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004.09.12 What is new with Little Black Cart – Spring 2012

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One book a month. This was the quiet goal we set ourselves upon for 2012 and, so far, it has been working. Now that the book is dead, anarchy is a relic of history, and the end of history is upon us it is the perfect time to make anarchist books about the end of this world and the start of ours. This is our task and so far at least the words are there. At least we have the words.

Little Black Cart Books 2012 (http://lbcbooks.com)

Theory of Bloom

Robert Hurley has made the formerly opaque theoretical text from the Tiqqun journal #1 available for a new audience. This book establishes a new theoretical trinity, along with the Spectacle and Biopower we now have the FINAL EMERGENCE OF THE ORIGINARY. We have Bloom.

Bloom is the man who has become so thoroughly conjoined with his alienation that it would be absurd to try and separate them.

-page 20

Theory of Bloom – by Tiqqun
LBC Books

Freedom – My Dream

This book is the adventure-story-of-a-life of Enrico Arrigoni (aka Frank Brand) an Italian anarchist whose character, humility, humor, and love of life jumps off every page. This book was originally published by the Libertarian Book Club (which Enrico co-founded) and has been updated to make it more legible to a modern reader.

Freedom: my dream by Enrico Arrigoni
Ardent Press

Queer Ultraviolence – A Bash Back Anthology

Through collections of essays, communiqués, narratives, images, and interviews, this anthology hopes to account for what Bash Back! was and what happened to it. We have included a number of actions, theories, and other essays that were not explicitly or implicitly related to Bash Back! as a name. In this context, if we do not recognize the actions of related tendencies and publications, then we fail to tell the complete history of Bash Back! as a network and as a tendency.

-From the Introduction

A mob of gay terrorists

-Bill O’Reilly

Queer Ultraviolence: A Bash Back! Anthology (edited by Fray Baroque and Tegan Eanelli)
Learn More:Ardent Press – queer ultraviolence
Ardent Press

Occupy Everything

Before the Occupy Movement and the so-called “99%” there were anarchists occupying schools, homes, factories, and parks. We used to call it squatting, now we call it occupying. Same struggle–against property values, against the enclosure of the commons, against the idea that sharing is a crime–but now more people have joined us.

Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupy Movement (edited by Aragorn!)
LBC Books

Coming later this year

  • Uncivilized: The best of Green Anarchy – The best material from the now defunct magazine from Eugene, OR
  • Anarchy 101 – An approachable, crowd-sourced introduction to anarchist ideas.
  • Several Journals – Several new journals extending anarchist theory& practice into new arenas.

New Material from our friends

Modern Slavery – Issue 1 of Modern Slavery: the libertarian critique of civilization.
http://littleblackcart.com/product.php?productid=17866 (CAL Press)
Lawless – Issue 1 of a manual for War (from the Bay).
Daggers, Rifles, and Dynamite – Anarchist Terrorism in 19th Century Europe.
http://littleblackcart.com/product.php?productid=17869 (Black Powder Press)
Origins of the 1%: the bronze age – A new Zerzan pamphlet on the origins of stratification.
http://littleblackcart.com/product.php?productid=17868 (Left Bank Publishing)
The Anvil Review #3 – http://littleblackcart.com/product.php?productid=17856 (The Anvil Review)

