General discussion
A general discussion of texts from The Anarchist Library.
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?
bolo’bolo
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Elitist, gated communities. Not anarchist. Discuss.
Read the text on The Anarchist Library here. (Link added by SHH!)
Libraries & Museums
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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.
Explain Deleuze to Me
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Explain Deleuze to me and why it's relevant to anarchists.
Beginning with all the references made by anarchists found in this search result:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/search?query=deleuze&sort=&filter_topic…
and then maybe going into the 3 text by him that are on the library:
Flowers for the Individualist: Why Arguing with Egoists is Pointless by Kevin Tucker
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"Flowers for the Individualist: Why Arguing with Egoists is Pointless" by Kevin Tucker | published February 9th, 2017 on the Kevin Tucker blog | Read text on the library here.
a friendly reminder about the quality of comments
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I had originally left this as a comment in the Ted K forum post, but have added it here after checking into the website today and seeing a rash of just terrible comments and forum posts.
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Ted K
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Before people were complaining about Foucault, before people were complaining about Black Seed 6 (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-black-seed-issu…), before people were complaining about ITS (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/individualists-tending-toward-t…), before people were complaining about all the things that people were complaining about that I missed, people
What's the logic behind the Library name?
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Just wondering why the name The Anarchist Library was chosen? I feel like there was a missed opportunity to name it something fun or creative or unique
What about that Foucault?
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Wondering what the best arguments are for including Foucault, and for not including Foucault.
Has that been the biggest fight about who people think should be included?