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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A Full and Fighting Heart
$16.00
Paul Z. Simons was a character, a writer, a dedicated anarchist, a horror film lover, and a world traveler. His death in April, 2018, was a shock, and is an...
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Anarchist Ephemera
$8.00
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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Anarchist Speculations
$12.00
John Moore is an under-valued voice in the realm of anarcho-primitivism most obviously, but also in a vision of anarchy as a flexible, current,...
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Anarcho-Pessimism
$15.00
Son of Joseph Labadie (of the famed Labadie Collection in Ann Arbor), Laurence Labadie out-distanced his father as a thinker and a polemicist, Laurence...
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Anarchy 101
$6.00

Now available! A post-left friendly, green friendly, insurrecto friendly, conflict friendly introduction to anarchy!

 

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Anarchy Works
$14.00
This book takes examples from around the world, picking through history and anthropology, showing that people have, in different ways and at different...
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be realists!
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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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Breaking the Alphabet
$6.00
A new booklet by the author of Doomed to be Named , again on language, but this time on the inherent authoritarianism that comes from how we write, what is...
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Brethren of the Coast
$8.00
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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Bulk Freedom My Dream (5)
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Canenero
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Selected articles from Canenero, an anarchist Italian periodical of 1994-1997

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Child Sexuality
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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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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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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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In Search of the Masterless Men of Newfoundland
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Two essays on the topic of the possibly mythical, definitely legendary, Society of the Masterless Men, a group of escapees from conscription, in the...
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Insurrection Omnibus
$18.00
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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Is Space the Place? Yes/No
$5.00
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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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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Last Act of the Circus Animals
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We’re excited to be selling the book Last Act of the Circus Animals by anarchist prisoner Sean Swain , proceeds from which will go to Sean Swain’s...
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Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
$9.00
People in the US, including revolutionaries here, suffer from a lack of historical and international perspective, which would deepen and make more...
 
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Nietzsche and Anarchy
$8.00
As publishers we believe that anarchism is the lens by which the rest of the world is examined. This means that all of the ideas that are otherwise owned...
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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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Nihilist Communism
$14.00
Originally self-published in 2003, now edited and designed by Ardent Press, still one of the most hard-nosed books to call the left to account -- with...
 
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Not on Any Map
$12.00
Indigenous Anarchy in an Anti-political World The first of two collections from Black Seed , this one includes, as well, new material from Klee...
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Novatore
$15.00

The collected works of Renzo Novatore (aka Abele Ferrari) in brand new english translations.

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Nuances
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Nuances is three articles on topics that deserve more thoughtful analysis than they normally receive. How some alliances go wrong, what does the...
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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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Queer Ultraviolence: Abridged Bash Back! Anthology
$10.00

Slimmed down, new introduction, half the price of the original, prisoner friendly.

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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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Smert za Smert
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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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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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Spiritual Destinations of an Anarchist
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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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Spiritual Journeys of an Anarchist
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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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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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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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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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The BASTARD Chronicles 2015
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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 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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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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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
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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 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
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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
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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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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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Wild Carrot Seed 101
$2.00
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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Willful Disobedience
$15.00

The collected writings of Wolfi Landstreicher's Willful Disobedience. Originally published as a zine from 1996 to 2006, Willful Disobedience was a continuously evolving provocation directed towards anarchists and fellow vagabonds to dig deeper into critical thought and joyous rebellion.

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