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007.13.10 What is new with Little Black Cart – Summer 2010

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Spring was a great time for LBC. The Bay Area bookfair was great and the NYC bookfair was a great deal of fun. We even had a quick trip up to Olympia! We watched 10,000 copies ofAfter the Fall pass into the hands of people who found spectacular use for it. We also watched the runs of several of our exclusive titles sell out.

We are working on a couple new projects for the medium term and a lot more for the long term. This includes a couple new anti political publications, a few historical board games, and new titles all over the map. We look forward to hearing from you and if you have a sympathetic project, working with you.Email us.

Insurgent Summer

If you haven’t been paying attention to Insurgent Summer… Well you should. We are reading the incredible Letters of Insurgents online and in groups and would love the company.

Letters of Insurgents (nearly out of print)

Free copy at The Anarchist Library

New to LBC

That last few months have been somewhat quiet but for a few new titles…

Origins: A John Zerzan Reader

This is a collection of the entirety of John Zerzan’sOrigin series of essays. These essays are, arguably, the most original and challenging of John’s writing and are well worth a collection of their own. They were drawn from most of his books (Elements of Refusal, Future Primative) and from Green Anarchy magazine.

Origins: A John Zerzan Reader

Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed – double issue!

The most controversial anarchist magazine in North America has released a double issue (with a new format and printing done by the excellent Eberhardt Press)! This issue contains a reprint from Nihilist Communism (a book we carry), an attack on anti-primitivism, and a lengthy critique of Max Cafard’s book on Stirner

AJODA #68/#69

Fire to the Prisons #9

This is a large issue of this Insurrectionary publication coming in at a heavy 120 pages. It covers a lot of territory from a chronology of prisoner resistance, Greece, Haiti, Chile, to extensive resistance reporting. There is a defense of their “For Nothing, Against Everything” provocation and the possible announcement that the publication schedule might slow down.

FttP #9

For Wildness and Anarchy – by Kevin Tucker

This new collection of essays by Kevin Tucker brings together the last ten years and allows a reader who only knows about Tucker from hearsay and controversy to make up their own mind. Tucker is primarily interested in the implications behind domestication as the consequence of civilization and offers a psychological, spiritual, and anthropological approach that contrast nicely to the philosophical approach of other well known anarcho-primitivist writers.

For Wildness and Anarchy

Upcoming to LBC – Four new periodals

By the end of summer you will see these new publications carried by Little Black Cart. You will be hard pressed to find them anywhere else. Listed in order of their arrival (all upcoming).

Endnotes 2

This is not a publication for everybody but if you are interested in some of the best anti-statist Marxist analysis of the current condition (and topics such as contradiction, communisation, housing& debt, and–of course–crisis), this is it. The beautiful journal format is the perfect way to sit down and read something dense.

Against Sleep and Nightmare #8

This long running post-situationist magazine comes out with an issue rarely, so this is a time for celebration! This issue concerns some of ASAN’s classic topics (crisis, critique of other anti-political folk, economics) and includes some new ones too (religion& spirituality).

Letters Journal #4

This is a fantastic new anti-political communist journal from the Midwest. We enjoyed the provocations from issue #3 (particularly those engaged with the stylism of the RNC) and look forward to issue #4. This issue includes a literary supplement and remains in journal format.

The Anvil #1

Review essays on newsprint. Contestation. Transgression. Engagement.

Other titles

Anarchy Works – Peter Gelderloos takes real examples to demonstrate that Anarchism is not just an idea but a working way that people have lived, and continue to live.
This is not a love story – Armed Struggle vs Patriarchy.
If an Agent Knocks – How do you prepare for the worst?
Kerbloom #83 – Our favorite perzine.
Willful Disobedience – The collected writings of Wolfi Landstreicher!!!
Nihilist Communism – by Monsieur Dupont.

We look forward to seeing our friends in Seattle in August and Minneapolis in September!!!

-Little Black Cart

003.19.10 Update on the Greeks and the amazing generosity of North American Anarchists

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It is really easy to be hard on ourselves. We aren’t exactly in a time of libertarian social change and at best we have minor victories, over a window or maybe some Maoists, nothing serious. Nothing to get all gloat-y about. And we don’t. Mostly we beat each other up on the Internet, take ourselves too seriously, and it can be pretty depressing.

