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“LeftLiberty” and “The Mutualist” (2009-2011)

April 3, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Corvus Editions project started with LeftLiberty: A Journal of Mutualist Anarchist Theory and History, a zine produced in the context of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left, a “big tent” coalition of “market anarchists.” It lasted for two issues and received almost no attention. As my own trajectory started to diverge from that of the Alliance, the project was reinvented as The Mutualist: A Journal for Free Absolutes, with an explicitly “neo-Proudhonian” emphasis. The one issue published shows all the signs, I think, of a project being pursued to please no one but myself. Subsequent issues suffered from the difficulty that has always haunted my attempts at publication: I was uncovering new material at such a rate that my critical and interpretive writings were often “out of date” long before I could finish writing them. I eventually collected the best of LeftLiberty, together with some posts from my blog, in a special “0” issue of The Mutualist, which, from a historical standpoint, is interesting as an anticipation of the Contr’un zine series and as one of the first Corvus Editions to use what would become the “house style” in layout and typography.

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Corvus Editions: Anarchistic Frontiers

July 12, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

I am not sure there is any way forward but to gather together the fruits of the last couple of decades or research and present them for use, as if there was an audience ready and willing to use them. And since we’re talking about works deemed insufficiently commercial even for the niches filled by anarchist publishers and academic presses, the way to do that is through print-on-demand volumes. So the next phase of the Corvus Edition story involves a line of collections published through Lulu.

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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 […]

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 of “Legitimate” Authority Contr’un 7: Anarchy and Democracy They are now available online.

Introducing “ANARCHISMS” + new issues of “La Frondeuse”

March 10, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m launching a new series of pamphlets collecting introductory summaries and personal statements attempting to define anarchism in the most basic terms. In the ANARCHISMS series, the texts will be collected with very little attention to tendency, beyond trying to mix things up in each issue, and without editorial comment. I am often asked for entry-level texts, and it’s difficult to find material which does not come with some critical apparatus already attached. There are plenty of occasions where context and various kinds of helps are indispensable, but there is also a time for letting individual statements speak for themselves. […]

Corvus Editions: Spring releases

April 11, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

For this year’s Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, I decided to simplify my selection, and my tabling patter, and focus on the translation side of my project. A number of the pamphlets linked below are also first installments of larger projects. Anyway, here’s what you missed if you didn’t make the show: Working Translations #1 “An unsystematic selection of radical writings, translated from the French.”In hardcover, Working Translations will be a series of 200+ page omnibus volumes, collecting all of my translation work as it appears. For pamphlet release, I’ll be issuing many of the longer texts separately, and assembling […]

M. Corbeau’s Gallery of Rogues

December 20, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

‎”M. CORBEAU’S Gallery of ROGUES” is the monthly miscellany of radical auto/biography that I’m hoping to launch about January 15, 2012. I’ve said that I won’t release an issue until I have three ready to print, so there are minimal hassles with subscriptions and standing orders. I’m just a couple of dozen pages of translation from that point, and feeling pretty good about how things are coming together. Here are tentative contents for those first three issues. M. CORBEAU’S Gallery of ROGUES #1 1. Shawn P. Wilbur—“Who was Eliphalet Kimball?” (with texts and working bibliography)2. Charles Malato—“Some Anarchist […]

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Special “LeftLiberty+” Issue of “The Mutualist”

July 22, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m both streamlining the Corvus Editions catalog a bit for upcoming bookfairs and trying to assemble a more focused body of materials to serve as a background for the next couple of issues of The Mutualist. With those goals in mind, I’ve combined the most useful bits of my own writing from the two issues of LeftLiberty with the blog posts I reference, or expect to reference, most often, as a special issue of The Mutualist. The contents are: Mutualism: The Anarchism of Approximations Mutualist Musings on Property (including “The Gift Economy of Property, etc.) Note A (by Charles Fourier) […]

Corvus Editions/research polls

May 31, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

If you look at the side-bar of the blog, you’ll find a poll, asking for input on what sorts of materials I should be giving priority in the Corvus Editions project. I’ve been running a similar poll on Facebook, but would like input from a broader audience. So far, translations seem to be the priority for my FB readers, and my own sense is that translations will continue to be a central focus of the project, so I’ve added another poll, directly below the first, about translation priorities.

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16th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair

April 7, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m headed for the train station in about an hour, on my way to the 2011 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, where I’ll be tabling with Corvus Editions both Saturday and Sunday, April 9-10. Stop by and say “hello” if you’re at the fair. I’ve packed some translation work, so with a little luck I’ll have some new material by Joseph Charlier and Claude Pelletier ready to post soon after my return early next week.