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The Sovereign Self #5

Sun, 12 February 2012 15:25:53 -0800

Is it archist? or anarchist?

Anarchy After Leftism

Fri, 10 February 2012 07:56:25 -0800

One of the books that started it all...

Queer UltraViolence

Sun, 29 January 2012 22:34:13 -0800

Queer as in Fuck You!

Occupy Everything

Sun, 29 January 2012 22:21:03 -0800

Anarchists in the Occupation Movement 2009-2011

My Own #1

Sun, 29 January 2012 16:04:25 -0800

Self-Ownership and Self-Creation against all Authority

Sovereign Self #4

Fri, 27 January 2012 07:16:43 -0800

Tacoma, Washington's very own individualist mini-paper. Eight pages of contemporary egoism, printed lovingly on a Multilith 1250.

Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 2.2011 5-pack

Mon, 16 January 2012 11:56:38 -0800

Art & Anarchy returns to a perennial concern - how our capacity for imaginative prefiguration and/or social intervention and/or self-actualization figures in the tensions that arise between the realities we seek to transform and our aspirations as anarchists (Allan Antliff) This is for 5 copies of ADCS

Not Sorry - Travis James and the Acrimonious Assembly of Arsonists

Sun, 15 January 2012 23:01:41 -0800

More folk than punk, grittier than Blackbird Raum, and actual nihilist lyrics.

Origins: a John Zerzan Reader

Sat, 07 January 2012 18:02:25 -0800

The new collection of Zerzan's writings on origins, of language, time, numbers, gender, agriculture. This reader brings together the best, most original thinking (no pun intended) of Zerzan's many years of writing.

An Introduction to the Situationists

Sat, 07 January 2012 16:27:08 -0800

Here is a pamphlet to make Guy and Raoul roll over in their graves (again). Jan D. Matthews would surely get kicked out of the group for publishing this clear, glossary style explanation of the terms defined or coined by the Sits.

Fifth Estate #386

Wed, 04 January 2012 11:13:28 -0800

This, the longest continually published anarchist periodical in the u.s. (even if it doesn't have anarchy on the cover anymore), continues to be a thought-provoking exercise.

Little Black Cart Accomplice!

Sun, 01 January 2012 20:51:28 -0800

Monthly Subscription Program

Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 2.2011

Sat, 31 December 2011 10:43:54 -0800

Til the Clock Stops

Wed, 28 December 2011 21:53:21 -0800

Table of Contents Introduction to the Second Edition And the War has Only Just Begun Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Jeune-Fille Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike: A Few Clarifications A Fine Hell Living-and-Fighting Building a Permanent Movement "A critical metaphysics could be born as a science of apparatuses" How is it to Be Done?

Politics is Not a Banana

Mon, 19 December 2011 12:57:32 -0800

What are You Doing After the Revolution The Journal of Vulgar Discourse

Steampunk Magazine, the first years

Mon, 19 December 2011 12:48:36 -0800

The collected works of Steampunk Magazine, issues 1 through 7.

be realists!

Tue, 13 December 2011 12:18:23 -0800

reprints of perlman articles

Sovereign Self #3

Tue, 13 December 2011 12:08:58 -0800

november 2011

Free Flint button

Tue, 13 December 2011 07:17:51 -0800

Flint is an imprisoned ally.

Lost in the Fog

Sat, 10 December 2011 17:53:40 -0800

Dead ends and potentials of the occupy movement

Colonization and De-colonization

Thu, 08 December 2011 11:22:17 -0800

A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century

Warrior #3

Thu, 08 December 2011 10:57:32 -0800

The third Warrior, published in 2007, a publication by remarkable artist Zigzag out of occupied Salish territory in the northwest coast of British Columbia.

Sic Journal #1

Tue, 06 December 2011 17:08:55 -0800

A pretty journal out of Europe, referencing endnotes, Theorie communiste, and other anti-state commies.

For Wildness and Anarchy

Tue, 06 December 2011 16:01:42 -0800

The collected works of Kevin Tucker, polemicist, ardent green anarchist, and publisher of Species Traitor journal.

