self-ownership & self-enjoyment · 1993–2009
Publisher: Svein Olav Nyberg
Editor(s): Svein Olav Nyberg
City: Oslo, Norway
Language: English
Frequency: irregular
TitleID: NONSERVX-1992
The founding announcement presented the newsletter as an extension of the tradition of individual insurrection associated with Max Stirner. It was to publish serious, carefully reasoned writing on philosophy, egoism, literature, and other subjects relevant to individualists, preferably with a principal theme for each issue.
Announced in November 1992 as a radical electronic newsletter devoted to Max Stirner’s philosophy of egoism. The Union of Egoists archive provides issues 1–23 and identifies issue 24 as missing. Dated later issues include no. 18 (Spring 1999), no. 20 (January 2000), no. 21 (December 2001), no. 22 (August 2005), and no. 23 (April 2006), demonstrating an irregular schedule. A Union of Egoists retrospective states that Non Serviam continued through 2009, when it was renamed i or i-studies; one final issue under the later title appeared in 2011. Nos. 13 and 14 reproduce between them the final commemorative issue of Sidney E. Parker’s Ego. The editor states that Non Serviam was taking over Ego’s place while marking the establishment of Stirner’s work in electronic form. No. 15 announces that Non Serviam will also be distributed on paper for readers without e-mail access, while remaining an electronic publication. By No. 16, the editor reported two active Egoist/Stirnerite websites—Egoism and Non Serviam—and invited electronic contributions to both. No. 17 appeared in Summer 1995 and introduced Chris M. Sciabarra’s Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical shortly before its August publication by Pennsylvania State University Press. After a hiatus of several years, No. 18 revived the periodical in Spring 1999. The alternate print booklet was published by Non Serviam Press in Hamar and bears the exact date March 1, 1999. Beginning with No. 18, surviving electronic and print manifestations are treated as manifestations of the same numbered issue rather than as separate issues. The web/e-mail form is the base manifestation; the print booklet supplies manifestation-specific pagination, physical description, masthead, and other paratext. Nos. 19 and 20 were later combined into a single twenty-page A5 print double issue published by Non Serviam Press on May 1, 2000. The two web/e-mail issues retain separate IssueIDs and issue-level dates. For a print manifestation combining more than one electronic issue, shared cover, masthead, combined editorial, contents, subscription notices, and other common paratext are cataloged under the first numbered issue and cross-referenced from the later issue, preventing duplicate content records. The archive index dates electronic No. 20 to January 2000. The combined print issue 19/20 is dated May 1, 2000 and signed Spring 2000, demonstrating that the print double issue was a later compilation of already separate electronic Nos. 19 and 20. In Slaughter Cataloger, electronic Nos. 19 and 20 therefore retain separate IssueIDs and their own issue dates. The May 1, 2000 print publication is recorded as a combined alternate manifestation in both issue records, while shared double-issue paratext remains cataloged once under No. 19. No. 21 appeared as a December 2001 web/e-mail issue and as a print manifestation bearing the same month and year. Unlike the later-compiled Nos. 19/20 booklet, the issue evidence does not establish a substantial publication lag between the two forms. The surviving No. 21 print file is an imposed interior signature rather than a complete cover-to-cover booklet file. It contains logical pages 3–18 in the pairs 18–3, 4–17, 16–5, 6–15, 14–7, 8–13, 12–9, and 10–11. The outer sheet containing logical pages 1–2 and 19–20 is not present. The print masthead is dated December 2001, while the surviving file metadata records creation on January 7, 2002. The metadata suggests that this particular print-production file may have been generated shortly after the electronic issue, but it does not establish the date on which paper copies were distributed. Electronic No. 22 is dated August 2005 by both the Editor’s Word and the archive index. The alternate print booklet is dated September 2005. Its production metadata records creation on September 11, 2005 and modification on October 5, 2005, demonstrating that the surviving print manifestation was prepared after the electronic issue. The No. 22 print file is a complete sixteen-page A5 booklet imposed on eight landscape A4 sides. Logical page pairs are 16–1, 2–15, 14–3, 4–13, 12–5, 6–11, 10–7, and 8–9. No. 23 appeared in April 2006 as both a web/e-mail issue and a complete sixty-page A5 print/PDF manifestation published by Non Serviam Press in Hamar. The print PDF was produced in Adobe InDesign on May 3, 2006, but the issue itself is dated April 2006. It is the largest issue to date and explicitly abandons the former 32-kilobyte e-mail convention. No. 24, normalized to 2009 from its internal copyright evidence and November 2009 PDF-production metadata, is the final issue published under the title Non Serviam. The journal did not simply terminate as an editorial project: Nyberg reconceived and retitled it as i, also known as i-studies. The first and only issue of i appeared in March 2011 and included Nyberg’s retrospective essay “Goodbye, Non Serviam,” in which he described Non Serviam as the earlier incarnation of i. Non Serviam and i/i-studies should therefore receive separate title authorities connected by a successive-title relationship rather than being treated as one continuously numbered title.
