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By Kathleen Corcella
Collection Overview
Title: Paul C. Schroeder Papers, 1962-2023
ID: 26/20/207
Primary Creator: Schroeder, Paul C.
Extent: 7.0 cubic feet
Arrangement: By subject.
Date Acquired: 12/04/2016. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Alumni, Biological Computer Laboratory, Centennial, University, Cybernetics, Illinois Politics, Student Activism, Teacher Education, Vietnam War
Languages: English, Spanish;Castilian
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Papers of Paul C. Schroeder (B.A. Political Science '68) including correspondence, publications, event handouts, flyers, notes, a punch card, and a button concerning the University committees, University Centennial, Vietnam War, General Motors Protest, cybernetics and the Biological Computer Laboratory, Horsley Committee, political and social dissent, feminism, pedagogy, campus events, free speech, and events at the Red Herring. Correspondents include Heinz von Foerster, Steve Sloan, Gaylor Nelson, Robert Rogers, Michael Rossman, Pat Mardeus, and Schroeder's parents.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
University of Illinois Archives
Accruals:
Accruals on 7/7/2017, 6/2/2022, 4/3/2023, and 4/7/2025.
Related Materials:
See also the biographical file for Paul C. Schroeder in record series 26/4/1 (Alumni and Faculty Biographical File).
Other Note:
13 pages
PDF Box/Folder List
URL:
https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/2620207.pdf
PDF finding aid
for Paul C. Schroeder Papers (26/20/207)
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Student Activism and Life],
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Series 2: Vietnam War Draft],
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Series 3: Rogers Project and Urbana-Champaign Community Activism],
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Series 4: Cybernetics],
[Series 5: Publications],
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Series 6: Correspondence],
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Series 7: Illinois Constitutional Convention - Consulting Work],
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Series 8: Juvenile Justice],
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Series 9: Family Life],
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Series 10: Dreams],
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Series 11: Restricted],
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Series 12: Oversize Materials],
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- Series 5: Publications

- Sub-Series 1: Princelet Editions, Annetta Pedretti

- Box 9

- Folder 8: Allos: 'Other' Language, Kenneth Gaburo, Princelet Editions, 1980

- Folder 9: Map Reformulation, Lou Kauffman, Princelet Editions, 1986

- Folder 10: Problems of Levels and Boundaries, Annetta Pedretti and gerard de zeeuw, Princelet Editions, 1981

- Folder 11: Of Of Book-Conference, Herbert Brün et al., Princelet Editions, 1986

- Folder 12: The Stanford Lectures, Heinz von Foerster, 2005

- Folder 13: Princelet Editions

- Folder 14: Conversations in Cybernetics, Princelet Editions, 1986

- Box 10

- Folder 1: Pierre and Penny against the Odds, Homer Class of ’92, Princelet Editions, 1986

- Folder 2: Language and Self-Reference and Washington Transcript, Annetta Pedretti, Princelet Editions, 1982

- Sub-Series 2: Feminism

- Box 10

- Folder 3: The Woman Question, Selections from the Writings of Karl Marx, Frederick Engeles, V. I Lenin, Joseph Stalin, 1975

- Folder 4: Unbecoming Men pamphlet, 1971

- Folder 5: Love it or Leave it, An affectionate history of The American Left, 1980

- Folder 6: A Short History of Women's Liberation by Barbara Winslow, 1978

- Folder 7: Sisters in Struggle 1848-1920 by Debby Woodroofe, 1971

- Folder 8: Feminism and Marxism by Dorothy Ballan, 1971

- Folder 9: Liberating Masturbation by Betty Dodson, 1980

- Folder 10: The Political Economy of Women's Liberation, ca. 1970

- Folder 11: Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle by Alexandra Kollontai, Translated and Introduced by Allix Holt, 1972

- Folder 12: The Political Economy of Women's Liberation by Margaret Benston, ca. 1969

- Folder 13: Women's Work: A Collection of Articles by Working Women, 1975

- Folder 14: Blackberry Harvest Poems, Songs and Art of Older Women, Older Women's Network, Vol. III No. 2, 1979

