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Welcome to the CONTR’UN blog

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Basically, the Contr’un is the star of the show here, the Whitmanesque subject who contains multitudes and is not contained between hat and boots, who spills out over all the property lines we might draw, at the same time drawing the world in without attempting to claim exclusive domain.

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Contr’un (chronological index)

December 12, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Contr’un Revisited

December 11, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Contr’un Revisited” is a collection of material from the “Contr’un” blog (and several other sources), annotated and intended as an introduction to the anarchist theory that has developed here over the last decade.

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The Synthesist’s Consolation

November 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Posts in the series: “L’homme se trompe parce qu’il apprend.”—P.J. Proudhon One of the catalysts for the post on “Coming to Terms with the Anarchist Past,” and the particular kind of clarification it represents, has […]

Coming to Terms with the Anarchist Past

November 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Posts in the series: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] As archives and projects converge, it seems like a good time to state or restate some the working hypotheses—or shall we […]

Contr’un collections 6 & 7

September 8, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Corvus Editions made an appearance at the Seattle Anarchist Book Fair last month, and among the new titles were two new collections from the Contr’un blog: Contr’un 6: “God and the State” and the Question […]

Contr’un Projects

August 13, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ongoing projects/series: [ezcol_1half] Extrications Vital Things [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Anarchy and Democracy Great Atercratic Revolution [/ezcol_1half_end]

Extrications: History, Tradition, Theory

August 7, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

The initial task in these Extrications is analytic: we want to pull things apart a bit, enough to see if we can’t isolate some terms and make some useful distinction. I want to set aside this notion of the anarchist milieu as our intentionally vague term for the thing that we are examining and pulling apart. Let’s just say for now that the milieu is the social space occupied by anarchism and anarchists—and hopefully, with a little care and luck, we’ll be able to say something a bit more definite before too long.

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Extrications

August 6, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Posts in the series: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] It’s been roughly 25 years since I first committed myself to the study of anarchist history and theory. And I can […]

Archive Adjustments

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[dropcap]Time[/dropcap] passes, and projects that were serving some useful purpose in the larger work no longer seem so vital. The various archives in the Libertarian Labyrinth are no exception to this rule. So, after one […]