Anarchist Fictions #2
📚What are you and your pals reading? 📚
🔥Anarchist Fiction #2 (theme: FUCK WORK) will run a new feature in which we print the reading lists of anarchist book clubs who care to share.
📚What are you and your pals reading? 📚
🔥Anarchist Fiction #2 (theme: FUCK WORK) will run a new feature in which we print the reading lists of anarchist book clubs who care to share.
From Autostraddle by Nico Hall
Dressed in all black down to her ankles, dark hair in two braids, Margaret Killjoy let me into her house in the forested mountains, where she lives a hermit-like life with her companion, her dog Rintrah. A transfeminine musician, podcaster, and author of multiple fantasy books, Killjoy lives in the mountains of Appalachia in a home filled with instruments, books, art, and medieval weaponry. For an author who wrote an upcoming novel described as “an own-voices story of trans witchcraft,” her home met my expectations and then some.
From Anarchopac by Zoe Baker
When reading history books it is easy to assume that any sentence with an endnote must be true. The thoughts that an author just happened to come up with can take on the appearance of objective neutral fact when they are printed on a page. The process of becoming a historian is, to a significant extent, about confronting the extent to which our knowledge of the past is built on shaky foundations: primary sources which contradict one another, are open to numerous interpretations, can be easily misunderstood, contain ambiguities, reflect a biased viewpoint and so on.
In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Sascha Engel on the Hilaritas podcast about the themes of his book, "Breaking the Alphabet," the tyranny of the written word, the critique of language, and the Anti-Alphabet. This hour long interview takes a deep dive into Sascha's creation--the anti-alphabet--and how it can help us transcend the controlling boundaries of writing, the alphabet, and authoritarian iteration.
From Gods & Radicals Press by Mirna Wabi-Sabi
Anarchist anti-capitalist publishing is a legacy, a valuable resource passed on through generations, for approaching persistent global socioeconomic issues. Anarchist anti-capitalist writing has the power to form an undercurrent of public discourse which renders authority and force obsolete.
"It is, it seems, our civilisation's turn to experience the inrush of the savage and the unseen; our turn to be brought up short by contact with untamed reality. There is a fall coming. We live in an age in which familiar restraints are being kicked away, and foundations snatched from under us. After a quarter century of complacency, in which we were invited to believe in bubbles that would never burst, prices that would never fall, the end of history, the crude repackaging of the triumphalism of Conrad's Victorian twilight -- Hubris has been introduced to Nemesis.