An ar chsit Anarchist Ephemera This Work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial 3.0 Unported Liscense. https://creativecommons.org Ardent Press, 2016 ardentpress.com Published by Aragorn Moser Layout by Leona Benton Printed at "The Compound" 1818 Carleton St. Berkeley, CA 94703-1908 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
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