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The Unfinished Individual; In Conversation with Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man under Socialism, off the Heidelberg GTO 52 looking gorgeous!

Sunday, August 2, 2026

The Unfinished Individual: In Conversation with Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man under Socialism is now available for pre-order through Bacchus Editions. Voilà. The new book includes Oscar Wilde’s complete The Soul of Man under Socialism alongside my own philosophical writings in conversation with one of the great writings on Individualism… One unexpected part of […]

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Otto Gross and the Thousand-Headed Spirit, Pocket Detonations No. 2 available now from Bacchus Editions!

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Mes amis… 🧨 Pocket Detonations No. 2: Otto Gross and the Thousand-Headed Spirit from our Bacchus Editions is fresh off the machines, et j’adore how it turned out! As most of you know, Otto’s ideas et life became one of the originating forces behind German Expressionism, Dada, et much of twentieth-century counterculture itself. Many years […]

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Bringing Victor Roudine’s Max Stirner into English…

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

One of the books I have most wanted to place into English has finally reached the press.. I am delighted, absolument delighted, to finally share this one with you.. For more than a century, Victor Roudine’s Max Stirner remained absent from the English-speaking world. Published in Paris in 1910, Roudine’s remarkable study stands among the […]

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Ret Marut / B. Traven…a mindblogging absence, now corrected and in English for the first time.

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Some books spend a century waiting for absolutely no good reason! Bonsoir, mes chers… I have finally finished one of the most satisfying projects I have ever had the pleasure of disappearing into. For well over a century, anarchist Ret Marut’s Die Zerstörung unseres Welt-Systems durch die MAR-Kurve simply never existed in English… B. Traven […]

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Wild Ethics returns…

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

The Wild Ethics of Maternal Presence has returned. The first printing vanished more quickly than I expected and sold out, so a second print was done and orders are open once again. The Wild Ethics of Maternal Presence is Book IV in Dancing in the Backwoods, a now six-book series that shares certain terrain with […]