1993
Non Serviam No. 1
Jan 1993 | first “real” issue
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #1” and as the first “real” issue. Its contents are the Editor’s Word, John Beverley Robinson’s “Egoism,” and the first installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” The editor identifies the theme as what egoism means and discusses five types commonly mistaken for egoists: the psychopath, ego-booster, materialist, idealist, and formal egoist. Knudson’s installment retains internal article pages 1–4 for use with footnotes; these page markers do not represent issue pagination. The issue ends with a quotation from Max Stirner’s “The False Principle of Our Education.”
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| Egoism — article | John Beverley Robinson | |
| 1–4 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 1 | Ken Knudson |
| [Whoever is a complete person does not need—to be an authority!] — end quotation | Max Stirner |
Non Serviam No. 2
1993
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #2.” Its contents are the Editor’s Word, Svein Olav Nyberg’s “The Self,” and the second installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” The editor states that the next chapter of Knudson’s serial will be “Revolution: The Road to Freedom?” Nyberg’s article develops the Experiencing Self, Creative Self, and Teleological Self and prints five references. Knudson’s installment retains internal article pages 5–6, continuing the pagination from No. 1. Its reference list contains thirteen entries: references 1–4 support the first installment in No. 1, while references 5–13 support the present installment. The issue ends with a quotation from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. No. 3 continues Knudson’s serial with internal article pages 7–14.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| The Self — article | Svein Olav Nyberg | |
| 5–6 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 2 | Ken Knudson |
| [Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven] — end quotation | John Milton |
Non Serviam No. 3
1993
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #3.” The sole principal contribution is the third installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” Its retained internal article pagination runs from page 7 through page 14, continuing directly from No. 2. The installment argues that communist distribution requires coercive judgments about work, ability, and need; contrasts communist compulsion with competitive wages; and uses contemporary reports from Italy and Cuba as examples. It ends with a continuation notice. A separate unattributed sentence follows: “If the whole is not defined as the sum of its parts, there is no reason to expect the whole to be just the sum of its parts.” Full bibliographic details for references 14–27 are printed with the references section in No. 4. No. 4 begins the serial at internal page 15 and prints the full bibliographic references 14–27 supporting the No. 3 installment.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| 7–14 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 3 | Ken Knudson |
| [If the whole is not defined as the sum of its parts] — end quotation |
Non Serviam No. 4
1993
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #4.” The sole principal contribution is the fourth installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” Its retained internal article pagination runs from page 15 through page 19, continuing directly from No. 3. The installment contrasts producer control with consumer choice, critiques communist definitions of happiness, and examines communist idealization of medieval social order and guilds. It ends with a continuation notice. The issue prints a References section numbered 14–41: references 14–27 document the preceding installment in No. 3, while references 28–41 document the present installment. The issue ends with the quotation “I am I,” attributed to Schelling. No. 5 begins the serial at internal page 20.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| 15–19 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 4 | Ken Knudson |
| References — bibliography | Ken Knudson | |
| [I am I] — end quotation | Friedrich Schelling |
Non Serviam No. 5
1993
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #5.” The sole principal contribution is the fifth installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” Explicit retained article pagination runs from page 20 through page 23. The installment completes Knudson’s critique of communist idealization of medieval society, challenges Kropotkin’s historical claims about medieval labor and invention, discusses Rudolf Rocker’s account of Christian unity, and concludes the chapter “Communism: For the Common Good” with an extended quotation from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. A continuation notice points to the next chapter. The issue prints references 42–55 and ends with Max Stirner’s statement, “Nothing is more to me than myself.” No. 6 begins the serial at internal page 25. Internal page 24 is not explicitly represented; it may correspond to the references section, which carries no printed page marker. No. 6 begins the serial at internal page 25, confirming that internal page 24 is not represented by numbered article text in No. 5.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| 20–23 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 5 | Ken Knudson |
| References — bibliography | Ken Knudson | |
| [Nothing is more to me than myself] — end quotation | Max Stirner |