- Folder 15: Women's Place is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force by Margery Davies, ca. 1974

- Folder 16: Creating Feminist Works, A panel discussion from The Scholar and the Feminist V, 1978

- Folder 17: I just wanted someone to know, A play by Bette Craig and Joyce Kornbluh, 1982

- Folder 18: Her Voice in the Drum, a novella by Rebcca Béguin

- Folder 19: Guide to Study and Discussion of the Film Union Maids, ca. 1976

- Folder 20: Manushi Journal on Women and Society, Numbers 7-10 and Manushi: Women Bhakta Poets, 1981-82, 1989

- Sub-Series 3: Philosophy, Political Science, and Cybernetics

- Box 10

- Folder 21: The Dream That Was No More a Dream: A Search for Aesthetic Reality in Germany, 1890-1945, Bill Kinser and Neil Kleinman, 1969

- Folder 22: Postcard to Anita from Paul Schroeder, 1969 Interview with Linda Lanphear Transcript, How I Became an Outside Agitator Pamphlet by Linda Lanphear, 1969

- Folder 23: Articles and Pamphlets on Feminism, Sexism, Women Employment, and Socialism, 1972

- Folder 24: Publications on Cybernetics of Cybernetics, 1974

- Folder 25: Prospectus for Cybernetics, Volume 1 and 2 of Cybernetic Magazine and ASC Newsletter, 1983, 1985-86

- Folder 26: Dictionary of Cybernetics by Klaus Krippendorf, 1986

- Folder 27: "Through an Illusion, Touching the Real", on Lee Godie, Notes on Balance, ca. 1986, 2011

- Folder 28: Wiegleb, Heinz von Foerster and Paul C. Schroeder "Introduction to Natural Magic", 1993

- Folder 29: Publications on Cybernetics by Paul (Negative Information Sciences), 1999

- Box 11

- Folder 1: Excerpt, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, Fred Turner, 2006

- Folder 2: “The Unknown” article draft by Paul C. Schroeder

- Folder 3: Spatial Aspects of Metaphors for Information - PhD Dissertation - Graduate School (first page and page 176), 2003

- Folder 4: BCL Cybernetics of Cybernetics: A proposal, Valarie C. Lamont and Heinz von Foerster, 1973

- Folder 5: On Learning and Teaching in LAS, 1975-76

- Folder 6: American Society for Cybernetics News, 1994

- Folder 7: Tractatus Paradoxico-Philosophicus, Ricardo B. Uribe, 1991

- Folder 8: Louis H. Kauffman publications, 1984, 1987

- Folder 9: Lernen Learning, 4th International Heinz von Foerster-Congress, 2009

- Part 1 of 2
- Folder 10: Lernen Learning, 4th International Heinz von Foerster-Congress, 2009

- Part 2 of 2
- Sub-Series 4: Radical America Publications

- Box 11

- Folder 11: Radical America, Failure and Lessons: The Meaning of Debsian Socialism, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1968

