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New Issue of Distinctively Dionysian — The Hum

Friday, August 22, 2025

Cover image of The Hum, the most recent issue from Distinctively Dionysian editor, Fiona Vivienne. Some frequencies never announce themselves, yet bend the air around everything they touch… currents without station, without signal, only a saturation of presence. The Hum, as it’s named in the new issue, is not metaphor, not mood, nor is it theory draped in allure. It is the low, persistent resonance that precedes language, slips beneath thought, et threads itself through lives that will not be explained.
This issue is an immersion in that frequency: subterranean, sensuous, souverain. It does not illustrate; it arrives as traces—traces of life inhabited rather than performed. It does not belong to discourse but to résonance. The atmosphere here is not argued; it is lived… comme un parfum que l’on ne peut pas nommer.
This last issue of summer moves through Clarice Lispector et Rimbaud, drifts into Agamben and Blanchot, brushes against Marguerite Duras, Han Shan, and Diogenes, lingers with Michel Serres et Salomo Friedlaender, and slips at last through Genet et Sarrazin… into Taoist fragments, fugitive gestes, refusals, et le murmure souverain beneath any articulation. These are not portraits but passages. Not homage, but movement — composed from within the hum itself, always returning to my dérive.
The Hum is available now. The first issue of Fall ’25, the upcoming Lore et Disorder begins mailing Oct.1
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Alongside The Hum runs another thread: Dancing in the Backwoods, a five-book constellation.

A series, yes, but more a movement, just beyond the visible edges of Backwoods Journal, orbiting the same starless terrain. I had not picked up Backwoods, Zerzan’s Against Civilization, various writings of cher Bellamy, nor Michel Serres in some time. With all the love et thanks to cher Vincent, Seymour — merci! — mon doux Jae, et le brillant et tant manqué Bellamy, I skipped down that windy road once again. Returning to those reads reminded me of what had always struck me so clearly: that my perspective breathes in such a different atmosphere altogether… one that was worth writing down. It is a divergence long-formed, yet one that engages aspects of anti-civ, ‘green anarchisme’, and related terrains from an angle I have never encountered elsewhere (though always wished to).

So I wrote my cosmology down.
Dancing in the Backwoods is neither critique nor variation, but breathing where thought has thinned the air. Without mythic innocence, nostalgia, or allegiance, it stands in full flourish at the margins of my favorites. These books are reverberations, not arguments; gestes, not manifestos. A way of living long inhabited, written in my own weather… tout parfum et rupture. To set it down, at long last, is a pleasure. I believe the Dionysian and Madame Simone readers will savor it.
A separate update will follow with more on the series Dancing in the Backwoods, including ordering links and the new website.

 

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For this moment, The Hum, dernier souffle of summer, begins mailing today. Copies are ready to find their way. I was hoping to link you to the new Bacchus site, but it is not uetbready. For now, do as you do, et send for Dionyisan here.
Dancing in the Backwoods’ Books I–III (The Feral Masquerade, The Soil Remains Intoxicated, et Nothing Is Innocent) are available for pre-order, shipping begins September 1. Books IV–V (Wild Ethics of Maternal Presence et The Disloyal Animal) — also available for pre-order with  shipping beginning Sept.15th
The Next issue of Distinctively Dionysian, Lore & Disorder, begins mailing October 1.
Merci pour votre patience, mes chéris. I hope you are all well.
—XO
·✦· Fíona

 

 

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Distinctively Dionysian’s New Issue: The Radiant Void- Ready For You xo

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

THE RADIANT VOID — the newest issue, pressed and ready.

  Bienvenue dans l’édition d’avril of Distinctively Dionysian, the third in our printemps triptych. This new issue is a cartography of shimmering negations and ecstatic affirmations.

