User:Czar/vita

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Last updated April 2019 I edit broadly on topics in the arts, humanities, and education, some topics by interest and others by circumstance. What follows is a general, brief introduction to my work, for those curious.

I have contributed over 1100 print-equivalent pages of content to Wikipedia and the public domain since 2013.

My current projects include:
 * Editions of the Venice Biennale
 * Biographies of contemporary women artists from Africa
 * History and historiography of anarchism


 * passed basic review
 * rated among Wikipedia's best articles
 * written or re-written from scratch


 * bibliographic work (references)
 * collaboration
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 * awaiting review

Smithsonian collaboration since 2016Queen Mother Pendant Mask- Iyoba MET DP231460.jpgNadia Kaabi-Linke Flying Carpets.jpg
 * , contemporary African art fair held annually in London and New York
 * , national pavilion at the Venice Biennale 🇦🇴 angola
 * , contemporary art biennial held in Dakar, known for pan-Africanism 🇸🇳 senegal
 * , photographer based in Luanda 🇦🇴 angola
 * , national pavilion at the Venice Biennale 🇪🇬 egypt
 * , sound artist based in Lagos 🇳🇬 nigeria
 * , Malian studio photographer among the region's pioneers in the craft during the postcolonial period 🇲🇱 mali
 * , ivory, ritual masks, the most famous masterpieces from the Benin Empire, iconic of the looting of Benin and the campaign for restitution undefined
 * , Rwandan politician and women's rights activist 🇷🇼 rwanda
 * , conceptual artist based in Berlin 🇹🇳 tunisia
 * , art historian and curator at Dartmouth 🇳🇬 nigeria





books on education: history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology* (1964), critique of American public schools by Paul Goodman
 * (1999), Meira Levinson's liberal political theory of children's education to fit the mutual needs of the state and its diverse citizenry
 * (2001), first full biography of philosopher, university admin, and free speech advocate Alexander Meiklejohn
 * (1999), biography of American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and his associated normal school for freedmen, the Hampton Institute
 * (1972), intellectual biography of the British pedagogue A. S. Neill, traces how Homer Lane, Wilhelm Reich, Sigmund Freud and others influenced Neill as he developed the "Summerhill idea" behind his Summerhill School
 * (1986), a late 1970s, 18-month ethnographic study of a Baptist fundamentalist day school in Illinois that teaches God's will as singular truth and subordination before God
 * (1995), history of nineteenth century slave children in America, it began the scholarship of slave childhood as the first book on the subject
 * (1960), Summerhill School headmaster A. S. Neill explains his English boarding school, known for introducing his ideas to the American public (1960), Philippe Ariès's best-known history of childhood, known for its now-refuted argument that the concept of "childhood" is a modern development  (2001), history of English children throughout the Middle Ages, directly refutes Ariès's thesis   (1995)                  , on the Oceanhill-Brownsville strike  , Rancière on the role of the teacher and individual towards individual liberation

books on anarchism Circle-A inside unzipped Wikipedia Globe.svg Bibliographies for some 40-odd books on and related to contemporary anarchism (Paul Avrich, David Graeber, Paul Goodman, etc.) <!--
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 * Graeber:
 * Histories (1964),  (1976)

Paul Goodman project

, Catalan anarchist who proposed "anarchism without adjectives" , which followed the 2017 independence referendum , killed by police at the 2001 G8 protests, first death in anti-globalization movement demonstration , Italian anarchist at turn of 20th century, supported Ferrer Modern Schools in Italy , Spanish Civil War anarchist, author of major Durruti biography , Spanish Civil War anarchist, one of few surviving Spanish Resistance members , Belgian–French anarchist editor of Freiheit and other publications , British–American anarchist collaborator and translator of Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón , biography of Murray Bookchin ,, historians of Spanish anarchism

, historian of American intentional communities

Bakunin (Carr biography) Kropotkin (Miller biography)

, anarchist who assassinated Italian King Umberto I, followers of Luigi Galleani and suspects in American bombing campaigns between 1914 and 1920 , Galleanists remembered for a failed bombing attempt on St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1915 , Galleanist bomb-making handbook , anarchist who assassinated Empress Elisabeth of Austria , Catalan anarchist and journalist , Catalan theorist of syndicalism

, autonomous social center in London, one of the longest-lasting squats (18 years), home to London's hardest and fastest music in the mid-90s , Makhnovist partisan (translated), Makhno Black Army victory (1919) , CNT-FAI organizer and historian

, Russian insurrectionary group , Ferrer collaborator , the attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and his bride on their 1906 wedding day , Spanish republican who briefly harbored Morral during his getaway