- Folder 12: Radical America, Vol. 2, No. 6, November-December 1968

- Folder 13: Radical America, Vol. 3, No. 3, May-June 1969

- Folder 14: Radical America, Vol. 3, No. 4, July-August 1969

- Folder 15: Radical America, Vol. 3, No. 5, September 1969

- Folder 16: Radical America, Vol. 4, Special Issue, January 1970

- Folder 17: Radical America, Vol. 4, No. 3, April 1970

- Folder 18: Radical America, Vol. 4. No. 6, August 1970

- Folder 19: Radical America, Vol. 5, No. 3, May-June 1971

- Folder 20: Radical America, Vol. 5, No. 5, September-October 1971

- Folder 21: Radical America, Vol. 5, No. 6, September-October 1971

- Folder 22: Radical America, Vol. 6, No. 1, May-June 1972

- Folder 23: Radical America, Vol. 6, No. 4, May-June 1972

- Folder 24: Radical America, Vol. 6, No. 5, September-October 1972

- Folder 25: Radical America, Vol. 7, No. 2,, September-October 1972

- Folder 26: Radical America, Vol. 8, Nos. 1 and 2, January-April 1974

- Folder 27: Radical America, Vol. 8, No. 3, January-April 1974

- Folder 28: Radical America, Vol. 9, No. 3, May-June 1975

- Folder 29: Radical America, Vol. 9, Nos. 4-5, July-August 1975

- Folder 30: Radical America, Vol. 9, No. 6, November-December 1975

- Box 12

- Folder 1: Radical America, Vol. 10, No. 1, January-February 1976

- Folder 2: Radical America, Vol. 10, No. 2, March-April 1976

- Folder 3: An Introduction to Capitalism: Four Lectures on Marxian Economics by Gayle Southworth

- Folder 4: Italy After Mussolini by John Hewetson

- Sub-Series 5: Cultural Correspondence

- Box 12

- Folder 5: Cultural Correspondence, No. 1-2, 1975-76

- Folder 6: Vacations Pamphlet

- Folder 7: Cultural Correspondence, Underground Cartoonists: ten years later, No. 5, 1977

- Folder 8: Cultural Correspondence, The Origins of Left Culture in the U.S., No. 6-7, ca. 1978

- Folder 9: Cultural Correspondence, No. 8, 1978

- Folder 10: Cultural Correspondence, Surrealism and its Popular Accomplices, No. 10-11, 1979

- Sub-Series 6: Black and Red Publications

- Box 12

- Folder 11: Essay on Commodity Fetishism by Fredy Perlman

- Folder 12: How I Became an Outside Agitator by Linda Lanphear

- Folder 13: Birth of a Revolutionary Movement in Yugoslavia by Fredy Perlman, ca. 1970

- Folder 14: The Incoherence of the Intellectual by Fredy Perlman, 1970

- Folder 15: Worker-Student Action Committees France May ’68 by R. Gregoire and F. Perlman, 1970

- Folder 16: Manual for Revolutionary Leaders by Michael Velli and Letter to Schroeder from Black and Red, 1972

- Folder 17: The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control 1917 to 1921 by Maurice Brinton, 1972

- Folder 18: The Reproduction of Daily Life by Fredy Perlman, 1972

- Folder 19: Lip and the Self-Managed Counter-Revolution, 1975

- Folder 20: On the Poverty of Student Life: Ten Days that Shook the University, Black and Red Reprint, 1973

- Sub-Series 7: Tricontinental Bulletins

- Box 12

- Folder 21: Tricontinental Bulletin, No. 3, 1966

- Folder 22: Tricontinental, Nos. 7-9, ca. 1966

- Folder 23: Tricontinental, Nos. 24 and 26-30

- Box 13

- Folder 1: Tricontinental, Nos. 33-39

- Folder 2: Tricontinental, Nos. 41, 43-45, 1969

- Folder 3: Tricontinental, North American Edition, No. 4, 1971

- Sub-Series 8: Workers’ Rights, Organization, and Management

- Box 13

- Folder 4: Life in the Factory by Paul Romano

- Folder 5: On the Revolutionary Potential of the Working Class by Ernest Mandel and George Novack, ca. 1969

- Folder 6: Workplace Organizing, Review Article

- Folder 7: Singlejack Littlebooks on Work and Labor

- Stan Weir Part 1 of 4
- Folder 8: Two Steel Contracts by Gary, Indiana Writer’s Workshop and Staughton Lynd

- Stan Weir Part 2 of 4
- Folder 9: Letters to Stan Weir and Articles on the Working Class

- Stan Weir Part 3 of 4
- Folder 10: Correspondences between Paul Schroeder and Stan Weir, 1979-81

- Stan Weir Part 4 of 4
- Folder 11: Workers Battle Automation by Charles Denby and Wildcat Dodge Truck, 1971, 1974

- Folder 12: Publications on Worker Self-Management, Unions, Strikes, and Anarchy, 1972-79, 1982

