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Coming
Sooner (or Later)
All Done Dancin Down the
Road - Extinct
Crises of Nature: How Humanity
Saved the Biosphere
Cost
Mesa Address: Small Is Beautiful?
Zero
Growth Is Suicide: Technology, Ecology, and the Limits To Growth
Links
Dialectical Ideography
Encyclopedia Dialectica
Audio
The End of Prehistory
eDocuments
Arms and the Woman
Away with the Murder of
the Body
Catalysis Contract
Christmas Comes But Once Per Year?
The Crisis of the Gross National Spectacle
A Declaration of the Rights
of Human Beings
Ending the Game: Democracy,
Dictatorship, and Communism
Everyday Love: The Last
Refuge and the Last Closet of Desire
Forget Your Life, Contemplate
Mine: From MayDay to PrayDay
A Hacker Manifesto
Hard Times
History Repeats
Idealism and Materialism
Loaded Words: A Guide to
the Spectacle
Maydaze: A Thesis of the
Celebration of Alienation
Minimum Definition of Revolutionary
Organizations
Negation of the Negation
Notes Toward a Theory of Revolutionary Organization
On Sexual Poverty
Our Situation
Past Lives
Phenomenology of the Subjective
Aspect of Practical-Critical Activity - Chapter 1: On Behindism
Preamble to For Ourselves
The Right To Be Greedy:
Practical Theses on Demanding Everything
Siege of State
Some Notes on the Reproduction
of Human Capital
Time Out
The Totality Is Beautiful:
Small Is A Decoy
Towards Communist Consciousness
We Demand New Sex Organs
Comix
Kultur Dokuments
Too Real
Posters
Against the Dictatorship
of Allah
The Anteater's Umbrella
Do You Ever Feel Like Killing
Your Boss?
Do You Ever Feel Like Stealing
Everything?
Don't Change Life - Change
Leaders
The End of San Francisco,
Or - How to Play with its Ruins
Is There Life Before Death?
Situationist Liberation
Front
They Walk, They Talk, and
Seek the Herd
Agit-props
Boredom
Exchange-value
Hierarchy
Human Capital
Protesting
Self-sacrifice
Spectre
Wage-labor
War or Peace
Working
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"Crises of Nature: How Humanity Saved the Biosphere"
by
Capitalist Crisis Studies - former members of For Ourselves
- originally published in January 1977
Critique of Capital's "desire" to justify characterological self-sacrifice via "science" paradoxical to that which it used to depose its theocratic predecessor.
The whole tenor of the ferment which has come to be be called the "ecology movement" has accustomed many of us to think of ourselves as the scourge of the biosphere; virtual intrudersin Nature, whose unwelcome visitation has contributed only disruption and destruction to an otherwise perfectly self-regulated natural harmony, and which visitation can do nothing else. The best we can hope for, we are told, is to minimizethe damage by consuming less, and producing less - especially less of ourselves.
"All
Done Dancin Down the Road - Extinct"
by
Benjamin Thurmon Gray - self-published and previously freely
distributed to libraries and on campuses (1994)
"Cost
Mesa Address: Small Is Beautiful?"
by
Capitalist Crisis Studies
- originally published April 27, 1978
"Zero
Growth Is Suicide: Technology, Ecology, and the Limits To Growth"
by
Capitalist Crisis Studies
- originally published January, 1978
Links
Glossary of Pictogramic Devices (PDF)
Primer (part 1 of 2 in PDF)
Primer (part 2 of 2 in PDF)
"Encyclopedia
Dialectica"
(41 pages in PDF)
Generic Dialectical Interpretation of the Q Ideography (pp 1-5 in HTML) from Fractment I
Tabulation (page 41 in HTML) from Fractment I
Fractment I (pp 11-20)
Fractment I (pp 21-30)
Fractment I (pp 31-41)
Prescripts-Motives (pp 1-12 in PDF)
Strategic Overview: Timing Section (page 12) from Prescripts-Motives
Prescripts-Motives (pp 13-24 in PDF)
Part 1a: Prolegomena (pp 1-15 in PDF)
Mathematical Overview: Kernel (page 1) from Part 1a
Part 1a: Prolegomena (pp 16-30 in PDF)
Part 1a: Prolegomena (Endnotes in PDF)
Part 1c: Briefing on the Q Ideography (PDF)
Part 1c: Briefing on the U Ideography (PDF)
Part 1c: Briefing on the u Ideography (PDF)
Postscripts-Epilogues (PDF)
Philosophic Overview: First Afterword (page 2) from Postscripts
Both of the above written and published by the Foundation Mathematica Dialectica (2000-2004).
