We Do Not Fear Anarchy—We Invoke It: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement
Author: Robert Graham File Type: pdf From 1864 to 1876, socialists, communists, trade unionists, and anarchists synthesized a growing body of anticapitalist thought through participation in the First Internationala body devoted to uniting left-wing radical tendencies of the time. Often remembered for the historic fights between Karl Marx and Michael Bakunin, the debates and experimentation during the International helped to refine and focus anarchist ideas into a doctrine of international working class self-liberation. This book is a breath of fresh air in a stuffy room. At long last, anarchists enter the history of socialism by the main door! Davide Turcato, author of Making Sense of Anarchism The Experiments with Revolution of Errico Malatesta, Italian Exile in London, 18891900 Brimming with thought and feeling, richly textured, and not shy of judgment, Grahams book marshals a compelling argument and issues a provocative invitation to revisitor perhaps to explore anewthe story, the struggles, and the persisting ramifications of this pioneering International. Wayne Thorpe, author of The Workers Themselves Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 19131923 With impressive and careful scholarship, Robert Graham guides us on a complex journey that reflects his command of the material and his ability to express it in a clear and straightforward way. If you were to think this is some dry history book, you couldnt be more wrong. Barry Pateman, historian and archivist with the Kate Sharpley Library Robert Graham has been writing about anarchism for thirty years. He recently edited the three-volume collection Anarchism A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas. ** From 1864 to 1880, socialists, communists, trade unionists, and anarchists synthesized a growing body of anticapitalist thought through participation in the First Internationala body devoted to uniting left-wing radical tendencies of the time. Often remembered for the historic fights between Karl Marx and Michael Bakunin, the debates and experimentation during the International helped to refine and focus anarchist ideas into a doctrine of international working class self-liberation.An unprecedented analysis of an often misunderstood history.
Author: Cali Ressler
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This is like TiVo for your work. -BusinessWeek In a results-only workplace, employees can do whatever they want whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. No more pointless meetings, racing to get in at 900, or begging for permission to watch your kid play soccer. You make the decisions about what you do and where you do it.It sounds like a fantasy, but Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson are leading a movement to make it a reality, even implementing it successfully at best buy. They show how a Results-Only Work Environment not only makes employees happier, but also delivers better results.Filled with passion and common sense, their book will change the way you think about your job, your company, and your quality of life.ReviewIf you work, you need this book! Cali and Jody share the secrets of the most radical workplace experiment the Fortune 500 have ever seen. Want 35% greater productivity while going to the movies on a Wednesday afternoon or taking Fridays off? Make the switch from hours to outcomes. -Timothy Ferriss, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek ROWE is a chance for everyone to learn a better way to work. It encourages people to contribute rather than just show up and grind out their days. -Brad Anderson, CEO, Best Buy (from the Foreword) Now, this changes everything. Buy this book. Act on what you read. -Cindy Froggatt, author of Work Naked This is like TiVo for your work. -BusinessWeek It is a fundamental shift away from face time or chair time to just one consideration Did the employee get the job done? -Minneapolis Star-Tribune The freedom, employees say, is changing their lives. They dont know if they work fewer hours-theyve stopped counting-but they are more productive. -Time A remarkably persuasive and mind-bending book. Family-friendly, too.-Joan Blades, cofounder MomsRising.org and Moveon.org About the AuthorCali Ressler and Jody Thompson are the founders of CultureRx, a company that promotes their belief that there is a better way to work. They met at best buy, where they first created the Results-Only Work Environment.
Author: Michele Glazer
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Michele Glazers poems take on questions of being and value, exploring not just what is, but how it is. The poems trouble bordersbetween self and other, old and young, sick and well, stranger and intimate between physical states in processes of decay and between line and phrase, sentence and interruption, prose and poem, resisting the desire for something irrefutable with an abiding skepticism.The poems are drawn to missteps in perception and in language, those fractures that promise to crack open a surface to yield some other, greater meaning What is looked at is changed what is looked for is gone. From this collision of passion and severity come poems that are strange and darkly beautiful.**
Author: Victor Ripp
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In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripps three-year-old cousin, Alexandre. Two months later, the boy was killed in Auschwitz. In Hells Traces, Ripp examines this act through the prism of family history. In addition to Alexandre, ten members of Ripps family on his fathers side died in the Holocaust. His mothers side of the family, numbering thirty people, was in Berlin when Hitler came to power. Without exception they escaped the Final Solution. Hells Traces tells the story of the two families divergent paths. To spark the past to life, he embarks on a journey to visit Holocaust memorials throughout Europe. Could a stone pillar or a bronze plaque or whatever else constitutes a memorial, he asks, cause events that took place more than seven decades ago to appear vivid?A memorial in Warsaw that includes a boxcar like the ones that carried Jews to Auschwitz compels Ripp to contemplate the horror of Alexandres transport to his death. One in Berlin that invokes the anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s allows him to better understand how his mothers family escaped the Nazis. In Paris he stumbles across a playground dedicated to the memory of the French children who were deported, Alexandre among them. Ultimately, Ripp sees thirty-five memorials in six countries. He encounters the artists who designed the memorials, historians who recall the events that are memorialized, and survivors with their own stories to tell.Resolutely unsentimental, Hells Traces is structured like a travelogue in which each destination enables a reckoning with the past.
