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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's actually more control than I have at the moment on anything but ads.

Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

While some are deeply concerned about the furry infiltration of commercial aviation, there are rumors that Senator Tuberville misunderstood the situation and, in fact, it is the air force that has gone furry, after another of the Secretary of War's biology experiments went badly awry.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm hoping to design a couple of calendars again this year. One might involve a set of individualist / illegalist anarchist portraits, focused on figures associeted with "l'anarchie" and the Bande à Bonnot. I have an unfinished set of button designs that probably adapt and expand easily.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is a stack of such collections, most of which just need to be reviewed and formatted, covering anarchism — Eliphalet Kimball, Hector Morel, Greene's "Omega" articles, Andrews' series on universology, de Cleyre on freethought, etc. — but also weird science, political utopias, etc.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm trying to plan a Corvus Editions relaunch that doesn't threaten headway on A New Proudhon Library, but does diversify my tasks a bit — which is usually good for my productivity. I think the focus will be on collecting hard-to-find material, without a lot of critical apparatus attached.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I hadn't done much work on Greene recently, but access to some new sources seems to have confirmed a connection to the Free Soil party, debunked a supposed connection to Charles Kraitsir's Boston school and should eventually provide details on his controversial work in favor of Boston workingwomen.

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 12/09/2026

On Thursday, eight bookstores sent an open letter to the ABA & ABFE raising urgent concerns about the threat posed by NSPM-7 to booksellers and publishers. @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social @burningbooks.bsky.social @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social @wordupbooks.bsky.social

A title slide containing a photo of Donald Trump signing NSPM-7. The title reads "Booksellers & NSPM-7: An open letter to the American Booksellers Association."

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place." — FREDRIC JAMESON

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Let's be honest: We always forget the "never forget" stuff, in favor of the same old feeling of beleaguered team spirit. Real memories wouldn't be pliant enough to fit every new occasion — and we might feel the urge to learn from them.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

After watching the new "Human Vapor," I watched the original Toho Transforming Human Series: The H-Man (1958), The Secret of the Telegian (1960) and The Human Vapor (1960.) They are all good fun, for that sort of thing, but the gem is the similarly themed Invisible Man (1954.)

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If Enes actually wanted to transition, which would be required to take his stunt any further, the people who would be supportive are precisely the people he thinks he's opposing and very precisely not the people he's aligned himself with.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

...anti-sharks, the archibras and lots of quaggas.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Somewhere, I have the wartime pass my grandfather had to have to watch birds on Plum Island without being arrested as a spy.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This list is almost certainly still incomplete:

Ernest-Lucien Juin, aka:

E. Armand, E. J. Armand, E.-L. Armand, Junius, J. Frank, Ernest Juin, Armand Juin, E.-L. Juin, E. Juin, El. J., Ni-Luge, E. A., Herman Sterne, Le Guépin, Amos, Un qui n’en vit pas…

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I want to get some of the deep cuts from the Working Translation project safely into print, but some of them are genuinely obscure. Does this combination of texts look tempting to anyone?

WORKING TRANSLATIONS
OMNIBUS No. 1

Gustave d’Eichthal and Ismayl Urbain, Letters on the Black Race and the White Race (1839)
François Barrier, Sketch of an Analogy between Man and Humanity (1846)
Emile Gautier, “Social Darwinism” (1877)
Emile Gautier, Social Darwinism (1880)
Louis Prat, Harmonism (1927)

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's another solid block of text, almost completely lacking in punctuation, but is more readable than the one I translated from "L'Echo de Lyon" ten years ago. Like that text, it refers to the adulteration of goods in the silk industry and the dangers to workers involved.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I stole a few hours from transcribing Proudhon to look at a scanned manuscript of Ravachol's trial statement, which differs in interesting ways from the versions published in the press at the time of his trial and the longer version published a decade later in "Archives d'anthropologie criminelle."

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is a discussion of the textual complexities surrounding Proudhon's "Justice in the Revolution and in the Church," with some examples from the manuscripts, an enumeration of the various states of the text and a bit more strategy for A New Proudhon Library. www.patreon.com/libertarianl...

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Justice texts and manuscripts | Shawn P. Wilbur

All of the truisms about battle-plans not surviving the first combat action apply equally to big scholarly projects. I'm already shuffling c

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

While the Taco Bell jokes are fun, bagged greens have resembled Russian roulette off and on for a long time now. The administration just put a bullet in another chamber.

