Jason McQuinn (Note: The following essay was written as an introduction to the 2012 LBC Books edition of the 1983 Donald Nicholson-Smith translation of Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations under the new title of Treatise on […]
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Max Stirner: mixed bag with a pomo twist
A review by Jason McQuinn Max Stirner edited by Saul Newman (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2011) 223 pages, $90.00 hardcover. One more sign of the ongoing revival of interest in the still-generally-ignored seminal writings of Max Stirner is the appearance […]
Continue reading »EDITORIAL: The Slave Syndrome
In the 1979 robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg – a square in Stockholm, Sweden – several bank employees were held hostage in the bank vault for most of a week during which time they began to increasingly identify with their […]
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Bob Black is author of many interventions, as well as a number of books, including The Abolition of Work and other Essays, Anarchy after Leftism, Beneath the Underground and Friendly Fire, along with the yet-to-be-published, Nightmares of Reason, and his […]
Continue reading »Curtains of Blood: A Peek behind the Phenomena of the Grand Guignol
by Paul Z. Simons “Eyes wide open! Eyes wide open! Do you not realize how much horror is contained in those three words.” – from “In the Darkroom” 1911, Maurice Level & Étienne Rey The images conjured by the mention […]
Continue reading »John Zerzan’s “Twilight of the Machines”
John Zerzan’s Twilight of the Machines Twilight of the Machines by John Zerzan (Feral House, Port Townsend, WA, 2008) 141pp. $12.00 paperback. John Zerzan is now one of the most well-known of contemporary North American anarchist writers and theorists, […]
Continue reading »Strangers in an Alien World
Some thoughts on being an anarchist at the beginning of the 21st century A serialized book-in-progress by Wolfi Landstreicher Introduction “…we are alone, with an entire world ranged against us.” -Andrea Dorea I have been an anarchist for well over […]
Continue reading »American Uprising: The untold story of America’s largest slave revolt
Review by Paul Z. Simons American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen (Perennial Books, New York, 2011). 276 pp., $26.99 hardcover/$15.99 paper. So to keep the rhetoric and material in Modern Slavery alive […]
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Karen Goaman has a PhD in Anthropology, University College London. She has written numerous articles in anthologies (2009, Jun & Wahl eds., New Perspectives on Anarchism; 2008, Roca Martínez ed., Anarquismo y Antropología; 2004, Purkis & Bowen eds., Changing Anarchism; […]
Continue reading »Egoism versus modernity: John Welsh’s dialectical Stirner
A review of Max Stirner’s Dialectical Egoism by Wolfi Landstreicher Max Stirner’s Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation by John F. Welsh (Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2010). 293 pp., $85.00 hardcover / $34.95 paper. Since its publication in 1844, Max Stirner’s […]
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