General discussion

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ezra-buckley-she-is-the-void-sh…

I was on board with this being a perfect anarchist text until I watched this: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=woDllcnCbTw and it occurred to me that this essay was quite a lot like Europeans mistaking differences in structure as zeroes.

https://anarchistnews.org/content/call-out-nowhere

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/topic/black-seed

Thoughts on the project? Thoughts on the library editions of the journals? Thoughts on its relationship with Green Anarchy magazine, the 2010s and the milieu at large?

Text: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-antinatalism-as-revol…

This text seeks to syntheses anarcho-communism with the philosophy of anti-natalism. You know the text is anarchist, because they state:

Text on the library: "There’s A Problem with Anarchist Media"

by Nerd Teacher (2022, August)

***

Here are some initial thoughts after reading through the essay linked above "There's A Problem with Anarchist Media" by Nerd Teacher.

The main premise of the article seems to be that:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fernando-pessoa-anarchist-banke…

After a long relatable anecdote, and after some faulty logic, it concludes:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-lamborn-wilson-liquor-and-weed-for-him-were-bardic-fuel-peter-lamborn-wilson-s-obituary-f

alas, both now gone. Illuminatus! was a hearty ward against taking any "conspiracy theory" seriously. in looking for more RAW at the bookshop, i found PLW so here's to synchronicity & serendipity! 

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/le-garcon-dupont-cul-de-sac#fn_back11

(from 2009.)

it starts with something — 

— because, you see, they knew that their words and their knowledge, if spoken out loud, would be put on show, to be derided, and worse: to be misunderstood.

but didn't go where i thought it might. leans on Marx a bit, is Le Garcon Dupont even an anarchist ?? 

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/saidiya-hartman-the-anarchy-of-colored-girls-assembled-in-a-riotous-manner-essay

who has read this or Hartman's book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments?  what do people think about this framing? do people have to explicitly call themselves anarchist to be considered anarchic? 

Elitist, gated communities. Not anarchist. Discuss.

Read the text on The Anarchist Library here. (Link added by SHH!)

Are not libraries and museums stores of "knowledge" and "truth"?—reification; an attempt to control and perpetuate specific narratives.

This "anarchist library" is just a collection of stories some people are telling each other.