Author: Tobias Myers
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The gods of Homers Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation. Homers Divine Audience presents and explores a new metaperformative approach to scenes of divine viewing, counsel, and intervention in the Iliad , referencing the oral nature of the poems original composition and transmission to cast the Olympian gods in part as an internal audience, who follow the action from their privileged, divine perspective much like the poets own listeners. Although critics have already often described the gods activities in terms of attendance at a show and have suggested analogies to theatre and sports, little has yet been done to investigate the particular strategies by which the poet conveys the impression of gods attending a live, staged event. This volumes analysis of those strategies points to a metaperformative significance to the motif of divine viewing the poet is using the gods, in part, to model and thereby manipulate the ongoing dynamics of performance and live reception. The gods, like the external audience, are capable of a variety of emotional responses to events at Troy notably pleasure and pity, but also great aloofness. By performing the speeches of the provocative, infuriating, yet ultimately obliging Zeus, the poet at key moments both challenges his listeners to take a stake in the continuation of the performance, and presents a sophisticated critique of possible responses to his poem.
Author: Arthur Sidgwick
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This booklet contains notes on structure and idiom and lectures on Queen of Scots Death of Antony Zapena Phyllidas Calais Paulinus Cleveland Charles Daneios Exeter Plancius-(Cicero) Cobden-(Bright) Present Discontents-(Burke) Sentimental Politics-(Burke) OConnell-(Macaulay) The Duke of Grafton-(Junius) The Dog-(Helps) The Captain and the Priest Friends Verses-(Boswell) Revelations-(Swift) and Exercises 1-50.
Author: Joel Burges
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Out of Sync & Out of Work explores the representation of obsolescence, particularly of labor, in film and literature during a historical moment in which automation has intensified in capitalist economies. Joel Burges analyzes texts such as The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wreck-It Ralph, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Iron Council, and examines their means of production. Those means include a range of subjects and narrative techniques, including the residual means of including classic film stills in a text, the obstinate means of depicting machine breaking, the dated means of employing the largely defunct technique of stop-motion animation, and the obsolete means of celebrating a labor strike. In every case, the novels and films that Burges scrutinizes call on these means to activate the readersviewers awareness of historical time. Out of Sync & Out of Work advances its readers grasp of the complexities of historical time in contemporary culture, moving the study of temporality forward in film and media studies, literary studies, critical theory, and cultural critique. **
Author: Charles Ives
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Timaeus is not an independent work. Rather, it is the premier dialogue in an unfinished trilogy that also includes Critias, of which we have only a fragment, and Hermocrates, which is forecast in Critias but was presumably never written. There is demand, and has been for some time now, for an account of the relevance between the extant parts of the trilogy, namely the pertinence of Timaeus cosmology to Critias war story. Over time this demand has been refined. There is now a more specific interest in the relevance of the cosmology to what is commonly known as Socrates Requestthat is, what Socrates is asking of his interlocutors at the outset of the trilogy. While Charles Ives certainly addresses the former, more general demand, the primary concern in this book is with the latter, given the obvious aptness of Critias contribution. Socrates, at least in part, is asking for a story about a war, and Critias provides it. What is far from obvious is how Timaeus contribution fits into this picture. In order to illuminate the nature of this contribution, Ives first establishes that Socrates is asking for an encomium with two areas of focus, which will be taken up by Critias and Timaeus. Critias will speak on warmore precisely, on the war between ancient Athens and Atlantis. Timaeus will speak on the warriors education as philosophers, and in particular on the formation and nature of the philosophical soul. To show the relevance of Timaeus speech to the request, Ives highlights the educational aspects of the dialogue, charting the progress of an educational program that aims at health. The book especially focuses on the convalescence of intellect, which ushers in discussions of the medical dimensions of Timaeus physics the markedly Platonic project of becoming like god and the comprehensively philosophical soul that leads its possessor to success on the battlefield. Socrates Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus is written for those interested in ancient philosophy and philosophy of education. **
Author: Art Spiegelman
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Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelmans Mausintroduced readers to Vladek Spieglman, a Jewish survivor of Hitlers Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his fathers terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Mausties together two powerful stories Vladeks harrowing take of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of family life in the death camps, and the authors account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivors taleand that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.
Author: Roger Harrington
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The man known for Making A Murderer, the documentary of the darkest chapters of his life, was born by the name of Steven Avery on July 9th in 1962. A native of Manitowoc County in Wisconsin, the infamous events that birthed the television show series about him started with a wrongful conviction in 1985 for sexual assault and attempted murder. He was imprisoned for long enough to serve eighteen of the thirty-two years of his sentence before DNA evidence exonerated him and he was released. Two years later, the nightmare began anew when he faced a much longer sentence after being charged with murder. After being exonerated in 2003, discussions were started about the criminal justice system in Wisconsin, which led to the Criminal Justice Reform Bill in 2005. This bill brought reforms into action that were meant to stop wrongful convictions in the future. Also in 2003, Steven Avery filed a civil lawsuit for a total of $36 million that was aimed at Manitowoc County, its former district attorney, and its former sheriff and for his wrongful conviction and imprisonment. This civil suit for his previous wrongful conviction and imprisonment was still pending when he was arrested again in November of 2005. By 2007, hed been convicted of the murder of a local photographer and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility in the future for parole. Higher courts upheld this conviction, but in January of 2016, there was a new series of appeals. In 2015, Netflix picked up the story of his 2007 murder trial for its original documentary series by the title of Making A Murderer. This documentary also touched on how his young nephew, Brendan Dassey, was pulled into the murder charges and arrested and convicted in 2007. Brendan Dassey was released in August of 2016 after a federal judge overturned his conviction based on evidence that his confession had not been made voluntarily.