Recently, the anonymously written pamphlet Desert was reviewed by (the) two egoist newspapers: Cresencia Desafio (CD) in The Sovereign Self‘s sixth issue and by Apio Ludd (AL) in the very first issue of My Own. Both reviews are strikingly similar, each deploying their Stirner-inspired critique of both Hope and The Future against Desert. However, they […]
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Note from author: This review was orphaned from another anarchist magazine. I had sent Dr. Ealham a draft to give him a chance to respond to the criticisms I made and rectify any misrepresentations. Rather than responding in a spirit of criticism, he took grave offense to my notation of his academic connections and the
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We could create change and resist the destruction that they wrought on the world. I felt joy and hope in all the possibilities we could continue to create, rebelling against their hallowed message that we should give up and give in. I had to climb the hillside to see what was on the other side.
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Böll, Orwell, Bolaño: In Defense Of Art This is a century in which democracy regularly presided over the birth of fascist regimes and civilization constantly rhymed – to the tune of Wagner or Iron Maiden – with extermination. -The Invisible Committee Only in chaos are we conceivable. -Roberto Bolaño Introduction: Art and Auschwitz In
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“Voice 1: Howls for Sade, a film by Guy-Ernest Debord. Voice 2: Howls for Sade is dedicated to Gil J Wolman.” – opening of Debord’s Howls for Sade 1 (On a street corner, then running down the street) Old Alciphron: Sorry I’m late. I’m always late to these things! Young Alciphron: Don’t worry, older one. I’m
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With all the intelligent things she might have said, it is unfortunate that Audre Lorde is most widely passed around in the form of that execrable quote about the impossibility of using the master’s tools to destroy the master’s house. This allegation is false both in the imagined realm of the metaphor and on the
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Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet Derrick Jensen is at it again with his new book, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet (2011), except this time with two co-authors taking the lead. The first is Lierre Keith, author of the book, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (2009). The second,
a continuation of “Kafka Reloaded” I used to live alone before I knew you There are a number of babies in this park, all of them accompanied by an adult. Little Worm is the only one in a baby sling, pressed tight against my chest. All the others are being pushed around in strollers, alternately
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I engage in a pastime that’s both time-honored and yet somewhat of a relic in the punk world: tabling shows. I pack my panniers full of radical books and zines and bike them across town, setting them up on borrowed card tables in generally smoky venues, and more often than not lug nearly all of
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“There were always men who practiced this philosophy. For it seems to be in some ways a universal philosophy, and the most natural.” – Julian the Apostate 1 Some months ago, I discovered a series of books on ancient philosophies produced by the University of California Press, with lovely details of Baroque paintings reproduced on