bob black

From Bienal Anarquista de Madrid

Struggles against work have emerged powerfully at different historical moments, challenging the naturalization of work as the organizing principle of the world. From workers' uprisings to theoretical and practical currents that imagined other forms of existence, the critique of work has been and continues to be a critique of the heart of capitalism.

From A Beautiful Resistance by Ian Blumberg-Enge

For Bob, writing is play, “productive play” to use his amazing phrase, but he puts in the work. He went to law school and, for the most part, made his living doing legal research. This clearly had an impact on Bob’s perfectly constructed arguments, but it also gave him a unique insight into an area many anarchists know little about, and almost avoid as if fearing some supernatural contagion – law and criminal justice.