Social Overload

Mon, 05 December 2011 13:34:31 -0800

How can we speak of social transformations? History gives the appearance of being written as it unfolds: image events are becoming the only reality. The landscape of ideas seems to be building back on the ruins of ideologies. Theoretical violence has been retired to the museum of thought, even if the theory market is doing well. When the irresistable rise of ethics is founded on the common search for consensus, critical virulance is limited by a continuous game of social signs.

Radical Mycology

Thu, 01 December 2011 11:26:46 -0800

Some people might call this fetishism, we call it commitment.

Endnotes 2

Thu, 01 December 2011 11:17:16 -0800

A little theory with your theory?

325 #9

Sat, 26 November 2011 08:51:13 -0800

For anyone who has remained unclear about the politics of this magazine, irregularly produced from Britain since 2003, the cover of this issue should clear everything up.

Anarchy #62

Fri, 18 November 2011 18:09:12 -0800

"Penetrating Leftist Code" "Ethnic Politics as Integration" "Anarchy's Summer Cross Country Tour"

The Sur(regionalist) Manifesto

Fri, 18 November 2011 12:59:14 -0800

Introducing Max Cafard. You will be happy you met him.

The Situationist International Anthology - revised edition

Fri, 18 November 2011 12:47:07 -0800

Revised and Expanded Edition

Race Treason behind Prison Walls

Fri, 18 November 2011 12:22:01 -0800

A chronology and two essays (one by ex-political prisoner Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, the other by Staughton Lynd) about resistance, especially by prisoners of color, from inside of prisons.

Green Anarchy 13

Thu, 17 November 2011 08:49:53 -0800

Before Green Anarchy was a magazine, it was a newspaper.

Communization and its Discontents

Thu, 17 November 2011 08:32:50 -0800

Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggles A dream team of 21st Century grad students have produced this collection edited by Benjamin Noys.

Green Anarchy 18

Mon, 14 November 2011 17:53:13 -0800

Class Struggle theme

Fifth Estate 383

Mon, 14 November 2011 14:49:12 -0800

"Welcome to our Summer edition with its theme of Belief/Disbelief/Unbelief. Our essays don't so much investigate beliefs themselves as much as belief systems, our cognitive constructions which determine our perception of reality."

Fifth Estate 382

Mon, 14 November 2011 14:45:35 -0800

The Spring 2010 issue of this oldest of u.s. anarchist magazines (despite no longer having the word on its cover) is dominated by praise of Ursula Kroeber LeGuin, in the form of essays, reviews, and a couple of fan letters, as well as a reprint of LeGuin's "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be."

Fifth Estate 380

Mon, 14 November 2011 14:38:28 -0800

Lots of fiction, essays on current political situations, including "second-wave situationism", the outrageous case of Marie Mason, Foucault, and Rachel Pollack, and the rebellious underclasses in China. Any ven diagram of politics, art, poetry, and fiction would have this venerable anarchist mag in the overlap. Still going strong after all these years.

Fifth Estate 377

Mon, 14 November 2011 14:35:53 -0800

Escape: Let's make a break for it!

Fifth Estate 379

Mon, 14 November 2011 14:22:47 -0800

Play is a common subtext for this venerable publication, but this issue goes explicit - with articles on the Living Theatre (cogent thoughts on how anarchist pacifism is, at its best, different from other pacifisms); The Universe Wants to Play (a personal exploration that heralds schools as re-claimable territory); Idiot Like Me (which takes on the difficult, contradictory task of explaining the significance of not taking things seriously), and so on.

Fifth Estate 378

Mon, 14 November 2011 14:15:12 -0800

Issue 378 of Fifth Estate focuses on a theme of money and its discontents. Walker Lane shares his adventures in state socialism in "An Anarchist in Cuba." Daniel Pinchbeck anticipates the impending collapse of currency in "The End of Money." Anu Bonobo takes a swig and writes a review on "CrimethInc's Overflowing Cup of Anarchist Elixir". All this, as well as an "Obituary for Dr. Albert Hofmann" by PanDoor.

Fifth Estate 372

Mon, 14 November 2011 13:12:05 -0800

This issue begins with a critical look at what is billed by the Left as the Bolivarian Revolution. Michael Staudenmaier and Anne Carlson describe their month long visit through Venezuela and relates anarchist perspectives on Chavismo. Barry Pateman's feature article pays tribute to the 1936 Spanish Revolution whose 70th anniversary we celebrate this issue. This issue also includes a write up about the 2006 Caracas World Social Forum (WSF) and a challenge to anarcho-primitivists

Fifth Estate 381

Mon, 14 November 2011 07:19:09 -0800

The summer/fall 2009 issue is here with information on the murder of Brad Will, the case of Marie Mason, an anarchist's travels in Hong Kong, radical listening and jazz, an interview with an infoshop in Nashville, reviews of Sakolsky's Swift Winds and Zerzan's Twilight of the Machines, catastrophism, updates on the state of the Fifth Estate, and more.

Fifth Estate 373

Mon, 14 November 2011 07:13:39 -0800

This is an issue about literature and its application to anarchy. Writers like Ursula Le Guin, Diane Di Prima, and Peter Wilson are mentioned.

Fifth Estate 375

Mon, 14 November 2011 06:23:16 -0800

The issue begins with an institution most all of us enjoy- restaurants, but with a look behind the scenes. Walker Lane offers a critique of Hugo Chavez with help from Venezuelan comrades; Cara Hoffman's "Third Sex" relates the consequences to gender inherent in Christian origins myth. Stephen Schkaitis and Jim Feast add a theoretical look a current trends within the anarchist movement and what possibilities they suggest. Plus reviews and celebrating the 40th anniversary of Guy DeBord's Society of the Spectacle.

Fifth Estate 374

Mon, 14 November 2011 06:20:43 -0800

Quite simply, we seek a revolution in everyday life, in all its aspects and for all people. This issue is our small contribution to this. The specific political perspectives of this issue is also somewhat of a departure from our usual fare with a discussion of the autonomist marxist tradition.

Down with the Empire, Up with the Spring!

Thu, 10 November 2011 19:51:32 -0800

After a decade of radical ecological resistance in Britain, it's time to look back on our actions and look forward to our future. Reprints from Do or Die, #10, the anarchist journal from the UK. If we are going to help catalyse a movement that can 'confront, stop and eventually reverse the forces responsible for the destruction of the earth and its inhabitants,' we are going to need good strategy. --from the pamphlet

It's All Lies

Thu, 10 November 2011 19:30:32 -0800

A bi-lingual booklet of anarchist flyers from the late '60s to 2000. Artistic, informational, sometimes situationist-inspired, touching and frequently bitingly funny.

The Sovereign Self #2

Mon, 07 November 2011 13:21:48 -0800

Second of this nicely made egoist/individualist anarchist mini-magazine out of Tacoma, WA.

Ker-Bloom! #92

Mon, 07 November 2011 12:21:16 -0800

A short history of adopting a feral orange kitty.

Ker-Bloom #73

Sun, 30 October 2011 23:16:17 -0700

This issue of this unusual letter-press (hand set metal type) zine, produced consistently since 1996, is about a tour with a punk band (From the Depths), during which artnoose reads her zines in public and gets reminded of some things that make her happy.

Ker-Bloom #72

Sun, 30 October 2011 23:13:46 -0700

A sad issue - far from home, feeling isolated, and stepping on toes.

Ker-Bloom #70

Sun, 30 October 2011 23:11:55 -0700

The first zine from this long-time letter press whiz from her new digs in Pittsburgh. With images screenprinted at Artists Image Resource.

Ker-Bloom! #69

Sun, 30 October 2011 23:07:30 -0700

The long awaited "sex issue" of artnoose's letterpress zine. The writing of this issue was started in 1996 back in the Bay Area and finished in Pittsburgh PA and the zine was printed when artnoose was back in California visiting for the holidays.

Ker-Bloom! #68

Sun, 30 October 2011 23:04:34 -0700

This issue (September - October 2007) is sub-titled "...and why I'm leaving". The second of two issues that focus on why long-time california resident and homebody Artnoose is leaving the Bay Area. It may be surprising to hear that money has something to do with it.

Ker-Bloom! #67

Sun, 30 October 2011 22:58:21 -0700

This issue (July - August 2007) is the first of two issues discussing why Artnoose is moving away from the Bay Area. This issue is sub-titled "Why I love the Bay Area" and focuses on the Anarchist Study Group, the longest running weekly Anarchist Study Group in North America. With access to something like this, why would anyone move?

Ker-Bloom! #66

Sun, 30 October 2011 22:54:50 -0700

This issue (May - June 2007) is an issue dedicated to Artnoose's friend Aaron. Metal Aaron is a recent transplant from Canada who has amused and tested Artnoose. Seems like a nice kid.

Ker-Bloom! #65

Sun, 30 October 2011 22:53:16 -0700

This issue (March - April 2007) of Kerbloom is about the speaking tour that Artnoose did with Tomas of Rad Dad through the Pacific NW (including BC Canada). Details of the tour insanity ensue.

Ker-Bloom #64

Sun, 30 October 2011 22:50:46 -0700

Kerbloom is a long running letterpress personal zine from the East Bay of California. This issue (Jan-Feb 2007) is sub-titled Project Treadmill and refers to the unhealthy work ethic of Artnoose. The problem of how to balance wanting to do a thousand small things and several big things is explored.

Stop Snitching tee shirt

Tue, 25 October 2011 11:24:42 -0700

Stop snitching, encouraged Mucha style!

Anarchy #66

Tue, 25 October 2011 10:56:00 -0700

The Games issue!

Black Star pin

Tue, 25 October 2011 08:49:37 -0700

High quality enameled black star, from England.

Love & Rage downloadable - Thought Crime Collective

Mon, 24 October 2011 15:55:40 -0700

Our first hiphop cd on LBC - A variety of singers, ranging from east coast to west, sampled violins, songs named "Get Militant," "Smash the System," "Torn Eyelids, Open Iris," "Ground to the Bone," lyrics about ideology and homeland security, and ecocide, and a tagline that says - the end of politics, the beginning of all life. Based out of Olympia, WA.

Under the Starling Host downloadable- Blackbird Raum

Sat, 22 October 2011 13:56:39 -0700

The downloadable version of this excellent cd.

Stories of the Bear and Raccoon People

Fri, 21 October 2011 15:19:29 -0700

This zine is actually two different pamphlets. The first is called stories of the raccoon people, the second the story of the bear people. They are a series of anarchist myths about people you may know.

A Crime Called Freedom

Fri, 21 October 2011 15:06:06 -0700

Os Cangeceiros was a group of delinquents with nothing but contempt for the self-sacrificial ideology practiced by "specialists in armed struggle." This uncontrollable band of social rebels wreaked havoc on the French state by attacking the infrastructures of oppression, supporting popular revolts, stealing and releasing secret blueprints for high-tech prisons, raiding the offices of corporate collaborators, and creating their lives in complete opposition to the world-based-on-work. This volume, translated by Wolfi Landstreicher, is the first substantial collection of the writings of Os Cangaceiros in English.

Jane

Fri, 21 October 2011 14:56:30 -0700

First-hand accounts of one of the most successful clandestine organizations in u.s. history. Jane, the codename of the service, provided thousands of safe illegal abortions before the 1973 Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion took the wind out of their sails.

Armed Joy

Fri, 21 October 2011 14:49:21 -0700

This book was written in 1977 in the momentum of the revolutionary struggles taking place in Italy at the time, and that should be borne in mind when reading it today.

Against His-story, Against Leviathan

Fri, 21 October 2011 14:25:26 -0700

This book is in a fierce fight (with Letters of Insurgents) as the most important book by Fredy Perlman, this book presents his account of the world history of civilizations, from their origins (as they devoured primitive peoples and other civilizations) to the dead-end we know too well as the present day. A poetic and deeply subversive change of perspective on history.

The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism

Fri, 21 October 2011 14:15:14 -0700

The penetrating critique of nationalism, of both left and right. This is an essential essay for a critical understanding of nationalism.

Feral Revolution

Fri, 21 October 2011 14:05:17 -0700

Essays from Feral Faun. Poetic, insurrectionary, & passionate. Passions & Desires!

Letters #4

Fri, 21 October 2011 12:30:36 -0700

This edition of Letters, a anti-political communist journal, comes with a mini supplement and continues the discussion of pro-revolutionaries and their place in the scheme of things. A list of arguments (or apothegms), and then a series of longer explorations tied together thematically (Fate, Friendship, Letters, Novelty, etc), this journal continues to be an example of thoughtful and critical engagement.

Communicating Vessels #22

Thu, 20 October 2011 21:22:43 -0700

Pictures of this hand-printed magazine cannot do it justice. Inspired by The Match, this publication gets better and better, and this edition comes with more pages than usual, pieces on and by Franklin Rosemont (of surrealism fame), an obituary of Tuli Kupferberg, an article on Arab surrealism, many letters, a comic strip or two, and a pullout full color linocut poster starring Procrustes (illustrating the viciousness of procrusteanism). This is a publication to be held in the hands. Recommended.

Communicating Vessels #19

Thu, 20 October 2011 21:19:37 -0700

The latest issue of this literary, surrealist-inspired, anti-state commie zine includes "On the Perils and Rewards of Independent Publishing," "My Visit to the Portland Art Museum's Rembrandt Exhibit," "A Critical Look at the Left and Islamic Fundamentalism," and more.

Communicating Vessels #17

Thu, 20 October 2011 21:15:13 -0700

This learned literary zine is informed by surrealism and an anti-state communist perspective. This issue features the Aeschylus and the Oresteia Trilogy; New Orleans: City that Disaster Built; Life & Times of Tristam Shandy; Capitalist Development and the Rise of Modern City Planning; Reflections on Hipsterism. Plus poetry & more.

Ethel MacDonald

Wed, 19 October 2011 11:13:54 -0700

Another Kate Sharpley Library paean to forgotten and little known anarchists of history, this is the life story of Ethel MacDonald, who travelled to Spain, became a significant media reporter via radio of events of the war, and was imprisoned by the communists.

The Chicago Conspiracy: Chile, Dictatorship, Pinochet, Legacy, Today, Social War

Wed, 19 October 2011 10:47:59 -0700

The Chicago Conspiracy is about the students who fight a dictatorship-era educational law put into place on the last day of military rule. Over 700,000 students went on strike in 2006 to protest the privatized educational system. Police brutally repressed student marches and occupations. The film also examines the neighborhoods lining the outskirts of Santiago. They were originally land occupations, and later became centers of armed resistance against the military dictatorship. A number of them, such as la Victoria and Villa Francia, continue as areas of confrontational discontent to this day.

Under the Starling Host - Blackbird Raum

Wed, 19 October 2011 10:41:19 -0700

Another cd from anarchist folk punk sensation Blackbird Raum.

Love & Rage - Thought Crime Collective

Wed, 19 October 2011 10:35:23 -0700

Based out of Olympia, WA. Did they name this cd after Love & Rage the political group? Or are they trying to steal the name back? Check it out and make up your own mind.

I Have a Gun, Give Me All the Money in the Register - Nomadic War Machine

Wed, 19 October 2011 10:31:36 -0700

I Have a Gun, Give Me All the Money in the Register is the first cd by Nomadic War Machine, presenting a goth industrial blend, heavier on the industrial than on the goth, but with a moany, breathy thread that either is or mimics a choir of monks. Lyrics are entirely sampled. Fun!

Public Secrets

Tue, 18 October 2011 14:31:46 -0700

The man behind Bureau of Public Secrets talks about history, revolution, the sixties, the Situationists.

Enameled Bomb pin

Sat, 15 October 2011 07:13:08 -0700

From England, high quality enameled pin with an evocative message.

Black and Green star pin

Sat, 15 October 2011 07:10:27 -0700

All the way from England, here is a high-quality enameled metal pin.

Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 1.2011

Thu, 13 October 2011 06:10:28 -0700

This issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies considers the anarchist milieu in the ten years since the attacks of September 11th, 2001 (hereafter "9/11"). A host of obvious questions accompany an attempt to encapsulate an event such as 9/11 and the ten years that followed, foremost among them: Why situate 9/11 as a date of exceptional importance? Does a reflection of this kind merely contribute to, for example, neoconservative attempts to enshrine 9/11 as a propagandistic tool? Memorialization often carries reactionary politics, whether intentional or not.

