Anarchy Comics is a series of underground comic books that were anarchist and satirical, criticising mainstream society. The first three issues were edited by Jay Kinney and the fourth by Paul Mavrides, and the contributers included anarchist artists of the times, such as Spain Rodriguez and Gilbert Shelton. The first issue of Anarchy Comics can be found here.
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Anarchy Comics: Issue 1 by Jay Kinney (1978)
1946-1989, Consciousness Raising, Date, Tactics of Disruption, UncategorizedAnarchy Comics is a series of underground comic books that were anarchist and satirical, criticising mainstream society. The first three issues were edited by Jay Kinney and the fourth by Paul Mavrides, and the contributers included anarchist artists of the times, such as Spain Rodriguez and Gilbert Shelton. An introduction to Anarchy Comics, written by Jay Kinney, can be found here.
Temporary Autonomous Zone – Hakim Bey (1985)
1946-1989, Date, Defining the Enemy, Disruptive Spaces, Evasion, God, Country, Property, History/Theory, Occupation, Tactics of Disruption, Theory, Uncategorized, Urban SpacesClassic anarchist text by Hakim Bey about creating temporary spaces that elude formal structures of control. From Pirate Utopias to Nomadic Bands, Poetic Terrorism to Ontological Anarchy, Hakim Bey draws on history and philosophy to think through spatial and mental liberation.
"The TAZ springs from the historical development I call “the closure of the map.” The last bit of Earth unclaimed by any nation-state was eaten up in 1899. Ours is the first century without terra incognita, without a frontier."
Indiana University Students for a Democratic Society: Collection of Newsletters (1965)
1946-1989, Date, Disruptive Spaces, Institutions, Students, Subjectives of Refusal, UncategorizedDuring the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) as a national organization had chapters at over 300 universities. The organization lasted unitl 1969, until it ultimately split due to disagreements within regarding revolutionary actions. Here is a collection of newsletters distributed by the Indiana University chapter of SDS in 1965.
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The Kinetics of Our Discontent – Mehmet Dosemeci (2020)
History, History/Theory, Theory, Time Interrupted, UncategorizedMehmet Dosemeci questions why we have come to understand the history of social struggle through the category of movement and discusses the complicity of movements with the social order they are struggling against. Offers an alternate history of social struggle as the arrest or interruption of the existing order.
Why do we think of social struggles as movements? What is in motion and where is it going? Has struggle been thought and practiced otherwise? Not as movement but as disruption, arrest, stasis? If so, what are struggles trying to stop? Asking these questions pushes us to think about struggle kinetically: to analyze social struggle through the register of motion and its interruption.
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