Hey y’all!

This is the megathread for the reading group of the book An Anarchist FAQ. Here I will be updating the post body with links to each new post of the reading group. Keep an eye on it as everytime a new post is made progressing further into the book, a link should be added here. Also the title will be updated each week, to denote the week we’re in.

Links to An Anarchist FAQ reading posts:

There is also an EPUB version of AFAQ, courtesy of @irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com: here

Happy reading!

  • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I like the thought of the reading group, but how does it work? I never see any discussion, any questions related to the content or any other activity.

    Could you maybe share your experience doing it?

    • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzOP
      1·
      1 day ago

      Yeah… I think the book is too big (~2.000 pdf pages) so the few people that we actually read it in this group (I think it’s like 4 people) are at different parts of the book (like early Section B, early Section C, late Section C, etc.). That way it’s harder to have a conversation about the contents:/

      In a (very) few posts above, you may see some people talking about the content and I tend to participate in these conversations, but they don’t go very far. Other times I might be having an issue interpreting the book while keeping notes, so I may ask a queation under an older post, but since almost noone checks older posts, I end up answering my own question lol.

      In the instance’s matrix chat there might be a short convo about the book from time to time, but I think it’s about as much convo we have here on lemmy haha.

      Im not very sure how I could keep this place more alive, I think if there was another reading group for way shorter books (like 100-200pages) most could probably read it in a month or two and have a more lively discussion. I probably cant take up on this task though as I probably wont have time to participate in reading even more books haha.

      Kinda hope at least that the weekly tagging of the participantd and slowly progressing may encourage people to keep reading this book.

      I also want to say that in the future, if someone stumbles upon this books and wants to ask something, they could probably find the appropriate post and ask (and probably noone will answer apart from me cuz it will be buried in the post history).

      Another thing is that due to the FAQ nature of afaq, people could just jump in ~at any moment without having read the previous parts.

      I dont know:/ Maybe I could focus on keeping this post more active and use it as an “everything goes in” thread? Should I encourage people to post the same stuff under both this post and the post with the appropriate section so that any questions arent buried in post history? Should I post here links to any new messages in the other posts? (I kinda like the last idea, hm, might do that.) Shrug

  • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzOPEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    So yeah, I’m giving some extra structure to the weekly reading we do.

    This megathread should (hopefully) make things better:

    • It should be one place where all the posts are listed, so you can click on the post with the Section you want and view it quickly.
    • It will be pinned, reducing the work on the mods/admins (having to pin a new post every week eventually gets tiring).

    PS. Feedback request: Let me know what you think, I discussed it a bit on the matrix server, but I’d like some broader feedback on this. I initially started this using hexbear’s way of doing group readings, but I feel like this is a huge book and probably needs a different organisation.