L’insurrezione e il suo doppio

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Nel distinguere il vero romanticismo da quello fasullo, Victor Hugo osservava come ogni autentico pensiero fosse spiato da un inquietante doppio sempre in agguato, sempre pronto a frapporsi all’originale. Personaggio di stupefacente plasticità che gioca sulle similitudini per racimolare qualche applauso sul palcoscenico, questo doppio ha la particolare capacità di trasformare lo zolfo in acqua santa e di farlo accettare al pubblico più recalcitrante. Anche l’insurrezione moderna, quella che fa volentieri a meno dei Comitati Centrali e dei Sol dell’Avvenire, si trova a fare i conti con la sua ombra, col suo parassita, col suo classico che la imita, che si veste dei suoi colori, ne indossa i vestiti, ne raccoglie le briciole.
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The False Principle of Our Education

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 Max Stirner

 

or, Humanism and Realism

Because our time is struggling toward the word with which it may express its spirit, many names come to the fore and all make claim to being the right name. On all sides our present time reveals the most chaotic partisan tumult and the eagles of the moment gather around the decaying legacy of the past. There is everywhere a great abundance of political, social, ecclesiastical, scientific, artistic, moral and other corpses, and until they are all consumed, the air will not be clean and the breath of living beings will be oppressed.
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The End of the World

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by

Mare Almani

 

On September 13, 1999, at the power station at Tokaimura on the Pacific coast of Japan, the most serious nuclear accident since the time of Chernobyl took place. During a laboratory experiment, three technicians spilled sixteen kilograms of uranium into a sedimentation tank designed to hold little more than two. The error started a chain reaction that continued for many hours, contaminating the entire area surrounding the station for a radius of several kilometers.
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Some Not Completely Aimless Meanderings

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from “The Iconoclast’s Hammer”
column in Anarchy Magazine

by Feral Faun

It’s time to think about writing another column. There are a lot of topics worth examining–topics to which I have given a lot of thought and which are fundamental to understanding and opposing authority. But I have no desire to put energy into examining these topics right now.
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