Last weekend was a little different. It’s possible to believe that you could be a social force when you are surrounded by friends (and frenemies). For a couple of days we laughed together and shared in stories that lead us to believe that we stand a chance. We do, and 8 days of anarchy is a time when it is affirmed.

The week was a smashing success until Wednesday morning. We were preparing to bid farewell to our new Greek friends from the Void Network when we woke up to discover a most American of phenomenon. In the middle of the night one of their car windows was smashed in and every bag and box within reach was grabbed. This meant the Void Network collective projector was gone. Three boxes of books intended to get the tour around the country (including the new book We Are An Image From the Future from AK Press, Anarchy Works from Ardent, and other books and pamphlets intended for distribution) were gone. DJ headphones were gone.

Given the attention that the tour had received up till now there were immediate responses from the web. Once the word went out (on Anarchist News, Infoshop, and Indybay) we were surprised to see a hundred dollars come in within the first 2 hours. Hurray!

Now, 3 days later that total has climbed to around $1000! We can barely believe it. The Greeks have left the Bay (and should be giving presentations in Portland as this is being written) and the immediate crisis (of the rest of the trip) seems to have passed. The next question is, “can we replace the Void Network projector?” LBC will meet up with the Void Network in a few weeks in NYC (at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair) and nothing would make us happier than to hand them a replacement projector when we see them.

But this is a time for pause. American anarchists self-organized an effort of real mutual aid in a very short period of time. It is an incredible thing and affirms our most positive feelings about continuing to work with anarchists on the greatest project of them all!

002.28.10 What is new with Little Black Cart – March 1st 2010

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The LBC crew has been working through the winter to make this Spring one to remember. We are lining things up so that we can make it to all the major book fair events around North America and bring people texts and conversation that they can only find through us.

We are really excited for people to see the new books that we are carrying and to engage with the ideas within. We would also like to express our solidarity with the Student Occupation events that are happening around California. We have expressed our solidarity by hosting one of the many websites around the occupation and publishing a collection of inspiring articles and commentary around them.

After the Fall

Website – After the Fall Communiques from Occupied California

We are offering you the paper itself for free (just the cost of postage)

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Willful Disobedience: The Collection – by Wolfi Landstreicher – From Ardent Press

During the ten years of publication, Willful Disobedience wove together a web of ideas situation in the following threads: an anarchism based in Stirner-influenced egoism; an insurrectionary approach that sees individual insurrection to be as important as social insurrection; a non-primitivist critique of civilization that provides no program or model for a future society…

The Time Has Come To Say Things Without Mincing Words
LBC – Willful Disobedience

Anarchy Works – by Peter Gelderloos – From Ardent Press

A book taking examples from around the world, picking through history and anthropology, showing that people have, in different ways and at different times, demonstrated mutual aid, self-organization, autonomy, horizontal decision making, and so forth–the principles that anarchy is founded on–regardless of whether they called themselves anarchists or not. Too well documented to be strictly mythology, and too expansive to be strictly anthropology, this is an inspiring answer to the people who say that anarchists are utopian: a point-by-point introduction to how anarchy can and has actually worked.


LBC – Anarchy Works

Still Available

New to Little Black Cart

Fire to the Prisons #8 – From Fire to the Prisons

The most consistent Insurrectionary magazine in North America this fierce publication is a must read when your spirits are low.

LBC – Fire to the Prisons

Fifth Estate #382 – From Fifth Estate

A Tribute to the Radical Imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin. This alone is enough to convince most readers to take a look at this long(est) running anti-authoritarian (cough) publication out of TN, MI, and the world!

LBC – Fifth Estate

Flood – From Max Cafard

…a biting send-up to the follies brought on New Orleans after Katrina in 2005, lavishly illustrated, written by Max Cafard, a lifelong inhabitant of the Island of New Orleans, the author of The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto and Other Writings (Exquisite Corpse, 2004) and many other works

LBC – Flood Book

A Voyage to New Orleans – From Elisee Reclus

Élisée Reclus (March 15, 1830 – July 4, 1905), also known as Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. His Voyage to New Orleans remained untranslated into English, and little-known for almost a century and a half. This volume presents the first English translation, as well as a brief introduction to his life and work, a translation of his letters from Louisiana, and a short survey of his later social and political ideas.

