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Drawing Conclusions on the Wall
There were two types of media my high school friends and I truly looked forward to on our colonial outpost in what was then West Germany. The first was the appearance in the post exchange of the latest album from our favorite band. The other was when one of us received the latest issue of an underground paper from the US. Since we came from towns and cities all over the nation those...
Thaddeus Russell. A Renegade History of the United States
Unlike many dissident histories of the United States, which attempt to portray racial minorities, sexual subcultures and subordinate classes as “worthy victims” in terms of the social mores of the white middle class, Thaddeus Russell celebrates the kind of people that your parents may have warned you about: the low-down, no-count, not-respectable people. You know, the folks who...
Anarchy through the Ages
Anarchism is usually belittled as hopelessly utopian or mindlessly violent, but, in reality, it's neither. Rather, it's a rich cauldron of social thought from which we've gleaned a lot historically and will likely continue to do so in the decades to come. Peter Marshall has written a tome worthy of this varied history. Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism gives...
What Was the Hipster? Edited by Mark Greif, Kathleen Ross and Dayna Tortorici
On 11 April 2009, the youthful cultural journal n+1 held a symposium at the New School in New York. The topic that detained almost 200 people for more than two hours on an exceedingly rainy afternoon was "hipsters". Not the once fashionable cut of trousers, but that modern breed of achingly with-it urban trendy. The papers presented, transcripts of the discussions that followed,...
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
Peter Marshall’s Demanding the Impossible has been hailed as the authoritative text on the rich and various history of anti-authoritarianism ever since it was first published by HarperCollins in 1992. This handsome new paperback edition from the independent PM Press features a new epilogue by the author, as well as updates and corrections throughout. Anarchism is a subject whose scope...
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