Audio
"The
End of Prehistory"
Audio presentation
by members from and friends of For Ourselves: Council for Generalized
Self-Management
Date: 1975 (Berkeley, CA
U.S.A.)
Availability : September 5, 2004
Formats : MP3 (four files of 40MB each - unavailable on web due to these space demands)
Version: 1.0
Size: 4 files at 40MB each uncompressed; currently all
too large for my web area - contemplating alternatives, looking
intocompression utilities, and fielding suggestions
Documents
"Forget Your
Life, Contemplate Mine: From MayDay to PrayDay"
by members of Negation
Topic: A two-page
slap at the commonality of Leftist and Mystical self-sacrificial
rites as exemplified by Rennie Davis and Maharaj Ji.
Date: Written between 1971-1974. This rendition distributed in
December 2003.
File Format: PDF (missing front-page graphic until scanner is
reset up at my new abode).
Version: 0.1
Size: 88k
"A Declaration
of the Rights of Human Beings"
by Raoul Vaneigem
Topic: A two-page
listing of the 58 articles from the book A Declaration of the
Rights of Human beings - On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing
the Rights of Man.
Date: Written 2001. Translated from French and published in 2003.
This rendition distributed in November 2003.
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.0
Size: 103k
"The Totality
Is Beautiful: Small Is A Decoy"
by Capitalist
Crisis Studies - former members of For Ourselves
Topic: Critique of
Capital's decline, necessity for self-cannibalism, and the false
consciousness & pseudo-resistance embraced by primitivists.
1) The Contracting Social
Product and Pro-Contraction Ideologies
The Real Causes of the World Economic Crisis and of the Ideas
Which Favor It
2) The Delusion of Permanence
The Inherent Impermanence of Nature (The Nature of Dialectical
Continuum)
3) Capital as a Technology
Historical Specificity of Technology (The Stages of Social Evolution)
Schumacher's "Marx" versus Marx
Post-Capitalist Technologies: UNICOM, fusion power, unifacture
4) Barbarism
Schumacher's "Feudality"
The Trilateral Commission Program for "Industrial Feudalism"
The Actual Consequences of a Schumacher Austerity: Small is Suicide
5) Spirituality
Schumacher as Spiritual Imposter
6) The Self-Planning Society
Socialism versus "government-capitalism", "workers'
capitalism", etc.
7) A Program for Qualitative Growth
The Transition to the Self-Planning Society
Date: original in February
1977; Lust For Life release in October 2003
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 0.1
Size: 710k
"On Sexual Poverty"
by Point-Blank!
Topic: From their
journal "Point-Blank #1: Contributions Towards a Situationist
Revolution"
Date: October 1972
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 1.0
Size: 676k
"Some Notes on
the Reproduction of Human Capital"
by Robert Cooperstein
Topic:
Date: April 1974
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.0
Size: 487k
"These Contemporers
Have No Clue - Disposing of the Idiom of Idiots: An Expose of
Those Having the Vaguist Idea of Spectacular and False Exposes
of Capital"
by Catalysis (with new
title and additions by Lust for Life)
Topic: critique of Leftist
inability to understand Capital
Date: Originally published October 4,1974 as "Too Little
Too Late: A Critique of the East Bay Socialist School"
File Format: PDF
Version: 0.23
Size: 290k
"A Hacker Manifesto"
by McKenzie Wark
Topic: the evolution of reified abstraction: property, capital, information
Date: edited and adapted to HTML by Lust for Life in March 2005
File Format: HTML
Version: 1.0
Size: 24k
"Maydaze: A Thesis
of the Celebration of Alienation"
by members from For Ourselves
Topic:critique of
May Day holiday celebrations as "holy" daze celebation
Date: updated April 2003 and April 2003 by Lust for Life
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.1
Size: 109k
"Everyday Love:
The Last Refuge and the Last Closet of Desire"
by members from For Ourselves
Topic: How love is
used as an escape from creating a better world and as a haven
from embracing a loveless world.
Date: Originally published in September 1976 with a title of Can"t
Buy Me Love - The Last Refuge of Desire". This Lust
for Life edition is from September 2003.