Non Serviam No. 6
1993
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #6.” The issue contains an Editor’s Word by Svein Olav Nyberg comparing the egoisms of Max Stirner, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ayn Rand, followed by the sixth installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” The installment opens the chapter “Revolution: The Road to Freedom?” and retains internal article pagination 25–28. It examines the relationship between ends and means, rejects revolutionary violence as a path to freedom, contrasts individualist and communist uses of force, and discusses unintended historical transformations. The issue prints references 56–69 and ends with a quotation from Max Stirner’s “The False Principle of Our Education.”. No. 7 begins the serial at internal page 29.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| 25–28 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 6 | Ken Knudson |
| References — bibliography | Ken Knudson | |
| [Whoever is a complete person does not need—to be an authority!] — end quotation | Max Stirner |
Non Serviam No. 7
1993
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #7.” The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word, Sidney E. Parker’s “Archists, Anarchists and Egoists,” and the seventh installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” Nyberg introduces Parker’s article as the first in a series of reprints previously published in Ego or The Egoist. Parker argues that anarchism’s principled opposition to domination conflicts with conscious egoism, drawing extensively on Dora Marsden, Max Stirner, John P. Clark, Benjamin R. Tucker, and John Beverley Robinson. Knudson’s installment retains internal article pagination 29–31 and advocates noncooperation, large-scale tax refusal, parallel institutions, and mutual banking rather than violent revolution. The issue prints references 70–72 and ends with two quotations attributed to Ragnar Redbeard. No. 8 begins the serial at internal page 32.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| Archists, Anarchists and Egoists — reprinted article | Sidney E. Parker | |
| 29–31 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 7 | Ken Knudson |
| References — bibliography | Ken Knudson | |
| [Human rights and wrongs are not determined by Justice, but by Might] — end quotation | Ragnar Redbeard | |
| [Everyone who would be free must show his power] — end quotation | Ragnar Redbeard |
Non Serviam No. 8
1993
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #8.” The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s brief Editor’s Word and the eighth installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” The installment is the chapter “Egoism: The Philosophy of Freedom” and retains internal article pagination 32–38. Knudson explains egoism through Stirner’s critique of fixed ideas, rights, gods, and compulsory morality; presents reasoned cooperation as a union of egoists; discusses self-interested love and reciprocity; and connects legal privilege to economic inequality. The issue prints references 73–81 and ends with Ambrose Bierce’s definition of “Egotist.” No. 9 begins the serial at internal page 39.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| 32–38 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 8 | Ken Knudson |
| References — bibliography | Ken Knudson | |
| Egotist, n. — end quotation | Ambrose Bierce |
Non Serviam No. 9
1993
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #9.” The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s brief Editor’s Word and the ninth installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” The installment begins the chapter “Capitalism: Freedom Perverted” and retains internal article pagination 39–45. It attributes the Great Depression to government intervention rather than free enterprise; distinguishes individualist anarchism from capitalism and the later “anarcho-capitalist” label; criticizes tax-funded welfare and subsidies; defines laissez faire; and examines patents, copyright, absentee landownership, nationalism, military spending, and government monopoly of currency as forms of state privilege. The issue prints references 82–97 and ends with Ambrose Bierce’s definition of “Positivism.” No. 10 begins the serial at internal page 46.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| 39–45 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 9 | Ken Knudson |
| References — bibliography | Ken Knudson | |
| Positivism, n. — end quotation | Ambrose Bierce |
Non Serviam No. 10
1993
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #10.” The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word, Sidney E. Parker’s “The Egoism of Max Stirner,” and the tenth installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” Nyberg discusses Stirner’s unique one as subject rather than object and appends three editorial notes. Parker presents extracts from a projected Mackay Society booklet and evaluates interpretations of Stirner by Albert Camus, Eugene Fleischmann, Benedict Lachmann, and Herbert Stourzh. Knudson begins “Mutualism: The Economics of Freedom,” retaining internal article pagination 46–49, and defends division of labor and comparative advantage through a numerical Jones-and-Smith example presented in three tables. The issue prints Parker’s three bibliographic references and Knudson’s references 98–100. It ends with a quotation from Max Stirner’s “Art and Religion.” No. 11 begins the serial at internal page 50.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| The Egoism of Max Stirner — article extracts | Sidney E. Parker [printed Sidney Parker] | |
