The Library of Unconventional Lives

Original Texts

Introductory Texts

• About This Project

• How to find and use this archive

• How to improve this project

• Rejected and controversially accepted texts

Collaborative Texts

• Website Visitors Guestbook

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Education

Sneaking into Lectures

• The Man Who Snuck Into the Ivy League Without Paying a Thing

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Work

Book Publishers

• Ace Backwards interviews Michael Hoy of Loompanics Unlimited

Flight attendants

• I Was a Flight Attendant During the Golden Age of Travel

Performing Artists

Street performers

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Comedians

• Improv Nation

• Captain Hotknives Greatest Hits, The Sleeve Notes

• A research dump of Captain Hotknives Songs & Lyrical Inspirations

Andy Kaufman

• Andy Kaufman Revealed!

• The Poetry and Stories of Andy Kaufman

• God by Andy Kaufman

• The Tao of Bill Murray

• The Life and Times of Andy Kaufman

• Andy Kaufman’s Full Discography

• Lost in the funhouse

• Andy Kaufman

• Andy Kaufman

• Was This Man a Genius?

• The Collected Writings of Andy Kaufman

• The Huey Williams Story

Sex Workers

• On the sale of sex & bodies

• Turn off the Red Light

• Grin and Bare It All

• Libertarian Socialism

• Sex Workers’ Opera — The Art of Listening

• Sex Workers’ Opera

Military Life

• Women At War

Rebels & Revolutionaries

The Good

The Russian Nihilist Movement

• Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21^st century

The Iberian Anarchist Federation

• Homage to Catalonia

• Looking back on the Spanish war

• Spilling the Spanish Beans

The Black Panthers

• Ashanti Alston on the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas

• The Wretched of the Earth

The Weather Underground

• The Way the Wind Blew

• Whither the Underground?

National Union of Mineworkers

• Debating the Miners’ Strike

Zapatista Solidarity Network

• Zapatista Spring

• Ashanti Alston on the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas

Anarchist Rebellion in Greece

• Information Bulletin From Greece, Issue No 19, Anarchist News

The Earth Liberation Front

• Earth Liberation Front Communiques

• Igniting a Revolution

• Cracks in a Grey Sky: An Anthology of Do or Die

• Flames of Dissent

• Earth First! Eostar

• If a Tree Falls

• Former ELF/Green Scare Prisoner “Exile” Now a Fascist

• A Shorter History of a Northwest E.L.F. Cell

• Burn Wild

• Daniel McGowan Lectures and Conversations

• For Avalon

• Green Anarchy #22

• Green Scare .org

• Green Scared?

• If a Tree Falls Review

• Live from Little Guantanamo

• My Own Pearl Harbor

• Support Daniel .org

• The Rise and Fall of the Eco-Radical Underground

• Violence and Nonviolence

• When Telling “Both Sides” Of a Story Only Legitimizes the Bad Actors

The Workmates Collective

• Workmates

CrimethInc.

• Days of War, Nights of Love

Traveller Solidarity Network

• Interview with an Anarchist at Dale Farm

• No Place To Call Home

Kurdish Solidarity Network

• An Anti-Authoritarian Analysis of Syria’s Uprising and Civil War

• Make Rojava Green Again

• Campaigns & Remembrances of Anna Campbell

• Rojava & Revolution with Josh Walker (YPG)

• Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan

• “The Struggle Is not for Martyrdom but for Life”

• Smashing the State in Rojava and Beyond

• A Mountain River Has Many Bends

Palestine Action

• Culture and Imperialism

• The Tragedy of a Generation

• The Question of Palestine

The Anarchist Defence of the Ukrainian People

• Ukrainian Anarchists Mobilize for Armed Defense, Draw Solidarity from Abroad as Russia Invades

The Gray

The Luddites

• What the Luddites Really Fought Against

• Good Old-Fashioned Trade Unionism

• The Making of the English Working Class

The Bonnot Gang

• Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits

The Irish National Invincibles

• The Invincibles and the Phoenix Park killings

• Remembering Patrick O’Donnell: The Man who Avenged the Invincibles

The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine

• Makhno and Memory

The Red Brigades

• Anatomy of the Red Brigades

The Red Army Faction

• The Baader-Meinhof Complex

• Remembering the Armed Struggle

The Vancouver Five

• Writings of the Vancouver Five

The Provisional Irish Republican Army

• A Secret History of the IRA

• Rose Dugdale obituary

Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)

