General discussion

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.

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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.

From Anarchistická knihovna

announcement machine translated from Czech to English, originally published in Czech here: https://anarchistickaknihovna.org/special/o-projektu

I am wondering if The Anarchist Library has mirrors or at least mirror system. Mirroring would be very useful for number of reasons including having library accessible after main site would get shut down for some reason i.e hacker attack. It would also help with decentralization and it would offload main servers.

Hiii, I really appreciate what y'all do and I noticed in some of the texts that I've uploaded the formatting has changed from using br tags to newlines. These sorts of minor but repetitive changes made me wonder if there is anything else I can do to submit cleaner texts and reduce editing?

Hi, is this the right place for constructive critiques for a draft I'm working on?