The Strange Afterlife of Cornelius Castoriadis

By SCOTT McLEMEE

The story of a revered European thinker, a literary legacy, family squabbles, and Internet bootlegging

As a student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor during the early 1980s, Bill Brown began publishing Not Bored!, a photocopied journal of small circulation inspired by what Mr. Brown calls "the ultra-left milieu": revolutionary thinkers and organizations considered too extreme by orthodox Socialist and Communist parties. You can still subscribe to the hard-copy edition, but