• Thirty Years Ago Today I Shot My First Fascist

• Unbreakable

• Palestinian Resistance veteran Mark Barnsley on why he joined up

Revolutionary Subversive Faction-Commando Unabomber

• Revolutionary Subversive Faction-Commando Unabomber Communiques

• Information Bulletin From Greece, Issue No 19, Anarchist News

• Political Violence Against Americans, 1998

International Revolutionary Front

• Open Letter To The Anarchist & Anti-Authoritarian Movement

• Escalation

• ‘Do not say that we are few’ – Statement from the Italian FAI

• Athens: 27/6/12 – Full communiqué for the high-profile vehicle-bomb against Microsoft

• The Anarchist Federation statement on the kneecapping of a nuclear executive perpetrated by the Informal Anarchist Federation

• Toby Shone and the spectre of ‘anarchist terror’

• News on Toby Shone

• UK State Repression of Anarchists. Solidarity with Toby Shone

Defend the Atlanta Forest

• “Cop City” General Contractors’ Offices Attacked

• SWAT Teams Attack Atlanta Forest Encampments, Activists Charged with ‘Terrorism’

• Protester Killed in Firefight at Site of New Atlanta Police Center

The Bad

Nazis

• Inside the Third Reich

• Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself

• The Good Old Days

• Inside Hitlers Bunker

• Until the Final Hour

• The Last Days of Hitler

• Spandau

• Nuremberg Diary

• Crusader Dreams

Bolshevism

• Revolution at the Gates

• When the Party Commits Suicide

• Leonid I. Brezhnev: Pages from His Life

• My Lives in Russia

The Khmer Rouge

• A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979)

The MOVE organization

• 25 Years on the Move

• Ex-MOVE members say they were raised in a ‘cult’ where abuse and homophobia ran rampant

The Unabomber

• Industrial Society and Its Future

• A Conversation with John Zerzan on Direct Action, School Shootings, Authenticity, Veganism & More

• A Collaboratively Edited Discussion on Anti-Tech Politics

• Does the Unabomber have any relevance to anarchism?

• The Bombings & Communications of Ted Kaczynski as part of his Terror Campaign

Committee for the Liquidation and Subversion of Computers

• Memory Loss

• 25 Years on the Move

Individualists Tending to the Wild

• Mexico Government and New School of Tech. Targeted with Butane Gas Bomb

• Satanist ITS Members Communique and Arrest Report

• They Declare Guilty the “Individualist Tending to the Wild” for Explosive Attacks in the RM

CARI-PGG

• A text dump on CARI-PGG

Various Bio-Primitivist Groups

• An Analysis of the Attack on the Metcalf Substation on April 16^th, 2013

• Glue, Spraypaint and Disorder in Cambridge against the System (UK)

• Power restored to North Carolina county affected by shooting

Order of 9 Angles

• O9A Rising: The Spread of Britain’s Occultist Militant Group

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Leisure

Housing

Living in non-traditional communities, such as communes, intentional communities, ecovillages, off-the-grid, or the tiny house movement.

• Communes in the 21^st Century

• Community, Democracy, and Mutual Aid

• Questions we Have to Ask

• An Anarchism for Today

• Return of the Diggers

Housing Co-ops

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Land Co-ops

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Hermits

• Ted Kaczynski’s Low-Tech Lifestyle

Parenting

Communal parenting, homeschooling, home birthing, etc.

• Anarchism for Civilians

Ethical lifestyles

Veganism, freeganism, low-impact lifestyles, etc.

• Igniting a Revolution

• A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People

• Against Inefficacy Objections

• Veganism: the Future of an Illusion

Gender & sexuality subcultures

LGBT culture, BDSM, cross-dressing, transvestism, polyamory, cruising, swinging, sexual fetishism, role-players, etc.

• Bi

• The Queer Art of Failure

Polyamory

• Butterflies, polyamory and ideology

• Is Monogamy Morally Permissible?

• Love, Anarchy, and Drama

• Marriage or Free Union; Which?

• On Sexual Liberty

• Polyamory and Queer Anarchism: Infinite Possibilities for Resistance

• Process-Centered Love

• queering heterosexuality

• The Religion of Kerista and Its 69 Positions

• The Road to Relationship Anarchy

• Scarce Or Abundant, Nothing About Love Should Be Casual

• The Ethics of Relationship Anarchy

Nudism

• Revolutionary Nudism

• Anarchist Individualism and Amorous Comradeship

Small Religions

Freemasons, Ordo Templi Orientis, Thelemites, Satanists, Modern Pagans, and New Age communities.

• Caliban and the Witch

• A wink, a nod, or a shake of the hand: on the Masons

• Fragments concerning Freemasonry

Low-Tech Communities

Neo-Luddites, Amish, Mennonites, Hutterites, the Bruderhof Communities, and Schwarzenau Brethren) and ultra-Orthodox Jews.

