Working Translations
Renzo Novatore, “Je… / I…”
Je… Je fus toujours celui que je fus, et je serai celui que je pourrai être ; car deux sujets relatifs seuls sont vrais: le soleil ne pourrait être la lune, mais si par hypothèse […]
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Featured articles
Anarchist History: Margins and Problems
The best and the worst thing about anarchist history—or the anarchist past, fodder for various anarchist histories—is probably just the fact that there is so much of it. It’s no simple thing just to establish a general sense of the progression of events in time. So the first thing we’ll try to accomplish in this part of the course is to just make our way, decade by decade, from the 1830s to the 1930s, noting the general state of anarchist ideas and movements, together with some of the contexts that seem most useful for understanding the work of anarchists in each period. […]
Working Translations
Aurèle Patorni, “L’Androgyne / The Androgyne” (1920)
L’АNDRОGУNЕ Моn torse est d’une femme et mes bras et ma croupe Мais j’ai des muscles d’homme et, dans mon large flanc, Je cache un sexe male émergeant de la coupe Ой souvent je confonds […]
French texts
E. Armand, “Réflexions sur la situation de l’anarchisme actuel” (1931)
E. Armand [main page] Bibliography: E. Armand, “Réflexions sur la situation de l’anarchisme actuel,” La Voix libertaire 4 no. 118 (30 Mai 1931): 2. E. Armand, “Réflexions sur la situation de l’anarchisme actuel,” La Voix […]
periodicals
Les Réfractaires (1912-1914)
Les Réfractaires (1912-1914) les Réfractaires, bi-mensuel en formation les Réfractaires no. 1 (29 décembre 1912): José Ingenieros, “Pour faire réfléchir” — 1 E. Armand, “Prélude” — 1-2. Han Ryner [selection] — 2 [“Le lâche — […]
poetry
E. Armand, “Le dernier nuage / The Last Cloud” (1929)
The sun is no longer visible, but there is still a brightness in the atmosphere. All the clouds melt into the indistinct sky, only broken here and there by a few luminous points. A small cloud, very high on the horizon, still remains colored by the multiple lights of the setting sun. […]
Working Translations
E. Armand, “Points de repère” (1926-1937)
POINTS DE REPÈRE Mon ami Tu te dis mon ami et sous prétexte qu’un ami doit la vérité à son ami, tu fais le censeur et le sermonneur. Comme si le maitre d’école de ma […]
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Constructing an Anarchism: « My Anarchism »
It was sort of a wild idea: to propose a year-long course on anarchist ideas, on short notice, for an audience of whoever shows up, and to start off with the elaboration, largely on the fly, of an idiosyncratic anarchist synthesis, drawing on a wide variety of source material. But here we are, finishing up that first and probably most difficult phase of things. […]
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Constructing an Anarchism: Encounter and Entente
I’m going to tackle two concepts together this week. As an experimental space assembled quickly and redecorated on the fly, “Constructing an Anarchism” has served me pretty well. But it was a space designed for more activity, more encounters with other participants, than it has actually seen—and I would be lying if I said it hasn’t felt just a bit cavernous when I give myself time to think about it. So I want to get the last two components of my anarchism on the table and then perhaps move fairly quickly into the summary. […]
Working Translations
E. Armand, “Parmi ce qui se publie” (1923-1939)
André LORULOT : Chez les Loups, mœurs anarchistes. Editions de l’Idée Libre, 6 fr. Chez Les Loups est le premier livre que j’ai lu à ma sortie de la Maison Centrale de Nîmes et malgré […]