 * Hillel Solotaroff, Moshe Katz, Roman Lewis, Pioneers of Liberty, Yom Kippur balls

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Rare Replay, 32-article collaboration on the 2015 compilation of Rare and Ultimate releases
 * Sabreman series:, , and (all 1984)
 * And others: (1997),  (1996),  (1994),  (2005),  (1986),  (1989),  (1992), the slogs  (2006) +  (2008), and the cherry on top,  (2015). Also see , the founders.

indie game media: over 1,500 files released by request under free use license, including: (2017)  (2015)   (2013)   (2014)    (2014)   (2013)   (2013) by      (2013)   (2014)   (2009)
 * (2012), a platformer in which the player rotates between the four 2D sides of a 3D cube, known as an "underdog darling of the indie game scene" for its and outspoken creator,  (also influenced  and )
 * Greg Wohlwend headshot full frame.jpg works by game artist and designer, best known for (2014),  (2013), and  (2017), but also  (2012, with ),  (2010),  (2012), and  (2015) as , and  (2013)
 * (2016), 's "one-button StarCraft eSport of basic geometry and bright colors. See also and  (2012).





addt'l expansions by topic
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 * (b. 1968), Czech economist and whistleblower, the first Pirate Party candidate elected to national office, my first reviewed article
 * , a potter's field burial ground within Chile's capital General Cemetery, used for burying victims of Pinochet's 1973 military coup, my second reviewed article




 * , the anarchist, Bakuninist faction of the First International during the anti-statist split from the organization
 * , a Catalan revolutionary, militant anarchist whose unpopular execution under Spain's Franco regime made him a cause célèbre for Catalan autonomists and anarchists
 * , historian of anarchism
 * (1869–1929), American sex radical feminist
 * , community centers in which non-authoritarians enact principles of mutual aid
 * , a book-length biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd, the author's magnum opus

, American national public education policy since 2015 , a D.C. think tank that lambasted American teacher prep programs in a 2013 report , group dedicated to the spread of progressive education in American public schools (1919–1955) , British educator whose 1917 magnum opus The Play Way contended that youth study through play , known for work with female Jewish immigrant juvenile delinquency , president of Antioch College credited with their model of shared governance , professional organization for American historians of education, founded in 1960 , historian of education, author of, the standard-bearer history of America's common schools , educational movement based on German educator Johann Friedrich Herbart's philosophy, influential on American school pedagogy in the late 1800s , brought John Dewey to Argentina , America's first state (Michigan's) superintendent of public schools , mathematician who founded a noted number theory summer program for talented high school students, one of my first subjects Indian school chain , Meiklejohn's great books program in the late 1920s  its critic, administrator   its supporter, Wisconsin president (1925–1937)  , Wisconsin president (1871–1874) and co-ed advocate  , Wisconsin's graduate student labor union, nation's first  , Wisconsin English prof and first woman to lead the AAUP  , metaphor for the academic pursuit of truth at Wisconsin  , sociologist of education &#8202; new Yale residential colleges, Franklin and Murray

, American conceptual and video artist , the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new modern art gallery , American conceptual artist , Venetian contemporary art museum, major Latin American art show in Southern California, 2017–2018  books ,

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 * execs ,
 * Vox Media properties, , ,
 * , digital services for the U.S. federal government
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 * , digital services for the U.S. federal government

, the first major literary movement of Yiddish poets in America (early 20th c.) (also the poet's wife, )


 * of 's  (2013) and, related:
 * (1976), an Italian musical based on Basile's Cinderella fable

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 * Jewish anarchists, (but not )
 * The leak-related and
 * , joint fundraising committee for the 2016 Hillary campaign
 * , the three-generation lineage of North Korean leaders
 * , Kurdish leader in the 2014–2015 Kobanî siege
 * , when feminine hygiene products used to absorb menstrual flow are not tax exempt alongside similar medical and sexual health products
 * , late 2017 global wave of sexual misconduct allegations following the Weinstein case
 * , software engineer whose bellwether story changed how Silicon Valley treats sexual harassment
 * , early 20th c. American cultural icon of wealth and libertine burlesque, ✝ Allen3


 * (b. c. 1990), med student known for his professional basketball analytics
 * (b. 1938), chemistry prof known for studies of fluorine-19 and solid rocket propellants
 * (1870–1936), archaeologist involved in the ancient Minoan discovery at Gournia
 * (b. c. 1982), biohacker known for his crowdfunded campaign to provide genetic engineering kits to the general public
 * , hot pink land slug

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