• Swamp Fever, Primitivism & the “Ideological Vortex”: Farewell to All That

• Neo-Luddites and Lessons from the Luddites

• Notes toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto

• Anabaptist movement

• Secular Antinomian Anabaptist Neo-Luddism

• Christian Anarchism

• Anarchism and Christianity

• Religious Anarchism

Travelers

• Tracks

• Evasion

• All traveler kids purged from CrimethInc. membership

• What is Squat the Planet?

• The Anarchist’s Guide to Travel

• Off the Rails

• Amazon

• The Last Wild Men of Borneo

Walkers

• The Salt Path

Joggers

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Cyclers

• The man who cycled around the world on less than $5 a day

Private Vehicles

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Hitchhikers

• Into the Wild

Ride Sharers

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Van lifers

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Train Riders

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Train Hoppers

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Freight Hoppers

• The Road

Boating

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Sailers

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Bussing

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Flyers

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The Criminal Justice System

Legislators

The Good

The Gray

Prison Abolition

• What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants

• Instead of Prisons

• An Anarchist Response to “An Anarchist Response to Crime”

Prison Reform

• Why The World’s Cushiest Prison Is Also Among Its Most Effective

The Bad

Authoritarian Regimes

• China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt are world’s worst jailers of journalists

The Death Penalty

• Botched Executions

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Criminals

The Good

• Judge takes pity on dad who stole food from Tesco to feed his family

• Publishers clash with students over textbook copying

• First squatter jailed under new law

• She was jailed for losing a pregnancy. Her nightmare could become more common

• Crap Arrests of the Week

Battered women who kill their abusers

• The Map of My Life

• Sara Thornton

The Gray

Crime as a way to adventure

• Hell’s Angels

• The Barefoot Bandit

• Catch Me If You Can

Crime as a way to be a hermit

• The Stranger in the Woods

The Bad

Opportunist killers abused as children

• In Cold Blood

Mass shooters

• The Story of Lindsay Souvannarath

A Deep Dive into Aileen Wuornos Story

• A Reading List on Aileen Wuornos

Books

• Dear Dawn; Aileen Wuornos In Her Own Words

• The Unfinished Autobiography of Aileen Wuornos

• Lethal Intent

• Monster; Inside the Mind of Aileen Wuornos

• Dead Ends; The Pursuit, Conviction, and Execution of Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos

• Fatal Women; Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression

• Selfish Women

Academic Papers

• Serial Murder and the Case of Aileen Wuornos; Attachment Theory, Psychopathy, and Predatory Aggression

• The Trouble with Aileen Wuornos, Feminism’s “First Serial Killer”

• Autobiographical documentary — the ‘seer and the seen’

• Monster-Making; Narrative/Metanarrative in the Representation of Aileen Wuornos

• Control

• An inmate’s right to die

Essays

• Surpassing the word

• The Deferential Wife Revisited

• Aileen Wuornos was no monster

• CCR: Lawyer did a bad job in serial killer case

• Corporal Evidence

• From documentary to drama

• Aileen Wuornos Superstar

• Making a Killing (Preview)

• Women and Violence — Gender Myths

• OUI DISH 4 U

• Does the Unabomber have any relevance to anarchism?

Conversations

• Interview: Phyllis Chesler on Aileen Wuornos and Valerie Solanas, icons of female violence against men

• A Collaboratively Edited Discussion on Anti-Tech Politics

• A Conversation with John Zerzan on Direct Action, School Shootings, Authenticity, Veganism & More

Films

• Nick Broomfield’s Two Documentaries on Aileen Wuornos

• Monster Film Script

• Monster Film Transcript (2003)

Film Reviews

• A Review of Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

• Hypocrisy Imbues Tale of ‘Aileen Wuornos’

• Monster: The Retelling of the Aileen Wuornos Story

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Sex critical feminism

• Sex Critical — Very Loose Women Ep. #155

• Fucked: on being sexually dysfunctional in sex-positive queer scenes

• 2Fucked 2Furious: still sexually dysfunctional in sex-positive queer scenes

• Damaged Like Me: Essays on Love, Harm, and Transformation

Consent and accountability zine culture

• I am no hero, and neither are you; thoughts on how our histories of abuse inflect our anarchist practice

• The Broken Teapot

• From the Mouths of Wolves Bellowing Forth: Ask

• consen(t)sus?: exploring contradictions, practice, and politics; also, gay sex

• Delete Me,

Cults

• Manson

• Member of the Family

• Nothing to Envy

• The Manson Women and Me

• Underground

• The Road to Jonestown

Fugitives

The Good

• France: Detention and an escape + Letter of Ivan

• Disappearing From State Control

• The Story of Huw ‘Badger’ Norfolk

• Letter from some unknown part of the world

The Gray

• Former Red Army Faction members linked to botched robbery

The Bad

Informants

The Good

• The Walk-In true story: what inspired ITV’s HOPE Not Hate drama – who are Matthew Collins and Robbie Mullen?

