A Living Anthology of Polemical Literature

The online anthology The Arts of Autonomy: A Living Anthology of Polemical Literature provides basic editions of polemical texts. Pamphlets, open letters, manifestos, and polemical statements inherently pose specific risks to scholarly work, not only because they may be subjected to indexation and censorship, but also because they are often poorly edited and difficult to access.

On this page, we provide basic, quotable editions of historically important polemical texts, as well as occasional, informal commentaries on related genres and themes. This online anthology is expanded on a rolling basis.

Our project website is available here.

Émile Zola: J’Accuse…!
(edited by Pierre-Héli Monot)

Mesut Özil: I/III, II/III, III/III
(edited by David Bebnowski)

Collective: A Feminist Server 0.01
(edited by Pierre-Héli Monot)

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis (No. I)
(edited by Gregory Jones-Katz)

Collective: The Manifesto of the 121
(edited by David Bebnowski)

Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale: What We Want Now!, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Platform and Program
(edited by Gregory Jones-Katz)

Collective: The Trail of Broken Treaties 20 Point Position Paper: An Indian Manifesto
(edited by Pierre-Héli Monot)

The Book of Mozi: Chapter 39. ‘Against the Confucians’
(edited by Pierre-Héli Monot)

James Buchanan, John Y. Mason, and Pierre Soulé: The Ostend Manifesto
(edited by Gregory Jones-Katz)

Kathleen Hanna: The Riot Grrrl Manifesto
(edited by David Bebnowski and Gregory Jones-Katz)

John Winthrop: A Model of Christian Charity
(edited by Gregory Jones-Katz)

Queer Nation: Queers Read This
(edited by Pierre-Héli Monot)

Aristophanes: The Clouds
(edited by Pierre-Héli Monot)

Council for Public Safety: Welcome to Fear City
(edited by Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier)