Mallarmé: Anarchist

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Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!

“…all poets are outlaws.” –Stephane Mallarmé, The Evolution of Literature (1891) Art historians, literary historians and …

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Notes on Play

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Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008

Play sets up temporary arbitrary rules for itself to test the very boundlessness of its freedom. …

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Partly Genius, Partly Quite Mad

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Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009

a review of Cyclonopedia: Complicity with anonymous materials, by Reza Negarestani. re.press, 2008

Seven Subversive instasonnets

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Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009

Sabotage Captain Nemo the SciFi Stirnerite lurks beneath our waves of text like a semantic barracuda. …

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Somali Pirates

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Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009

“The past is not only not dead, it’s not even past.” — W. Faulkner

The Art of Not Being Governed

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Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010

a review of James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of …

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Escapism

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Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

“Is the enemy strong? One avoids him.” — Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, People’s War, People’s Army

“Anarchist religion?”

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Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010

It’s often said that we anarchists “believe humans are basically good” (as did the Chinese sage …

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Back to 1911

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Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012

Reversion to 1911 would constitute a perfect first step for a 21st century neo-Luddite movement. Living …

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Neanderthal Liberation Front

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Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013

“…a little Neanderthal DHA, between one to four percent, exists in (some) people today…The Neanderthals are …

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