General discussion

A brief, yet triumphant report back from the first annual Upstate New York Anarchist Book Fair[1].

Upstate?

It was organized by and held at the PM Press space with help from Riot Act Books. PM Press recently moved their warehouse to Binghamton, New York, which is a Leatherstocking city in the southern tier of what has come to be known as New York, along the lines of the Rust Belt, sitting just outside of the Burned Over District, in the lands of the Onondaga, as the rivers of the Susquehanna and Chenango meet in present day downtown Binghamton.

Has anyone read it?

There's a lot of discourse on Bookchin in general, especially with his general split from anarchism in search of a new school of thought that better addresses the concerns of late stage capitalism, however I feel like Bookchin's early Zionist thought gets overlooked. I feel like it's useful to properly dissect Bookchin's Zionism and reflect how that might have influenced some problematic parts of his work.

This is a thread to discuss:

The Fight for Turtle Island by Aragorn!
edited by and including Aragorn! in conversation with Alex, Anpao Duto Collective, Corinna, Dan, Danielle, Dominique, Gord, Jason/Jaden, Kevy, Klee, Loretta, Lyn, and Ron

read here:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-the-fight-for-turtle-is…

Steal This Wiki and The Library of Unconventional Lives have turned 1 year of age.

There's not much to report I don't think, just that I've enjoyed both archives existing as places I could digitize books that aren't explicitly anarchist, but that still have some value to me. So that I can download them, print them out and link them to people.

I'm excited about the prospect of there potentially being lots more hobby book publishers in the future.

If you could magic a library or online archive into existence, where all the work of tracking down texts from various different libraries and hard-to-find corners of the internet was done for you, what would it look like? And what would it be called?

Also, are there any cool existing libraries that come close to your dream library?

I'll quote a few that I know of below.

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Joseph A. Labadie Collection

If the anarchist library had bookshop cafes all around the world where you could see archivists typing away digitizing old badly scanned books, printing them out, and filling the shelves with newly restored books, what do you think the visitor's guestbook would look like? And what note would you leave? E.g. After a day of reading and sipping sugarcane juice on a balcony looking over the Mekong river.

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Origami_psych

Starting a thread for fellow anarchists in the academy or education more broadly to discuss how they navigate everything as anarchists as well as to provide a potential space for connecting with each other to share ideas and so on.

This panel has as a goal to open a discussion on the potentiality of Cinema, and more broadly, in the collective practice of destruction and chaos.

Only Kaos engenders Kairos in a post bloomitude epoch.

Trauma is a part of political experience for women in the militant milieu.

I think art is a ligne de fuite, capable of opening worlds of resistance againste male macro narratives (Lyotard).

Every form of domination is more acute when it gives itself in the intimacy.

The unsaid of Appellism is called rape.

signed

Introduction

We've finished filling out all the sections of the archive to a good extent now, so now that we're coming up on a year since we went public, it feels like a good time for a round up on all that's happened. This became a lot longer document than originally planned, so most people may prefer to skim-read and skip around.