This week we’ll be discussing Against Method by Paul Feyerabend.  The focus is chapters 1 and 2, with chapter 18 included to provide some extra context and fuel for discussion.

Against Method Ch 1,2,18

Bob Black’s Feminism As Fascism

Feminism as Social Pathology by Ljubisa Malenica

Additionally, Critique of feminisms is an outline Jason has been working on, for those who are interested.

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

Boundlessness: On Playing Out the Game Without a Reason, by Rydra Wrong

https://anarchistnews.org/content/boundlessness-playing-out-game-without-reason-rydra-wrong

Agamben’s The Open: Man and Animal; The whole book is said to be about an hour read, so try to get as far as you can.  Good stuff happens toward the end.  We will discuss the whole book.

The Open Man and Animal by Giorgio Agamben (z-lib.org)

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”

The Revolution of Fungal Life will be the main focus and the other is a supplementary text.

The Revolution of Fungal Life, by Anonymous, from Black Seed Issue 7

The Revolution of Fungal Life on Immediatism Podcast (full text read aloud)

Toward a Radical Mycology (Intro to Radical Mycology book) supplementary text

Radical Mycology, the full book, almost 700 pages pdf

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

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!