Category Archives: Things

Anarcho-Pessimism: The Lost Writings of Laurence Labadie

By casper | Published: January 13, 2015

Son of Joseph Labadie (of the famed Labadie Collection in Ann Arbor), Laurence Labadie out-distanced  his  father as a thinker and a polemicist. Laurence had the good luck to have been in consistent contact with some of the best writing by the American  individualist  anarchist  tradition. Through  a  series  of  ingenious  counterpoints  and elaborations he […]

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How to Live Now or Never

By casper | Published: January 13, 2015

How to Live Now or Never collects exploratory and poetic works as a companion to The Impossible, Patience (Ardent Press), published earlier in the year. The two perform a dyadic acrobatic maneuver around the empty space where freedom, imagination, and possibility could exist in textual, temporal, and interpersonal relationships. Whereas The Impossible, Patience was serious […]

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Spiritual Journeys of an Anarchist

By casper | Published: January 13, 2015

Spiritual Journeys is the story, by way of interview and narrative, of Wilson’s travels throughout the Middle East in the 1960s and 70s. This was a opium-fueled nomadic journey involving visits with Muslim heretics and other spiritual vagabonds through the possibility of Islam and a land we now only understand as reactive and terroristic (in […]

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Hostis 1: A Journal of Cruelty

By casper | Published: January 13, 2015

Hostis is a negation. It emerges devoid of ethics, lacking any sense of democracy, and without a care for pre-figuring anything. Fed up with the search for a social solution to the present crisis, it aspires to be attacked wildly and painted as utterly black without a single virtue. In thought, Hostis is the construction […]

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Black Seed #2

By casper | Published: October 10, 2014

Black Seed is an anarchist paper in the tradition of Green Anarchy magazine (RIP) that presents through essays, images, stories, and poetry, green anarchist perspectives. Black Seed is a 32 page newspaper format biannual publication. This is the second issue. Black Seed is a collectively-produced, print-only newspaper that is concerned with the larger questions of […]

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Anarchist Survival Guide for Understanding Gestapo Swine Interrogation Mind Games

By casper | Published: October 2, 2014

Required reading for any anarchist who may have to deal with police. Real life experiences from Harold Thompson, long may he be remembered.
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Uncivilised: the Dark Mountain Manifesto

By casper | Published: October 2, 2014

Dark Mountain is a not-anarchist English (mostly literature) project that is remarkably in synch with current green anarchist thinking on the environment and the options of humans (see Black Seed and Desert).
This is their manifesto.
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Writings of Anarchist and Bank Robber Gabriel Pombo da Silva

By casper | Published: October 2, 2014

From the age of 15 Gabriel began to expropriate banks with his closest companions. For these illegal acts he was imprisoned in Spain where he became an anarchist. Gabriel has served more than 25 years in prison, 14 of which have been in isolation. He does not identify as a prisoner let alone as a […]

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Here… at the Center of the World in Revolt

By casper | Published: October 2, 2014

  Here is the story of the composition of revolt broken into theory and practice. It is anarchist theory for the 21st century. The opposition of individual and community is a false one, for every model of individual implies a community, and every community an individual. The Western individual is the building block of a […]

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Huye Hombre Huye: Diary of a maximum security prisoner

By casper | Published: October 2, 2014

  Huye, Hombre, Huye (Run, Man, Run) is the autobiography of Xosé Tarrío González. His story travels from the boarding school to the reformatory and then to prison. Due to additional punishments, Xosé was never released from prison, and instead spent the rest of his life fighting desperately to escape by any means necessary. This […]

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Women of Plogoff

By casper | Published: October 2, 2014

In the 1970s and 80s France built a nuclear power infrastructure that would come to supply 80% of its electricity needs. During the years of planning and construction, people in France gradually became aware of the dangers and impacts of nuclear energy, and some fought development projects related to it. The Women of Plogoff is […]

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Insurgencies: A Journal of Insurgent Strategy

By casper | Published: October 2, 2014

  We are speaking of the need to avoid the tragedy of the Red Army Faction just as much as the tragedy of Occupy, the need to abandon symbolic terrains of engagement, in which we struggle against unspecific enemies on abstract political terrain through the elaboration of our passions.  We are speaking of the necessity […]

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Fifth Estate #392 Falll/Winter 2014

By casper | Published: September 24, 2014

This issue of the almost 50-year-old magazine features pieces on art and anarchy, including one by David Solnit of Art and Revolution (they’re the big puppets) fame, Ron Sakolsky on Surrealism (forever!), Tom Nys on anarchist art in the gallery (“chic ornamentation, spectacularization of resistance, or a way to spread the ideas of anarchy?”), and […]

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Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class and Other Misfortunes

By casper | Published: February 8, 2014

Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class and Other Misfortunes This issue of Endnotes has been a long time coming. Its publication was delayed due to experiences and conversations that compelled us to clarify our analyses, and at times to wholly rework them. Many of the articles in this issue are the products of years of discussion. […]

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Seven Years Buried Alive & Other Writings

By casper | Published: February 8, 2014

Seven Years Buried Alive & Other Writings by Bifilo Panclasta Based on sources from 1910 to 1940, this Seattle publication of the writings of Biófilo Panclasta is beautifully produced and nicely sized. Panclasta was an anarchist who told Kropotkin that he wasn’t one, because he had no cause but his own. Influenced by Nietzsche and […]

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Fra Contadini

By casper | Published: February 8, 2014

Fra Contadini by Errico Malatesta These words mark the maximum point of Malatesta’s analyses contained in the present pamphlet. The individual arguments faced, the various theoretical questions take on a different meaning and perspective in the light of this phrase. Taken individually, problems such as production, machinery, work, planning, price mechanisms, Government, the State, the […]

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Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class and Other Misfortunes

By casper | Published: February 8, 2014

Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class and Other Misfortunes This issue of Endnotes has been a long time coming. Its publication was delayed due to experiences and conversations that compelled us to clarify our analyses, and at times to wholly rework them. Many of the articles in this issue are the products of years of discussion. […]

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Egoism

By casper | Published: February 5, 2014

The project of self-realisation is born of the passion for creation, in the moment when subjectivity wells up and aspires to reign universally. The project of communication is born of the passion of love, whenever people discover that they share the same desire for amorous conquest. The project of participation is born of the passion […]

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2013 LBC Books Review

By casper | Published: February 5, 2014

Anarchists have had to make do with the fact that even as we succeed we rarely get credit for it, while we always get the blame for our failures and lack of success. As a publisher in this family of ideas we measure our own success partly by our own continued interest in our broad […]

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To the Indomitable Hearts

By casper | Published: February 5, 2014

To the Indomitable Hearts by Luciano “Tortuga” Pitronella Luciano “Tortuga” Pitronella sits in prison (house arrest) convicted of the attempted bombing of a bank in Santiago, Chile in 2011. After being slandered and disrespected by the press and disowned by many of his own comrades, six years later he is still fighting for his freedom. […]

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