From LBC Blog
Anarchist publishing thrives on visible anarchist activity. The past 18 months has been an exciting time for both, which raises the question of what's next? When we consider future titles we do it with an eye on what will inspire the next wave of activity: what informed the last wave and what were its limitations?
With this in mind we publish our newest title WhitherBuro: Applied Metaphysics, an epitaph on the grave of America. You can read the extended introduction to WhitherBuro: Applied Metaphysics here.
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Recent LBC Books titles
WhitherBuro: Applied Metaphysics (December 2012).
Yet now we have reached the point when these three competing beliefs have revealed themselves—through their collapse (either past or, in the case of America, imminent)—to be merely progressive forms of nothingness. If all these systems share technological fascination, then the world is still in thrall to the essence of meaning-lessness. In fact with America this nothingness
has reached its most developed form. These are big assertions, yet we are ready to defend them.
Next up is Stirner’s Critics (January 2013), which includes the first and only complete English-language translation of Max Stirner’s original replies to his major critics in both "Stirner’s Critics" and "The Philosophical Reactionaries".
(T)he self-interest of the unique, thus your self-interest, gets trampled underfoot precisely in the sacred, or human, world, and this same world, which Hess and Szeliga for example, reproach as being egoist, on the contrary has bound the egoist to the whipping post for thousands of years and fanatically sacrificed egoism to every ‘sacred’ thing that has rained down from the realm of thought and faith. We don’t live in an egoistic world, but in a world that is completely sacred down to its lowest scrap of property.
We also published Anarchist International (November 2012) a based-in-reality story about an international cabal of anarchists. A wave towards what is possible from what can often feel like total failure, from the sadness of today.
(The Intenational is) A re-occurring waveform pattern that occurs throughout linear time... We are the reincarnations of every anarchist who has ever been, and we reappear endlessly throughout time. It is vital that this is understood without reservations or restraint. To understand this basic point is to become a member of the Anarchist International. This understanding will allow you to become aware of the importance of everything you say, everything you do, and every action you undertake.
Finally, we have the complete collection of writings from Abele Rizieri Ferrari aka Renzo Novatore. Poetic, fiery, and willful playfulness. If you have seen Toward the Creative Nothing then you know the power and energy that Novatore brought to paper. Now read it all!
Our First eBook - For Free!
This is the time where reflection on recent (and past) activity (mistakes and successes) is important. In this spirit we offer the free download of our book about the influence of anarchists in the Occupy Movement Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupy Movement 2009-2012. The password is oocupy (in honor of our friends from the 75 River occupation), the format is epub. The download of Occupy Everything is here.
New LBC Distribution Titles
- Modern Slavery - Modern Slavery #2: Wolfi Landstreicher, notes on Raoul Vaneigem, an interview with Ron Sakolsky, and other long form essays. Edited by Jason McQuinn.
- Alejandro de Acosta - On Play and Games: In this set of essays Alejandro De Acosta provokes one to consider all life, from its most minute dust swirls to the grand chaos of planets, a game for which we are invited to be open to as endless play.
- Slingshot - 2013 Organizer: Manage your dates, remind yourself of birthdays, and inform yourself of random fascinating tidbits of info.
- Individualists Tending Towards the Wild - The Collected Communiques: Kaczynskian-influenced communiques written by Spanish speaking actors against civilization.
- Artnoose - Kerbloom!: best anarchist letterpress perzine EVER!
- Ron Sakolsky (ed) - The Oystercatcher: An annual surrealist zine, filled with art, poetry, outrage, humor, and ruminations.
- Fifth Estate - Fifth Estate #388: This issue of FE focuses on warehouses, aka prisons and schools. "Life in the Body Dump: How Prisons Warehouse Discarded Women" reviews the patriarchal role prisons play, "Three from Cleveland 4 Sentenced" discusses the agent provocateur, and the section on schools discusses how the current system degrades us and alternatives to it.
Elephant Editions
Elephant Editions - 8 little books in 2012. 12 pocket books in 2013.
Covers

