Anarchist Ephemera

210 Pages·2016·2.36 MB·English

by  Peter Lamborn WIlson

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Anarchist Ephemera
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Domestication
Fifth Estate Summer 2004 Vol. 3 No. 2 (365) (p. 27-30)
Critique of the Listener
Bombay Gin, 1994 (p. 2-3)
Notes on Play Fifth Estate Fall 2008Vol. 43 No. 3 (#379) (p. 11)
An Army of Jacks to Fight the Power
Fifth Estate Summer 2008 Vol. 43 No. 2 (3 78) (p. 16-17)
Letter to Valencia
MOC Fireshrine #3 Bizbee AZ (n.d.)
Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism
OVO 7 Information (October 1989)
Salon Apocalypse/Secret Theater
ova 2 Ouly 1987) and ova 20 (2011)
(e)x-communications version 1.2 (Vol. 1, issue 2) 10/92
Robert Anton Wilson Obituary
Fifth Estate Spring 2007, Vol. 42 No. 1 (p. 41)
The Alchemy of Luddism
Fifth Estate Fall 2006
Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters
Fifth Estate Halloween 2007Vol. 42 No. 2 (376) (p. 47)
Ivan Illich Obituary
Fifth Estate Fall 2004 Vol. 39 No. 3 (366) (p. 27)
Divining Violence for David Joseph Martinez interR eview 08
Intellectual S/M is the Fascism of the Eighties­
The Avant-Garde Eats Shit and Likes It
OVO 10 Mayhem (July 1991)
Resolution for the 1990s: Boycott Cop Culture
BAKCHOS No. 5, Winter Solstice 1991
P.A.Z. : Permanent Autonomous Zones
Fifth Estate Winter 1995, Vol. 29, #2 (345), (p. 32)
A Network of Castles
Fax from Autonomedia 05-12-97
A Hudson Valley Tour
Home Planet News Spring 2005Vol. 13 No. 2 (52) p. 20
Pastoral Letter: a fragment
Fifth Estate Winter 2004,Vol. 39, No. 4 (367) (p. 28-31)
(also in Gothick Institutions, W Lima, Wisc., Xexoxial Editions,
2005.)
Escapism
Fifth Estate Spring/Summer 2005
Somali Pirates
Fifth Estate Summer/Fall 2009Vol. 44 #2 (381) (p. 14-15, 42)
Back to 1911 :Temporal Autonomous Zones
Fifth Estate Spring 2012Vol. 47 No. 1 (p 10-11)
An Esoteric Interpretation of the I.WW Preamble
The International Review (c. 1991)
Cross-Dressing in the Anti-Rent War
Woodstock Journal April 13-27, 2001 (p. 14)
Burnt Over
FANTASTIC! The Limited Edition MASS MOCA Exhibition
Catalog 2003
Caliban's Masque: Spiritual Anarchy and
the Wild Man in Colonial America
Alternative Press Review Winter 1995
Preface
Pure Critique
Domestication
Critique of the Listener 6
Notes on Play 10
An Army of Jacks to Fight the Power 13
Letter to Valencia 19
Aesthetics/Poetic Terrorism
Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism 27
Salon Apocalypse/Secret Theater 30
Robert Anton Wilson Obituary 33
The Alchemy of Luddism 38
Diane de Prima 46
Ivan Illich Obituary 49
Presentation at Critical Strategies
in Art and Media Conference 50
Divining Violence 59
Intellectual S/M is the Fascism of the Eighties 70
Resolution for the 1990s:Boycott Cop Culture 75
Proposals/PAZ
P.A.Z. 83
A Network of Castles 91
Hudson Valley Tour 98
Pastoral Letter 100
Escapism 115
Somali Pirates 124
Back to 1911 132
History
An Esoteric Interpretation of
the l.W.W. Preamble 141
Cross Dressing in the Anti-Rent War 148
Burnt Over 155
Caliban's Masque 164

A Preface
This collection of fugitive and ephemeral pieces from
the last twenty three years or so (ca. 1990 to 2013) needs
to be framed by a preface in which I can disagree with
myself.
Over the years I've changed my mind, or at least
modified my position, on two major themes: technology
and Islam.
In the 90s and even into the XXIst century, I feel
I was inclined to take an insufficiently negative view of
Information Technology and other marvels of the Future
we now inhabit. Gradually I've become more and more
Luddite-by which I mean a would-be machine-smasher.
"Social media" have achieved the exact opposite of
that which the term implies: they've put an end to the
Social. This implosion is not to be confused with any
so-called End of History. Unfortunately History goes on
even after the end of a world. This "survival" constitutes
the actual slow catastrophe we now experience: life in
the air-conditioned ruins of Civilization. That civilization
might arouse a twinge of nostalgia even in the most
hardened Neo-Primitivist or Green Anarchist, if only
in comparison with what has come to replace it. To