- Part 1 of 2
- Folder 13: Publications on Worker Self-Management, Unions, Strikes, and Anarchy, 1972-79, 1982

- Part 2 of 2
- Folder 14: Collective Organization, 1975

- Part 1 of 3
- Folder 15: Newspapers on Organizing and Protesting, 1974

- Collective Organization Part 2 of 3
- Folder 16: Canyon Collective, ca. 1975

- Collective Organization Part 3 of 3
- Sub-Series 9: Surrealist Research and Development Monograph Series

- Box 13

- Folder 17: The Poetical Alphabet by Benjamin Paul Blood, Monograph Series No. 3, 1972

- Folder 18: Rana Mozelle by Paul Garon, Monograph Series No. 4, 1972

- Folder 19: Music is Dangerous by Paul Nougé, Monograph Series No. 6, 1972

- Folder 20: Specters of the Desert, Poem by Jindrich Heisler, Surrealist Research and Development Monograph Series No. 8, 1972

- Sub-Series 10: Chinese Culture, Education, and Perspectives

- Box 13

- Folder 21: Capitalist and Maoist Economic Development by John Gurley

- Folder 22: China’s Continuing Revolution by William Hinton, China Policy Study Group

- Folder 23: Democracy in China by Gyan Chand

- Folder 24: Hand and Brain in China and Other Essays, Far East Reporter, Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute, 1971

- Folder 25: In China, Managers Work! by U.S.-China Friendship Association of the San Francisco Bay Area

- Box 14

- Folder 1: China, Socialism, and the Cultural Revolution Publications, 1973

- Folder 2: Education in the People’s Republic of China by Fred L. Pincus, Research Group One Report No. 20, 1975

- Folder 3: Frank Waters Interview on China and the Hopi, May 1977

- Sub-Series 11: Iranian Students

- Box 14

- Folder 4: Iran Report No. 1, Confederation of Iranian Students, September 1973

- Folder 5: Iran Report Supp. No. 2, Confederation of Iranian Students, February 1974

- Folder 6: Resistance by the Iranian Student Association, April, June 1974

- Folder 7: Iran Report, Confederation of Iranian Students, September 1974

- Sub-Series 12: Situationist International (SI)

- Box 14

- Folder 8: Internationale Situationniste 1958-1969, 1970

- Folder 9: Situationist International Anthology, Edited and translated by ken knabb, 1989

- Folder 10: Ten Days that Shook the University, Situationist International

- Sub-Series 13: Arsenal Surrealist Subversion

- Box 14

- Folder 11: Letter from Chicago Surrealist Group and Arsenal Surrealist Subversion 1, ca. 1973

- Folder 12: Arsenal Surrealist Subversion 2, 1973

- Folder 13: Arsenal Surrealist Subversion 3, 1976

- Box 14

- Folder 14: The Absorption of Surplus: The Sales Effort by Paul Baram and Paul Sweezy

- Folder 15: Africans Fight Napalm Herbicides, War, Injury, Disease, Malnutrition in Angola Mozambique

- Folder 16: Bakunin on Violence: Letter to S. Nechayev, Come! Unity Press

- Folder 17: Capital, First Edition, Chapter 1

- Folder 18: Community for Creative Non-violence and Other Non-violent Projects

- Folder 19: Cuba and Imperialism: The Prerevolutionary Background by Edward Boorstein

- Folder 20: Donolo – Politics Redefined

- Folder 21: Indians

- Box 15

- Folder 1: Instructions for Undressing the Human Race by Fernando Alegria

- Folder 2: Lenin on Dialectics by Cliff Slaughter, Bulletin International Series 1

- Folder 3: Magazine Articles 70s

- Folder 4: Men and Nature: A Study in Bourgeois History by Christopher Caudwell

- Folder 5: On Living by Raoul Vaneigem

- Folder 6: “The Poetry of Work” by Jonathan Williams

- Folder 7: Portugal: A Blaze of Freedom

- Folder 8: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Hungary by Gerry Healy, Bulletin International Series 6

