Constructing anarchisms

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Constructing Anarchisms: Introductory Notes

December 10, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Anarchy: Into the Maelstrom [audio] Positive Anarchy and Collective Force [audio] Anarchy: Lawless and Unprincipled [audio] Anarchy, Harmony and the Maelstrom of Desire [audio] Anarchy: Action in the Face of Uncertainty [audio] From last week: Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Related reading: Alfredo M. Bonnano, “The Anarchist Tension” (1996) Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea General: A neo-Proudhonian Synthesis: A Tour of the Lost Continent: Constructing Anarchisms: This is the […]
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Thoughts on Constructing Anarchisms

December 1, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Anarchy: Into the Maelstrom [audio] Positive Anarchy and Collective Force [audio] Anarchy: Lawless and Unprincipled [audio] Anarchy, Harmony and the Maelstrom of Desire [audio] Anarchy: Action in the Face of Uncertainty [audio] From last week: Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Related reading: Alfredo M. Bonnano, “The Anarchist Tension” (1996) Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea General: A neo-Proudhonian Synthesis: A Tour of the Lost Continent: Constructing Anarchisms: Constructing Anarchisms 1.—Making […]
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Constructing Anarchisms—Philosophy

November 21, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested reading: Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) Related readings: Constructing Anarchisms [project page] William Batchelder Greene, “The Blazing Star” (1871) Alfredo M. Bonnano, “The Anarchist Tension” (1996) “Theories of Anarchist Development” (2018) “Anarchy as a Beacon and as a Focus for Synthesis” (2018) General: A neo-Proudhonian Synthesis: A Tour of the Lost Continent: Constructing Anarchisms: Constructing Anarchisms: What It Is & What It Is Not Survey courses are peculiar things, particularly when they address subjects of more than just passing interest. The construction of a survey always seems to involve at least some claim regarding the exemplary […]
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Constructing Anarchisms—Participation

November 18, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms General: A neo-Proudhonian Synthesis: A Tour of the Lost Continent: Constructing Anarchisms: Constructing Anarchisms: How to Participate In announcing Constructing Anarchisms as a yearlong workshop, rather than simply as the focus of my activity for the coming year, I wanted to commit myself to a very general sort of availability for a fairly specific kind of educational activity. At the same time, I wanted to encourage others to encourage others to commit to a similar sort of sustained engagement with both the fundamentals anarchist theory and the kind of anarchist history that is the raison d’être […]
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Workshop: Constructing Anarchisms

November 18, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
I’ve been contemplating hosting some sort of introductory course on anarchist history and theory for a long time now—and have put it off for a variety of reasons, not least of which is my own feelings of unpreparedness. It is no small thing to try to talk about the basics among anarchists, who often have very strong feelings about what they are not, even if they are not all that clear about what they are—or have strong feelings that perhaps that’s just not the sort of thing that real anarchists talk about. I posted “An Anarchist Survey” in 2018, in […]