Aragorn!

Aragorn!
Born(1970-01-01)1 January 1970
United States
Died13 February 2020(2020-02-13) (aged 50)
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Other namesAragorn Bang
CitizenshipUnited States
OccupationsSystems administrator, writer, publisher, editor
MovementAnarchism

Aragorn! (1970–2020), was an Odawa systems administrator, writer, and anarchist. Founder of The Anarchist Library, he helped establish a portion of the anarchist movement's computer networks at the beginning of the 21st century while writing, publishing, or editing numerous texts, some of which are noted as significant for contemporary anarchist thought. He is generally credited as one of the founders of the indigenous anarchism (or anarcho-indigenism) tendency.

Born into an Odawa family, Aragorn was given this name at birth. He joined the punk, vegan, and anarchist movements in his twenties and began writing for numerous anarchist and punk publications. Among the publications he contributed to were Oppression Song, After the Revolution, HeartattaCk, Maximum Rock'nroll, Inside Front, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, Attentat, and especially Green Anarchy. Some of his contributions to the latter were noted as indicative of the anarchist movement's reach into First Nations peoples and as landmark moments for the birth of the anarcho-indigenism tendency. In general, Aragorn! favored insurrectionist, queer, or anti-civ tendencies in his publications and projects.

He also founded a relatively large number of websites and digital initiatives starting in the 2000s, the most famous of which, The Anarchist Library, holds a prominent place in anarchist propaganda in the early 21st century, according to certain historians. Aragorn! died in 2020 in the San Francisco Bay Area.