We will be near you

  1. NYC @ Bookfair – April 14th & 15th
  2. Midwest tour 2012 (email for details
  3. Montreal Bookfair – May 19th & 20th

We are…

Little Black Cart
PO Box 3920 Berkeley CA 94703
info@littleblackcart.com

Our mission is the total transformation of society into one that is stateless and classless, a society of mutual aid, voluntary cooperation, and the liberation of desire. We call this mission anarchy, but also accept it being called anarchism, (anti-state) communism, anti-authoritarianism, or not naming it at all. This goal is not immediately forthcoming, and many of our efforts haven’t been particularly rewarding. Therefore we spend our time doing things that increase the quantity and quality of an understanding of our mission, of what we truly desire, even if we aren’t entirely sure how to directly achieve it. We know what we want but not how to get there. In this spirit we offer a selection of things, meaningless on their own, but in a context (social, historical, genealogical) that have been meaningful for each of us. Even though we are fully aware of contradiction of our participation in commodity culture, the spectacle, and even plain old petit-bourgeoisie capitalism, we maintain a resolve that this is worth doing. Why? Because the context of interacting with other inquisitive people, with each other, and with others involved in the project of social transformation, is the closest we have come to such a society.

102.19.12 What is new with Little Black Cart – Early 2012

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As you may have heard (but probably didn’t)…

These are active times at LBC Headquarters. We have transformed our project from a part-time, do-as-we-may, casual distribution project into a full time, agile distribution AND publishing project. We did this with the announcement of LBC Books and our first three published titles.

These titles include the already released Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupy Movement (edited by Aragorn!), the brand new Queer Ultraviolence: A Bash Back! Anthology (edited by Fray Baroque and Tegan Eanelli), and the collected Super Happy Anarcho Fun Pages (upcoming any day now).

Occupy Everything

Anarchists have been part of Occupy since before it was even clearly a movement. This is a book where anarchists, in their own words, express how and why they engaged in Occupy, what methods they used, and how to evaluate the success of Occupy on anarchist terms.

Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupy Movement (edited by Aragorn!)

Queer Ultraviolence

This is a Bash Back! anthology. It takes a peek at the radical Queer tendency and/or (non)organization from 2007 to 2011.

We view queer as the blurring of sexual and gender identities. Queer is the refusal of fixed identities. It is a war on all identity. In line with the Bash Back! tendency, for the uses of this anthology queer is trans because the gender binary is inherently oppressive. We acknowledge that society ensures Queer is an oppressed identity. Anti-Queer oppression is the systematic violence that people who fall outside of traditional sexual or gender categories encounter.

Queer Ultraviolence: A Bash Back! Anthology (edited by Fray Baroque and Tegan Eanelli)
Learn More: Ardent Press – queer ultraviolence

Did we mention that we finally received the second edition of Til the Clock Stops by Ardent Press? We should have.

The texts you are about to read have been collected here in order to tell a story for those of us living in this moment. It is not a story of a new politics nor of a single authorial group, but rather of a position, a position that has spread beyond its origins, and which is being elaborated here and there, there where we dream it most violently, here where we feel ourselves so deperately alone. It is our intention that, read together, they will coalesce for you with ease and clarity.

Til the Clock Stops: crime opacity insurrection

Today we announce our next title (March 2012) which is a reprint of a long out of print title from the other anarchist LBC, the Libertarian Book Club, New York City’s oldest continuously active anarchist institution, founded by Jewish and Italian exiles from fascist Europe in 1946. The book is called Freedom – My Dream and is the autobiography of Enrico Arrigoni (aka Frank Brand) an Italian-born anarchist illegalist who lived during some of the most exciting times in Europe of the past century. He was active against communists and fascists before, during, and after wars, news correspondent in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, and was staunch in his beliefs from beginning to end. This autobiography, the story of a life of resistance to church and state, bullshit and fascism, is full of adventure and heart, stories well told from a life rich with adventure, near escapes, good friends, and better enemies.

Along with publishing new titles we are also happy to add to our roster a couple new anarchist publications including the newest issues of the Sovereign Self, Wolfi Landstreicher’s My Own, the newest Communicating Vessels, and the newest in Communization theory Communization and its Discontents (a collection of essays) and Sic (the International Journal of Communization and the latest (very beautiful) Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies.

If you are into back issues of your favorite magazines…

Fifth Estate
Ker-bloom
Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
325
Green Anarchy

We are also just about to release the new version of The Anvil Review (March 2012). If you haven’t checked out the Anvil it is a source of review essays on popular and anarchist culture. The new issue will include reflections on Black Flags & Windmills, Firefly, Motorhead, Anathem, working class art, and the Cynics.

