Tombeau for L

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Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004

Introductory note by Sunfrog People connected with the ‘zine and mail art communities of the 1980s …

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Take Back the Night

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Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004

Electricity was known to the ancients. Archaeologists found primitive batteries in Crete—probably based on lost Mesopotamian …

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Domestication

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Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004

The hunter/gatherer school of anarcho-anthropology and the anarchist critique of Civilization (e.g., Perlman’s Leviathan) proposed the …

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Pastoral Letter

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Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005

Imagine an alternate dimension where dervishes are roaming around America sects of Swedenborgian hobos, etc. You’re …

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Secular Antinomian Anabaptist Neo-Luddism

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Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006

“By banning the telephone from the home, Old Order Amish…try to maintain the primacy of communication …

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The Alchemy of Luddism

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Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006

for Diane di Prima St. John’s Eve (Midsummer) 2006 1. It’s the idea of code that’s …

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Robert Anton Wilson

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Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007

For all we knew, Robert Anton Wilson and I were related. On an intuitive basis–i.e., after …

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Diane Di Prima’s “Revolutionary Letters”

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Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007

a review of Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007. 160 pages, available …

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Escapism

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Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008

Swear fealty to the dark leprechaunism of revenge Social Camouflage Fabulous Insularity become a lump of …

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An Army of Jacks

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Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008

In fairy tales, humans can possess exterior souls, things magically containing or embodying individual life force–stone, …

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