What's new with LBC - Fall 2019

From LBC

Introduction

Welcome to this quarters edition of What is new with Little Black Cart?! For those of you who are new, Little Black Cart is an experiment in anarchist publishing. We have published something like 100 titles, many historical, some important, some scandalous, and all out of our process of semi-autonomous anarchist projectuality. We print our own books (as in we have our own printshop), erratically distribute, and do what we can to make meaningful content that we share with you.

This quarter we have a couple experiments for you. The first is poetry! We have a brand new epic book of poetry, a smaller collection of anti-civilization poetry, and an interesting collection of essays by a new author (to us) Ziq (raddle).

New Titles

Semi-Automatic Poetry

A beautiful brand new book of poetry by Wolfi Landstreicher

Spanning over three decades, the magical, guerrilla wordplay of the many-masked trickster known variously as Apio Ludd/Wolf Landstreicher/Feral Faun and Apio Ludicrous restores poetry to its proper place as the insurrectionist’s shadow and emancipator of desire, and recasts the poet as a sorcerous Chaote, a lumpen Anarch and outlaw troubadour, a clown shaman and revelatory seer who senses the tidal pulse of a new epoch and becomes its herald and jester, drawing sigils for a future world of passional attraction and libertine excess. Many of the dreaming jewels contained in this collection are inlaid with feral enchantment, many are draped in Discordian insight and wit, while others challenge the docility of “political” language (and language itself), and quite a few more burst their own banks with elemental silliness. But all of these vision-intoxicated outpourings are illuminated by the blazing imaginal fire of the willful, self-creating rebel. This is poetry as an act of defiance, as the eternal enemy of Reality, as a violence against the status quo, and as a ludic zone of the imagination in which the Marvelous can alchemically materialize—making this anthology a must-read for those weary of discussing anarchy in the clichéd ways of the past.

For more information - Semi-Automatic Poetry by Wolfi et al.


Savage Eloquence

A collection of anti-civilization poetry

Reason, rationality, inductivism, and totalizing metanarratives are weapons civilization has always used to legitimize its all-encompassing predations and butchery. So perhaps it’s most useful, when critiquing civilization, to subvert the enemies’ language of pre-designed validation or abandon it entirely in favor of more primal, animistic and untamed modes of expression. Tis pocket-sized declaration of war collects a multiplicity of voices launching mythopoetic assaults on the Grand Fables and foundational “unities” of civilization—voices which deliberately aim to disturb the globalizing social code of colonization and conquest. Taken individually and collectively, their effect is to sweep aside the visionless concrete ghettoes, imaginal trailer-parks and mental urbanization of the domesticated subject—stripping away the clutter of mechanical verbalizations, the layers of conceptual plastic, the commodity-culture programming and the benumbed lifestyle of diversions that cloud our awareness to the horror of it all.

For more information - Savage Eloquence by Enemy Combatant


To the Desertmaker

The Need for a Rejection of the Colonizer’s Civilization

You have demolished their sublime mountains to construct your shopping malls and marinas. You have drained their great lakes to plant your carefully manicured golf courses. Felled their majestic forests to graze your billion cows. Desecrated their vast oceans with your rotten, putrid waste.
You’re driven to control Terra, to change the course of their rivers, to reshape their shorelines and modify their lifeforms to suit your rapacious appetite. You can’t fathom of a world where you don’t own the earth below your feet; posses everything Terra created as your own. You are imperious to assume Terra will be so affected by a fleetingly short-lived and short-sighted creature as yourself. If it takes a million of your lifetimes, Terra will wash away the volumes of excrement you have soiled their surface with.
You spent your wretched life desperately cutting your name into Terra’s flesh, but Terra’s wounds will callus over, creature. Long after the arrogant grin you wear on your lips has turned to dust with the rest of your foul corpse, Terra will regenerate. All the beautiful, disparate beasts you have eradicated during your brief gluttonous tantrum will be reborn. The trees will rise again in magnificent groves as far as the eye can see. Everything you took will be reclaimed

For more information - To the Desertmaker by Ziq


Recent LBC Titles & Distro Items

The 2020 Slingshot Organizer

Here to manage your dates, remind you of birthdays, and inform you of random fascinating tidbits of info and radical history. This is the large version, featuring spiral binding, allowing pages to wrap around front to back and back again.

