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Margins and Problems: A Philosophical Anarchism

May 1, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

We’re concerned, in these early phases of the survey, with the means by which we might recognize an anarchism emerging in contexts where that term did not yet have any of its familiar associations. What are the conditions for an emerging body of thought to inspire in us the same responses we have to the sorts of anarchism we presently espouse?

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Margins and Problems: Questions of Nature and Artifice

April 24, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

As we move forward, let’s propose some distinctions between the various varieties of anarchism and near-anarchism that we might encounter. Let’s start with an ideal and probably nonexistent integral anarchism, which would represent a successful synthesis or distillation of the various attempts to express basic anarchist principles in a way that would simply allow us to apply them. That sort of anarchism might require a significant body of work to express—or it might be the sort of thing that, finally clarified, could be comfortably scribbled on the back of a cocktail napkin.

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Henri Zisly in “La Vie Naturelle” (1910)

April 20, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

La logique nous enseigne non seulement à ne pas lutter contre la nature, mais bien au contraire, à nous adapter à elle ; mais pour en arriver à cette conception, la volonté, le mépris des critiques, calomnies et moqueries, ainsi que la persévérance dans l’oubli volontaire des essais avortés ou contrariés dans leur but, sont nécessaires. H. Z. Logic teaches us not only not to struggle against nature, but, quite the contrary, to adapt ourselves to it; but in order to arrive at that idea, will, scorn for critics, calumny and mockery, as well as perseverance in the deliberate forgetfulness […]

George Withoutname, “A Definition of Naturism” (1930)

April 18, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Une définition du Naturisme En tant que ce terme est employé pour désigner une certaine manière de vivre, et notamment de s’alimenter, le Naturisme consiste pour l’être organisé, à s’adapter — sous peine de disparition — aux conditions du milieu dans lequel il vient à se trouver placé ; donc, plus particulièrement, à s’assimiler les éléments nutritifs mis à sa portée, par ledit milieu. — Exemples : Pour les chiendent, le naturisme consiste à envahir souterrainement, de ses rhizomes, tout l’humus à ses entours, à en accaparer les principes fertilisateurs, et à étouffer, par sa végétation aérienne, les semis avoisinants […]

Margins and Problems: History and the Possibility of Anarchism

April 17, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Constructing Anarchisms Part II—Anarchist History: Margins and Problems (An Idiosyncratic Survey) Onward!—to the next experiment—with Scandal as our muse and encounter as our method. General Resources: Part I—Constructing an Anarchism [main page] Anarchist Beginnings archive The Rise and Progress of the Great Atercratic Revolution II—Anarchist History: Margins & Problems: I—Constructing an Anarchism: ❦ ❦ ❦ Having fun? Donations help to expand and sustain the archive. Let’s be clear: The history that we will be exploring will not be The Story of Anarchism—or anything particularly close to that. It will be a story about anarchism—and specifically about some margins and problems […]

Margins and Problems: Anarchic Encounters with the Anarchist Past

April 11, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Constructing Anarchisms Part II—Anarchist History: Margins and Problems (An Idiosyncratic Survey) Onward!—to the next experiment—with Scandal as our muse and encounter as our method. General Resources: Part I—Constructing an Anarchism [main page] Anarchist Beginnings archive The Rise and Progress of the Great Atercratic Revolution II—Anarchist History: Margins & Problems: I—Constructing an Anarchism: ❦ ❦ ❦ Having fun? Donations help to expand and sustain the archive. Let’s say that, taking inspiration from Déjacque’s bilge-rat, we decide that our present experience of anarchism is too constraining—and decide to scuttle this particular vessel. What happens next? As the anarchist past floods in, how […]

Margins and Problems: The Bilge-Rat’s Gambit

April 6, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Constructing Anarchisms Part II—Anarchist History: Margins and Problems (An Idiosyncratic Survey) General Resources: Part I—Constructing an Anarchism [main page] Anarchist Beginnings archive The Rise and Progress of the Great Atercratic Revolution II—Anarchist History: Margins & Problems: I—Constructing an Anarchism: ❦ ❦ ❦ Having fun? Donations help to expand and sustain the archive. Onward!—to the next experiment—with Scandal as our muse and encounter as our method. Lets establish some working assumptions for this new experiment: If anarchism—understood as a kind of joint enterprise—is to be useful in attaining and sustaining anarchy, then we can almost certainly anticipate at least a certain […]

P. W. Grayson, “Vice Unmasked” (1830)

April 3, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

VICE UNMASKED, AN ESSAY: BEING A CONSIDERATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF LAW UPON THE MORAL ESSENCE OF MAN, WITH OTHER REFLECTIONS. BY P. W. GRAYSON. Est autem Virtus nihil alind, quam in se perfecta, et ad summum perfecta Natura. — Cicero. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY GEORGE H. EVANS, FOR THE AUTHOR. 1830. Notes on the Author According to Wikipedia: Peter Wagener Grayson (1788–1838) was an attorney, diplomat, cabinet officer, and presidential candidate in the Republic of Texas. He was the son of Benjamin and Caroline (Taylor) Grayson, and was born in Bardstown, Virginia (later Kentucky), in 1788. He owned a […]

Margins and Problems: Reflections on “Constructing an Anarchism”

March 31, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Constructing Anarchisms Part II—Anarchist History: Margins and Problems (An Idiosyncratic Survey) General Resources: Part I—Constructing an Anarchism [main page] Anarchist Beginnings archive The Rise and Progress of the Great Atercratic Revolution II—Anarchist History: Margins & Problems: I—Constructing an Anarchism: ❦ ❦ ❦ Having fun? Donations help to expand and sustain the archive. Reflections on “Constructing an Anarchism” The first phase of “Constructing Anarchisms” was an experiment—and, I think, a relatively successful one. But it was also a fairly complex experiment, for which there were not perhaps many precedents, so, despite the fact that it often felt like the commentary on […]

E. Armand: Collaborators and Contributors

March 30, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Collaborators featured in the Libertarian Labyrinth: Eugène Bizeau [main page] Charles-Auguste Bontemps [tag feed] Ovide Ducauroy [tag feed] Louis Estève [tag feed] Maurice Imbard [tag feed] Ixigrec (Robert Collino) [tag feed] Marius Jean [main page] Anselme Mauzé [main page] Paul Paillette [tag feed] Le Rétif (Victor Serge) [tag feed] Francis Vergas [tag feed] Henri Zisly [tag feed] Authors with articles appearing in Armand’s publications: [in progress] Louis Dalgara [Dictionnaire des anarchistes] Robert Delon [Dictionnaire des anarchistes] Le Guépin [pseudonym for E. Armand (and others?)] Emile Hamelin [Dictionnaire des anarchistes] José Ingenieros [Wikipedia] A[uguste] Laforge [Bianco] Jean Lorrain [Wikipedia] Anna Mahé […]