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 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 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 Spartacist Movement, excerpts from Freedom, My Dream, frank brand
$2.00

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 Spectacle of Society
$15.00
Stories and reviews selected from The Anvil Review Writings by critila, rocinante, dot matrix, frere dupont, Alejandro de Acosta, Aragorn!, and others...
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the Spiritual Pack
$14.00
Peter Lamborn Wilson, Ardent Press
Get two of our newest books, Spiritual Journeys of an Anarchist and Spiritual Destinations of an Anarchist , and read Peter Lamborn Wilson's excellent...
 
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The Totality is Incomplete
$15.00
Alex Gorrion will be familiar to anyone who has paid attention to The Anvil, which was (and still is, in a lingering fashion) primarily a journal of...
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The Unique and Its Property
$15.00
Johann Kaspar Schmidt (aka Max Stirner) wrote this trailblazing political text in 1845. It is a statement that the individual is the measure of all things...
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The Wandering of Humanity
$5.00
Alongside Fredy Perlman, there was Jacques Camatte, an iconoclastic anti-state communist who challenged marxism to attend to the world beyond industry....
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Thoughts on Possible Community Responses to Intimate Violence (redux)
$1.00

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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Untold Delight
$2.00

...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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What Have We Done for Us Lately?
$2.00

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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Where the Absence Is
$12.00
This, the second volume of Black Seed reprints, shows the arc of the journal over its various iterations, from starting out as a project taking up...
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