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 1.2
Size: 168k
"Notes Toward
a Theory of Revolutionary Organization"
by Feanor
Topic:
Date: 1974
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.2
Size: 217k
"Negation of
the Negation"
by members from Negation
Topic:
Date:
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 1.1
Size: 2.6M
"Idealism and
Materialism"
by Mikhail Bakunin
Topic:Taken from Part
I-Section2 of "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin"
compiled and edited by G. P. Maximoff
Date: Published by The Free Press in 1953
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.0
Size: 1M
"We Demand New
Sex Organs"
from The Spectacle newspaper
(East Lansing, Michigan USA)
Topic:
Date:
File Format: RTF (rich text format)
Version: 1.0
Size: 33k
"Preamble to
For Ourselves"
by members from For Ourselves
Topic:
Date: April 1974
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.0
Size: 63k
"Loaded Words:
A Guide to the Spectacle"
by friends of Negation and
For Ourselves
Topic:
Date:
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 1.2
Size: 236k
"Towards Communist
Consciousness"
by members from For Ourselves
Topic:
Date:
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.0
Size: 143k
"Minimum Definition
of Revolutionary Organizations"
by the S.I. (Situationist International)
Topic:
Date:
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.1
Size: 59k
"The Crisis of
the Gross National Spectacle"
by Robert Cooperstein (associate
of Bureau of Public Secrets)
Topic:
Date:
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.1
Size: 163k
"The Right To
Be Greedy: Practical Theses on Demanding Everything"
by For Ourselves
Topic: Generalized
self-management based on the social wealth of selves
Date: February 16, 1974 (original)
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 1.2
Size: 4.4M
"The Right To Be Greedy: Practical
Theses on Demanding Everything"
by For Ourselves
Topic: Generalized
self-management based on the social wealth of selves
Date: August 16, 1974 (original); this version September 8, 2004
(took out defective BabelFish HTML-based language translator,
which failed to translate its own HTML-embedded Javascript code
call, crashing every time on every language)
File Format: HTML (with graphics and hyperlinks/anchors)
Version: 1.2.5-en
Size: 248k
"Arms and the
Woman"
by Jeanne Charles (associate
of Bureau of Public Secrets)
Topic:
Date:
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 2.0
Size: 270k
"Phenomenology
of the Subjective Aspect of Practical-Critical Activity - Chapter
1: On Behindism"
by Chris Shutes
(former member of Point Blank!; associate of Bureau
of Public Secrets)
Topic:
"After more than a decade of unconscious and semi-conscious
theoretical struggles, the question of the production of theory
itself has been clearly defined as a strategic problem facing
the revolutionary movement.... Behindism, on the contrary, has
the advantage not only of becoming a mass phenomenon, but also
of being the simplest, most clear-cut characterological condition
which presents itself as an obstacle to theory's production."
Date: originally published December 1974; (r)epublished December
2002
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 1.0
Size: 161k
"History Repeats"
by members from For Ourselves
Topic:
Date:
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 3.0
Size: 636k
"Ending the Game:
Democracy, Dictatorship, and Communism"
by members from For Ourselves
Topic:
Date:
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 0.3
Size: 2.5M
"Hard Times"
by members from For Ourselves
Topic:
Date:
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 1.0
Size: 554k
"Away with the
Murder of the Body"
by Wicked Messenger
Topic: For the original
French, see the 2002 edition made available online by Critical
Secret entitled Trois
milliards de pervers, grande encyclopédes homosexualite
Date: 1973 with this unauthorized translation published in 1974-5
by Wicked Messenger
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 1.0
Size: 8.6M
"Submission to
and Maintenance of Suffering, Ignorance, and Imperialist Abuse:
The Glorious Core and Legacy of Mohammedanism"
by Colin Maine
Topic: The time for
bowing-and-scraping is over. Humanity shall stand on its feet
and the remnants of tyrannies like Islam and any ideologies that
with spines of jello, condone its existence and the conditions
that breed its socio-emotional plague into the human community.
Away with the dictatorship of Allah!
Date: released 1979 and originally titled "The Dead Hand
of Islam"
File Format: PDF (w/graphics)
Version: 1.0
Size: 904k
"Siege of State"
by Point-Blank!
Topic : Released as
part of their The San Francisco Project
Date:
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.0
Size: 108k
"Catalysis Contract"
by pre-members of Catalysis
Topic : Draft formal
agreement amongst pre-members of Catalysis; a precursor to the
Berkeley, CA USA For Ourselves group.
Date:
File Format: PDF
Version: 0.1 (incomplete)
Size: 108k
"Our Situation"
by Kathy Kundalini
Topic :
Date: 31-January-2005
File Format: HTM
Version: 1.0
Size:
Comix
"Too Real"
by Jay Kinney
Topic: Normal Joe's
world falls apart....