From Friedlaender’s poised indifference to Novatore’s volcanic ego, from Benjamin’s pure means to Agamben’s suspended law, from Stirner’s scorching laughter to Bataille’s sovereign obliteration—The Radiant Void does not traffic in theory. It’s a pulse, a flicker, a transmission…

The essays within are gestures. Techniques. Oscillations. Zones of rupture. Each was created not from doctrine, but the zero-point that precedes it—what Friedlaender articulated as schöpferische Indifferenz, and what I might call das weltenschwangere Nichts—the radiant void, our zero-point, where worlds flicker into form.

Inside this issue:

  • Introduction — On Salomo Friedlaender and Creative Indifference

The luminous zero-point of schöpferische Indifferenz.

  • Thresholds of Fire — Benjamin, Agamben, and the Joyous Void

Pure means, suspended law, and the lineage of creative indifference.

  • A Laugh in the Void — Stirner and the Anarchic Echo of the Ego

Stirner’s egoist rupture — laughter that tears through the veil of the general.

Fire and Crystal — Stirner and Friedlaender on Indifference

Two visions of indifference: Stirner’s fire-lit singularity and Friedlaender’s crystalline equilibrium.

  • Twilight at the Center — Nietzsche, Friedlaender, and the Metaphysics of the Void

Nietzsche’s Dionysian becoming meets Friedlaender’s poised void—a metaphysical duet in the tone of twilight.

  • The Flame that Dances — Novatore and the Anarchy of Creative Indifference

Renzo Novatore’s wild, poetic refusal—creative nothingness as insurrection and sovereign flame.

  • Field Operations from the Void — Individualist Psy-Ops and the Tactic of Form

Insurrection through unreadability—indifference deployed as elegant sabotage. With quiet dedication to Jason Rodgers, for the spark offered.

  • Against the Machine, Into the Void — Tech, Refusal, and Radiant Neutrality

Creative indifference as personal revolt under digital siege—a sacred opacity in a techno-nightmare.

  • Creation in the Ruins — Creative Indifference Amid The Great Shift / Climate Collapse

Ecological individualisme and radiant refusal: creation as aesthetic survival amidst collapse.

  • The Sovereign Unbecoming — On Bataille and the Art of Self-Forgetting

Bataille’s art of self-forgetting—sovereignty not as control, but erotic rupture.

  • To Spend the Self — Erotic Thresholds and the Radiant Afterglow

Dépense, erotic afterglow, and sovereign expression as radiant surplus.

  • On the Rind of the World — Schopenhauer and Metaphysical Illusion

Schopenhauer’s principium individuationis as the metaphysical veil—appearance as

spell, and the tremble beneath.

  • Final Transmission — The Threshold that Follows

  •  Mini Biography: Salomo Friedlaender

Philosopher of the magische Ich, grotesque satire, et schöpferische Indifferenz.

  •  Mini Biography: Georges Bataille

Mystic of excess, sacred transgression, and the radiant sovereignty of loss.

The essays form a radiant constellation; to trace these constellations et write this issue was its own kind of exhilaration. I do hope you enjoy it.

To get your copy: [visit here].

— Fíona
xo, bien sûr.

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New issue, ‘The Great Féminine Refusal’ out now.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Bonsoir, amis. Our next issue, « The Great Féminine Refusal: Neither Sister Nor Servant », is complete—printed once again on handmade paper, looking very pretty.

 

Spring II Issue of Distinctively Dionysian.

This isssue is not mere rejection—it is the seizing of what was never given, the refusal to kneel, et le triomphe d’une femme égoïste. The Great Féminine Refusal is a whispered spell of undoing from one who belongs to no cause. A decadent revolt against collectivity, morality, and ideology—this is not theory, but artful sabotage. Un sabotage féminin, without the phantasms that still haunt some of our favorites. If you’ve ever tasted your own sovereignty and smiled at the scandal, this issue already belongs to you.

CONTENTS

The Great Féminine Refusal: Neither Sister Nor Servant, Early Spring, 2025

I. Introduction. The Great Undoing
Tracing the path of d’une femme égoïste.

Contents of Spring II

II. Against the Poverty of Thought
A ruthless critique of Dominique Karamazov’s The Poverty of Feminism—acknowledging its seeds, shattering its failures, and offering an individualiste counter-theory.

