Creating Anarchy
Publisher: Fifth Estate Books
Published: 2005-09-15
Place of publication: Liberty, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780977225804
Subjects: Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Essays; Political Ideologies - Anarchism; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Anarchism; Anarchism; Political aspects; Surrealism
First sentence: From freeschooling to homeschooling to deschooling and beyond, anarchist approaches to education abound.
Description: This anthology of many of Sakolsky’s essays contains chapters in a dynamic collage of ideas and action. Born at the beginning of a new century, this vibrant collection glows with flames of discontent and defiance and flows with waves of laughter and possibility. Ranging widely from Mayday to Utopia, from Refusal to Autonomy, and from Insurrection to Imagination, this compilation is in turn defiant, reflective, and playful—a brick for hurling through the windows of despair and a doorway to creating an anarchy that is not afraid to dream.

Ron Sakolsky is a rare anarchist for a variety of reasons, including his longevity, his intellectual pursuits (especially challenging academia), and his embrace of art and the surrealists. Creating Anarchy is a collection of his writings (and art pieces by some surrealist friends), reflecting his interests and thinking over the past couple of decades. This new edition includes more recent pieces (including the particularly relevant “My Life in the Academic Gulag”, in which he discusses how and if one can maintain anarchist positions within the academy) and a new introduction.
Table of contents: title: Preface by Anu Bonobo
pagenum: 9; title: Introduction by Ron Sakolsky
pagenum: 15; label: I
title: Being Anarchy; title: Teaching Anarchy
pagenum: 23; title: Why Consent To Being Ruled At All?
pagenum: 29; title: Liberty Shield
pagenum: 39; title: Refusing The Marketplace
pagenum: 41; title: The Myth of Government-Sponsored Revolution
pagenum: 47; title: Puppets vs Puppets
pagenum: 57; title: Whose Streets, Our Streets
pagenum: 59; label: II
title: Hearing Anarchy; title: Hangin’ Out on the Corner of Music & Resistance
pagenum: 67; title: Finding Your Voice
pagenum: 79; title: Firespitter
pagenum: 83; title: Anarchy in a Diasporic Key
pagenum: 95; label: III
title: Surrealizing Anarchy; title: Surrealist May Day Greetings!
pagenum: 103; title: Marvelous Freedom/Vigilance of Desire
pagenum: 105; title: Surrealist Desire, Anarchy, & the Poetry of Revolt
pagenum: 111; title: Anarcho-Surrealist Poetics
pagenum: 145; title: Total Refusal
pagenum: 151; label: IV
title: Discovering Anarchy; title: A Surrealist Re-Imagining of Canada
pagenum: 159; title: Black Star North
pagenum: 163; title: Dancing Waves
pagenum: 171; title: Utopia At Your Doorstep
pagenum: 193; title: Resources
pagenum: 215