Related archival, bibliographic and historical projects overseen by Olchar Lindsann and/or close collaborators.
Also administered by Olchar E. Lindsann, this archive collects work by the 19th and early 20th centuries, before DIY
publishing became a viable option for countercultural workers. This library is essentially contiguous with the Revenant Archive; they represent the same community, their separation reflecting the fundamental changes in bibliography that were wrought on that community by the advent of personal printing technology, in combination with other factors.
This is the central site for a long-term project to research, examine,
and respond to the radical collective of writers, theorists, architects,
and visual artists who operated in Paris between 1829 and 1835 under
the names of the Jeunes France & the Bouzingo, and through them to
build a critical understanding of French Romanticist subculture through
the historical lens of a continuing politically vigilant Anglophone
avant-garde. Much of this research is conducted with the Revenant Archive (above), and the two projects are closely co-ordinated in their development.
mOnocle-Lash is my own micropress, and is the vehicle by
which––via trade or collaboration––most of the books in the library have
been acquired. Its activity is focused upon and among the international Post-Neo community, visual and
marginal writing communities, politicized avant-garde networks and the
Eternal Network. It also attempts to explore the connections between the
avant-garde and other marginal communities such as Role-Playing, Weird
Fiction, Occultism, Noise, Metal, etc. The Revenants Editions sub-imprint republishes radical texts from the 19th Century, including many drawn from the Revenant Archive and distributed among the people represented in the Autonomous Library.
About 60 zines produced in southwestern Virginia and the adjacent areas
of that state, North Carolina, and West Virginia between 1983 and the
present. Most were produced within the SW Virginia Punk community, and
many copies in the library were re-printed from originals borrowed for a
major ongoing DIY history project focused on that community; the
collection is still being catalogued. It is the only extant collection
of this material, though there are plans to donate other reproduced sets
to the Virginia Room archive in Roanoke, VA and other archival
libraries. Long-term plans include a substantial book. (digitisation is only in its first pages, so the website as of this writing is merely skeletal).
Probably the most extensive institutional archive to focus on the extended avant-garde network represented by the Autonomous Library, along with many other intersecting communities. The collection was built up by John M. Bennett, publisher of Luna Bisonte Prods and himself a huge influence on his own and subsequent generations of non-commercial avant-garde writing and publishing.
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