FE Author: Peter Lamborn Wilson

“…all poets are outlaws.” –Stephane Mallarmé, The Evolution of Literature (1891) Art historians, literary historians and theorists seldom bother to learn anything about their subjects outside their own little bailiwicks, especially when it comes to anarchism.

Play sets up temporary arbitrary rules for itself to test the very boundlessness of its freedom. If not for the emergence of the State, we would by now have a science based on the principle of play rather than terror.

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

Sabotage Captain Nemo the SciFi Stirnerite lurks beneath our waves of text like a semantic barracuda. If God won’t be dead till we kill grammar

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

a review of James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Yale University Press, 2009, cloth, 442 pp., $35

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

It’s often said that we anarchists “believe humans are basically good” (as did the Chinese sage Mencius). Some of us, however, doubt the notion of inherent goodness and reject the power of other people over us precisely because we don’t …

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Reversion to 1911 would constitute a perfect first step for a 21st century neo-Luddite movement. Living in 1911 means using technology and culture only up to that point and no further, or as little as possible.

“…a little Neanderthal DHA, between one to four percent, exists in (some) people today…The Neanderthals are not dead; some of them live on in us.”