Author Archives: aragorn

What has changed. What has stayed the same.

By aragorn | Published: February 3, 2012

Let me start with public matter that I should have attended to earlier. My big projects, the ones I was so cagey about all fall, have been announced. These include… The formation of a new publishing project LBC Books The announcement of three new books to be published by this new project (with 2 more [...]

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The Four That Should Not Be One

By aragorn | Published: December 29, 2011

After my trip to Europe I came back to a couple of different existential challenges. This was put succinctly during a conversation with T in Greece who responded to my question “What was your biggest criticism of American Anarchists?” by saying simply “You all act like you are in High School” and as unfair as [...]

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and then a few months pass

By aragorn | Published: November 25, 2011

I would like to be updating this blog at least once a month (but preferably 2-4 times) but I haven’t for the past few. This is largely because I am about to announce the largest project I (by which I mean we since there are several other stakeholders) have ever undertaken and I would prefer [...]

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We had a debate and the results were unfulfilling

By aragorn | Published: September 26, 2011

Last night my friends from Applied Nonexistence and The Oakland Commune threw a little debate at the Long Haul. I felt implicated. I participated in the debate on the side of Political Demands, both as a personal test and so that I have my story straight if the syndicalist round ups ever begin. Once I [...]

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But What About the Vegans!?

By aragorn | Published: September 24, 2011

Consider this post my farewell to veganism. I am writing it so that there is a single place to put down my ideas about the change and, I hope, the last place I’ll have to talk about this again. At the end of the day my change from being vegan has as much to do [...]

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The Hammer – September 2011

By aragorn | Published: September 5, 2011

The Hammer – brief monthly reviews of the anarchist press Even though publishing in the anarchist space was down a little this month (it being the end of the summer and all) we (LBC) attended the Seattle bookfair, which means this Hammer will be heavy on PNW (Pacific North West) publications. This is exciting, of [...]

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The problems of opinions & wealth

By aragorn | Published: September 1, 2011

I want to wrap up my out loud thinking about my time in Europe (I’ve been back for three weeks but it doesn’t feel like it since I am now traveling so much) with some conclusions but first some thoughts about other problems that feel specifically American but perhaps are more general. US radicals are [...]

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The Hammer #1

By aragorn | Published: August 3, 2011

Brief monthly reviews of the anarchist press For some time I have been lamenting the loss of the review, a format that is a great way to learn about projects, periodicals, and books that might interest a person. But it has largely died. The closest thing we had to an “anarchist review” was the brilliant [...]

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The problem of moralism

By aragorn | Published: July 28, 2011

I’m thinking a lot about what we (in the US) get absolutely wrong in (anti)politics as I am traveling in Europe. My last piece was about sociability and the structural difficulties in working with other people in the US context of no commons, people passing through, and the near requirement to full time work for [...]

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The problem of sociability

By aragorn | Published: July 15, 2011

I have been traveling Europe for the past few months and have another month left before I head back to the States (and the large pile of collapsing projects that await me). Radicals in the US often have a great deal of envy regarding the social movements and general scale and quality of the actions [...]

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Solidarity means marching in the rain

By aragorn | Published: June 24, 2011

for a stranger, with strangers, in a strange town, and with a cop named Hans I am traveling around Europe this summer which means breaking out of routinues, judgements, and pre-conceived notions about people & their practices. This is a refreshing break for me and I hope this fuels my next set of projects and [...]

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Trip update II

By aragorn | Published: June 16, 2011

The trip so far has been spectacular. I have made f2f connections with many of the people that I would have hoped to and have had wonderful experiences in both Greece & the Netherlands. I am going to try to avoid making synthetic arguments at this point since I am not quite 1/2 way through [...]

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A story of a Greek Assembly

By aragorn | Published: May 20, 2011

Ever since I saw the Void Network give their presentation on the “Greek situation” I have wanted to seriously think, and put into practice, my understanding of what they meant by “an assembly”. Since I am in Greece now (updates of my Amsterdam trip will have to come later as I don’t want to lose [...]

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The Accused of Tarnac & the Anarchist Turn

By aragorn | Published: May 15, 2011

I’ll stop being in “report back” mode since there isn’t really a way to report back events where nothing really happened… except in my mind! I’ll instead ramble along as I usually do trying to recreate those features of the events of April 30th to May 5th that interested me. I raced across the country [...]

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A quick jaunt around the US – Part II

By aragorn | Published: May 9, 2011

I am going to try to catch up with my writing because I am now sitting in a squat in Amsterdam and am anxious to talk about my intense & awesome day today but first things first… I love to drive. I can handle 500 miles before lunch and absolutely love the headspace that I [...]

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A quick jaunt around the US – Part I

By aragorn | Published: May 7, 2011

I am going to try to give a reportback on my recent trip around the US. My goal is to give the reader a taste of each town rather than of my presentation or the lessons I learned regarding my own projects. I’ll leave those for another time when the reader can safely ignore them. [...]

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Never apologize

By aragorn | Published: May 1, 2011

There will probably be a time in the future where apologizing makes sense again. Where you can honestly say you were sorry for some transgression or when one will be able to articulate an honest position that looks like an apology, but that is not today. Today is the time of frowny clown emo bullshit [...]

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On the seventh day of anarchy…

By aragorn | Published: April 11, 2011

The bulk of the socializing, selling, talking, and this-and-that is over. All that is left is a dinner and the last Anarchist Study Group. Before we finish up I’ll share with you some of my impressions of the past 7+ days and give some shout outs to people & projects I am happy about. Obviously [...]

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Now that I’m gone here is where I am

By aragorn | Published: March 12, 2011

I am typing this slowly. Perhaps that says most of what needs to be said. I am ok. My right hand is working but just takes a little more attention. A little more time. My head is clear and hesitant. This week I suffered my second cerebral aneurysm. It happened while I was sleeping (I [...]

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Free(r)

By aragorn | Published: March 6, 2011

Ending are anti-climactic. You know that, I do too. After working for three years in the cubes I am now free and barely know what to do with myself. I feel like someone recovering from Stockholm Syndrome. I have at least 12 months to do… something else. I have a fairly good idea about what [...]

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