John P. Clark

John P. Clark is a philosopher, activist, writer, and educator. He lives in New Orleans, where his family has been for thirteen generations. He is Director of La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Loyola University. He was a member and former chair of Loyola's Environment Program and directed the Loyola summer study program in India. His books include Max Stirner’s Egoism, The Philosophical Anarchism of William Godwin, The Anarchist Moment, Anarchy, Geography, Modernity, The Impossible Community, The Tragedy of Common Sense, and Between Earth and Empire. He is at work on completing a work on the philosophy of dialectical social ecology.  As his alter non-ego, Max Cafard, his works include The Surregionalist Manifesto and Other Writings, FLOOD BOOK, Surregional Explorations, Lightning Storm Mind, the forthcoming graphic history, Anarchy in the Big Easy, and the forthcoming Poemics, an illustrated collection of poems and rants. He has also edited and translated a number of other works. About 400 of his texts are online at https://loyno.academia.edu/JohnClark. He does educational and organizational work with La Terre Institute in New Orleans and at Bayou La Terre Woodland Center, an 88-acre site on Bayou La Terre (near Dedeaux, MS) in the coastal forest on the Gulf of Mexico. He is a member of the Education and Research Workers’ Industrial Union 620 of the Industrial Workers of the World. He hosts a weekly meditation and study group at the Cypress in the Garden Zendo in New Orleans, and a weekly online study group, the Dialectical Social Ecology Group. He is building a meditation and study center, the Leaping Frog Zendo, at Bayou La Terre Woodland Center.