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Facebook: September 21, 2012 at 12:33PM
Anyone got much in the way of online or offline resources about Iniciales (“la revista de los espiritus libres”, 1929-1937)?
It’s a Catalunian/Spanish individualist anarchist magazine, which lists topics as “Anarchist Individualism, Naturism and Eugenics [sigh], Voluntary and Conscientious Procreation, Sexology.” Thought of L’en dehors as “French colleagues.” Recently ran into them through a pamphlet they published in ’36 or ’37 translating Laurance Labadie’s “Is Communism Sound?” into Spanish (“Es practicable el comunismo?”)
Facebook: September 19, 2012 at 12:16AM
is trying to figure out the best way to render Clarence Swartz’s freaky typographical choices into HTML/CSS. (I could just happily ignore the whole thing, but of course a section of nearly every issue of the magazine talks about the latest batch of letters he has gotten complaining about said freaky typographical choices, and defending them against their detractors, all of which is … puzzling … unless you can see what he was doing.)
Facebook: September 12, 2012 at 09:09AM
My recent trip to the Labadie Collection was largely for gathering information and notes on American individualists and mutualists operating in the decades after the end of Liberty and Tucker’s retirement to Europe. (So, e.g., a lot on Clarence Swartz’s activities, Herman Kuehn’s Instead of a Magazine, the work of Laurance Labadie, etc.)
Based on this research, I believe the award for the most name changes in a single periodical run will have to go to Edward H. Fulton, who began publishing The New Order in 1919, and ended up publishing The Mutualist in 1928. In between, the publication was called: The New Order (1919), 1776 American (1920), Ego (1921, 1923), The Egoist (1924-1925), and The Mutualist (1925-1928). Really, for all I know it may still be publishing, having gone through another 40 or 50 names in the interim; I ran out of time in Michigan before I ran out of boxes requested from the Labadie.
Facebook: September 12, 2012 at 08:04AM
is back in Alabama.