| 46–49 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 10 | Ken Knudson |
| References — bibliography | Ken Knudson | |
| [A marriage is assured of steady love when the couple discover themselves anew each day] — end quotation | Max Stirner |
Non Serviam No. 11
1993
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #11.” The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word and the eleventh installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative.” The editorial announces that this is the second part of the mutualism chapter and that the next issue will contain the final chapter. It also announces electronic availability of the complete article and back issues. Knudson’s installment retains internal article pagination 50–55. It treats the limitations of barter, the historical development of currency, government monopoly of legal tender, specie-backed money, William B. Greene’s mutual-bank proposal, the distinction among liquid capital, engaged capital, and product, and the effects of abundant credit upon wages, profits, rent, and economic cycles. The issue prints references 101–105 and ends with a quotation attributed to Paul Samuelson. No. 12 contains the final installment, but it does not print an internal opening page number; no continuation beyond page 55 is assigned.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| 50–55 | A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 11 | Ken Knudson |
| References — bibliography | Ken Knudson | |
| [It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable] — end quotation | Paul Samuelson |
Non Serviam No. 12
1993 | final Knudson installment
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #12.” The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word, the final installment of Ken Knudson’s “A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative,” and Sidney E. Parker’s “On Revisiting ‘Saint Max.’” Nyberg announces completion of the serial and notes its favorable reception. Knudson’s concluding appeal addresses communist anarchists, contrasting their general anti-dogmatism with economic adherence to Marxist assumptions and urging them to reject their communist commitments. It includes a substantial quotation from Parker’s “Enemies of Society: An Open Letter to the Editors of Freedom” and one printed reference numbered 106. No internal page numbers are printed for the final installment. Parker reviews Kathy E. Ferguson’s “Saint Max Revisited,” praising her process-oriented account of the unique self while criticizing her treatment of Stirner as an anarchist, her readings of commodity relations and sociality, and her appeal to authentic life and liberating sociality. The issue ends with a quotation attributed to Robert A. Heinlein.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| A Critique of Communism and The Individualist Alternative — serialized article, installment 12 and conclusion | Ken Knudson | |
| On Revisiting “Saint Max” — article | Sidney E. Parker [printed S.E. Parker] | |
| [You cannot enslave a free man; the most you can do is kill him!] — end quotation | Robert A. Heinlein |
1994
Non Serviam No. 13
1994 | 150th-anniversary Stirner commemorative issue; final Ego issue, part 1
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #13.” The editor describes Nos. 13 and 14 together as containing the final issue of Sidney E. Parker’s Ego and states that Non Serviam was taking over Ego’s place. The paired issues commemorate the 150th anniversary of The Ego and His Own and the establishment of Stirner’s work in electronic form. No. 13 contains the Editor’s Word; S.E. Parker’s “Preface,” including six contributor biographies; John C. Smith’s “Last and First Words”; Frank Jordan’s “In Praise of Max”; Paul Rowlandson’s “Stirner, Youth and Tradition”; and an unlisted poem signed “Wm. Flygare 90.197.” The issue includes editorial announcements concerning the electronic English text and Parker’s proposed short “viewsletters.”. No. 14 supplies the second half of the paired final Ego commemorative issue, containing contributions by Wm. Flygare and Svein Olav Nyberg.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| Preface — preface | S.E. Parker | |
| Last and First Words — article | John C. Smith | |
| In Praise of Max — article | Frank Jordan | |
| Stirner, Youth and Tradition — article | Paul Rowlandson | |
| [sometimes ’tween man and man] — poem | Wm. Flygare |
Non Serviam No. 14
1994 | 150th-anniversary Stirner commemorative issue; final Ego issue, part 2
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #14” and completes the paired presentation of the final Ego commemorative issue begun in No. 13. Its listed contents are Wm. Flygare’s “TO MY SWEETHEART – With an Addition to Bartlett” and Svein Olav Nyberg’s “THE EGO AND ITS OWN – The Choice of a New Generation.” Flygare discusses Stirner’s dedication, marriage, literary manner, and diagnostic value before presenting thirty extracts from The Ego and His Own as an addition to Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. The extracts are identified by an unpublished paragraph-numbering system and pages in Reclam 3957(6). Nyberg distinguishes conscious egoism from psychological self-love, Randian and libertarian formal egoism, and the conception of the self as an object. He presents A Human Life as a dialectic from matter through mind to the unique I and interprets Stirner’s book as therapy for encounter between an I and a You rather than between social predicates. The issue concludes with two excerpts from Shea and Wilson’s Illuminatus.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| “TO MY SWEETHEART” – With an Addition to Bartlett — article and quotation anthology | Wm. Flygare | |