III. Beyond Feminism: L’insurrection d’une femme
Detailing feminism’s transformation into an institution and affirming une égoïste woman’s absolute refusal to submit.

IV. Dancing with Defiance
Rabelaisian laughter, the grotesque, and the carnivalesque as an individualiste revolt against today’s humorless order.

V. Beyond Wolfi, Beyond Lilith
A loving but total destruction of cher Wolfi Landstreicher’s Beyond Feminism and the counter-critique by Lilith—moving past both through one woman’s phantasm-free lens.

VI. An Egoist Anarcho-Surrealist Imagination
Un clin d’œil au cher Ron Sakolsky. Blending insurrectionary individualisme with surrealist rupture—undoing the dystopian present through aesthetic sabotage.

VII. Individualiste Heresy in Private Gatherings
A praxis beyond affinity—on the return of our private salons as spaces of intellectual insurrection; radical secrecy and exquisite selection.

VIII. Adieu, But Not Goodbye
A farewell to comfort, and a toast to what’s next: this closing piece offers a glimpse into the upcoming issue—featuring unpublished Novatore, updates on translation endeavors (including Bonanno’s Treaty on Uselessness and Destroy Religion), and a fiery comparative revolt beyond Stirner’s Creative Nothing and Mynona/Friedländer’s Creative Indifference (with the first English translations of Schöpferische Indifferenz), and more.

XO,
FV

Available in English en French.
Send for the issue here. 

 

 

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Poste updates, Issue Contents

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Spring Issue

Small Update:

Another little round of early spring’s issue went out this morning, so if you sent for Distinctively Dionysian over a week ago, here comes yours. (Feel free to reach out for tracking if you like). Also, for last week’s requests, 40 more have been block-printed, saddle-stitched and will be at the poste on Monday. :)

 

Here are the contents of the issue, as you await your copy:

 

Égoïste Exégèse: A Reclamation of Fire

Issue Cover Spring

Journal Introduction

Articles (All articles in this issue by Fiona)

I. Darker, Mon Amour

Rebuking the Most Tragic Feminist Analysis of Baudelaire.

II. Adieu, Mon Amour

Une Forteresse Imprenable; On the Deep Pleasure of Parting.

III. La Femme Insolente

I Refuse the Liberation Offered to Me-I Take the One I Desire; (A Response to Max Stirner outrage.)

IV. La Chair Insoumise

In Defense of Unruly passion & the erotic revolt.

V. When the Ast Settles, My Fire Rises

Responding to Correspondents: A Love Letter, with Emphasis for North American Friends.

VI. Rejection to Creation: Kofman’s Egoiste Exegesis

Highlighting French Philosopher Sarah Kofman.

VII. Sadean Imagination, Deserting the Armies of Conformism;

Grand-mere, Annie Le Brun, et Moi.

VIII. A Call to Counter

Critique of  Miething’s ‘A Feminist Disciple of Nietzsche, Dora Marsden’s Unstable Anarchism.’

IX. The Freewomans Laugh

Dora Marsden’s Egoist Ascension.

Closing Letter

 

The next issue is nearly ready, so another DD update très bientôt.

Merci

XX Fiona

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Adoration by the sea, et a request

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Photo of small hand crafted booklets

A lovely time dockside yesterday, adorning some of the tiny Les Femmes booklets for a few favorite Dionysian correspondants—are these not precious?

A good image to use for a little note to those who write—when you do, if you could list what you already have from us, it would be très utile. That way, we won’t send you doubles et can make sure you receive exactly what you desire. If you have older issues, let us know which you’re requesting or still missing; if you have some of our broadsheets or zines, make a note of it. It’s become a bit challenging to keep track of who has what, and we’d much rather spend the time making beautiful things for ourselves and you.

