Ardent Press

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ardent Press is a publishing project committed to publishing original anarchist and anti-political works.

There are many existing anarchist publishing efforts. We strongly believe in the anarchist principles of decentralization and diversity, and in this spirit we enter with books for children and adults, books on philosophy, nihilism, sexuality and body image, race, history, and psychology, all from an anarchist and anti-political perspective.

While there are almost as many definitions of anarchist as there are anarchists, ours is one based on a rejection of representation, on a radical practice that eschews the political role of the activist, militant, or leftist. It means stealing back the power that we have been dispossessed of: the power to create our lives, not the politics of petitioning the state to act in our name or waiting on the power of “the people” to rise up on our behalf.

Our books will reflect this spirit.

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Civil or Subversive: A Dark Matter Production
$5.00
A collection of writings from the UK, originally produced under the title Anarchism: Civil or Subversive , these are essays and thoughts on the on-going...
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Complicated Relationships
$2.00

conversations on polyamory and anarchy


Relationships have been clear anarchist territory since Emma Goldman and Voltairine DeCleyre explicitly rejected monogamy and marriage.
But while polyamory may be a popular alternative, it is - by definition - not simple, especially when we recognize the ways that it's coherent with exactly what is expected of us (for example, stereotypical male sexual behavior).

 

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cop-out: the signifigance of Aufhebengate
$5.00

The following essay (originally posted on delinquentdialectics.com and reposted to anarchistnews.org) is an example of making a serious criticism, it also raises three topics that are in need of more discussion amongst anarchists: a) the role of academics, b) “soft policing”, what it means and what it looks like, and c) letting friends slide, despite evidence of serious complicity with the state.

 

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Cracks in a Grey Sky
$15.00
Do or Die was ten issues of a very influential paper out of the UK. Subtitled Voices from the Ecological Resistance , it brought together a wide variety...
 
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Creating Anarchy
$12.00

Ardent Press is pleased to announce the release of its reprint of the classic Creating Anarchy.

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Desert
$5.00

The most cleaned up version of this title, which is a gloves-off assault on the hope of saving the world, from an author with a long history in green anarchism.


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Desert
$5.00
The even more new and improved version, and now featuring a choice of two different covers . A text that plays significantly on the invisible...
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Disruptive Elements
$20.00

The extremes of French Anarchism in the 20th century

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Egoism
$8.00

A collection of historical and modern egoist essays.

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Enemies of Society
$18.00
An Anthology of Individualist & Egoist Thought This book tells the story of the most neglected tendency in anarchist thought; egoism. The story of...
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Freedom: My Dream
$12.00

The long out-of-print autobiography of Enrico Arrigoni, life-long Italian individualist.

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philosopher of chaos
Hakim Bey: The Philosopher of Chaos
$16.00
This collection of a series of columns for the UK magazine  CeaseFire , that were written before Peter Lamborn Wilson's death, draws from the decades...
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