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Proudhon’s Barbaric Yawp (1840)

February 5, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Every story has to start somewhere. And when the story is that of anarchist history, it seems hard to find a more likely place to begin than Proudhon’s 1840 declaration—je suis anarchiste—which we generally treat as the first instance of at least one kind of anarchist position-taking.

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Our Lost Continent: 1840

February 4, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related Links: Our Lost Continent and the Journey Back [main page] What Mutualism Was: Coming to Terms with our Anarchist Past [main page] 1840: Our Lost Continent: Chronology: Notes: In the history of “the anarchist […]

Positive Anarchy, Profusion, Uncertainty and the Uses of History

January 30, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Our Lost Continent and the Journey Back Project Page: Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea, 1837–1936 RELATED: “Our Lost Continent” (April 4, 2015) “The ‘Benthamite’ anarchism and the origins […]

Archy vs. Anarchy

January 28, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

These short contrasting entries constitute an attempt to sketch out some basic principles of existing archic society and some anarchic alternatives. Those alternatives are drawn largely from what we have been calling the “neo-Proudhonian” project. […]

Misc. Poems by Shawn P. Wilbur

January 24, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Links: Future Synthesis: Energy and Fear (1995) “Little Infidelities” (1995) Dog Chain Girl White man Jamaican dreadlocks band, rock reggae roots less black than the coffee I’m drinking. Coffee shop crowd all pretzeled in under […]

Futurism/post-Futurism: Art & Industry at the End of History & Beyond

January 23, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is yet another of the grad-school documents that have had some circulation online over the past twenty-five years. I’m collecting them here now largely as a matter of artistic documentation but it has certainly […]

What Means this “Art Strike”? (1994)

January 23, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is another grad-school artifact, from the days when Lipstick Traces and The Assault on Culture were two of the fixed points in my otherwise rapidly shifting universe of interests. It now seems a very […]

The line at the Popular Press

January 7, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Distributive Passions: Glimpses & Fragments: Gabe shouldered his way out into the northbound lane of Interstate, through a gap between two carts so narrow that his backpack threatened to catch. In what remained […]

Into the Lombard agora

January 6, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Distributive Passions: Glimpses & Fragments: With the sun just coming up, Lombard Station was already a circus. Gabe hopped off the bus at the last stop before the street was swallowed by the […]

E. Armand: Supplements and Broadsides

January 4, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: E. Armand [main page] There were a large number of supplements, broadsides and advertising materials produced in the course of E. Armand’s various periodical publishing ventures and the existing bibliographies, perhaps understandably, incomplete […]