Date: 1978 from Anarchy Comics #1
File Format: PDF (all graphics)
Version: 1.2
Size: 3584k
"Kultur Dokuments"
by Jay Kinney and Paul
Mavrides
Topic: An adventure
with the Picto Family and Bizarro Politics.
Date: 1979 from Anarchy Comics #2
File Format: PDF (all graphics)
Version: 1.0
Size: 4309k
Posters
"Time Out."
by Lust for Life
Topic: A three-page critique of time.
File Format: HTM.
Version: 1.5
Size: 20k
"Past Lives Passing You By?"
by Lust for Life
Topic: A one-page critique of pseudo-Jungian, pseudo-Reichian, pseudo-Freudian, past-life therapy.
File Format: HTM (meant to be distributed as a one-sided two-up
8.5"x11" color flyer).
Version: 1.1
Size: 8k
"They Walk, They
Talk, and Seek the Herd"
by Lust for Life
Topic: A one-page
parody of march-based protests.
File Format: HTM (meant to be distributed as a one-sided two-up
8.5"x11" color flyer).
Version: 1.0
Size: 8k
"Christmas Comes But Once Per Year?"
by Lust for Life
Topic: A one-page
parody of the transition of the mystical into the rational.
File Format: HTM (meant to be distributed as a one-sided two-up
8.5"x11" color flyer).
Version: 1.0
Size: 8k
"Don't Change
Life - Change Leaders"
by Lust for Life
Topic: A two-page
self-parody of the U.S. presidential election of 2004 - supposedly
put out by The Support Someone Other Than Yourself Election
Committee.
Date: Title lifted from 1970s poster by Negation. Written
12-august-2004. This rendition distributed in Portland, OR USA
on 13-august-2004 at both Kerry and Bush speech sites.
File Format: PDF (meant to be distributed as a two-sided 8.5"x11"
color flyer).
Version: 2.0
Size: 237.6k
"The Anteater's
Umbrella"
by the Chicago Surrealist Group
Topic:
Date:
File Format: RTF (rich text format)
Version: 1.0
Size: 8k
"Against the
Dictatorship of Allah"
by the Surrealist Group of
Pakistan (in exile)
Topic: Critique of Islamic
nightmare
Date: 1978
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.0
Size: 79k
"Situationist
Liberation Front"
by members from various Berkeley
Post-Sit groups
Topic: Parody of Situ
groups existing in and near California USA during the 1970s
Date:
File Format: PDF
Version: 2.0
Size: 50k
"The End of San
Francisco, Or - How to Play with its Ruins"
by Point-Blank!
Topic: Released as
part of their The San Francisco Project
Date:
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.1
Size: 128k
"Do You Ever
Feel Like Killing Your Boss?"
by Point-Blank!
Topic: Released as
part of their The San Francisco Project
Date:
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.1
Size: 64k
"Is There Life
Before Death?"
by Point-Blank!
Topic: Released as
part of their The San Francisco Project
Date: April 1974
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.1
Size: 96k
"Do You Ever
Feel Like Stealing Everything?"
by Point-Blank!
Topic: Released as
part of their The San Francisco Project
Date:
File Format: PDF
Version: 1.0
Size: 96k
"Boredom"
by Lust for Life
Topic:
Date:
File Format: DOC (MS Word document)
Version: 1.0
Size: 74k
"Exchange-value"
by Lust for Life
Topic:
Date:
File Format: DOC (MS Word document)
Version: 1.0
Size: 17k
"Hierarchy"
by Lust for Life
Topic:
Date:
File Format: DOC (MS Word document) w/graphics
Version: 1.0
Size: 62k
"Human Capital"
by Lust for Life
Topic:
Date:
File Format: DOC (MS Word document) w/graphics
Version: 1.0
Size: 174k
"Protesting"
by Lust for Life
Topic:
Date:
File Format: DOC (MS Word document)
Version: 1.0
Size: 17k
"Self-sacrifice"
by Lust for Life
Topic:
Date:
File Format: DOC (MS Word document) w/graphics
Version: 1.0
Size: 198k
"Spectre"
by Lust for Life
Topic:
Date:
File Format: DOC (MS Word document)
Version: 1.0
Size: 17k
"Wage-labor"
by Lust for Life
Topic:
Date:
File Format: DOC (MS Word document)
Version: 1.0
Size: 17k
"War or Peace"
by Lust for Life
Topic: How choosing
in the US-Iraq war shows 'no class' (consciousness)
Date:
File Format: DOC (MS Word document) w/graphics
Version: 1.0
Size: 169k
"Working"
by Lust for Life
Topic:
Date:
File Format: DOC (MS Word document)
Version: 1.0
Size: 21k