Pyrexia

Wed, 12 October 2011 18:12:08 -0700

Pyrexia is a weird and somewhat wonderful blend of surrealism and sf, with plenty of satirical shots at the Information Age we're now entering in the "real world" and even some tasty, spaced-out recurrent erotic imagery as a bonus treat. Abelard is a typical citizen of a human city nestled along the sheer cliff walls of Mars' imposing Mariner Valley. His culture is high-tech, carried to the isolating extreme, his life dominated by a combo of computer, Internet and virtual reality so advanced (and so seductive) that nobody leaves their sealed apartments. The only escape from mindless and pointless information management "work" is the GUM. Far beyond our concept of VR, the "Global Un-Manifested" device puts the user's consciousness into the mind of another person, in another time and place, even the other dimensions and universes. There's a twist ending and the "truth" (about the GUM machine and its relation to our "modern/real" world that Abelard reasons out) pulls a lot of loose ends unexpectedly together and makes for a more satisfying conclusion than I would have predicted. Pyrexia is often grand fun, its amiable confusion transmuting into a glorious satire of career-fixated go-getters and their high-tech toys.

Love & Politics

Wed, 12 October 2011 18:09:47 -0700

Judith Malina and her longtime companion-comrade Julian Beck founded the Living Theatre in New York City in 1947. In these poems Judith shares her anguish at injustices inflicted by bureaucratic authority; the rewards she found in love and collaboration with Julian; her difficulties in making some life-defining choices.

Failure, Experiments in Aesthetics and Social Practices

Wed, 12 October 2011 18:07:09 -0700

A book of essays, interviews and artwork that together offer a minor history of failure. Tracing the idea of failure through contemporary art, activism and social protest movements, literary and philosophy, the work in Failure! cuts against a notion of forward progress by instead exploring various dead-ends on the timeline of history. Just as any human enterprise is defined by what it excludes, it is a culture’s failures–quickly forgotten, repressed, buried away–which have the most to say about that culture’s beliefs and values. Our project is conceived of as part of the archeology of those lost failures, a way of bringing to light our own culture’s aberrations.

Electronic Civil Disobedience

Wed, 12 October 2011 17:59:40 -0700

Electronic Civil Disobedience continues where The Electronic Disturbance leaves off, suggesting strategies of resistance to nomadic power, and investigating tactics of nonrationality to get at the core of autonomy. Fusing a situationist-influenced concept of contestational art, an understanding of the parallel nature of cultural and political action borrowed from Gramsci, and a hacker’s understanding of how new technology functions, Electronic Civil Disobedience refines an understanding of the nature of power and resistance in the information age.

2012 Slingshot Organizer - Spiral

Wed, 12 October 2011 17:54:47 -0700

The one, the original, Slingshot Organizer! Here to manage your dates, remind you of birthdays, and inform you of random fascinating tidbits of info. Spiral bound and with a cover that is heavily laminated to last the year. Loads of colors, wacky to somber, so specify what color family you'd like (dark, light, somber, bright, blue, green, purple, nihilist ;) ). This image is the black and white version of the image on the cover - which has too many colors to count... as always, make a note of a couple of color choices and we'll do our best to get you your most ardent desire... hey folks, we're seeing if we can get more of the spiral bound, which are wildly popular this year. check back in a day or two!

2012 Slingshot Organizer - Pocket

Wed, 12 October 2011 17:53:03 -0700

The one, the original, Slingshot Organizer! Here to manage your dates, remind you of birthdays, and inform you of random fascinating tidbits of info. Still with a tough layflat binding and a laminated cover. Loads of colors, wacky to somber (pictured is purple with silver ink), so specify what color family you'd like (dark, light, somber, bright, blue, green, purple, nihilist ;) )and we'll do our best. We can't promise specific colors but the slingshot page doesn't really show the colors that accurately anyway - so categories of color (and/or multiple options) is better than otherwise.

Worker-Student Action Committees

Wed, 12 October 2011 17:50:04 -0700

In May 1968, Fredy Perlman went to Paris on the last train before rail traffic was shut down by some of the strikes that were then sweeping Western Europe. He participated in the May unrest in Paris and worked at the Censier center with the Citroen factory committee. After returning to Kalamazoo in August, he collaborated with Roger Gregoire in writing Worker-Student Action Committees. The book recounts their fascinating experiences in Paris when it seemed possible that a non-bureaucratic revolution was at hand.

