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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Untold Delight
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...An Experience of the Ineffable, Untold Delight is a collection of some less common essays by John Moore, as well as his best-known piece, “A Primitivist Primer.”

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Nihilism as Egoism
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A non-anarchist's take on many things of interest to modern anarchists, most significantly the relation of Nietzsche's thinking to Stirner's, from...
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the BASTARD Chronicles 2017
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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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Relations without End
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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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The BASTARD Chronicles 2014: social war
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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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Opposing Torture
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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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The Anarchist Tension
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This pamphlet is the text to a presentation Bonanno gave as La Tensione anarchica, translated by Jean Weir.

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Hakim Bey: The Philosopher of Chaos
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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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Jane
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Anon, Ardent Press
Now with a new, in-your-face cover, here are first-hand accounts of one of the most successful clandestine organizations in u.s. history. Jane, the codename...
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The 2016 Ardent Coloring Book
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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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The Spartacist Movement, excerpts from Freedom, My Dream, frank brand
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Freedom, My Dream is the one book put out by Ardent that anyone can love. It's fun, funny, historical, egoist, adventurous and humble.

This is an excerpt of it, to whet your appetite.

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The BASTARD Chronicles 2016
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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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