| THE EGO AND ITS OWN – The Choice of a New Generation — article | Svein Olav Nyberg | |
| Illuminatus! — concluding literary excerpt | Robert Shea; Robert Anton Wilson |
1995
Non Serviam No. 15
1995
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #15.” The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word; Dora Marsden’s reprinted “Thinking and Thought,” first published in The Freewoman, Vol. 1, No. 5, August 15, 1913 and made available electronically by Sunniva Mørstad; S.E. Parker’s “Comment to Ken Knudson”; and a concluding Boris Pasternak quotation. The editorial announces that Non Serviam will also be issued on paper for readers without e-mail access and that substantial discussion-list posts may be published in the periodical. Marsden distinguishes active thinking from the production and veneration of thoughts, attacks conceptual abstraction and authoritative language, favors nominalism and specific description, and treats Duty and Right as powerless thoughts sustained by recognition. Parker rejects Knudson’s idealized consumer, questions whether anarchy or mutual banking serves enough people’s interests, disputes the idea that subjects simply abdicate power to tyrants, argues that unequal competence would recreate hierarchy, and denies that free competition or abolition of frontiers follows universally from Stirnerian egoism.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| Thinking and Thought — reprinted article | Dora Marsden | |
| Comment to Ken Knudson — discussion post and critical response | S.E. Parker [signed Sid Parker] | |
| [Life always spills over the rim of every cup] — end quotation | Boris Pasternak |
Non Serviam No. 16
1995
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #16.” The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word and John A. Marmysz’s “A Prolegomena To Any Future Nihilistic Philosophy.” Nyberg contrasts Kantian deontological morality with morality as personal and artistic expression, introduces Marmysz and his professional and philosophical interests, and announces two Egoist/Stirnerite websites, Egoism and Non Serviam. Marmysz critiques the reification of reason, distinguishes rational and intuitive forms of persuasion, treats moral argument as the universalization of intuition and a mechanism of social control, analyzes academic rationality as a concentrated privilege, and presents perspectival nihilism as a challenge to moral hierarchy. The article discusses voluntary cooperation and individual non-intervention as alternatives to universal morality. The issue ends with a quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| A Prolegomena To Any Future Nihilistic Philosophy — article | John A. Marmysz | |
| [Looking away shall be my only negation] — end quotation | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Non Serviam No. 17
Summer 1995
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
Digital-native electronic issue, unpaginated at issue level. It identifies itself as “non serviam #17.” The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word and Chris M. Sciabarra’s “Ayn Rand – The Russian Radical,” an abridged introduction presenting the central theses of Sciabarra’s forthcoming book. The editorial treats Stirnerism as a recognized but poorly integrated fringe within anarchist, libertarian, and Objectivist circles and identifies dialectical praxis as a possible bridge from Objectivism to Stirnerism. Sciabarra analyzes Rand’s Russian intellectual roots, the formal dialectical structure of Objectivism, and its radical social implications. Printed sections include “DIALECTICS IN RAND’S PHILOSOPHY” and “THEORY AND PRACTICE.” A diagram presents personal, cultural, and structural levels of power relations. The article notes that all endnotes were deleted for the abridged introduction, bears copyright 1995, and is followed by a quotation from August von Cieszkowski.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav] | |
| Ayn Rand – The Russian Radical — abridged book introduction | Chris M. Sciabarra [heading: Chris Sciabarra] | |
| [The self must become concrete through action] — end quotation | August von Cieszkowski |
1999
Non Serviam No. 18
self-ownership & self-enjoyment
March 1, 1999 | revival issue after multi-year hiatus
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
8 pp. · 148 x 210 mm · 12 NOK/issue; £1/issue; US$2/issue · Web/e-mail issue (base manifestation); alternate print booklet manifestation
Digital-native issue with two examined manifestations. The web/e-mail manifestation is treated as the base issue and is unpaginated. An alternate A5 print booklet manifestation contains the same principal contributions but adds a cover, subtitle, exact publication statement, masthead, subscription and reproduction information, contributor biographies, illustrations, an inside-cover Stirner quotation, and a German Goethe song on the back cover. The print booklet comprises eight logical pages. Its production layout is booklet-imposed on four A4 sides, corresponding to logical page pairs 8–1, 2–7, 6–3, and 4–5; cataloged page numbers follow the logical reading order rather than the imposed order. The principal contributions are Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word, Ken MacLeod’s “What Sid Did,” S.E. Parker’s “The Union of Egoists – Comments,” and Parker’s obituary “Wm. Flygare (1916–1997).”
