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hors du troupeau — relays & reconstructions

November 12, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

The song remains the same — more or less. All of the various tracks that will make up relays & reconstructions are instances of a single composition assembled in Wotja, the generative music software I’ve been using on most of the hors du troupeau tracks. But because the software introduces gradual and partially random development into the composition as it unfolds, the sameness is relative — particularly as that development is allowed to continue. So, in order to explore the extent and character of that development it has made sense to allow the development to continue hour after hour, but also to record multiple instances of a “single” composition at similar lengths, both as audio files and as midi files. […]

Along a Narrow Way — An E. Armand Calendar for 2022

October 29, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

I wanted—as a first step toward getting a more comprehensive selection of Armand’s writings into print—to draw together a selection of short, direct articles and poems that presented the tone of his egoist anarchist individualism, along with some of the key preoccupations and recurring tropes from his writings. […]

E. Armand — misc. translations

October 22, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

To restrain the passions! To narrow the horizon of the enjoyment of living? Christianity has attempted it and failed. Socialism will try to reduce humanity to a similar denominator of necessities and it will fail. Fourier saw clearly when he coined this masterful expression: “the use of passions.” […]

Why I Am an Anarchist (Four Statements, 1885-1951)

October 22, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

I am an anarchist because I think with despair of all the poor kids who, every year, enter the great stupefying machine, who will never know the intoxication of a free and fraternal life, who will always tremble with the fear of ghosts. […]

A New Glossary

October 20, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

This new page will, for the time being, merge material from “A Contr’un Glossary” with new summaries prepared for use in “Constructing Anarchisms.” Anarchism — Anarchism (Schematic) A Schematic Anarchism Anarchism = (((an + arche)ist)ism) […]

Glossary: A Schematic Anarchism

October 19, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Becoming an anarchist” involves a constantly renewed commitment to two ongoing practices: embracing anarchy and constructing anarchisms. […]

hors du troupeau — audio experiments

October 17, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

After a silence of nearly twenty years, it’s a pleasure to relaunch Libertatia Laboratories. The new project, hors du troupeau, undoubtedly scores low on the quirkiness scale, next to old friend like Guinea-Pig Fleet and Elephant after Elephant. […]

Constructing Anarchisms: Anarchy as Criterion

October 14, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Constructing Anarchisms Collected drafts Part III—Drafts II—Margins and Problems I—Constructing an Anarchism ❦ ❦ ❦ Having fun? Donations help to expand and sustain the archive. Let’s start with a story: A human individual encounters anarchy […]

Sylvain Maréchal, “Cult and Laws of a Society of Men without God” (1797)

October 11, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

CULTE ET LOIS D’UNE SOCIETE D’HOMMES SANS DIEU. L’an Ier de la Raison. VI de la République Française. EXTRAIT Du Discours prononcé par le Président du Conseil des Cinq-Cents, sur la fête du premier Vendémiaire, […]

Notes on the Development of Proudhon’s Thought

October 4, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: These notes will obviously be of most use to those who have followed previous discussions of the individual texts, but it represents what seems to be a fairly promising attempt to deal with […]

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