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J. William Lloyd, “Forced or Free—The Two Socialisms” (1902)

October 2, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

THAT the drift of evolution is toward socialism few thinkers doubt. It appears in education, religion, industry, government, everything. All over the world free schools, free libraries, free reading rooms, etc., reveal a profound conviction that knowledge is a human birthright. In religion there is a rapidly accelerating tendency to waive dogma, leave creed to conscience, & concentrate on humanitarian work. Proposals to rub out sectarian lines & minimize sects are heard every day, and as a matter of almost unconscious fact such unity is every day being attained. Practically only some half-a-dozen sects remain, & these faded.

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Joshua King Ingalls in “The Shekinah” (1852–1853)

October 2, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Through long, long ages has labor sighed and toiled under a worse than Egyptian bondage. Its utmost stretch of memory can scarce recall its pastoral days, when it frolicked and gamboled with the herd upon the plain or mountain side. Enslaved by the gold of civilization, which itself has mined and coined, it is no less oppresssed in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, than it was in the days of ancient barbarism, or more recent feudalism. Nor has it scarce other hope than the oppressed Hebrew felt, when his demand for freedom was met by an increase of task, while at the same time he was compelled to furnish his own material.

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Joshua King Ingalls in “The Spirit of the Age” (1849–1850)

October 2, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Joshua King Ingalls among the Universalists (1840–1847) Joshua King Ingalls in “The Univercœlum” (1847–1849) Psychometrical Portrait of Joshua King Ingalls (1853) Joshua King Ingalls in “The Woman’s Tribune” (1888–1894) J. K. Ingalls, “Reminiscences of an Octogenarian” (1897) [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Creed “We believe and therefore speak.”—Paul. How is it that faith has come to signify a lack of faith?—a creed itself, to mean no creed; but simply a long transmitted heir loom, or rather the woof of words, which are lifeless and empty? The original credo was indicative of what I believe; but […]

A new kind of Corvus Edition

September 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0″] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] I’ve built up a large catalog of pamphlets and books over the years that I’ve been producing Corvus Editions—so large a catalog that there would be no question of keeping them all in print, even if there were more obvious outlets for the sort of publication that I do. Of course, a significant portion of the Corvus catalog has always been texts that seemed to meet some particular need in the moment and lose much of their interest when that particular moment has passed. But there is a portion of […]

Dyer D. Lum in “The Evolution” (1877–1878)

September 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] ORDER AND PROGRESS. Now that the majesty of the law has been vindicated, proprietary rights protected, and “order reigns in Warsaw,” it is quite in the line of duty to indulge in reflections on the anomalous state of affairs through which we have recently passed. I would at the outset insist most strenuously upon the proposition that society involves reciprocal relations. The modern or scientific conception of society is no longer that of a mere aggregation of individuals, who, by their legislation, determine the nature and character of the community, but […]

Dyer D. Lum, “The Two Paths” (1890)

September 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE TWO PATHS. BY DYER D. LUM. Progress has no meaning outside of social relations. Nature records but changes in terms of evolution or devolution; man’s adaptation to environments is physical. Progress is the record of change in social relations — a province wrested from nature, transforming brute into human. The veneering may be thin on some, but the thickness of the human laying over the brute is the expression of progress. Our ancestors were retrospective; our golden age lies before us. When the ancient Hebrew asked the angel why the […]

Pedro Sierra, “Ricardo Mella: Algunos apuntes para contribuir al estudio de su vida y su obra” (1926)

September 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] RICARDO MELLA Algunos apuntes para contribuir al estudio de su vida y su obra El 7 de agosto de 1925 dejó de existir en Vigo Ricardo Mella, el escritor de más valía que tuvo el movimiento anarquista español. Aunque apartado voluntariamente de la lucha desde hacía más de dos lustros, ¿quién de entre los que continúan fíelas podrá ser tan mezquino de sentimientos para no llorar sinceramente la muerte del gran pensador, del que con su pluma formó legiones de militantes y convencidos en cerca de cuarenta años de apostolado ejemplar? Además, no hay que […]

Ensayos y Conferencias — Obras de R. Mella — II

September 19, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Obras de R. Mella I. — IDEARO II. — ENSAYOS Y CONFERENCIAS Prólogo, par E. Quintanilla El problema de la emigración en Galicia Breves apuntes sobre las pasiones humanas Evolución y Revolucion La coacción moral La ley del número Del amor : modo de acción y finalidad social Las Grandes obras de la civilización III. — ESTUDIOS SOBRE EL ANARQUISMO IV. — ESCRITOS DE POLEMICA V. — PAGINAS DE LUCHA Y PROPAGANDA VI. — TRABAJOS DISPERSOS [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Obras completas de r. mella TOMO II. ENSAYOS Y CONFERENCIAS Ricardo Mella published in […]

Haunted by Dragons: Flying Monsters in 19th Century California

September 18, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Haunted by Dragons FLYING MONSTERS IN 19th CENTURY CALIFORNIA * * * A MONSTER OF THE AIR Thomas Campbell and Joseph Howard, two wood-choppers working in the timber five miles northeast of Hurleton, Cal., inform us by letter of a singular creature they saw flying thought the air last Friday afternoon. They write: “About four o’clock Friday afternoon last, while at work, we were startled by the sound of many wings flapping in the air. Looking up, we perceived passing over our heads, not more than forty feet above the tree-tops, a creature that looked something like a crocodile. […]

Dromologies: Paul Virilio: Speed, Cinema, and the End of the Political State (1994)

September 18, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The news is making its way around the ‘net that Paul Virilio has died. It has now been quite a few years since I was immersed in the sort of theory that Virilio practiced, but in the 90s—my days as a pioneer in internet studies, critic of cyberpunk, student of poststructuralism, etc.—his work appeared as one of the sharpest cutting edges out there. And I found myself in an interesting position when, in 1994, having written a summary of translated works for a grad school seminar, I posted it to the then very new World […]