Category Archives: personal

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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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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Severed Roots

By Squee | Published: September 27, 2011

Roots of Self Pealing away at the onion of Identity has been a part of an extenuated existential crisis. One that has become more vast as I have become older, more complicated, and more entangled in relationships that are further from my affections. I …

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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 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 Personal (a ramble) – Money

By Squee | Published: August 28, 2011

I’m not anonymous. As much as I’d like to be, I’m not. I’ve written an autobiography up to the age of 21, I am entirely vulnerable to anyone who would want to find out where I live, what I look like… I’m not anonymou…

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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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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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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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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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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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