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Web/e-mail issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| 1 | [Print cover] — cover | |
| 4 | [Print contents] — table of contents | |
| 3 | [Print masthead] — masthead | |
| 3 | Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav Nyberg] |
| 4 | What Sid Did — article | Ken MacLeod |
| 5 | Wm. Flygare (1916–1997) — obituary | S.E. Parker |
| 6–7 | The Union of Egoists – Comments — critical response | S.E. Parker [web/e-mail heading: “Three comments on your article The Union of Egoists which appeared in NonServiam”] |
| 7 | About The Contributors — contributor biographies | |
| 2 | [Whoever is a complete person does not need—to be an authority!] — print-only quotation | Max Stirner |
| 7 | [Portrait of Max Stirner] — illustration | |
| 8 | Vanitas! Vanitatum! Vanitas! — back-cover poem | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Non Serviam No. 19
self-ownership & self-enjoyment
May 1, 2000 [combined print manifestation 19/20] | electronic issue; later incorporated into the millennium double print issue 19/20
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
20 (combined print manifestation with No. 20) pp. · 148 x 210 mm · 12 NOK/issue; £1/issue; US$2/issue [combined print manifestation] · Web/e-mail issue (base manifestation); incorporated into combined print booklet manifestation Non Serviam 19/20
Digital-native issue with a base web/e-mail manifestation and content later incorporated into the combined A5 print double issue Non Serviam 19/20. The electronic issue is unpaginated and contains the Editor’s Word, Svein Olav Nyberg’s “Union of Egoists (reply to Sid),” and Part 1 of “Max Stirner – The Great Philosopher Of Egoism.” The twenty-page print double issue has a single cover, masthead, combined Editor’s Word, contents list, subscription information, and back cover serving both Nos. 19 and 20. These shared paratextual records are assigned to No. 19 to prevent duplication. No. 19’s reply occupies logical print pages 4–5; Part 1 of the Stirner lecture occupies logical pages 6–12, with the No. 20 continuation beginning on the lower portion of page 12. The print production file is imposed on ten landscape A4 sides with logical pairs 20–1, 2–19, 18–3, 4–17, 16–5, 6–15, 14–7, 8–13, 12–9, and 10–11. Cataloged pages follow logical order. Publication sequence established while cataloging No. 20: electronic No. 19 preceded electronic No. 20 of January 2000, and both were later compiled into the May 1, 2000 print double issue.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Web/e-mail issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav Nyberg (ed.)] | |
| 1 | [Combined print cover] — cover | |
| 2 | [Did you ever contribute anything to the happiness of Mankind?] — print-only quotation | John Henry Mackay |
| 3 | [Combined print masthead] — masthead | |
| 3 | Editor’s Word [combined print manifestation] — manifestation-specific editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg |
| 4 | [Combined print contents] — table of contents | |
| 4–5 | The Union of Egoists – A Reply To Sid — article | Svein Olav Nyberg [web heading: Union of Egoists (reply to Sid)] |
| 5 | [Different persons are like bushes trimmed into identical elephants] — print-only quotation | Willard Van Orman Quine |
| 6–12 | Max Stirner – The Great Philosopher Of Egoism (Part 1 of 2) — lecture article, part 1 | Svein Olav Nyberg |
| 7 | [The house where Stirner was born] — illustration | |
| 8 | [Caricature of Max Stirner] — illustration | |
| 10 | [Friedrich Engels’s caricature of a meeting of the Young Hegelians] — illustration | Friedrich Engels |
2000
Non Serviam No. 20
self-ownership & self-enjoyment
May 1, 2000 [combined print manifestation 19/20] | electronic issue; later incorporated into the millennium double print issue 19/20
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
20 (combined print manifestation with No. 19; No. 20 content on pp. 12–20) pp. · 148 x 210 mm · 12 NOK/issue; £1/issue; US$2/issue [combined print manifestation] · Web/e-mail issue (base manifestation); incorporated into combined print booklet manifestation Non Serviam 19/20