It's bound with a tough plasticoil binding and is twice the size of the “classic” pocket organizer (5.5 inches X 8.5 inches) with twice as much space to write down all the events in your life. It is 176 pages. It has similar contents to the classic: radical dates for every day of the year, space to write your phone numbers, a contact list of radical groups around the globe, menstrual calendar, info on police repression, extra note pages, plus much more. You get a little bonus stuff in the spiral version. The covers are laminated with heavy duty 3 mil glossy plastic to help it survive the year.

Spiral Edition

Pocket Edition


A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden

Suffragette, egoist, philosopher, Dora Marsden (1882-1960) burst the chains keeping women from education; the chains keeping women from the vote; the chains of conservative feminism; the chains of philosophy, of time, and of language. Her literary and philosophical journals were among the earliest to publish James Joyce, Ezra Pound, H.D., Margaret Storm Jameson, and T.S. Eliot. She was described as the Max Stirner of feminism. From shouting down Winston Churchill, to pioneering publications, to decades in a mental hospital: this biography is the first and foremost record of her life. Over 400 pages, and includes a bibliography and an index.

Find it at A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden


Insurrection Omnibus

Writings by Jean Weir, Alfredo M Bonanno, M. Passamani, and others

Insurrection was an English magazine that articulated a revolutionary perspective that largely existed at the time in Italy (1982-1989).

Capitalism contains deep contradictions which push it towards processes of adjustment and evolution aimed at avoiding the periodic crises that afflict it; but we cannot cradle ourselves waiting for these crises. When they happen they will be welcomed if they respond to the requirements for accelerating the elements of the insurrectional process. In the meantime, for our part, we are preparing ourselves and the exploited masses for insurrection.
In this sense we consider the time is always ripe for the next insurrection. Better a failed insurrection than a hundred vacillations that cause the failure of a hundred occasions from which it might have been possible for the final revolution to break out. We are therefore against those who say that the recent defeat of the revolutionary movement should make us reflect and conclude that we should be more prudent. We consider that the time for insurrection has come precisely because it is always time to fight, whereas procrastinating is useful only for capital. To prepare for insurrection means to prepare the subjective conditions (personal and material) which consent a specifc anarchist minority to create the indispensable circumstances for the development of the insurrectional process. Although insurrection is a mass phenomenon, and would risk aborting immediately if it were not. Its beginning is always the result of the action of a decided minority, a handful of brave ones capable of attacking the nerve centres of the partial objective to be reached.
We must be very clear on this point. The tasks of the anarchist struggle against power can be extremely varied, but all—in our opinion—must be coherently directed towards preparing the insurrection.

In this insurrectionary spirit we publish this omnibus edition (everything short of 30 year old, time-sensitive reportbacks).

For the creation of indispensable circumstances!

Find it Insurrection Omnibus


The Spectacle of Society

Stories and reviews selected from The Anvil Review

Writings by critila, rocinante, dot matrix, frere dupont, Alejandro de Acosta, Aragorn!, and others both stoned and unstoned. Part two of a three book series of the best pieces from The Anvil. The first is reviews by Alex Gorrion (The Totality is Incomplete); this book, selections specifically talking about pop culture, and the third book (yet to be released) on more intentionally political content. The Spectacle of Society includes pieces on Kanye West, Sons of Anarchy, Žižek, the Earl Brothers, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Thomas Ligotti (from before he was a name in anarchist circles), Yukio Mishima, and many more.

Find it The Spectacle of Society


Xoros

Poetry, reminiscences, thoughts, from time spent in Exarchia. If you've been, here's a reminder of what it is like. If you haven't been, here's a taste. Personal, touching, insurrectionary.

Find it Xoros


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Politics is the enemy of anarchy, and it knows it.

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please list the name of the author(s) and page count on LBC item pages.