Upcoming Events

You can learn about speakers published by LBC related projects (like Anvil, Ardent, or LBC Books) at the LBC Events Page.

February 20th – Queer Ultraviolence launch party @ Station 40 (SF, CA)

February 21th – Queer resistance in the age of austerity with editors of Queer Ultraviolence in Davis CA

February 25th - Occupy Everything release party @ the Holdout (Oakland, CA)

February 26th – Occupy Everything discussion @ Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library (Oakland, CA)

Become an accomplice

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310.30.11 What is new with Little Black Cart – Fall 2011

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This is an exciting time to be in the Bay Area. The Occupation of Oakland (or as we prefer the Oakland Commune) has been amazing. It has made cynical people smile and even jaded people feel like there is something positive about what is happening in downtown Oakland. This is what is possible when anarchists take an engaged role in a public project and even if it were to be over tomorrow the experiment in Oakland has been fruitful.

Long live the Oakland Commune!!!
Take a holiday from work on November 2nd (and every day thereafter)

We will be traveling in early November.

New Things

We are currently tilling the soil to have an incredibly productive 2012 we will have a major announcement in the next month or two. This means that we only have a few new things to announce but they are good ones.

Tiqqun #1 – This is an absolutely faithful reproduction of the French journal Tiqqun but in English. This includes such obsessions as replacing French graffiti with English equivalents, replacing cultural artifacts with similar ones that make sense in North America. This is a labor of love & sweat and is a huge journal filled with content you have mostly experienced up till now in bite sized morsels because reading on the screen and reading something in your hands are two different things entirely.

Tiqqun #1 @ LBC
A Related Link: Tiqqunista

Desert – This is a new (dark) Green Anarchist publication from the UK. It asks the question “what does it mean to be an anarchist, or an environmentalist, when the goal is no longer working toward a global revolution and social/ecological sustainability?” This is a serious publication that challenges the reader to imagine life and activity without hope. I love this shit!

Desert @ LBC
A Related Link: John Zerzan reviews Desert

bolo’bolo – Ardent and Autonomedia have teamed up to bring the most important anarchist utopia (that is neither anarchist or utopian) back into print. If this doesn’t live on your bookshelf then it is arguable that anything lives there at all!

bolo’bolo @ LBC
A Related Link: Anvil Review of bolo’bolo

Sovereign Self – A brand new paper from the PNW that is beautifully self-printed and the first publication from Highwayman Press. It is inspired by Egoist and individualist thinking. This issue is FREE with postage.

Sovereign Self @ LBC
A Related Link: The Anarchist Library version of Walker on Egoism

ADCS: 1.2011 – Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies considers the anarchist milieu in the ten years since the attacks of September 11th, 2001 (hereafter “9/11″). A host of obvious questions accompany an attempt to encapsulate an event such as 9/11 and the ten years that followed, foremost among them: Why situate 9/11 as a date of exceptional importance? Does a reflection of this kind merely contribute to, for example, neoconservative attempts to enshrine 9/11 as a propagandistic tool? Memorialization often carries reactionary politics, whether intentional or not.

ADCS @ LBC
A Related Link: short review by Aragorn!

New Site

One of the grueling tasks we have accomplished is a brand new website. This means that the old “rounded corners” site is gone and a new site that focuses on SEARCH and simplicity now lives in its place. We expect there to be frequent changes to the site now that it is so much more usable but if you run into problems please drop us a line.

New features include:

  • Gift Certificates: They may be corney but they are a great way to get the actual things you want from family members for the Xmas (and shit).
  • Wholesale accounts: If you are part of an infoshop that would like some variety in what you carry or an independent bookshop that is ready to challenge your audience… drop us a line. We have rates for you!
  • New Products RSS feed
  • Better functionality for things like reviews!

