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Not Our Grandparents’ War, etc

July 24, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Apparently, i’m not the only one who can’t make sense of the whole war narrative. Tom Shanker has an interesting piece in the New York Times today, called “All Quiet on the Home Front, […]

More research plan

July 21, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] My library is nearly unpacked, after the move, and i’ve been sifting through material, trying to get a handle on things, so i can proceed in a more or less orderly manner. Because i […]

Government’s “Civil Defense Dilemma”

July 21, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Just a follow-up to yesterday’s post: it seems there is a kind of basic contradiction at the heart of most government sponsored civil defense efforts. Such programs are necessary because, when push comes to […]

Responding to terrorism

July 19, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Since the London bombings, the question has been raised again – just what sort of response should anarchists have to acts of terrorism? Actual responses have been a little weird sometimes, among the weirder […]

A Labyrinthine Plan of Research

July 1, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Contr’un Revisited: There’s a remark in a later post—about the time I moved west, I think—about how the next reshuffling of priorities would leave some projects by the wayside, without anyone really noticing, since their […]

Happiness is a warm bunker

July 1, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

But if this is a potentially fascinating work of architecture, it is, sadly, fascinating in the way that Albert Speer’s architectural nightmares were fascinating: as expressions of the values of a particular time and era. […]

Varieties of Mutualist History

June 30, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: Looking at this material in the context of more recent work, it’s hard to miss the extent to which a process of extrication is already central to the project. A decade ago, […]

The Historical Character of Mutualism

June 24, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: I asked some of the same questions you’ll find here in the chapter on mutualism that I just completed for the Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism. I’ve finally decided that the right answers […]

EZLN on Red Alert / Americans “generally in a funk”

June 23, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Scattered thoughts today. . . Things are happening in Chiapas again. The Zapatistas have announced a General Red Alert and are withdrawing the active bases from the communities, suspending some operations, including the Good […]

Confessions of a latter day mutualist

June 22, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contrun Revisited: This is still one of my favorite bits of personal position-taking and much of it still rings true for me, even if I am much less eclectic in my associations these days […]