In business, even though we clearly dont like each other

She went from a socialist suffragette to being Ayn Rand before Ayn Rand... a pro-authoritarian egoist. Her egoism, unlike that of Stirner, did not abolish the ego, but rather expressed it as a capitalist model. I can rip you several quotes from her that make her later writings very conductive to the '20s new capitalism. It's too bad she went on siding with openly-fascist Ezra Pound in this fucked up ego-authoritarianism, and her last years were pretty sad... There's more to learn critically from her life, than mindlessly reading her stuff as an inspiration.

i was thinking earlier today about the differences between ayn rand and stirner...wierd! You'd think a female would write an anti-ego egoism, so what was going on there? Too much pressure to compete, too much of an incentive to compete?

"There's more to learn critically from her life, than mindlessly reading her stuff as an inspiration." I feel this says more about you than this imaginary mindless reader

is the dora marsden book published by union of egoist/underworld amusement or by lbc? uoe books tend to be bound a bit better.

Yes, the Marsden book is published by the leeching fascist toss-offs at UoE. It's just a reprinting of a book that's nearly three decades old. Maybe not as bad as when they sold scanned copies of the Replogles' journal Egoism (which anyone could grab for free at HathiTrust), but it's more evidence that the two fuck-ups behind it are intellectually impoverished and seriously hurting for relevant content (oh look, they just discovered Armand! - fucking posers).

dr. bones is that you? it was just a yes or no question. there was no need for the screeching

I think you'll find that most individualists despise fascists for reasons that might be obvious, even to you.

i see, you're one of those that screeches fascist this fascist that blah blah blah rinse repeat. i don't get pissy over who publishes a book. it seems like a ridiculous thing to cry about, but I'll keep your issues in mind. next time i get a book, i'll think to myself "would individualist anarchists despise the book publisher" and if i conclude they do, i'll think about not getting the book.

man, this anarchist shit is getting to be too hard. i didn't know i was supposed to ponder "what would individualist anarchists do" before i get a book or anything.

When one of the two people behind UoE/UA also does work for Counter-Currents Publishing, it's stupidly obvious that I'm not casually banding around the word "fascist."

Is not the smoking gun needed to equal fascist. Dr Bones worked with a fucking tanky, as bad as that association was that did not make him a tanky. If the person being talked about here is Kevin Slaughter the most you can say about him is that he has sensibilities that are not much cared for in these parts(including by me). That does not mean one breaks out the grunting snarl word fascism.

Also, if that is you Bonesy have you apologized to Wofli yet? That question also goes out to those other losers who brought up the child love document(which was of numerous great essays btw in a still unproblematic classic anthology).

Sure, the UoE/UA guy is only doing the cover design for books including... let me check here... The White Nationalist Manifesto by Greg Johnson. And going to Richard Spencer's conferences. And posting alt-right garbage on his various social media accounts. And his other buddy at UoE is posting tributes to a member of the British Union of Fascists. You may not want to call them fascists, fine, I don't give a shit, but I feel that I'm on pretty firm ground doing so, so I do so.

And I don't think your equation does what you think it does. An self-described egoist with an ever-present hammer and sickle bandana over his face? Yeah, it's not a suprise that he was working with authoritarians. He was a sick joke as well.

This all was supposed to be more shade about the commenter above trashing LBC + co.'s books in favor of UA's. I have no idea how someone can prefer the design of UA's books compared to, say, The Impossible, Patience. The latter is gorgeous. UA and et al.'s stuff? Fucking rookie design. You ever see Blake's Stirner bibiliography? He put one entry per page. One per page! Looks like fucking trash.

is the associations are less important than what's actually said. Richard Spencer could go on youtube and quote stirner, but that shouldn't mean that stirner is some tainted bad seed. In fact, if those numb skulls could really meditate on stirner's work, they would probably realize they aren't white edgelord vikings...

intellectual deconstructionism should be about taking a very close look at what is said, not about stripping individuals of their dignity and humiliating them. Hermaneutics of suspicion much?!

It is unfortunate though that underworld amusements were the first people to publish that cursed tome...i blame LBC's failure to make proper book bindings!

