I re-posted my essay Anarchism as an IR Theory the other day in my post On Anarchism. It’s my own personal attempt at a succinct primer on anarchist thought and theory from a non-sectarian viewpoint. One of my favorite sections - and likely the most controversial among the “anarchy means I can do whatever I want!” crowd - is the section on Social Contracts & Law in a Stateless society and the difference between Natural Law and State law. That section was written with some reference to Goldman and others, but mostly from my own thoughts. So I was pleasantly surprised today when I was reading through some of Bakunin’s work and found his essay on Rousseau and Social Contact Theory. Mikhael doesn’t agree with me on everything, of course, but I wanted to repost his essay here for ya’ll. Read more »

Posted: April 29th, 2008 under political theory.
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An open letter to all my fans, friends, supporters, & comrades.

Ya know, it’s funny how much little things - trivial things - mean. Take names for instance, a few letters, a syllable or three, a totally meaningless abstract symbol - and yet it can contain a persons entire identity, history, sense of self even. It’s huge. I’ve been thinking about names a lot lately, not least because I’ve noticed that there are an awful lot of folks running around calling themselves Lynx. I can’t blame ‘em, after all Lynx’s are pretty damn cool, but it does present a bit of a problem for me since as an independent musician all I really have is my name and whatever name recognition I’ve earned in the last decade or so since I started making music and in the last seven years since I released my first album. Read more »

Posted: April 16th, 2008 under music, news, personal.
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Thanks to the Glasgow Anarchists for the link, figured i’d share this with ya’ll!

Posted: April 13th, 2008 under science and history, video.
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My last post, On Anarchism, prompted a couple questions. I responded to one of them there but wanted to create a new post to address the other because it’s a pretty important topic. Read more »

Posted: April 11th, 2008 under music, politrix.
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I received the following email in my box today and figured I’d share it and my response with ya’ll: Read more »

Posted: April 9th, 2008 under politrix.
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