An exhaustive study of the richly textured "resistance culture" anarchists create to sustain their ideals and identities amid everyday lives defined by capital and the state, a culture prefiguring a post-revolutionary world and allowing an escape from domination even while enmeshed in it. Whether discussing famous artists like Kenneth Rexroth, John Cage, and Diane DiPrima, or relatively unknown anarchist writers, Jesse Cohn clearly links aesthetic dynamics to political and economic ones. This is cultural criticism at its best.
Part I Resistance and Culture Introduction The Reader in the Factory Part II Speaking to Others: Anarchist Poetry, Song, and Public Voice 1: The Poet's Feet2: The Devil's Best Tunes 3: Two Crises of Language 4: "A Need Without A Hope" 5: Fight or Flight? Part III "Out of the Bind of the Eternal Present": Anarchist Narrative 1: White Rooms 2: Varieties of Estrangement 3: Outcast Narratives 4: From Cretinolândia to Common-Sense Country5: Stronger Loving Worlds 6: From Terre Libre to Temps de Crises 7: Barbarizing Visions8: A Social Spectacle?9: The Mirror StagePart IV Breaking the Frame: Anarchist Images 1: Virile Bodies 2: "He Peddles Signs": Words and Images 3: "Evolution Is Not Over Yet": Visual Narrative 4: The Stuttering Image: Anarchist Cinema Conclusion: Lines of flightBibliography