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Fíona | Bacchus Editions @d-dionysian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Roudine's 'Max Stirner' spent more than a century untranslated-it was time to change that. My edition traces readings from Mackay to Newman, each asking Stirner to become something he consistently refused to become. Littéralement coming off a Heidelberg GTO now <3 bacchuseditions.net/bookshop/p/r...

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Reading Victor Roudine Reading Stirner | First English Translation | Bacchus Editions — Bacchus Editions

The first complete English translation of Victor Roudine's classic study of Max Stirner. This critical Bacchus Editions includes extensive editorial essays, annotations, historical appendices, and ori...

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The big, new weed in my mostly native, xeric garden turned out to be a native sagebrush — artemisia biennis — which I don't think I've ever seen in the neighborhood or nearby parks. — If you build it...

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Naturally, the thing that none of the centrist Dems will actually say is that they want progressives and leftists to stop voting for and with them. Somehow, they don't seem to have thought that part through.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's like Tulsi Gabbard never happened...

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

New translations: "Communism," by Charles Fauverty, and "A Brief Labor Charter," by Jacques Bonhomme.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"Le Représentant du Peuple" launched in February 1848, a few days after the revolution. Proudhon began to actively collaborate with the paper in April. A prospectus and two specimen issues appeared in 1847, in the months leading up to the revolution. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/proudhon-lib...

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Le Représentant du Peuple: Specimen issues (October-November 1847) - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Links: A New Proudhon Library [project page] Le Représentant du Peuple: misc. writings Prospectus of Le Peuple — published after May 20, 1847 In 1789, a famous publicist wrote: “What is the Third Esta...

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I've been thinking about our various current crises through the lens of my first scholarly career as a formula/genre lit-crit guy. And I'm wondering if, in retrospect, teaching people to tell one kind of story from another might have been as useful as anything else I've done as an educator.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I've uploaded another batch of translations of articles by Proudhon from "Le Peuple," from April 14-May 7, 1849. This includes a revision of the article "God is Evil." www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/wp-content/u...

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"God is Evil" / "Man is free" | Shawn P. Wilbur

A minor note, but, for me, an old mystery finally solved: The formatting of the Mélanges sometimes creates minor confusions. Most commonly,

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In my youth, Sister Ruby Mae Savage, our Foursquare Gospel preacher, dedicated a sermon to the possibility that UFOs were angels. (That was not, however, the weirdest meeting I've been a part of — even in that congregation.)

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

... and ends with both a positive invocation of anarchy and an early use of the libertarian/authoritarian distinction among socialisms, complete with a reference to revolutionary dictatorship.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Here's an unsigned series of articles, "Socialists and Malthusians," which ran in Le Voix du Peuple, Oct. 1849 - April 1850. It's a nice introduction to the thought of those who were Proudhon's allies and collaborators at the time of his imprisonment... www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/wp-content/u...

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Today, I'm finishing up the translation of the unsigned series "Socialists and Malthusiens," from the Voix du Peuple and will probably try to steal an hour or so to get a solid French text together of Chojecki's "Studies on Credit," from the same source. Then it's back to work on the Mélanges.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's in the "American question" section on slavery.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'll get a chance to clarify things later this summer, as I am working on the journalism from late 1849 and 1850, but it looks like perhaps the more anarchist sense of "anarchy" saw a brief heyday around the time of the big debate on the State.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

No block. You just missed accusations of white anarchists covering up historical anarchist racism, supported by some very familiar translations from Proudhon and Déjacque. It didn't seem serious enough for a conversation about Proudhon's actual racial theory — assuming such a thing exists.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Cayce is finishing up a couple of projects right now.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Just to clarify, can you point me specifically to where Proudhon "conceded the State as a means"?

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's not that weird, since the strategy of political abstention now associated with anarchism developed out of debates that happened largely after and as a result of the failures of the 1848 revolution. The works best known in the International were arguably all later as well.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The best evidence against the division of Proudhon's career into anarchist and federalist periods is the real absence of the kind of "anarchist period" critics seem to assume exists... somewhere... That is not to say that Proudhon was not an anarchist, but we need a better account of how he was one.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

If we really wanted a useful conversation about potential elections f*ckery, maybe we could start with the fact that actually counting all of the ballots — not a small job, as close local races always show — appears to us as a sign of potential fraud...

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Since the Mutualist Society placed the Green Bay Packers at the top of their list of "Mutualists you might know," I've been trying to work more Vince Lombardi quotes into my work. I'm afraid I've been largely unsuccessful so far.

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"Le Peuple de 1850" is a lot more interesting than the "Mélanges" would suggest, because much of the most interesting material comes from writers other than Proudhon.

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