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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The Impossible, Patience
$16.00

Alejandro de Acosta's work in the past six years can be summarized in this book of essays and as the best work done in anarchist thinking and theoretical exposition in decades, if not a century. His writing has been seen in publications like Upping the Anti, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, and The Anvil Review but also in person at the RAT (Reclaiming the Anarchist Tradition) Conference, the Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory And Research & Development (BASTARD) Conference, and in self-discovery.

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the BASTARD Chronicles 2017
$6.00
The fourth in the chronicles of the adventures of anarchist theory in the bay area. The theme in 2017 was evil, for reasons that will probably only suffer...
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The BASTARD Chronicles 2016
$5.00
The third edition of presentations from the BASTARD conference, this year unthemed, with pieces on, for example, the drug industrial complex and the...
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The BASTARD Chronicles 2015
$5.00
The second set of the Chronicles, being write-ups and thoughts about the presentations at the BASTARD Conference. The Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory...
 
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The BASTARD Chronicles 2014: social war
$8.00

In the tradition of Impasses, here are readings from presentations (or based on presentations) at the BASTARD conference in 2014, when the theme was social war.

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The Anarchist Tension
$2.00

This pamphlet is the text to a presentation Bonanno gave as La Tensione anarchica, translated by Jean Weir.

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The 2016 Ardent Coloring Book
$5.00
Consisting almost entirely of the art of one of the most amazing anarchist artists ever, including multiple images of anarchists assassinating leaders, this...
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Spiritual Journeys of an Anarchist
$8.00
A collection of little seen (or un published) writings from one of the most interesting, well traveled, controversial, iconoclastic thinkers (and good...
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Spiritual Destinations of an Anarchist
$8.00
The second of two books of little-known or never-before-printed pieces by Peter Lamborn Wilson, on his travels, interviews, life, and cogitations. Table...
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species being and other stories
$8.00

In this small and rich text, one of the authors of Nihilist Communism introduces an anti-political perspective in the form of letters, essays, and dialogs.

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Smert za Smert
$4.00
This booklet is a lovingly compiled collection of historic events by anarchists and anons. It has been around in zine form for many years, and we're...
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Relations without End
$3.00
Two pieces, an interview with Ben Morea, and Aragorn!'s article "Nihilist Animism." There is a painful and enormous gap between being (or naming...
 
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