Before I had seriously begun my 2006 archiving push, John Zube mentioned the work of a French archivist, Vincent Dubuc, who had taken on a large-scale digitizing project. It was one of the encouragements to set a target and begin a regular scanning routine. Thanks to the attention that the Liberty archive has been getting (new thank-you‘s to Ken MacLeod and the Anarchism Community on LiveJournal for recent traffic), Vincent got in touch. His site, La Presse Anarchiste, is well worth some browsing time. Regular readers may be particularly interested in E. Armand’s papers, L’Ère nouvelle and L’Unique, but there is plenty to read through. He has also apparently compiled a CD-ROM collection of L’Autonomie Individuelle (1887-1888), a french individualist anarchist paper, due for release this fall. I’ll keep you posted.
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Half a hundred Libertys
I stole a couple of hours today to work on the pdf archive of Liberty. No indexes, bells, or whistles yet, but the first fifty issues are now there for your enjoyment and edification.
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The Impact of the Cost Principle (and Archive Upgrades, VII)
It’s been sort of a hard week to stay on task, with constant new developments in the Occupy movement and multiple live streams to follow. I’ve also been approached, out of the blue, to collaborate on a Charles Fourier translation that sounds like enough fun to shuffle some things to make room for it in my workflow. As it happens, more of a focus on Fourier will undoubtedly help with projects like Dejacque’s Humanisphere and Proudhon’s Creation of Order, so I’m grateful for the distraction. And work on the archive is still moving right along. I’m at about 525 COinS-equipped […]
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Our ideas are in everyone’s archives
From the Support from Unexpected Quarters Department: I’m a big fan of Archive.org’s moving pictures collection, but hadn’t spent a lot of time looking at their texts. There are some gems tucked away there, including: John Henry Mackay, The Anarchists; a Picture of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century Sadakichi Hartmann, My Rubaiyat Both of these are, amusingly enough, sponsored by MSN. Other finds: Anna Bowman Dodd, The Republic of the Future, or, Socialism a Reality (1888) Laurence Gronlund, Our Destiny : the influence of socialism on morals and religion : an essay in ethics (1891) Jack London, […]