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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Insurrection Omnibus
£9.57
Writings by Jean Weir, Alfredo M Bonanno, M. Passamani, and others Insurrection was an English magazine that articulated a revolutionary perspective...
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Anarchist Ephemera
£4.26
Peter Lamborn Wilson
When Peter Lamborn Wilson sent us the pile of paper that eventually became this book (and the Spiritual series) we could not have been more delighted. Peter...
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Child Sexuality
£1.60
New material and reprints from Anarchy: a journal of desire armed . The reprinted articles and letters from Anarchy are some of the most controversial...
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What Have We Done for Us Lately?
£1.06

Previously found exclusively in Anarchy: a journal of desire armed, here is your chance to get DM's work on its own.

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Brethren of the Coast
£4.26
A memoir in support of Somali pirates Translated from the French, this book brings first person narratives and interviews with political and economic...
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Complicated Relationships
£1.06

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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Hakim Bey: The Philosopher of Chaos
£8.51
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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Thoughts on Possible Community Responses to Intimate Violence (redux)
£0.53

The original is here.

This version is modified by one of the original authors to formalize the text, with a few added paragraphs here and there. The vision is the same – the idea that abuse and violence are best taken on by groups of people, that social groups need to determine for themselves what they consider problematic behavior, that these occurrences are more complicated usually than they're given credit for being, and that there are lots of roles for people to fill, at various levels of intimacy and responsibility.

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Is Space the Place? Yes/No
£2.66
Modeled on the old-school science fiction Ace doubles here is a fun and quirky tête-bêche format book that addresses the question of the best relationship...
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be realists!
£1.06
Fredy Perlman was the leading theorist of green anarchy before primitivism, one of the main forces behind Fifth Estate and Black and Red Press, and a...
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Opposing Torture
£4.26
Sean Swain's third book, following (with Travis Washington) Last Act of the Circus Animals (a parable), and Ohio (lessons in a life, in history, and in...
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Wild Carrot Seed 101
£1.06
There are many pamphlets in the world about how to induce miscarriage, or how to encourage your period. Some of them are out of date, some of them are...
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