Other things that may interest you

Upcoming Projects

  1. Anvil #3
  2. Super Happy Anarcho-Fun Pages: The book!
  3. Attentat Journal
  4. Bash Back (the anthology)
  5. and oh so much more…

-Little Black Cart

004.03.11 What is new with Little Black Cart – Spring 2011

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Things to do, things to do… Hey! Here is what is going on with us!

We are just finalizing everything we need to do to prepare for 8 days of Anarchy a festival we have here in the Bay Area around the time of the BASTARD conference. We hope that those of you on the west coast can make it down for this. For those of you on the east coast LBC will also be tabling the NYC Anarchist Bookfair on April 9th. Make sure to say hello to our away agent. As always you can email us here.

We have lots to tell you about including an LBC mini-tour, new stuff that is coming in, and some stuff on the horizon.

Mini-tour

We are headed to Houston and the first annual Houston Anarchist Bookfair. If you are in Texas or the area you should come down and say hello. We will be making stops both on our way to Texas and on our way back home. The following is our itinerary.

  1. Tucson AZ – April 15th – Dry River
  2. Phoenix AZ – April 17th – Beer & Revolution
  3. Austin TX – April 21st – Monkey Wrench Books
  4. Houston TX – April 22-24th – Houston Anarchist Bookfair
  5. St. Louis – April 25th
  6. Milwaukee, WI – April 27th

We will probably be doing a full US LBC Bookmobile tour by the end of the year.

New LBC Stuff

We have a couple of exciting new titles coming in to LBC. These are things you can’t get through Amazon or corporate bookstores. You either get them through us, a friendly local bookstore ((prices here), or not at all.

From Ardent Press

Enemies of Society

This book tells the story of the most neglected tendency in anarchist thought; egoism. Anarchism is usually told as a story of great bearded men who had beautiful ideas and beautiful failures, culminating in the most beautiful failure of them–Spanish Civil War.

Egoism, and individualist anarchism, suffers a different fate. Instead of resounding tales of great history and glorious failure, it is an obscure series of stories of winning–victories defined by the only terms that matter, people who lived life to their fullest and whose struggle against the existing order defined them. This struggle was not one of abstractions, of Big Ideas, but of people attempting to claim an authentic stake in their own lives.

Enemies of Society: An Anthology of Individualist & Egoist Thought

Til the Clock Stops – crime, opacity, insurrection

Second Edition

What we are talking about here is nothing less than the constitution of war-machines.

Coming very soon

From The Anvil Review

The Anvil #2

The Anvil Review is a tabloid periodical comprised of review essays about popular cultural, literature, and radical material. It is comprised of a print edition distributed through a DIY network throughout North America. It is also a website where discussion about Anvil essays happens.

The Anvil Review is a FREE publication available through Little Black Cart1.

Issue 2 includes reviews of Eminem, Kanye West, Alone in Berlin, Revolutionary Road, Lady Gaga, Justice’s Stress video, as well as an 8-page insert on Letters of Insurgents, and insurgent summer. And, of course, more.

Please consider subscribing to The Anvil if you’re in the continental US and we will make sure to ship you a copy of the paper as soon as it comes out. We will also send you other exclusive-to-subscriber things that come out of the project.
Check out the Anvil Review
1. For the price of shipping

Other Titles

Chicago Conspiracy – Chile | Dictatorship | Pinochet | Legacy | Today | Social War
Kerbloom #88 – First Kisses (yes!)
Ardent Press t-shirt – Revolt is permanent, irreducible
Anarchist News t-shirt – It’s not that we love it, it is just how we roll
Graceless #1 – a journal of the radical gothic
xxXXXxx – Straight Edge erotic fiction by Artnoose!
Abolishing Borders from Below #36

We look forward to seeing old friends, meeting new and having a hell of a time at 8 days of Anarchy!

WIN!

