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ziq wrote

This would make a great book.

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subrosa OP wrote

True, I'd love to read a thing like that. Would even entertain the idea of writing it myself — if my English were any better, if LittleBlackCart weren't closing down this year, if I would feel comfortable bothering people like Shawn Wilbur, Cayce Jamil, Margaret Killjoy and maybe John Zerzan with questions all year. Guess I'll just focus on adding to my notes then.

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humanispherian wrote (edited )

I wouldn't worry too much about "bothering" me or Cayce.

You're tugging here on two threads that I've found very interesting: the influence of Fourier's theory and that of Sylvain Maréchal (and Arcadian thought more generally.) Fourier's brand of anti-civ thought shows up Proudhon's work, as well as in that of Louise Michel, and both of them wrote works that adapted Fourier's ideas. E. Armand discussed Maréchal as a precursor of anarchism — and the extent of the Arcadian influence on anarchist individualism is certainly something that deserves more examination.

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subrosa OP wrote

[Joseph Déjacque] is known as the first person to use libertarian (libertaire) in the familiar political sense. You would'nt be entirely off the mark to see in Déjacque's paper the beginning of the libertarian tradition.

Would you say that's fair, accurate enough? I'm not sure, maybe it's more of a wikipedia thing, with Déjacque unfairly reduced to that role just so we can 'disarm' anti-socialist libertarians.

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humanispherian wrote

The only contender I'm aware of is a rather offhand use of libertaire by Proudhon in the same year — precisely to designate capitalist free-traders — but Déjacque's is the usage that stuck, at least for a long while. Déjacque, of course, made equally interesting, but not influential use of the term anarchisme around the same time.

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Tequila_Wolf wrote

I think your English is more than good enough. I would be willing to do at least one full readthrough to suggest edits and any changes to phrasing if you like.

Who's Cayce Jamil?

As for the other folks, I am not sure they would mind hearing from you. Shawn and John have been pretty responsive to me before.

I'd also suggest emailing the anarchist academic mailing lists in case folks had suggestions.

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subrosa OP wrote

I think your English is more than good enough. I would be willing to do at least one full readthrough to suggest edits and any changes to phrasing if you like.

That's generous. Appreciate that.

Who's Cayce Jamil?

A mutualist sociologist I follow on twitter @MutualSociology, been enjoying that feed for a couple months now. They would know some about Fourier and other figures from that time.

Thanks for the info and suggestions but I'm not actually entertaining the idea all that seriously. For now I'm happy to leave it as a side project, as a couple pages of notes that I can add to whenever suits me.

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