Precarious Rhapsody

Wed, 12 October 2011 17:37:57 -0700

An infinite series of bifurcations: this is how we can tell the story of our life, of our loves, but also the history of revolts, defeats and restorations of order. At any given moment different paths open up in front of us, and we are continually presented with the alternative of going here or going there. Then we decide, we cut out from a set of infinite possibilities and choose a single path. But do we really choose? Is it really a question of a choice, when we go here rather than there? Is it really a choice, when masses go to shopping centers, when revolutions are transformed into massacres, when nations enter into war? It is not we who decide but the concatenations: machines for the liberation of desires and mechanisms of control over the imaginary. The fundamental bifurcation is always this one: between machines for liberating desire and mechanisms of control over the imaginary. In our time of digital mutation, technical automatisms are taking control of the social psyche.

The Anarchist Beast

Wed, 12 October 2011 17:35:27 -0700

From the preface: We have decided to reprint this abridged version of Nhat Hong's well-researched pamphlet for several reasons. First is its archival value; it's the product of a time when anarchist ideas in North America were very unpopular if known at all, and Hong's thesis -- unlike many of those from his political persuasion who came later -i that it's not primarily anarchists who are responsible for that lack of popularity. He points to the broader and decades long cultural context of endlessly repeated negative images and stereotypes as a significant factor, one that is largely, if not completely, ignored by later critics who blame anarchists with goofy ideas from outside their own tendencies for anarchism's dearth of adherents.

Twilight of the Machines

Fri, 07 October 2011 16:40:48 -0700

The latest (in six years!) from John Zerzan, one of the best-known anarchist polemicists - this work references Nietzsche (hence the title) and predicts the downfall of civilization.

Their Passed-Away Builders

Fri, 07 October 2011 16:38:18 -0700

This modest, sit-inspired pamphlet comes from the UK, and -- as is clear from the subtitle -- takes as its topic, the current crisis.

The Oystercatcher #2

Fri, 07 October 2011 16:36:15 -0700

The Oystercatcher is Ron Sakolsky's zine. Named after a bird native to Denman Island -- Sakolsky's neck of the woods -- this issue has "Good Indian/Bad Indian" (on local history), poetry, an obituary for Philip Lamantia (a fellow surrealist), and "Only @ Beginning", a review of the book on anarchist art by Allan Antliff.

Nature and Madness

Fri, 07 October 2011 16:30:38 -0700

Drawing from a remarkable range of officially-recognized fields of study (biology, genetics, zoology, anthropology, etc), this book is an important part of Shepard's effort to postulate a unified theory of the human condition.

Modesto Anarcho #12

Fri, 07 October 2011 16:27:35 -0700

The latest edition of this local-oriented journal has a color cover, correspondence from prisoners; a report on the Firehouse 51 (billed as "Modesto's newest proletarian hangout"); a piece reporting on police brutality and surveillance, a report by the Central Valley Immigrant Rights Network, info about the Bad Date Sheet (a list for sexworkers of dangerous men posing as clients) and -- in a statement about the flow of information in this world -- a report via libcom (a Britain-based website) on an action by homeless folks in Sacramento (the capital of California). Heavier on the class struggle than the insurrectionary.

Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #6

Fri, 07 October 2011 16:25:05 -0700

Once again the folks at the Journal bring us a nicely-produced issue, this one full-book-size and documenting the work of artists addressing war and neighborhood and labor struggles. Divided into three sections -- I Love to We; AntiWar Survey, and Another Theory Section -- included (among dozens of others) are articles on a bike kitchen, a proposal for a regional Midwest Radical Culture Corridor, a piece on "feral trade," and an article on texting and graffiti.

Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #5

Fri, 07 October 2011 16:22:25 -0700

Produced in LA, CA, this accurately-named journal has beautifully clean and creative layout for most of the poetry, interviews and essays included, and where the text takes more effort, that is clearly intentional - as in a written rendition of a performance piece integrating speeches by Emma Goldman and Martin Luthor King Jr. This issue is larger format than the journal has been in the past (as is issue 6). This is a journal informed by academia, activism, and art, and is not quite as critical of those foundations as some would like, but full of energy and thoughtfulness for all that.