Stirner's Critics

Whitherburo

Anarchist International


Comments
Is Novatore a zine or a book,
Is Novatore a zine or a book, and is there a lot more content than there is in the creative nothing?
a book, and its large
a book, and its large
thanks!
thanks!
"We are very excited to
"We are very excited to present this collection of all of the known writings of Renzo Novatore, newly translated by Wolfi Landstreicher. "
http://littleblackcart.com/Novatore.html
Nice to see bibliophiles who
Nice to see bibliophiles who get that the ideas rely on the shit-disturbers for their sex-appeal!
you should reprint the call
you should reprint the call and that tiqqun booklet! shoooo
I appreciate lots of the work
I appreciate lots of the work & various projects you've engaged in and supported, but please stop spreading this egoist nonsense. Yay for the anarchist international book though.
Whitherburo, while being often completely absurd and strangely fetishizing indigenous people, is actually a decent read and has some worthwhile proposals. (Although it really doesn't help their argument or analysis when they say ignorant things such as "the Latinos, who mainly are a bunch of Mexicans" or "women have had very little to do with civilization")
fuck off.
fuck off.
wait, so what are the
wait, so what are the worthwhile proposals that make it worth reading? I've read nothin that leads me to believe it is anything but problematic
There's a decent provocation
There's a decent provocation against nihilism in the text as well as a lot of shit talking about Marxists/materialists, amerikkka, etc etc. What I found most useful in the text is the attempt to start thinking about what it means for America to be our situation instead of Europe. It's mainly to this books discredit that they're sometimes sloppy and overly arrogant does more than encourage the reader to see it as only that, while it is actually saying a lot of unique and interesting things.
^^ on point. Whatever happend
^^ on point. Whatever happend to writers who did the damn thing then wrote about it. Everybody wants to be a grad student these days, spewing all sorts of school words, without ever really risking their neck. Kids these days just want to sound extreme, like they did something. God damn capitaliam still has us competing. And really egoism... Have we rid ourselves from negroidity yet? Thanks Stirner.
weak critique bro, try again
weak critique bro, try again
why don't you just go round
why don't you just go round up some homeless people who think they're jesus, publish them
You might be interested in
You might be interested in the Anarchist International actually.
I was speaking to self
I was speaking to self-fellating ressentiment which is "whiterburo" - an insult to the intelligence of anyone actually interested in anarchist thought, in particular the Stirnerites.
PS I will never support this
PS I will never support this press in any way.
what, it's not like
what, it's not like publishing one or two mentally ill fascist stalker oogles in thrift store hot topic who think they're jesus spoils the integrity of the entire press
Pps: why?
Pps: why?
UUUH? Which elephant editions
UUUH? Which elephant editions? Is there something new layed out?
Yr password no worky
Yr password no worky
Yeah, it does. Thanks for the
Yeah, it does. Thanks for the freebie, LBC.
nm. i forgot how to read. two
nm. i forgot how to read. two oo's. derp.
Reprint Letters, all of them.
Reprint Letters, all of them.
Letters #4 is still in print.
Letters #4 is still in print.
Hi, Donny!
Hi, Donny!
Letters #1 and #2 weren't
Letters #1 and #2 weren't printed, strictly speaking, but can perhaps be found at zinelibrary.
Here's number 2: http://zinelibrary.info/files/LettersJournal2.pdf
i hope you mean letters of
i hope you mean letters of insurgents and not letters journal
Definitely. No one really
Definitely. No one really wanted to read it when it was first printed.
"All of them" indicates it is
"All of them" indicates it is lettersjournal.
sadly. "letters of insurgents
sadly. "letters of insurgents" is infinitely more interesting than anything letters journal has ever done
I suspect you have read
I suspect you have read neither.
I got that one.
I got that one.
What about the new Bob Black
What about the new Bob Black collection you mentioned awhile back?
Regarding the free ebook: can you or anyone suggest a program for reading e-pub files on a PC?
Thanks.
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