Merci!
Yours,
FV

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Update: Bacchus Editions Private Press— Notre Petite Maison d’Édition

Friday, March 7, 2025

Bacchus Editions Private Press— Notre Petite Maison d’ÉditionBacchus Editions Site Header

 

With this new incarnation, Distinctively Dionysian now lives under Bacchus Editions, our revived private press — now outfitted with a growing collection of vintage print and binding machines. Bacchus is our little atelier, a press of our own because we prefer to shape every part of what we create — following our own desires, learning as we go, and finding joy in every step, from first word to final page.

If you’re new here, Bacchus Editions is for the extravagants — writers, artists, and thinkers whose work doesn’t fit anywhere polite… the ones who live and create too richly, too fiercely. It’s also a home for the annulés — the so-called “canceled,” whose only crime was refusing to kneel.

Bacchus Editions is also getting its own maison en ligne, a proper digital home. Here, you will be able to find Distinctively Dionysian…

The site (launching mid-spring) will make it easier to browse everything we create — translations, zines, journals that don’t always make it onto this page, plus a little area for updates on translations, and, bien sûr, a shop for things. Think of it as part library, part print archive, part curiosity cabinet — for those who like to linger, to dig, to discover.

One of the first treasures you’ll find there is my most ambitious translation project yet — enormous tomes of Alfredo M. Bonanno’s works, including several never before published. Feral, insurrectionary, sans compromis — pure Bonanno. I can’t wait to finally share it with you.

There’s much more to come, but for now, I have bindings to sew and packages to send off to my Dionysians. À bientôt.

Yours,
Egoistically, of course.
XO ~ Fíona

 

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New special issue of Distinctively Dionysian: Egoïste Exégèse

Thursday, March 6, 2025

  Bonjour, amis. Apologies for the lack of updates in this space—je suis occupée! Been translating like crazy, finishing my book, getting our private press off the ground (new presses et vintage machines, yay!), and building a site, alongside all the printing and mailing. (We’ve gained a wave of new correspondents and subscribers. For longer letter senders, do be patient with our replies. I like to write with intent for one, but also,  the mail is sent up from the States, so it can take a minute. Merci.) Onward..

 

Photo of the new Distinctively Dionysian issue and a small booklet on the individualist anarchist women

   But today, enfin, an update—the next issue is ready, and she is a beauty!

  With the coming season, a special edition—Egoïste Exégèse—a seductive shift, a nouvelle métamorphose, better capturing my desires. If past issues were a bacchanal of inspirations—forty pages bursting like a collage of whatever delighted my mind that season (printed by ma fille et co.)—this new issue, fully in my hands, is one step closer to you, brushing against the skin. The issues are now more like a distillation—a deliberate concentration of thought and play, where the writing leans more intimate, insolent, and personal. It is a more potent invitation, provocation, un joli défi to write deeper, strip away the unnecessary, and let each word bruise or bloom as it pleases.

inner pages of the handmade distinctively dionysian and les femmes booklets

Journal as Object — A New Sensuality of Paper & Print

 This issue (re)introduces Distinctively Dionysian in its most ravishing form—un objet d’art that better reflects my time with it and the heightened spirit within the pages. I am wildly enamored with the paper et I cannot wait for subscribers to feel it. Printed on handmade, cold-pressed cotton—the kind of thing your hands wish to linger on. It’s a bit of a plaything, too—the next two issues flirt between methods: linocuts, block prints, offset, digital, and risograph… all layered together. Every technique chosen for the sheer plaisir of texture and possibility.

 It is undoubtedly a more genuine reflection of moi and the spirit of Dionysian—not only in look and feel but in the way it was made: playful, intentional, willing to trespass between mediums for the sake of beauty. J’adore the harmony between form and content—an elevation worthy of the writing.

In the issues following Egoïste Exégèse—Mi-Printemps—we will feature new writings from those I’ve found along the way, those I admire or am drawn to, whether for their art, books, thinking, or their singular way of life.

