This year’s Historical Materialism conference includes sessions and launch events with the editors of Keywords for Radicals and also Dawn Paley, author of Drug War Capitalism. AK Press books will also be available for sale at the conference courtesy of Kersplebedeb.
You can find more information and the conference schedule here: http://hmtoronto.org/
Come out to the AK Press tables at the 10th annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair! We’ll be there all day with our latest and greatest wares. You can find more information at anarchistbookfair.net.
**Don’t miss this talk**
With insights from dozens of scholars and troublemakers, Keywords for Radicals explores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term’s contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it. This talk at the New York Anarchist Bookfair is an “author meets critic” format, featuring Keywords for Radicals editor AK Thompson and discussant Darren Kwong.
With insights from dozens of scholars and troublemakers, Keywords for Radicals explores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term’s contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it.
A year ago our warehouse in Oakland, CA caught fire. Like a phoenix, AK Press has risen here in Chico, CA. Over the last eight weeks we’ve been preparing our new space and it’s time to show it off.
We’d like to invite you out to see the new space and find some great deals on books. We’ll have books at fire sale prices.
WHEN: Saturday, March 19th
WHERE: 370 Ryan Ave #100 Chico, CA 95973 (head out Cohassett past the airport, take a left on Ryan Ave and we’ll be on the right a couple blocks down)
WHAT TIME: 3:00 to 6:00pm
WHAT TO BRING?: We’ll have refreshments on hand. We can take cash and credit cards for book sales
for more info contact info@akpress.org
Join Walidah Imarisha (editor of Octavia’s Brood) for two events at Northeastern University on March 25th:
1:00-3:00pm: Collective Sci-Fi Visionary Storytelling Workshop at Northeastern Crossing
5:00pm: Reading and discussion of Octavia’s Brood at Raytheon Amphitheater. Books will be available.
More about Octavia’s Brood:
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The visionary tales ofOctavia’s Brood span genres—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism—but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. The collection is rounded off with essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a preface by Sheree Renée Thomas.
A reading with Chris Nealon & Jasper Bernes & Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr.
RSVP on Facebook here.
A reading with Chris Nealon & Jasper Bernes & Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr.
RSVP on Facebook here.
A reading and a conversation about poetry and other antagonisms with Jasmine Gibson & Jasper Bernes & Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr.
RSVP on Facebook here.
This event is intended to spark critical dialogue, speaking from our own experiences, in our own places, around the questions raised in the new anthology Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism. Such collective reflection is essential not only in helping to sustain the spirit of rebellion but also aiding it to claim some victories in the task of dismantling systemic violence, such as states, capitalism, and settler colonialism, or murderous policing, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and so much more. These events will grapple with the conundrums and beauty of revolutionary solidarity. How might it (better) shape our aims, strategies, and tactics given current grassroots resistance, uprisings, and solidarity projects locally and globally?
RSVP on Facebook here.
This event is intended to spark critical dialogue, speaking from our own experiences, in our own places, around the questions raised in the new anthology Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism. Such collective reflection is essential not only in helping to sustain the spirit of rebellion but also aiding it to claim some victories in the task of dismantling systemic violence, such as states, capitalism, and settler colonialism, or murderous policing, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and so much more. These events will grapple with the conundrums and beauty of revolutionary solidarity. How might it (better) shape our aims, strategies, and tactics given current grassroots resistance, uprisings, and solidarity projects locally and globally?
RSVP on Facebook here.