LBC – A Voyage to New Orleans

Errata

  • A new portal and affiliation of sites that we are sure will entertain and amuse you.
  • Til the Clock Stops – crime, opacity, insurrection
  • The Anvil – a site and paper of reviews and intelligent discussion
  • much, much more

Stay True

011.02.09 What is new with Little Black Cart – November 2009

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LBC just had a great trip up to the northwest. The first annual Seattle bookfair was a success and we got to see lots of old and new friends. We brought a posse with us which made the long drive a lot more fun. We look forward to spending more time in the NorthWest as there seems to be some exciting energy in the Seattle area.

We are heading to the East Coast later this month for the NAASN conference. If you are in the area (Hartford CT) you should swing by and say hello.

Thanks to everyone!

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Nihilist Communism
From Ardent Press
Originally self-published in 2003, now edited and designed by Ardent Press, still one of the most hard-nosed books to call the left to account — with scathing, thoughtful rebuttals to those who continue to believe that the revolution is just a matter of consciousness-raising and recruitment, or that identity politics has anything to do with Marxist thought.

Letters #3
From Letters Journal
An anti-state communist political journal, this publication includes the most recent writings of frere Dupont (author of species being and co-author of Nihilist Communism), among others.

Blackbird Raum
From Black Powder Press
Anarchist folk punk band Blackbird Raum’s spanking new cd with songs about ravens, ned kelly, the barricades and the conquest of bread.
Downloadable version too

Species Being
From Ardent Press
In this small and rich text, one of the authors of Nihilist Communism introduces an anti-political perspective in the form of letters, essays, and dialogs.

New to Little Black Cart

Slingshot organizer
From Slingshot
Your favorite pocket-sized calendar is here to ease your way into the new year.
With lots of interesting and possibly useful information, including tips on dealing with the police… in case you have friends who might need it.

Communicating Vessels #21
From Communicating Vessels
This surrealist-inspired anti-state communist journal gets better and better, as the producer gains skill and confidence in his press technique. This issue includes the enviable letters section, a tribute to recently deceased surrealist Franklin Rosemont, the excellent Bestiary by Kenneth Rexroth, the beginning of a series of pieces on surrealism in the Arab world (Egypt, for this issue), and reviews of books.

Politics is not a Banana
From Institute for Experimental Freedom
The Journal of Vulgar Discourse Here is the latest from the high design, fuck-friendly insurrectionaries at the Institute for Experimental Freedom. This issue is more like a small book than a zine, with spot color (pink, to be exact) throughout.

Modesto Anarcho #12 – the time for dialog is over
From Modesto Anarcho
The latest edition of this local-oriented journal has a color cover. Heavier on the class struggle than the insurrectionary anarchism.

Ker-Bloom! #80
From Ker-Bloom
Our letterpress heroine explains the difference between straightedge and alcohol-free, ponders esoteric and arcane distinctions, tells xxx jokes, and waxes philosophic in general.

Towards a Gay Communism
From Pink and Black
One of the remarkable aspects of this pamphlet is that it contains an excellent and relevant critique of capitalism and social control from an explicitly queer perspective, something that is rare even these days…

Pink and Black Attack #3
From Pink and Black
An interview with Terence Kissack, the author of the excellent book Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States 1895-1917, along with an excerpt from that book, an excellent read.
We also emphasize the legal troubles being faced by many of our comrades, including those targeted by the Alliance Defense Fund lawsuit after the Lansing church action, and Ariel Attack, a comrade (and contributor to this fine publication) from Denver who was arrested recently.

Fire to the Prisons #7 – For Nothing Against Everything
From A Longing for Collapse
Your favorite East Coast Insurrectionary quarterly brings you another fiery issue. “Contrary to what has been repeated to us since childhood, intelligence doesn’t mean knowing how to adapt; or if that is a kind of intelligence, it’s the intelligence of slaves.”

Prolegomena – to a study of the return of the repressed in history
From Black Powder Press
A collection of quotations from assorted anarchists, outlaws, and ne’er-do-wells, as well as a few enemies thereof.

