Imaginal Machines

Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life Stevphen Shukaitis    2009    256p    6 x 9 All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding … Continue reading Imaginal Machines

Autonomia

Post-Political Politics Christian Marazzi & Sylvère Lotringer     2007     340p     7 x 10 ‘Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails…. I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate … Continue reading Autonomia

Runaway Slaves

Rebels on the Plantation J.H. Franklin & L. Schweninger     1999     480p     6 x 9 From John Hope Franklin, America’s foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled … Continue reading Runaway Slaves

The Movement of the Free Spirit

General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony Concerning Some Brief flowerings of Life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and, Incidentally, Our Own Time Raoul Vaneigem     1986     302p     6 x 9 A historical reflection on the ways religious and economic forces have shaped Western culture. Within this broad frame, Vaneigem examines … Continue reading The Movement of the Free Spirit

Free Women of Spain

Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women Martha A. Ackelsberg     1991     252p     6 x 9 The members of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were tenacious enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives – these women mobilized over 20,000 people into an organized network during the Spanish … Continue reading Free Women of Spain

The Subversion of Politics

European Autonomous Social Movements & The Decolonization of Everyday Life George Katsiaficas     1997     312p     6 x 9 George Katsiaficas’s account covers the period 1968-1996 and pays special attention to the role of autonomous feminist movements, the effects of squatters and feminists on the disarmament movement and on efforts to … Continue reading The Subversion of Politics

Recommended Reading

  Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!     Fredy Perlman   1983   296p   5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor.      Bastard Out of Carolina A Novel   Dorothy Allison   1992   320p   6 x … Continue reading Recommended Reading