Digital-native issue with a base web/e-mail manifestation dated January 2000 and content later incorporated into the combined A5 print double issue Non Serviam 19/20, published May 1, 2000. The electronic issue is unpaginated and contains the Editor’s Word, Part 2 of Svein Olav Nyberg’s “Max Stirner – The Great Philosopher Of Egoism,” and Wm. Flygare’s English translation of Goethe’s “Vanitas!” under the title “My thought’s on n’ought!” The combined print manifestation’s shared cover, masthead, editorial, contents, subscription information, and page-2 Mackay quotation are cataloged under No. 19 and are not duplicated here. No. 20’s lecture continuation begins on the lower portion of logical page 12 and continues through page 19. The translated Goethe poem occupies page 20. Print-only illustrations associated with No. 20 include the house where Stirner died, an uncaptioned grave photograph, and an uncaptioned portrait accompanying the feminism postscript.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Web/e-mail issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg [signed Svein Olav Nyberg (ed.)] | |
| 12–19 | Max Stirner – The Great Philosopher Of Egoism (Part 2 of 2) — lecture article, part 2 | Svein Olav Nyberg |
| 17 | [The house where Stirner died] — illustration | |
| 18 | [Photograph of a grave slab] — illustration | |
| 19 | [Portrait accompanying the feminism postscript] — illustration | |
| 20 | My thought’s on n’ought! — translated poem | J.W. von Goethe; translated by Wm. Flygare |
2001
Non Serviam No. 21
December, 2001 [print manifestation] | first issue produced after abandoning the 32-kilobyte size convention
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
20 logical pages inferred for print booklet; examined imposed interior file contains logical pp. 3–18 only pp. · 148 x 210 mm · 12 NOK/issue; £1/issue; US$2/issue [print manifestation] · Web/e-mail issue (base manifestation); alternate imposed print-interior manifestation
Digital-native issue with a web/e-mail base manifestation and an alternate A5 print manifestation. Both forms identify the issue with December 2001. The surviving print file consists of eight landscape A4 sides imposed as logical pairs 18–3, 4–17, 16–5, 6–15, 14–7, 8–13, 12–9, and 10–11. The outer print sheet containing logical pages 1–2 and 19–20 is absent. Consequently, twenty logical pages are inferred from the imposition and pagination, but only pages 3–18 were directly examined. The web/e-mail manifestation contains the complete issue, including the article conclusion, footnote 26, literature lists, and the concluding Robert A. Heinlein quotation. The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word, a biographical note on Morten Blaabjerg, and Blaabjerg’s “The Straitjacket of Humanity: A discussion of the philosophical argument between Max Stirner and Ludwig Feuerbach, in the wake of Max Stirners Der Einzige und sein Eigentum (Leipzig 1844).” Print-specific matter includes the masthead, subscription and reproduction notices, Blaabjerg’s portrait, and two uncaptioned historical portraits or caricatures.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Web/e-mail issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| 3 | [Print masthead] — masthead | |
| 3 | Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg |
| 5 | Morten Blaabjerg bio — contributor biography | Morten Blaabjerg |
| 4 | The Straitjacket of Humanity — article | Morten Blaabjerg |
| [Women and cats do as they please] — end quotation | Robert A. Heinlein |
2005
Non Serviam No. 22
self-ownership & self-enjoyment
September 2005 [print manifestation] | literary issue; return after multi-year hiatus
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
16 (print manifestation) pp. · 148 x 210 mm · 12 NOK/issue; £1/issue; US$2/issue [print manifestation] · Web/e-mail issue (base manifestation); alternate imposed print booklet manifestation
Digital-native issue with a web/e-mail base manifestation and a later sixteen-page A5 print booklet. The complete print production file is booklet-imposed on eight landscape A4 sides, with logical page pairs 16–1, 2–15, 14–3, 4–13, 12–5, 6–11, 10–7, and 8–9. Cataloged pagination follows logical reading order. The issue contains the Editor’s Word; Stephen Clark’s “Commentary to Blaabjerg”; Hans Trygve Jensen’s “Obituary – Helge Kongshaug (1945–2002)”; S.E. Parker’s “Eumeswil: A Note On Ernst Jünger’s Eumeswil,” followed by ten selected quotations; Svein Olav Nyberg’s “Ken MacLeod: An Egoist With An Eye On The Sky”; and Paul Kerin’s letter “Luke Rhinehart’s The Dice Man.” The issue ends with an Oscar Wilde quotation. Print-only paratext includes the cover, masthead, page-4 contents, portraits, book-cover images, a page-14 statement of Non Serviam’s philosophical position, and a multilingual “no” back cover.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Web/e-mail issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| 1 | [Print cover] — cover | |
| 3 | [Print masthead] — masthead | |
| 4 | [Print contents] — table of contents | |