• His Brother’s Keeper

The Gray

The Bad

Investigations

The Good

• The Good Nurse

• Eugène François Vidocq, French Criminal Turned Detective

• A Journey to the Center of the Mind

The Gray

• The Ears and the Eyes (and the GPS trackers)

• List of found surveillance devices

• The Timeline So Far

• Channel Reintroduction: The Case & Our Call For Revolution

• Interview about State Persecution on Mind of A Skeptical Leftist

• Interview With Cory Johnston, host of Mind of a Skeptical Leftist

• Truth Versus Lies (Original Draft)

The Bad

• HORRIFIC Failings Of Met Police Allowed Serial Killer to Murder

• Bug found in a comrade’s car, Lecco (Italy)

• An Editor of a ‘Kaczynskist’ Journal Had His House Raided & Phone Seized

• The FBI Investigation of Forest Anon

Interventions

The Good

The Gray

The Bad

• Reflections on the ZAD: Another History

• Position of the Legal Team About the Militia Actions on the ZAD

• Racist Murder In America And The Bifurcation Of The Modern World System

• Theo and the distinctly sexual flavour of French racism

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Prosecutions

The Good

The Gray

The Bad

• How the U.K. Prosecuted a Student on Terrorism Charges for Downloading a Book

• Man falsely accused of sexual assault on actress wants apology from CPS over ‘bemusing’ case

Defenses

The Good

The Gray

The Bad

• The Fight for Manny Babbitt

• USA v. Theodore Kaczynski: One of the Most Famous Non-Trials in Legal History

Incompetent Lawyers

• Hypocrisy Imbues Tale of ‘Aileen Wuornos’

• CCR: Lawyer did a bad job in serial killer case

Witnesses

The Good

The Gray

The Bad

• I refuse to be like them’: why the man shot while protesting Milo Yiannopoulos doesn’t want revenge

Jurors

The Good

Rejecting the Death Penalty

• ‘It got ugly.’ Jurors in Parkland school massacre case report feeling threatened, disrespected during tense deliberations

Jury Nullification

• Jury Nullification Results In Hung Jury For Climate Activist

The Gray

The Bad

Judges

The Good

The Gray

The Bad

• Report: Florida Judge In Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Case Has ‘Ties’ To Key Players

• State of Georgia Vs. Mr. Allen Transcript

Survivors

The Good

Survivor-Led Vigilantism

• Accounting for Ourselves

• 68. Vigilante Mother — Germany

The Gray

The Bad

— Confinement —

Prison Staff

The Good

The Gray

The Bad

Prison Inmates

The Good

Prisoner Inmate Solidarity

• If it Was Easy They Wouldn’t Call it ‘Struggle’

• Imprisonment in Great Britain

• Colditz

The Gray

The Bad

Prison Escapes

The Good

• The Unbelievable Story Of Richard Lee McNair – The Man Who Mailed Himself Out Of Prison

• A Normal Life by Vassilis Palaiokostas

The Gray

• ADIÓS PRISIÓN

• Greece: Anarchist Giannis Michailidis has escaped from Tyrintha prison

The Bad

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Miscellaneous

Ways of life that are disappearing

Hunter-Gatherers

• The Forest People

• The Baka

• Wayward Servants

• Nomads of the Long Bow

• My Life as an Indian

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Past lives that are no longer possible

Explorers

• Admiral of the Ocean Sea

• How I Found Livingstone

• “Each Crueler Than the Last”

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Fictional ways of life

• Juan Darién

• The Secret Agent

• The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

• The Cossacks and The Raid

• The Brothers Karamazov

• White Savage

• The Leatherstocking Tales

• The Monkey Wrench Gang

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

• Sapphira and the Slave Girl

• Far from the Madding Crowd

• The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

• The Fox and the Hound

Unsorted Texts

• Whiteboard

• Life’s Lessons & Abolitionist Politics

• Positive Philosophy

• Stoicism and Existentialism

• Existentialism & Authenticity

• Gypsy Anarchism

• Individualism’s Dandy Daddy

• Christmas and the British

• Wales since 1939

• Satire is (un)dead

• World War II: The Autobiography

• The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

• The Anarchist Library talk at 2020 London Anarchist Bookfair

• 50 years since the Coup d’état in Chile

• A text dump on Eisel Mazard

• Primal Awareness (Preview)

• Polyvagal Flip Chart

• Women Who Run With the Wolves

• Women Who Run with the Wolves (Wikipedia Page)