A Response to “Spontaneous Combustion”
Jason Del Gandio and AK Thompson, eds. Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution (Albany: SUNY Press, 2017) Hillary Lazar and Paul Messersmith-Glavin provide an introductory framing for this discussion here. The publication of Spontaneous Combustion is a significant indication that popular uprisings are … Read more
Like Birds (fiction)
(art by Peter Railand, justseeds artists’ cooperative. ) “The hell?” I asked. Ari followed my gaze upward to the wide mesh enclosing the dome of the “courtyard,” the outdoor exercise area surrounded by 15-foot iron bars. “Oh, yeah. That’s to prevent ‘e-LOPE-ment,’” she said, dragging … Read more
Anarkhos: An Epic for Our Time
(art “Fatal State” – By NO Bonzo) Book I: Stirring The heroes in this passage: Addison Fabulous Addison lifts up their iPhone and snaps a selfie. Blue hair killing it, eyeliner perfect. Jubilant picture. Upload to Instagram, instantly liked by their genderqueer fan base. … Read more
Can We Cancel Cancel Culture?: A Review of We Will Not Cancel Us, And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, by adrienne maree brown
adrienne maree brown, We Will Not Cancel Us, And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Oakland, AK Press, 2020) If the Left is the conscience of society, and feminism is the conscience of the Left, adrienne maree brown is the conscience of feminism. In her latest … Read more
Single Mother
I wish I hadn’t been taught it was a crime being poor, taught not to notice the day the buds arrived on the tips of trees trained to disregard the buds who bring February to its knees, I watch I squint to see those buds … Read more
Envisioning Futures: A Review Essay
A People’s Future of the United States (New York: One World, 2019) by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? (New York: Orbit, 2018) by N.K. Jemisin Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018) by Vandana Singh A … Read more
The current print issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is on the theme of “Imaginations.” We asked a handful of IAS board members, authors, and contributors to tell us about some of the influences that have inspired their imaginations. Here are a few of their … Read more
The Future, Prewritten? Popular Vision and the Fight Against Displacement
(art by Kill Joy) Finite Frontiers No matter how we approach it, we can all see the way the future is shaping up. We are forced to admit it will be shaped by better bandwidth and higher processing speeds. Our phones now speak back; the … Read more
To Those Who Fight … You Do Not Fight Alone: the Work of Imagination in Anti-Border Struggles
(art by Amanda Priebe) “The world we want is one where everyone fits. The world we want is one where many worlds fit.” Fourth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), January 1st, 1996 Destitute Times and Rebellious Imaginations … Read more
Regenerative Power
Knowing glory and staying modest, be the valley of the world. Being the world’s valley of eternal inexhaustible power is to go back again to the natural. . . . Natural wood is cut up and made into useful things. Wise souls are used to … Read more
