General discussion
A general discussion of texts from The Anarchist Library.
About the Library
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I'm writing an essay for uni about archival practices and using T@L as an example, to be compared against critiques of the Library and Archives Canada offered in Karina Vernon's "Invisibility Exhibit," so I have a couple of questions about the library as an archive and would greatly appreciate the information.
I will be posing a question, insight, commentary on an ideally article every day.
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She is the Void, she is the All, she is by Ezra Buckley
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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.
The Return of Black Seed
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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?
Anti-natalism as codswallop
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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:
There’s A Problem with Anarchist Media
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Text on the library: "There’s A Problem with Anarchist Media"
by Nerd Teacher (2022, August)
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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:
The Anarchist Banker
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fernando-pessoa-anarchist-banke…
After a long relatable anecdote, and after some faulty logic, it concludes:
PLW's obit for RAW
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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!
Cul de Sac
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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 ??
Saidiya Hartman
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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?