E. Armand, “Our Rule of Ideological Conduct” (1922)
Notre ligne de conduite idéologique Dans tous les lieux, les individualistes de notre tendance veulent instaurer — dès maintenant et dans tous les temps — un milieu humain fondé sur le fait individuel et dans […]
Corvus Editions
Corvine Call: Hartmann the Anarchist
As promised, I’ve put together an edition of E. Douglas Fawcett’s Hartmann the Anarchist: handbound hardcovers, 4.25″ x 10.25″, printed on recycled farm-waste paper and covered in repurposed upholstery samples. Adding hardcover titles to the […]
Anarchism
“Come, a glass to our captain—the destined destroyer of civilization!”
While searching for hollow earth narratives (a curiously political genre, as it happens), I came across Hartmann the Anarchist, an 1893 science fiction/adventure novel, by Edward Douglas Fawcett (the brother of the “Lost City of […]