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The New Formulation an Anti-Authoritarian Review of Books
THE NEW FORMULATION AN ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS February 2003 Volume 2, Number 1 Volume Two, Issue One February 2003 Editor: Chuck Morse Copy Editors: Matt Hoffmann, Erin Royster, Matt Stoner, Shanti Salas, with help from Paul Glavin and Nur Yavuz Cover Illustration: "Vineta para Invitation" by Leopoldo Mendez, 1944. The New Formulation 2620 Second Avenue, #4B San Diego, CA 92103-U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] On the Internet: http://flag.blackened.net/nf7index.htm Biannual Subscriptions: $7 in the United States and $10 elsewhere. Please make checks payable to Charles Morse. © 2003 The New Formulation Statement to Contributors: Contributions are encouraged. This journal is restricted to comparative book reviews. Reviews must examine the failings and virtues of books for a contemporary anarchist theory and politics. Anarchism is understood here as a doctrine seeking the abolition of capitalism, the nation-state, and hierarchy generally, and the creation of a cooperative economy, a decentralized confederation of communes or municipalities, and a culture of liberation. The deadline for the next issue is July 1, 2003. Each review must treat at least two books and one must have been published in the previous two years. In some cases, reviews of works in other media (such as film) will be accepted. Reviews of two books should be between 2,500 to 3,000 words and reviews of three should be 3,500 to 4,000 words. Contents P r o g r a m 1 The State in Hyper-Drive: the Post-September 11th U.S. by Paul Glavin 2 Review of Silencing Political -
Ak Press Summer 2010 Catalog
ak press summer 2010 catalog AK PRESS 674-A 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612 www.akpress.org WELCOME TO THE 2010 SUMMER SUPPLEMENT! Hello dear readers, About AK Press. ............................ 3 History .......................................... 17 Acerca de AK Press ..................... 4 Kids ............................................... 19 Thanks for picking up the most recent AK Friends of AK Press ...................... 28 Labor ............................................ 19 Press catalog! This is our Summer 2010 Media ........................................... 19 supplement; in it, you’ll find all of the new AK Press Publishing Non-Fiction.................................. 19 items we’ve received (or published) in the New Titles....................................... 5 Poetry ........................................... 21 past six months ... it’s all great stuff, and Politics/Current Events ............. 21 you’re sure to find a ton of items you’ll want Forthcoming ................................... 6 Recent & Recommended ............. 8 Prisons/Policing ......................... 22 to grab for yourself or for your friends and Punk.............................................. 22 family. But, don’t forget: this is only a small AK Press Distribution Race ............................................. 22 sampling of the great stuff we have to offer! Situationist .................................. 23 For our complete and up-to-date listing of Spanish ........................................ 23 thousands more books, CDs, pamphlets, -
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory
Contents Spring 1998 The Institute for IAS Update Anarchist Studies Being a Radical Professor Radical Cities and Social Revolution: An Interview with Janet Biehl The abstractness and programmatic emptiness so ian municipalism calls for the creation of self- characteristic of contemporary radical theory managed community political life at the municipal indicates a severe crisis in the left. It suggests a level: the level of the village, town, neighborhood, retreat from the belief that the ideal of a or small city. This political life would be embodied cooperative, egalitarian society can be made in institutions of direct democracy: citizens' assem concrete and thus realized in actual social blies, popular assemblies, or town meetings. Where relationships. It is as though - in a period of change such institutions already exist, their democratic and demobilization - many radicals have ceded the potential and structural power could be enlarged; right and the capacity to transform society to where they formerly existed, they could be revived; CEO's and heads of state. and where they never existed, they could be created Janet BiehFs new book, The Politics of Social anew. But within these institutions people as Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism, is an affront to citizens could manage the affairs of their own this. It challenges the politically resigned with a communities themselves - rather than relying on detailed, historically situated anti-statist and anti- statist elites - arriving at policy decisions through capitalist politics for today. the processes of direct democracy. I asked Biehl about her new work in the fall of To address problems that transcend the bound 1 9 9 7 b y e m a i l . -
On Anarchist Theory
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory Volume 8, Number 2 – Fall 2004 Price $5.00 Act Like Nothing’s Wrong—Nicolas Lampert 2 / fall 2004 Perspectives on Anarchist Theory Volume 8, Number 2 – Fall 2004 Welcome 4 ARTICLES What’s Happening: Books & Events by Chuck Morse 5 “Walking We Ask Questions:” An Interview with John Holloway by Marina Sitrin 8 Testimonio by María Esther Tello 12 IAS WRITERS The Resurrection of Vampiro by Ramor Ryan 14 BOOK REVIEWS Days of Crime and Nights of Horror by Ramor Ryan 17 From Theater Groups to Bank Robberies: The Diverse Experience of Uruguayan Anarchists by Astrid Wessels 22 Remembering Frantz Fanon by Kazembe Balagoon 28 “The World Is Made Up Of Stories, Not Atoms” by Uri Gordon 34 Reading Class: Something of the Who, What, Where, Why, When and How of Consciousness by Andrew Hedden 38 The New Anti-Imperialism by Chuck Morse 44 FEEDBACK Is There a Postanarchist Universality? A Reply to Michael Glavin by Saul Newman 49 Anarcho-Pluralism: A Reply to Saul Newman by Michael Glavin 53 Joel Schalit Responds to Sureyyya Evren 55 IAS UPDATES Summer 2004 Grants Awarded 56 Grant Updates 57 The IAS’s 2004 Fundraising Campaign 58 Latin American Archives Project Update 61 Great Books for IAS Donors 62 Contributors 63 Editorial Committee Subscription Rates Michael Caplan, Chuck Morse, Andréa Schmidt Subscriptions are free for IAS donors. USA and Canada: $10 Copy Editors U.S. per year. $15 U.S. per year all other countries. Institu- Chuck Morse, Alfredo Pérez, Andréa Schmidt tions $20 U.S. per year. -
War Is the Health of the State an Interview with Howard Zinn
Contents Spring 2003 I A S U p d a t e . 2 Violence of Everyday Life in the Occupied Palestinian Territories ... 3 What's Happening: Books &. Events ... 9 War is the Health of the State An Interview with Howard Zinn Howard Zinn has been a pivotal figure in the American Left for decades. As an activist and writer, he has influenced generations of leftists and helped encourage a strong commitment to direct democracy, anti-racism, and grassroots action. We asked Zinn about the current changes in the political environment, his theoretical commitments, and some of the challenges faced by radical intellectuals. This interview was conducted by e-mail in the spring of 2003. ~ Paul Glavin & Chuck Morse How would you define the "War on Terrorism"? care, and other social services. Have we seen this What kind of war is this and whom is it directed dynamic before in history and how can radicals draw against? out the connections between the two? The notion of a "War on Terrorism" makes no sense. War against an enemy abroad is always simultaneously You cannot make war on terrorism: it is an ideology a war against people at home, because war always that springs from many sources and one that can draws the resources of the nation into military be located in many countries. The terrorism of activity. One reason why there were Black uprisings September 11* was real, but the United States is during the Vietnam War was that the needs of the using it as an excuse to first bomb Afghanistan, ghettos were neglected in order to carry on the war now Iraq, and to expand American power in the in Vietnam.