Reading for 4/20

Against the Gendered Nightmare, sections 1-11.  In other words, up to the second mythos.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/baedan-against-the-gendered-nightmare

403 Against the Gendered Nightmare 1: Baedan 2 A Queer Journal of Heresy

404 Against the Gendered Nightmare 2: Fragments on Domestication

405 Against the Gendered Nightmare 3: Fragments on Domestication

406 Against the Gendered Nightmare 4: Fragments on Domestication

407 Against the Gendered Nightmare 5: Fragments on Domestication

Reading for 3/23

Clarifying the Unique & Its Self-Creation: An Introduction to Stirner’s Critics, by Jason McQuinn

ClarifyingtheUniqueandItsSelf-Creation-ModernSlavery

Clarifying the Unique audio part 1 on Immediatism

Clarifying the Unique audio part 2 on Immediatism

For anybody who’s interested in reading a more contemporary critique of Stirner, here is a pamphlet against Stirner and individualism written by some anarchists recently. might be a nice addendum to this week’s piece:

Entanglement: On Anarchism and Individualism

Another potential supplement for this week’s reading, this one much shorter and with a far better grasp of Stirner than the pamphlet above. Check it out if you’ve already read the intro to Critics and are looking for something to ponder before tonight’s conversation.

Ricardo Baldissone – “Not for Understanding but for Cutting: Breaking out of the Western Conceptual Straitjacket with Stirner”

Reading for 3/8

This whole first part of Fragment of A Voyage to New Orleans (1855), by Elisee Reclus, which is under the title Fragment of a Voyage to Louisiana on TheAnarchistLibrary.org.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elisee-reclus-fragment-of-a-voyage-to-louisiana

The first part is a text called Putting Freedom on the Map: The Life and Work of Elisee Reclus, by John Clark, and is optional.

3/7 Update: Alternatively, the translator has sent us a longer revised version of the full text

#VOYAGE REVISED EDITION PDF

 

Reading for 3/1

Hello all, sorry for yet another late post! This week, we’ve got three pieces to choose from. Bellamy’s piece is kind of long, but as always, feel free to read them all, a select few, or even none at all — whatever suits your needs and desires. The selections are:

Seaweed – “Permanent Subsistence Zones”

Bellamy Fitzpatrick – “An Invitation to Desertion”

Rob Los Ricos – “Traveling Autonomous Zone”

Thanks for putting up with my posting ineptitude. See you all on Tuesday!

Reading for 2/23

This coming Tuesday, we’ll try a bit of a medium change and look at a graphic novel: Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles. Since we’re used to calibrating our reading lengths based upon pure text, I’m not sure how many pages are too many for everyone’s taste when reading visual works like this. As such, you’ll find chapters 1 and 2 behind the jump. If that proves to be too much for your taste or than you have time for, feel free to read less. We’ll see what kind of a discussion they inspire and perhaps we’ll finish this series in the future!