Shawn P. Wilbur

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Shawn P. Wilbur (born March 9, 1963) is an American mutualist and left-libetarian scholar.

He received his bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies (English/History) from Oregon State University in 1989, which was followed by a master's degree in American Cultural Studies from Bowling Green State University in 1992. He worked as an instructor at Bowling Green from 1990–2001, and again from 2005–2007, lecturing on philosophy, intellectual history, critical thinking and Internet culture. During the mid-1990s, Wilbur was a member of the Spunk Library collective and contributor to the influential "An Anarchist FAQ". Wilbur began working at the independent bookstore Pauper's Books in Bowling Green as a graduate student in 1991, later becoming manager of the store and purchasing it in 1997.cite news |first=Stacy |last=Kess |title=Pauper's closes a 28-year chapter |url=http://www.bgnews.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=e71009dd-da20-41b6-a84d-578aa4ccdc20 |work=BG News |publisher=Bowling Green State University |date=2003-08-09 |accessdate=2008-07-30 ] The store closed down in 2003 as changing market conditions became less conducive to independent bookstores.

A full-time independent scholar, Wilbur is a prolific blogger, operating From the Libertarian Library, High Hills of Ossapy, In the Libertarian Labyrinth, Travelling in Liberty, Intellectual History: The Very Idea!, on ALLiance, and the Libertatia Laboratories Audioblog, as well as participating in the Mutualist journal club and the Carnival of Anarchy. [cite web |url=http://www.blogger.com/profile/16464075094724874400 |title=Blogger: User Profile: Shawn P. Wilbur |accessdate=2008-07-30 |work=Blogger |publisher=Google Inc. ] He is currently affiliated with the Anarchist Studies Network, the Laughing Horse Book and Film Collective, and the Movement of the Libertarian Left.

Wilbur is a critic of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, calling it "very badly broken" as a scholarly project, citing among other causes the lack of critical judgement and expertise of its editors.

Presentations

*"Gun Molls: A Product-Line Approach." Popular Culture Association. Cleveland, Ohio, September, 1991.
*"Neuromancer as a Novel of Business." Popular Culture Association. Indianapolis, Indiana. September, 1992.
*"On Virtual Community." (panel) Life, Sex & Death in the Digital World. New School for Social Research, April 23, 1996.

Publications

*"Dromologies: Speed, Politics, and the End of the Political State." Speed 1.4, 1997.
*"An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity." in Porter, David, ed. "Internet Culture". New York: Routledge, 1997.
**Republished in "The Cybercultures Reader". Bell, David, and Kennedy, Barbara M., eds. New York, Routledge, 2000.
*"Day-to-Day MOO Administration and How to Survive It." Haynes, Cynthia, and Holmevik, Rune, eds. "Hard Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs". Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
*" [http://libertarian-labyrinth.org/culture/Art_Strike.html What Means This Art Strike?] ", "ca" 1994.
* [http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/cyberpunks_to_synners.html "Cyberpunks" to Synners: Toward a Feminist Posthumanism?] , "ca" 1995.
* (with Jesse Cohn) " [http://web.archive.org/web/20060205142908/http://www.anarchist-studies.org/article/articleview/26/1/1/ What's Wrong With Postanarchism?] " "Theory and Politics", Institute of Anarchist Studies, August 31, 2003.
*"On the Use of the Situationist International"cite journal
author = Lawrence, N.R.
year = 2006
title = Frank O'Hara in New York: race relations, poetic situations, postcolonial space
journal = Comparative American Studies
volume = 4
issue = 1
pages = 85-103
doi = 10.1177/1477570006056915]
*"Ezra Hervey Heywood," "Benjamin R. Tucker," "Josiah Warren." M. Ness, ed. "Encyclopedia of Revolution and Social Protest." Wiley. (forthcoming)

Related articles

*Anarchism in the United States
*Degree Programs at Bowling Green State University
*Kevin Carson

References

External links

* [http://libertarian-labyrinth.org The Libertarian Labyrinth]
** [http://libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog The Distributive Passions] - Science fiction
*** [http://libertarian-labyrinth.org/dpgallery Distributive Passions Gallery]
** [http://libertarian-labyrinth.org/greene/greene.html William Batchelder Greene Project] Archive and commentary on William Batchelder Greene
*Myspace|83276591|Laughing Horse Collective

Blogs

* [http://libertarian-labyrinth.blogspot.com/ In the Libertarian Labyrinth] - Collection of anarchist/libertarian history, texts, and commentary
* [http://libertarian-library.blogspot.com/ From the Libertarian Library] - Additional anarchist/libertarian texts
* [http://travellinginliberty.blogspot.com/ Travelling in "Liberty"] - Journal focusing on Benjamin Tucker
* [http://veryidea.blogspot.com Intellectual History: The Very Idea!] - General intellectual history blog