- Folder 9: Selfishness and Self-Love

- Folder 10: Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

- Folder 11: Taxi at the Crossroads: Which Way to Turn? A Proposal from Taxi and File Coalition

- Folder 12: “Three Nice People” by Helen Bevington

- Folder 13: Visit to a Rural Commune by Felix Greene

- Folder 14: What is Apartheid

- Includes notes on the back on Rocky Maffit and Goddard Graves
- Folder 15: The Head-Fixing Industry by John Keracher, 1955

- Folder 16: Quakers, 1968, 1976

- Folder 17: Rozak The Counter Culture, 1968

- Folder 18: Hans Magnus Enzens benner – On Leaving America, February 29, 1968

- Folder 19: Norman Mailer – On the Steps of the Pentagon, March 1968

- Folder 20: The Morning of a Machine Gun by Franklin Rosemont, May 1968

- Folder 21: Cuba’s Workers, Workers’ Cuba, 1969

- Folder 22: Mozambique will be Free, 1969

- Folder 23: The Right to be Lazy by Paul Lafargue, 1969

- Folder 24: “The Open Truth and Fiery Vehemence of Youth” by Peter Martin, January 1969

- Folder 25: Fata Morgana by André Breton, February 1969

- Folder 26: Articles on Technology, Nuclear Threats, and Worker’s Rights

- Folder 27: “I Accept Your Criticism” by William Hinton, 1970

- Folder 28: NACL Research – Chile, 1970

- Folder 29: On the Battlefield: Cairo, Illinois by The Concerned Community Coalition of Bloomington-Normal and Community for Social Action, 1970

- Folder 30: Revolution in Rwanda, 1970

- Box 16

- Folder 1: Don Juan Castaneda

- Folder 2: Red Buffalo, A Radical Journal of American Studies, Summer 1971, Indian Issue, 1971

- Folder 3: Red Buffalo, Oral History, Double Issue, 2 and 3, ca. 1972

- Folder 4: Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University by William Hinton, Volume 24 No.3, 1972

- Folder 5: The Essentials of Dialectics Edited and with an Introduction by Alex Steiner, 1972

- Folder 6: Nuclear Energy: Promises, Promises by George L. Weil, 1972

- Folder 7: Africa Fund Projects: Angola, Guinea, Mozambique, 1973

- Folder 8: Lincoln Gazette Newspapers, 1973

- Folder 9: NAM Bulletin, Number 3, June 1973

- Item was published a part of the New American Movement (NAM)
- Folder 10: Goodwin/Heilbroner, 1974

- Folder 11: New American Movement: The Political Perspective, ca. 1974

- Folder 12: A Community Program for change in San Francisco, 1975

- Folder 13: Southern Populism and Black Labor by Vince Copeland, 1975

- Folder 14: Liberation and the Church in Latin America, Community Action on Latin America Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 4, April 1975

- Folder 15: “How the Bad Old Days Will End” by Charles Lutwidge, October 1975

- Folder 16: Angola: The Struggle for Liberation, 1976

- Folder 17: Mushroom Foraging, June 1976

- Folder 18: Czechoslovakia and Communism, 1977-78

- Folder 19: On the Edge Newspapers, 1977

- Item was published as a Catholic worker’s newspaper
- Folder 20: Supplying Repression by Michael T. Klare, 1977

- Folder 21: “Confessions from a Hijacker”

- Folder 22: News from Neasden: A Catalogue of News Radical Publications, Frankfurt Issue, Autumn 1978 Number 10, 1978

- Folder 23: Article on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, September 1978

- Folder 24: Community Action on Latin America Newsletter, October 1980

- Folder 25: Report on Illegal Immigrants Impact on the US, 1983

- Folder 26: Violence in El Salvador, June 1983

- Warning: Contains Imagery of Gore and Blood
- Folder 27: “Two Modern Day Druids Talking - and listening - to trees”, The Alliance article, July 1987

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Series 6: Correspondence],
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