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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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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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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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Status update – module 1 is a green light

By aragorn | Published: November 14, 2009

It is now a couple weeks since my “brain problem” and everything is looking great. Perhaps I need to sleep a little bit more, but that is it. My hand coordination is within a couple percent of normal. My speech is fine. I am OK. Thanks to everyone who expressed concern in this matter. As [...]

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Entropy

By aragorn | Published: October 31, 2009

I am not sure how else to put this but that I am falling apart. The center is no longer holding. My will just isn’t enough to prevent simple decay from eating away at me. I guess I am going to have to make choices. Cuts in exactly how much I am trying to do [...]

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