When are we going to get a new Brilliant podcast? It's been months.

when you pay up. buy the merch, son.
something for everyone.

Anarchybang makes a better listen than those Brilliant shows, that often ended up being pointless ramblings about high-end concepts that mean jack shit in the real world.

Hey y'all, can we some holiday discounts soon? I wanna buy some stuff and it would be nice if you could make it a tad bit easier on my purse?

“Felled their majestic forests to graze your billion cows.”

the global stock is nowhere close to a billion. that number hasn’t changed since the 1950’s. and, not all of the world used to be forests. in the so-called united states there were roughly 70 million bison grazing throughout the plains. ruminants regenerate topsoil, and condition the climate to promote water retention. the amount of bison is fairly close to the amount of cattle grazing today. what was the problem then? what about the bison farts!? oh no! (it’s burps anyway, and the methane cycle has a way shorter span than co2).

even where there is indeed deforestation the causes are complex. a sizeable chunk of what gets deforested in brazil is for soy production to be used in pet foods, and cooking oils. even then, 85% of the forest is under protected status. it didn’t help that celebrity influences were often recently posting pictures of fires from 2013, from previous montana and alaskan wildfires when they thought they were posting current amazon fires!

less land is suitable for industrial mono-cropping than animal grazing. i believe the figure offhand is 800 million acres. that’s it.

Migratory bison grazing across the great plains is not comparable to millions of cows trapped in industrial hellholes.

"Migratory bison grazing"

has such a nice metric, rhythm and sounds.
if only someone could come up with a good poem from it.

Transitory acres razing?...nah i have no clue what to follow it with

kinda fits with

all your money's earning,
Where all your building's crying,
Migratory bison grazing
And clueless neckties working,
Revolving fake lawn houses,
Housing all your fears,
Desensitized by TV,

Overbearing advertising,
God of consumerism,
And all your crooked pictures,
Looking good, mirrorism,
Filtering information,
For the public eye,
Designed for profiteering,
Your neighboor, what a guy.

Boom, boom, boom, boom,
Every time you drop the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Modern globalization,
Coupled with condemnations,
Unnecessary death,
Matador corporations,
Puppeting your frustrations,
With the blinded flag,

Manufacturing consent
Is the name of the game,
The bottom line is money,
Nobody gives a fuck.
4000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation,
While billions are spent on bombs,
Creating death showers.

Boom, boom, boom, boom,
Every time you drop the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.
Boom, boom, boom, boom
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom

Why must we kill our own kind?

Boom, boom, boom, boom,
Every time you drop the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.

Boom, boom, boom, boom
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Every time you drop the bomb.

About 20 years ago I was in the illustrious presence of "Apio/Wolfi" whatever his name is this week and some other slobs and I noticed that if you snip away the word anarchist from his fiery philosophy you are left with the a-historical, a-political, juvenile narcissism of mainstream US culture. Which, being a US of A shithead, shore does appeal to me!

*sure* does appeal to,,,,. Where's your pride, Go to settings --- autocorrect.

So by your very logic, REAL anarchists are mature do-gooder who wouldn't step foot in america because all the snot rags live there?! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA, oh the simple minded shit talkers are my favorites, so easy to trip and humiliate!

Bye, Felicia

Insurrection Omnibus = looks like hellacious posturing plus bad writing equals bad writing. Great for all you fans of bad writing out there.

you have been at it.
wow, what an agenda.
what’s all the poo-pooing getting you?
what me to compile all your lame poo-pooing and make a zine out of it?

You = a critic of contemporary hipster literature.

Semantic flourish and birds all over the place. Meth-induced convoluted mess. Pages worth of explanations of what she said, or the taste of that Starbucks coffee... and of course our famous generic clap trap tropes, fourth-dimensional double entendre and whatelse to please your anal-retentive smug mug. And "It's dromadaire, not Camels!" I say, behind my big swirling mustache! Haw-haw

Nice fucking poetry! I take back whatever ever snarling insults i may have leveled against you on this forum!

for now ;-) Ain't that fuckin' hipster, cuz everything is hipster. Snarky coffee shops and garden burritos!

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