Author Archives: aragorn

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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The fog may lift

By aragorn | Published: January 28, 2011

I am looking forward to Spring. Many projects are coming to fruition and I am finally reclaiming some of my time. My burnout is officially over and what cured it was the humans. Here is what is coming up We are finally working on a new book “Enemies of Society” and the second edition of [...]

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Do what you will

By aragorn | Published: December 26, 2010

I wish I had something more inspiring to say than I did 6 weeks ago. I don’t. I am still burned out. I have succeeded at a couple small projects but they were maintenance (upgraded an out of data Drupal to Drupal 6) and not on the big list of major things that Need To [...]

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Life while burned out

By aragorn | Published: November 13, 2010

I still have 1000 ideas running through my mind but absolutely no energy to act on any of them. I have enough energy to exercise, get through my work day… and that’s about it. I am burned out. I am sick of this routine but have still not completed my tasks (even though they are [...]

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Anvil + foot == Ouch!

By aragorn | Published: October 18, 2010

I haven’t updated in a while as I’ve been busy being unmotivated… and getting out the first issue of The Anvil! This link get’s you a free (but for the postage) copy of the paper. This link is to the editorial of the first issue. Here is a quote from the editorial that I’d like [...]

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Pieces of a Roast – Part III

By aragorn | Published: September 7, 2010

Finally a third one from a friend in OR ARAGORN! – Avatar of Clarity As the crisis of industrial civilization intensifies and the Biosphere becomes ever more fragmented, it’s clearer and clearer that those resisting the death march of Empire could use some truly radical analysis. Personally, we feel the world could use more explicitly [...]

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pieces of a roast – Part II

By aragorn | Published: September 4, 2010

Here is a second roast contributed by John Zerzan from Eugene Oregon Aragorn! Subversive Trickster or Postmodern Confusionist? Who is this larger (much larger) than life figure? How should we appreciate and applaud his bizarre term of confounding us? He who laughs at such pedestrian notions as commonly accepted definitions, historical fact, and consistent vision––what [...]

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Pieces of a roast – Part I

By aragorn | Published: September 4, 2010

With all the writing I’ve been doing about Letters of Insurgents the past few months I haven’t shared what is sharable about the roast that happened for my 40th birthday. I will start with an entry from my friend Artnoose. She is about to start work on a major tattoo for me so I will [...]

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The Great Lesson X – Humility and endings

By aragorn | Published: August 28, 2010

Most of my associates have not been following this project over the summer. I have been excited about taking on the intensity of writing (and reading) every week but have done it largely alone. The web site hasn’t been that active. Comments on my blog have been nearly non-existent. Even the weekly study group at [...]

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The Great Lesson IX – I know Daman, Ted & Alec

By aragorn | Published: August 17, 2010

This chapter featured a few strong minor characters. Three archetypal characters dominate letter 9 and as archetypes I have known, or been, each of them. Here are a few of our stories. Daman – The perfect student-teacher turned ideological director. He apparently decided that the only meaningful human activity was the total destruction of the [...]

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The Great Lesson VIII – I’m going crazy

By aragorn | Published: August 10, 2010

This time around I am not going to start with the first part of my notes (which I do chronologically) and end with the final notes but reverse my order. As a result of going A->Z I’ve probably given a lot more attention to Yarostan’s letters rather than Sophia’s. Around the time I was learning [...]

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The Great Lesson VII – Criticism of letter 7

By aragorn | Published: August 3, 2010

I find the back and forth about who really loved who or who loved an apparition instead of the person tiresome. The flatness of Perlman’s character development is apparent here and I don’t love Letters of Insurgents because the characters are plausible. I love Letters of Insurgents because of the way that the ideas are [...]

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The Great Lesson – VI

By aragorn | Published: July 27, 2010

A review is in order. I read Letters of Insurgents as a great work on how to do criticism: a humane story about two sharp people cutting each other to size in appropriate, if harsh and perhaps mean-at-times, ways. This criticism ranges far beyond the tome of Letters of Insurgents or the dynamics between two [...]

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Letter of Insurgents: The Great Lesson V

By aragorn | Published: July 18, 2010

This is the first chapter of the book that I have re-read in the book itself. Times have changed for me and now I spend 80% of my waking hours in front of a screen and so it is just more convenient for me to read the wonderful version of the text that we put [...]

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The Great Lesson – Part IV

By aragorn | Published: July 11, 2010

Loss and authenticity We are past the intensely critical part of the novel and are now moving onto the great descriptive portion. Letter four is about a carton factory, a university occupation and all of the characters in Yarostan & Sophia’s life. It is about the specific nature of peoples behavior and how the consequences [...]

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Letter of Insurgents: The Great Lesson III

By aragorn | Published: July 1, 2010

I am writing about this book again after years of absence, because of how formative the book was in my thinking about criticism (and specifically criticism as a form of communication and engagement with written material). The relationships in this story are still the model I use when considering what I mean and what I [...]

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Letters of Insurgents: The Great Lesson II

By aragorn | Published: June 21, 2010

This week’s submission is going to be a little short. I think I need to pace myself (I still have eight weeks after this one) but there are so many themes from this week’s reading that I’must dig into, including a rich quote from Sophia about memory exercises, the concept that political people have “the [...]

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Letters of Insurgents 1: The Great Lesson

By aragorn | Published: June 12, 2010

I want to preface this by stating that I am going to speak to Letters of Insurgents with a combination of personal journal and exposition as this is both a book that is very personal to me and deserves some analysis beyond the personal. Anyone who knows me knows that I am a very angry [...]

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Another Surgery For a Battered Soul

By aragorn | Published: May 16, 2010

Just about exactly 20 years after a “Skinhead brawl” put my roommate into a grave and me into “stable condition with stab wounds on his left side” I might be seeing the end of the second chapter of the complications the incident on my life. While on the one hand it is easy, and true, [...]

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End of the chapter where a couple things happened of no consequence

By aragorn | Published: May 1, 2010

Spring is about over and to close it out I took one last trip before my next hospital visit. If all goes well I will emerge from this visit healthier, stronger, and without the absolute need for bi-weekly medical visits (and insurance). I am getting nervous about abandoning these golden handcuffs but can’t wait to [...]

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