| 3–4 | Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg |
| 5 | Commentary to Blaabjerg — commentary | Stephen Clark |
| 6 | Obituary – Helge Kongshaug (1945–2002) — obituary | Hans Trygve Jensen |
| 7–9 | Eumeswil — article | S.E. Parker [print byline: Sid Parker] |
| 10–14 | Ken MacLeod — author survey | Svein Olav Nyberg |
| 14 | [Non Serviam: philosophical starting point] — print-only editorial statement | Svein Olav Nyberg |
| 15 | Luke Rhinehart’s The Dice Man — letter | Paul Kerin |
| 2 | [Woman represents the triumph of matter over mind] — end quotation | Oscar Wilde |
| 16 | [Multilingual “no” back cover] — print-only back-cover graphic |
2006
Non Serviam No. 23
self-ownership & self-enjoyment
April 2006 | Stirner and Marx issue; largest issue to date and first to exceed the former 32-kilobyte e-mail convention
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
60 (print manifestation) pp. · 148 x 210 mm · Web/e-mail issue (base manifestation); complete A5 print/PDF manifestation
Digital-native issue with a complete web/e-mail base manifestation and a complete sixty-page A5 print/PDF manifestation. The issue contains Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word, Alexander Green’s extensive “Stirner and Marx: Max Stirner: A Historiographical Sketch,” and Alastair Mcleish’s “Against Max Stirner: A Defence of Marxism’s Humanist Standpoint.” The print manifestation adds a designed cover, inside-cover Stirner quotation, masthead, table of contents, logical pagination, credited layout by Hans Trygve Jensen, figures and portraits, a bibliography and numbered notes in print layout, and a two-page catalogue of back issues. The web version preserves the principal texts and headings but is unpaginated at issue level. Shared content is cataloged once; print page references apply to the alternate print manifestation.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| [Web/e-mail issue heading and contents] — issue heading and table of contents | ||
| 1 | [Print cover] — cover | |
| 2 | [Inside-cover Stirner quotation] — quotation | Max Stirner |
| 3 | [Print masthead] — masthead | |
| 4 | [Print table of contents] — table of contents | |
| 3–4 | Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg |
| 5–42 | Stirner and Marx — article | Alexander Green |
| 43–57 | Against Max Stirner: A Defence of Marxism’s Humanist Standpoint — article | Alastair Mcleish |
| 58–59 | non serviam back issues — back-issue catalogue | Non Serviam Press |
| 60 | [Blank back cover] — back cover |
2009
Non Serviam No. 24
self-ownership & self-enjoyment
2009 | 1st Stepelevich issue; final issue under the title Non Serviam
Edited by Svein Olav Nyberg
14 pp. · 8.5 x 11 in. · Complete print/PDF issue; no earlier web/e-mail manifestation located
Complete fourteen-page letter-size print/PDF issue. No contemporaneous old-style web or e-mail manifestation has been located, and this designed PDF is treated as the issued form. The cover identifies it as the “1st Stepelevich issue.” Contents comprise Svein Olav Nyberg’s Editor’s Word, Lawrence S. Stepelevich’s translator’s introduction, and Stepelevich’s annotated first English translation of Max Stirner’s 1842 review of Bruno Bauer’s The Trumpet of the Last Judgment Against Hegel the Atheist and Antichrist: An Ultimatum. The masthead states that paper copies could be printed on demand by individual agreement. Although the Editor’s Word anticipates additional Stepelevich material in upcoming issues, no later numbered issue of Non Serviam has been located. No. 24 is therefore cataloged as the final issue under the title Non Serviam, not as an issue internally announced as final. The editorial project was subsequently reconceived and retitled i, also known as i-studies; its first and only issue appeared in March 2011 and included Nyberg’s “Goodbye, Non Serviam.”
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | non serviam 24: 1st Stepelevich issue — front cover | May Elin Aunli [photograph] |
| 2 | “You can search the entire universe…” — quotation | Siddhartha Gautama Buddha |
| 3 | [Masthead and publication information] — masthead | Non Serviam Press |
| 3 | Editor’s Word — editorial | Svein Olav Nyberg |
| 3 | [Issue contents] — table of contents | Non Serviam |
| 4–14 | An English Translation of Max Stirner’s Review of Bruno Bauer’s The Trumpet of the Last Judgment over Hegel, the Atheist and Antichrist: An Ultimatum — article grouping | Lawrence S. Stepelevich; Max Stirner |
The Slaughter Cataloger was used to compile and export this bibliographic information on July 17, 2026. Learn more at https://github.com/kevinislaughter/Slaughter-Cataloger/