  As for practicalities—Dionysian now carries a price of $18, owing to the time spent courting the press machines, and to balance the gracious (and ever-growing!) habit of trades and gifts offered in the spirit of mutualité (which we love!). However, mes plus charmants correspondants—the lovelies who have been with Dionysian since its earliest fêtes—you remain at $15, bien sûr. A small merci for your dance alongside… <3

But enough of that—what matters most is this: a new issue is here, and the pages await you, freshly pressed, ready to be devoured.

Oh!

   Also picture, new mini ‘pocketbook’ treasures. These little soft treats accompany an upcoming book by yours truly, titled Les Femmes Anarchistes Individualistes : De La Belle Époque À Nos Jours (The Individualist Anarchist Women, from the Belle Époque to Today). These luxe little saddle-stitched booklets contain micro-biographies of some of the women from the book. (Each woman has her own—like the one pictured here, for example, Jane Libertad.) Currently sending them as gifts to Dionysians we correspond with et or do projects with but they will also be on the Bacchus site.

In other news…
Distinctively Dionysian is now wholly under Bacchus Editions. I’ll make a proper update on that soon.

More updates later ok? I hope this greets in good health et passionate play.
XO
Yours, FV

 

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“Yesterday, in the courtyard at Caponiere, in the Vincennes forest, the former dancer, Mata Hari was executed.” ~ Bruno Filippi

Saturday, March 1, 2025

The short, cruel words of the telegram filled my heart with sadness. Oh, Mata Hari. Oh, Mata Hari, surely you never imagined such a sad end. Surely, in spite of your skepticism, you still did not believe that the men who were crazy for you could be so vile.

Nobody tried to defend you, nobody wanted to risk a thing for you. These gentlemen who fell at your feet like rotten fruit, who revealed all the most secret documents to your eyes, who did not hesitate to ruin family and fatherland in order to possess you, these gentle men were afraid to try anything for you. And so they let a squad of common soldiers kill you like a rabid dog in a damp courtyard, by discharging red-hot lead into your divine body. And probably some of those high-toned Catos will publicly rejoice in the severity of the judges. Phew! A spy! Cowards!

Those who wouldn’t hesitate to make thousands of workers die of hunger, solely for profit; those who would risk the prosperity of entire provinces at the stock exchange simply to sate themselves with gold; those who would betray that which they call fatherland in an instant for their selfish ends; they feigned a feeling of horror when the preliminary investigation revealed what they already knew.

Phew! A spy! In order to possess you, they revealed the most delicate secrets of the nation; in order to possess you, they delivered the plans for the strongest fortress to you; in order to possess you, they gave you the lives of thousands of men as a gift. Now that you are dead, they trample you with disgust, insult you and wash their hands in your blood. Mata Hari has been executed! Poor Mata!

Who would have thought that you would meet such a savage end? When the luxurious automobile took you through the magnificent boulevards of Paris, charming in your costly gowns, who would have ever thought that a lowly prison cell would one day be your home. When your nude, throbbing, willowy body, the body of an enchantress, roused the whispers and lust of a thousand gentlemen in swallow-tailed coats and monocles in the golden salons of the high aristocracy, who would have thought that you would fall in the mud of a filthy fortress courtyard, your body riddled with bullets on a sad, rainy day?

Poor Mata!

I don’t pity the soldiers who die because of you. The brute mass that lets itself be dragged to the slaughterhouse without any impulse toward rebellion, that lets itself be butchered in such a way with no reason, that abandons everything that is most dear at mere orders from a leaflet affixed to a wall, is too vile: it deserves death, it deserves the executioner’s blade. But you, poor Mata, you were beautiful! And supreme beauty is beyond good and evil. Dying because of a marvelous woman is always the best death.

Rest in peace, poor Mata! Someone who never knew you has sworn to avenge you. And the memory of your blood-drenched eyes will drive his dagger; the vision of your mutilated body will render his bomb more effective.

~ Bruno Filippi, The Rebel’s Dark Laughter, 1916-18

 

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