Sep 16
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Félix Fénéon (1861–1944) was an art and literary critic in turn-of-the-century Paris, the coiner of the term “neo-impressionism,” and openly identified as an anarchist. In 1894, he and 29 others were acquitted of conspiracy to bomb and assassinate political leaders. He wrote Novels in Three Lines, a piece that redefined the idea of story-telling. The book is formed from a series of newspaper headlines that he wrote in 1906 for a paper, but taken together they paint a dark vignette of Parisian life.

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Sep 16
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Joseph Déjacque (1821–1864), born in France, was the author who coined the term “libertarian” to distinguish anarchists from liberals (in a letter to Proudhon, whom he criticized for opposing feminism). Among other things, he wrote the fictional utopia L’Humanisphère: Utopie anarchique, which includes in its introduction the lines: “This book is not written in ink, and its pages are not sheets of paper … it is a projectile, that I throw thousands of onto the streets of the civilized.” The utopia was first serialized in Le Libertaire, the US’s first anarcho-communist journal. Joseph was exiled from Napeleon’s France for publishing radical poetry, and retreated for a number of years to the US before returning to France and dying in Paris.

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