-Little Black Cart

011.02.10 Small November announcement

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Dear friends of LBC,

We just to let you know that while we anticipated being at the Portland Bookfair (which is why we didn’t make it to the Tacoma one, since we have to pace ourselves) — and in fact requested two tables as soon as the event was announced, the Portland Bookfair people have just let us know that the PBF is going to be a local affair this year.

While we are not sure how AK Press’s attendance fits into the local idea, we certainly support groups putting on events for their region. And we hope it goes well.

This is just to let people know that we may have told you we’d be there, but we will not be (through no lack of effort on our part) and we’ll see you next time. Likely in Los Angeles, perhaps in the Bay Area in March!

Portland Anarchist Bookfair
NorthStar Infoshop

Have a good fall.

Little Black Cart

010.25.10 What is new with Little Black Cart – Fall 2010

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This summer included fun trips to Seattle (the NW is the best!) and a wonderful trip to Minneapolis. The midwest is a refreshing change from the coastal anarchist scene. Less sectarian, less bohemian, and full of interesting projects. People should stop moving to the coasts and make the Midwest more awesome!

Halloween is near. The rains have started for the year. We are settling in for a winter of packing boxes and preparing for next springs publishing and traveling schedule. Next spring looks like it will include 3-4 new book titles available through LBC and the LBC bookmobile tour from March to April.

Wholesale rates!

We are finally ready to start dealing with book stores, small distros, and infoshops. We have wanted to do this since we started the project but math is hard and we were too small of an operation to figure out how to satisfy everyone’s needs (we were having a hard enough time figuring out the post office’s needs–a conundrum that has not entirely been resolved, btw. stupid post office.).

We are proud to announce a transparent, one-stop shop for wholesale ordering from LBC

LBC Wholesale

The summer of communist periodicals

As promised in our last update, we have 3 new publications, all from the anti-state communist milieu. All of them are dense, informed, and non-polemical.

Against Sleep and Nightmare #8

After a several-year hiatus ASAN has returned with a new issue. This pro-situationist publication has long since expanded its interest beyond political economy and rehashing situationist ideas into areas like psychology, transcendence, and of course The Crisis.


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Endnotes #2

Endnotes is the “pro TC” split from the Aufheben group. Their intellectual focus has moved towards a reframing of Marxism in current conditions. Communisation, crisis, housing, and debt are the journal’s areas of research.

The theory of communisation and Marxian value-form theory emerge from the same historical moment, mutually complement each other, and point towards the same radical conception of revolution as the immediate transformation of social relations, one in which we cease to constitute value and it ceases to constitute us.


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Letters Journal #4

This anti-political journal has a fascinating approach to its project. “Our aim is to bring maximum disorder to habitual perspectives” which they accomplish on the Internet (and in past issues) by serving as the fly in the ointment to any number of issues where the anarchist attitude could be describe as lazy or merely good-intentioned. Additionally, Letters Journal has emphasized an interest in literature. This issue includes an additional supplement (Letters literary review) and nicely-screened envelope.


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Also check out for laughs: This video from their tour.

A New Paper

The Anvil Review is a periodical comprised of review essays about popular cultural, literature, and radical material. It is comprised of a print edition run in volume and distributed through a DIY network throughout North America. It is also a website (which includes discussion about Anvil essays).


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New to LBC

England!

We finally got our first shipment from the UK. It has been a bit of a bear to get material from there as the shipping rates are outrageous. We are really excited to start to establish ties there and we look forward to building on this small start.

Buttons
We got sweet enamel star buttons

La Bande a Bonnot
Dynamite: A Century of Class Struggle

and more as we post them.

and More

Communicating Vessels #22 – FANTASTIC new version. Check this out if you love print.
2011 Slingshot (large)
2011 Slingshot (small)

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

103.19.10 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)

Only at Little Black Cart

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

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  • Til the Clock Stops – crime, opacity, insurrection
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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!

Only at Little Black Cart

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.

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