Posted By: 812 (2006-11-27 16:33:11)
I have a boring, mindkilling job and the only thing that keeps me sane is listening to books. I have mostly found main stream shit to listen too, so this site really came as a welcome gift. Thank you.
8/12 Stockholm, Sweden
Posted By: badger (2006-12-06 20:49:29)
i think fredy perlman is great. i too want his writing to be more widely available. to that end, i'm transcribing his humongous essay "Against His-story, Against Leviathan!" onto my blog. if you type in that title, you'll see the chapters i've already put up without having to wade through my personal stuff. the blog is called Noble Savagery
Posted By: dave (2006-12-24 21:40:24)
Congratulations! I'm just getting started and am quite enjoying the book. You folks do some mighty fine work!
Posted By: Will (2006-12-26 13:10:45)
It's over already. I'm up to Yarostans 9th and can't wait to hear the rest. forget the merit badge. Just give me more books like this one. I'll be happy to help as soon as i get my mic working.
Posted By: dave (2006-12-28 01:40:58)
I can't seem to get number 33 to work for me.
Posted By: moxie (2006-12-28 02:12:12)
Whoops, sorry -- should be fixed now.
Posted By: Isaac (2007-01-02 23:13:49)
I've been enjoying this series for the last week or two, and have found it very interesting. The different flavors of anarchist-philosophy expressed here (in this series and in the others featured at audio anarchy) seem to be filled to the brim with life and intellectually seductive qualities--yet I must confess I don't find the positions wholly satisfactory.
For one thing, what's with the constant deprecation of higher education? There are a number of negative things we can stipulate about colleges and universities, but they still offer a very real and important opportunity for intellectual growth and contributions (something almost wholly absent from compulsory education).
Secondly, even if I wholly agree that typical modern "work" sucks, democracy is overrated, and corporate capitalism is a disaster for individuals, wtf am I supposed to do--glumly patter around at the most menial job I can find and attempt to incite riots? I think that while a very convincing argument can be made implicating the growth of productivity (since lets say the agricultural revolution) in the growing unhappiness of humans, its entirely possible that the process that made productivity singularly valuable is irreversible, short of mass violence and starvation. The only positions that appear tenable to me are the ones that seek to ameliorate what harm has been done to our spirits (eg: Bertrand Russell's suggestions in the work series).
Anywho, I'm sure this particular reading took quite a lot of effort, so thank you!
-Isaac
Posted By: some dude (2007-03-04 18:37:41)
You said:
"its entirely possible that the process that made productivity singularly valuable is irreversible, short of mass violence and starvation."
I agree.
But, also, I see the destructiveness of our culture everywhere everyday. And it keeps getting worse. And I realize that I was brought up on Disney movies where everything had a happy ending and that has been engrained in me that there is a solution that will please everyone in the end to solve all of our problems. Not to mention a problem that would take the most fundamental change in EVERYONES life (the destruction of the unsustainable and undesirable civilization) would probably has to be a way we can undo all this right?
We can undo all of this right? Without hurting anyone? (that we wouldn't want hurt)
Im not a politician so I dont offer easy answers or great promises of the future, but it seems to me that to undo all of this WOULD cause alot of damage.
But also, as civilization goes forward, it will eventually fall. It is unsustainable. It will fall. But the SOONER it falls, the less disastrous the effects will be on the rest of us, and the less misery it will bring us in our lives.
So I don't offer any ways to save us all from this. We're badly damaged from it as it is now, but I would argue that in the long run, the sooner we get rid of civilization the better off we and other species, will be. (The planet will be fine, and heal itself eventually, it might not just be habitable for us, that's all)
Posted By: utin (2007-10-29 05:32:55)
Capitalism might resolve itself to a kind of man, which is free, since production is done by robots and development by AI, society needn`t to fall, it may just evolve.
Posted By: dave (2007-01-23 00:50:14)
I finished! I enjoyed this work so very much, both the work of Fredy Perlman, and the fantatic work of you, the Audio Anarchy folks. Listening to the "Reader's Delirium" made me smile. I like y'all, you're good people and you do incredible work. Let anyone who things that without compulsion we would all be lazy merely be referred to this page and silenced.
I urge you to keep up this project, it is very much appreciated!
Posted By: agntdnl (2007-02-09 10:54:15)
How about a torrent of all of the files? That would be neato.
Posted By: orawax (2007-10-18 09:32:17)
Torrent now available at the Pirate Bay!
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3847162
Posted By: MagonistaRevolt (2007-03-07 01:11:20)
I friggin loved this story. I forewent reading for about two weeks so that I could finish this book in this medium. Wonderful.
I am very confused as to the meaning of the incestuous relationships throughout. I don't think I'm a prude in saying that they disturbed me a good deal.
Posted By: FSG (2007-06-07 21:47:47)
I thought about the odd relationships in the letters as well. Everyone seems to mingle together. My thoughts were that if your forego the traditional roles of society then the taboos are also foregone.
Posted By: FSG (2007-06-07 21:39:42)
I ride 15 miles to work everyday and I love listening to this audio series during the commute. Thank you.
Posted By: DN (2007-06-08 20:41:43)
A realy great book! And you did a realy great thing reading it and making it available. As I listen during work it made my working day a lot more intrestning. I'll tell my friends to listen. Genius and style!
Posted By: DN (2007-06-08 20:42:25)
A realy great book! And you did a realy great thing reading it and making it available. As I listen during work it made my working day a lot more intrestning. I'll tell my friends to listen. Genius and style!
Göteborg, Sweden
Posted By: _h_ (2007-06-30 08:20:52)
Yep, this was some good shit.
Norrköping, Sweden.
Posted By: Alex (2007-12-22 15:36:44)
A forum of some sort would be very nice
Posted By: Wes (2008-01-15 02:28:51)
Thought you'd want to know, the Letters of Insurgents recording features prominently in a free Skool class this quarter. Should we issue merit badges to the half dozen people who will make it through the whole thing?
Letters of Insurgents
Big Yellow House
with Shim Sham Rivers
Every Monday 7pm
We will listen to the audio recording of Fredy Perlman's “Letters of Insurgents” drinking tea and cuddling to the sound of one of the most critical and creative anarchist fictions ever written, with reflection and discussion afterward. Requirements: We are asking for a commitment to the entirety (~30 hours) for those who have not previously read the book. If previously acquainted, contact instructor if interested in joining us along the way.
Wes
freeskoolsc@riseup.net
http://santacruz.freeskool.org
Posted By: renato (2008-06-24 18:50:12)
Could you put the audio transcriptions available in text form too? This could be gooog to people around over the world don´t understand so cleary what "audio anarchy" is saying in the speeech english...I myself been an ploretarian studant by myself of the english language couldn´t understand many of the words and phrases of the audio recorded. But, anyway, I like what I could undesrtand...thanks, from brazil, Ranato.