AK Press in Your Ear!
| A couple of AK-related audio recordings have appeared on the almighty Interweb over the last week or so. I can’t embed either in this post, so you’ll just have to follow the links, comrade. |  |
1) New World from Below Collaborative Book Party
As we’ve mentioned on this blog before, AK Press was one of ten collectives that sponsored an anarchist workshop track at the US Social Forum (A New World from Below). This also included a convergence space where NWFB held a shindig celebrating anarchist authors, editors, and publishers. The lovely folks at the defenestrator recorded it (well, they recorded the talks, not the drinking and partying and such). Go here and scroll to the bottom of the page (though you might want to stop along the way and listen to one of their many interviews) .
The event featured:
- Benjamin Holtzman, editor of SICK: A Collaborative Zine on Physical Illness (Microcosm Publishing, 2010)
- Cindy Milstein, author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations (AK Press, 2010)
- Jeff Conant, author of A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista
Insurgency (AK Press, 2010) - Jordan Flaherty, author of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6 (Haymarket, 2010)
- Josh MacPhee, editor of Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today (PM Press, 2009)
- Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, authors of Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas (Microcosm Publishing, 2010)
- Seth Tobocman, author and artist of Understanding the Crash (Soft Skull, 2010)
- Team Colors Collective, editors of and contributors to Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States (AK Press, 2010)
- Turbulence Collective, authors of What Would It Mean to Win? (PM Press, 2010)
2) David Graeber on the Authority Smashing Hour
The ever-fascinating David Graeber made an appearance on the Authority Smashing Hour‘s show. He was supposed to share the bill with Uri Gordon, but Uri had technical difficulties, so it’s a full hour of David talking about two of his AK Press books (Possibilities and Direct Action), his forthcoming book on Melville House Press, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, and lots more. The ASH site seems to be under renovation, but you can find the interview here (it’s the one that happened on July 15, 2010).