Gustav Landauer is perhaps the most important German speaking anarchist of the late 19th and early 20th century, but he is not well known in the English speaking world. Despite four book length studies of Landauer and a few translations, there has never been a major collection of his work in English.
August 22, 2011
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Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism
The last two generations have seen a key shift in political organizing, one in which television coverage is regarded a harbinger of success. And since the 1990s, that media-centric focus accelerated with the ascension of the Internet, social media and affordable, high-quality audio and video equipment
August 21, 2011
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Wombanifesto
Invoking Elegua to open the musical floodgates, d’bi young wastes no time in unleashing bold soul sonic vibrations that ripple through the body and mind, swiftly but surely navigating the resulting rapids to carry us along on the raging (as in outrageous and outraged) river of her creativity.
August 21, 2011
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Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada
After reading Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada, all I wanted to do was become a pirate. Not the kind that steals in a capitalist bent to become rich at the expense of others. I want to appropriate what is already mine: the public airways and broadcast what corporate media despise most—defiant free-form radio
August 17, 2011
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Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876
If white supremacy was an illness afflicting America, Black disenfranchisement would be that cough that never goes away. Resonant, persistent, rattling to the bones and always that with which the sufferer writes off with excuses of other causes.
August 17, 2011
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What is Posthumanism?
As I prepared to read Cary Wolfe’s latest book, What is Posthumanism?, I wondered how much hermeneutic effort would be required to answer the titular question. To my pleasure, Wolfe gives a clear definition of what he means by “posthumanism,” and how it contrasts with others’ usage, in the first few pages.
August 16, 2011
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The Beast and the Sovereign volume 1
The Beast and the Sovereign can be located at the heart of dominant themes in Derrida’s later work including, but not limited to, a democracy to come, conditional and unconditional hospitality, calculability and incalculability, and the relation shared between state sovereignty, terrorism, and rogue states.
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August 22, 2011
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