Tech stuff and errata

LBC Has a blog &
an RSS feed for new items and announcements

LBC Downloads include all three albums from Blackbird Raum

  1. Under the Starling Host
  2. Swidden
  3. purse-seine

Upcoming

  • Willful Disobedience: the book!
  • Til the Clock Stops – beginning texts for the constitution of a war-machine
  • Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed double issue – Spring 2010
  • much, much more

010.31.09 10.26.09

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Towards a Gay Communism – LBC

Finally we’re getting some of the titles that we picked up in Seattle onto the site. Particularly noteworthy to me is the pamphlet “Towards a Gay Communism,” partly because the title is so evocative (so many ideologies need to be shaken up and mixed with fruit!), and partly because of the blerb on the back: “A demonstration/of the extra-parliamentary left/is in crisis/a group of homosexuals/crazy with love for communism/have managed to get close/perhaps too close/to the comrades/these are now very red/but this time with embarrassment/their hands on their arses/they arent’ even able/to consult mao/to settle the dispute”

Fun!

Ker-Bloom #80 – LBC

Also up recently is the latest of the Ker-Bloom! series, issue 80 and probably my favorite so far, talking about the difference between being straightedge and not using drugs (specifically alcohol).

010.23.09 Modesto Anarcho #12 the valley’s insurrectionary journal of class struggle

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Author: MAC

Modesto Anarcho – LBC

The latest edition of this local-oriented journal has a color cover, correspondence from prisoners; a report on the Firehouse 51 (billed as “Modesto’s newest proletarian hangout”); a piece reporting on police brutality and surveillance, a report by the Central Valley Immigrant Rights Network, info about the Bad Date Sheet (a list for sexworkers of dangerous men posing as clients) and — in a statement about the flow of information in this world — a report via libcom (a Britain-based website) on an action by homeless folks in Sacramento (the capital of California).
Heavier on the class struggle than the insurrectionary.

010.20.09 Under the Starling Host (Blackbird Raum)

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Author: Blackbird Raum
BBR: Under the Starling Host – LBC

Anarchist folk punk band Blackbird Raum’s spanking new cd, with the songs turning away, catherine’s wheel, lucasville, all turning backs in the meadow and wait while bones are thrown, to the barricades!, william, the helm of ned kelly, crumbs, snare, old one eye, conquest of bread, a rat in my dream, and path of raven.
(also, we got an influx of their teeshirts, so get ‘em while they’re here.)

010.12.09 Communicating Vessels #21

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Author: Communicating Vessels
CV #21 – LBC

This surrealist-inspired anti-state communist journal gets better and better, as the producer gains skill and confidence in his press technique. Someone once described him as an old man, and while chronologically that is not correct, it does accurately describe the appeal to old fashioned values that he describes, eschewing email and telephone for a slower pace.
This issue includes the enviable letters section (necessarily more robust, since it is the only way to communicate with the publication), a tribute to recently deceased surrealist Franklin Rosemont, the excellent Bestiary by Kenneth Rexroth, the beginning of a series of pieces on surrealism in the Arab world (Egypt, for this issue), reviews of books including Kent Winslow’s Landmarks in the Desert and Bock’s The Principle of Hope, among other things.

010.10.09 Politics is not a Banana #2

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Author: PINAB
Politics Is Not a Banana – LBC

Politics is Not a Banana:What are You Doing After…
the Orgy or Insurrection or Whatever?
Author:
Various

The Journal of Vulgar Discourse Here is the latest from the high design, fuck-friendly insurrectionaries at the Institute for Experimental Freedom.

This issue is more like a small book than a zine (following in the footsteps of recent journals Endnotes and Letters 3, although that might be the only similarity), with spot color (pink, to be exact) throughout.

The table of contents go likes this:
Editorial, Notes on the State of Exception, Public Sex and Social War, I am a Bulging Tangle I am a Stringy Mass, I want 2.0 Fuck, O.K., Taking Communion at the End of History, The Revelation of Saint Narcissus, etc.

Here are the ongoing adventures of Baudrillard and the Swingerettes, still working on how inspirational porn is the revolutionary catechism.

010.08.09 After Makhno: Hidden histories of Anarchism in the Ukraine

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Author: Anatoly Dubovnik & D.I. Rublyov
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The newest offering from the estimable Kate Sharpley Library, this is a 2007 article by Anatoly Dubovik, “The Anarchist Underground in the Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s: outlines of history”; and “The Story of a Leaflet and the Fate of Anarchist Varshavkiy (from the History of Anarchist Resistance to Totalitarianism)”.

Nester Makhno, the great Ukrainian anarchist peasant rebel, escaped over the border to Romania in August 1921 and never returned. But the struggle between Makhnovists and Bolsheviks continued into the mid 1920s.

Here is new research that shows the extent of the anarchist opposition to Bolshevik rule in the Ukraine during the ’20s and ’30s.

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