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Fascism

By aragorn | Published: August 22, 2016

This text finds itself more relevant to my life this week than it has in years. From Foucault’s introduction to Anti-Oedipus. Whence the three adversaries confronted by Anti-Oedipus. Three adversaries who do not have the same strength, who represent varying degrees of danger, and whom the book combats in different ways: The political ascetics, the … Continue reading “Fascism”

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As much as I hate you, work is worse

By aragorn | Published: July 4, 2015

It has been a rough year so far. For the past few years I’ve been able to afford to work very part time and devote my energy to projects that I love and share with my closest friends. I’ve lost a few of those friends, some recently, and some in years past but if radical […]

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Reportback on a trip to the South East

By aragorn | Published: November 30, 2014

Ideally I would be updating this thing at least once a month. At least that often I have some poignant thing that I’m working through that I’d love to share in this context as at least a bookmark for further thinking but I find I’m rarely getting around to it. Why? Because between websites I […]

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A Reportback from the Black Seed tour

By aragorn | Published: June 5, 2014

This reportback will include some thoughts about the different locations I visited in my trip around the US, highlights from my presentation, and some thoughts about where current conversations are at regarding Green & anarchist ideas. The broad project of Black Seed is to grow the audience and definition of green anarchism beyond the constrains […]

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How A Fire at the Mountain demonstrated the failure…

By aragorn | Published: November 19, 2013

This is not a complete writeup of the A Fire at the Mountain (AFM) event. I’m probably going to write one at length for a to-be-announced project I’m working on. Additionally, I recorded a lot of the event (mostly the presentations during day two) and plan on discussing the event in detail (with audio) during […]

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This tour is over

By aragorn | Published: November 1, 2013

Final reports and self-criticism At the end of week three I was still glowing from my first day in New Orleans. The glow has faded now that I am a couple thousand miles away. The trip is over but it’s not completely gone for me. I look forward to seeing New Orleans again and seeing […]

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The LBC Tour – Week Two and Three

By Aragorn! blog | Published: October 20, 2013

The Midwest Whenever I return to the Midwest I feel like I have a sign over my head telling all passerby’s that I have returned, the prodigal son or some such shit. But the people who actually live here tend not to give a fuck. Everyone they know lives here so what’s it matter that […]

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The LBC Tour – week one

By aragorn | Published: October 6, 2013

The events Suffice it to say I am very thankful to all my hosts. I hope I was entertaining and seemed as appreciative as I was… Los Angeles – Public School LA is a strange town. I wouldn’t be surprised if one could have a half dozen events here (with the right contacts) with entirely […]

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Conflict Infrastructure

By aragorn | Published: August 15, 2013

LBC Presents – a conversation about Conflict Infrastructure A speaking tour with a cart full of books! In the 1990s the internecine conflict between (North American) anarchists was not red vs green or insurrectionary vs platformist, but those who believed that anarchists should develop infrastructure vs those who believed that anarchists should build a (national) […]

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Being better

By aragorn | Published: June 27, 2013

I’m going to try to use a web posting to have a developed conversation about why I keep doing what I’m doing. Why anarchy? Sure, but also why projects, (anti)politics, or anything that doesn’t look like a quiet, satisfied life. One that doesn’t look like some satisfied combination of eating good food, consuming interesting media, […]

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Exhaustion

By aragorn | Published: April 18, 2013

This year we did this 10 week death march where we published eight new titles in about 10 weeks. We’ve gotten rather good at all the wrangling, negotiating, and logistics necessary to do such an amount of work but that doesn’t mean it comes free. In a capitalist economy there are always costs and with […]

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How not to burn bridges

By aragorn | Published: February 26, 2013

At some point I became exhausted with the process of making new friends. This is perhaps telling sign of aging but I no longer feel like the honeymoon period of a relationship is the most important one anymore. It used to be that the first three hours, three weeks, three months of a new person, […]

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2012 – an anarchists year in review

By aragorn | Published: December 27, 2012

I* had an amazing year in 2012. So much so that the kind of perfectly normal winter induced funk that I seem to be in seems a little bit embarrassing. Here is a little bit about the year and a bit more about the future. In 2011 I took a three month trip to Europe. […]

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Production Notes – March 2012

By aragorn | Published: March 20, 2012

I am not writing very much right now. I wish I was. I am so entirely mired in the day-to-day workflow of LBC that it has become nearly impossible to keep track of all the details or to look past them. I want to keep a record of this work (both types) though so I […]

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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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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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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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What is new with Little Black Cart – Spring 2011

By lbc | Published: April 3, 2011

Things to do, things to do… Hey! Here is what is going on with us! We are just finalizing everything we need to do to prepare for 8 days of Anarchy a festival we have here in the Bay Area around the time of the BASTARD conference. We hope that those of you on the […]

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