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What I Did on My Summer Vacation

It wasn’t really a vacation, but I did take about ten days off Facebook and I shirked some other social media responsibilities while I cleared my head a bit and reworked some projects. It’s satisfying to at least challenge the inevitability of those connections once in a while and to get a clearer sense of just what they are contributing to the ongoing work. And it was past time for me to look back through my stack of nearly completed book projects and see which of them still made sense to me, as a step toward deciding if they are likely to make sense to anyone else. […]

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The Shape of Anarchist History

Retracing steps I took in my research 20-25 years ago is a fascinating and frequently rewarding experience, particularly now that I’m working with some figures who are perhaps marginal even to the rather loose, broad account of the anarchist and near-anarchist traditions that I’ve been constructing. Most recently, I’ve been working my way back through the writings of Calvin Blanchard (“Announcer of the Religion of Science, Professor of Religio-Political Physics, Expositor of the Statics and Dynamics of God Almighty, Advocate for the Constitution Manifest in Human Nature, and Head Member of the Society for Abolishing Utopia, and Humbug, and Failure,” etc.), the libertarian Comtean who, perhaps even more than Stephen Pearl Andrews, made a practice of expressing anarchistic ideas in a language far more directly suited to the promotion of regimes of authority. […]

Anarchist Encyclopedia

The Anarchist Encyclopedia — E

EAU EBENISTE ECART ECHAFAUD ECHANGE (Libre) ECHEANCE ECLAIRAGE ECLECTISME ECLECTISME ECLIPSE ECLIPSE ECLIPSER ECOEUREMENT ECOLE ECONOMIE ECRITURE ECRIVAIN EDILE EDUCATION LE BUT DE L’EDUCATION. EDUCATION SEXUELLE 1° Moralités générales. 2° Hygiène individuelle et familiale. 3° […]