The Detroit Printing Co-op
Subtitle: The Politics of the Joy of Printing
By: Danielle Aubert
Publisher: Inventory Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Los Angeles, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781941753255
Description: Between 1970 and 1980, the Detroit Printing Co-op, spearheaded by Fredy and Lorraine Perlman, was responsible for the first English translation of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, printed journals like SDS' Radical America, ultra-left books by their in-house press, Black & Red, and countless posters, pamphlets, and books printed by high school students, black radicals, labor organizers, and anarchists who made use of the freely available facilities at the Co-op. Fredy Perlman was not a printer or a designer by training, but was deeply engaged in the ideas, issues, processes, and materiality of printing. While at the Detroit Printing Co-op, he rethought the possibilities of prit by experimenting with overprinting, collage techniques, and different kinds of papers. Behind the calls to action and class consciousness written in his publications, there was an innate sense of the politics of design, experimentation, and pride of craft. "The Detroit Printing Co-op" is a timely exploration of the history, output, and legacy of this unique enterprise, and serves as a testament to the power of printing, publishing, design, and distribution.
Table of contents: title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
pagenum: 10; title: INTRODUCTION: THE DETROIT PRINTING CO-OP
pagenum: 12; title: FREDY PERLMAN IN NEW YORK 1961–62
pagenum: 26; title: F. Perlman, The New Freedom: Corporate Capitalism; title: F. Periman, Plunder; title: THE BLACK & RED GANG KALAMAZOO 1968–69
pagenum: 34; title: Black & Red nos. 1–6; title: The Ten Commandments; title: Initiation Rites for Students and Professors; title: F. Perlman, I Accuse This University of Terror and Violence; title: R. Gregoire, F. Perlman, Worker-Student Action Committees: Paris May ’68; title: L. Lanphear, How I Became an Outside Agitator; title: R. Maier, Observorman; title: THE DETROIT PRINTING CO-OP OPENS 1970
pagenum: 66; title: M. Glaberman, F. Perlman, M. Ravitz, Who Are You? Who Cares?; title: Facing Reality, We Want Out; title: A Child’s Garden of Perverse; title: P. Allen, F. Gould, Prolegomena; title: IWW, Little Red Songbook; title: FREDY PERLMAN AND THE OFFSET PRESS 1969–72
pagenum: 74; title: F. Perlman, The Reproduction of Daily Life; title: F. Perlman, Birth of a Revolutionary Movement in Yugoslavia; title: F. Perlman, The Incoherence of the Intellectual; title: M. Velli, Manual for Revolutionary Leaders; title: The Fetish Speaks; title: RADICAL AMERICA 1970–75
pagenum: 114; title: Radical America vol. 4 no. 2 through vol. 9; title: D. Montgomery, What’s Happening to the American Worker; title: d. a. levy, Stone Sarcophagus; title: 4. a. levy, To Be a Discrepancy in Cleveland; title: D. Lourie, Lies; title: T. L. Kryss, New Majiks; title: American Labor History pamphlets; title: SITUATIONISTS AND THE CO-OP 1970–73
pagenum: 132; title: G. Debord, Society of the Spectacle; title: R. Vaneigem, The Revolution of Daily Life (excerpt); title: To Nonsubscribers of Radical America; title: SI, On the Poverty of Student Life; title: BLACK STAR 1970–72
pagenum: 148; title: J. Forman, The Political Thought of James Forman; title: J. Forman, Control, Conflict, Change; title: brochures for Black Star Productions; title: 1971 Vietnam calendar; title: US Out of Africa poster; title: THE GNOMON 1970–72
pagenum: 162; title: The Gnomon vol. 1 through vol. 3; title: JUDY CAMPBELL 1971–74; title: J. Campbell, Free for All; title: J. Campbell, My Torrid Affair With Three Doctors and One Research Assistant Cost Me My Job; title: J. Campbell, Open Letter From a White Bitch to the Black Youth Who Beat Up On Me and My Friend; title: COMMUNITY AND FRIENDS 1971–76
pagenum: 178; title: Lookin’ In; title: Rebels’ Voice; title: 1971 and 1972 Cass-Trumbull Community Calendars; title: riverrun; title: ETR Gang, Jo Serve the Rich; title: Wildcat; title: ETR Gang, Ms. Interview: Gail Garrot, Big City Cop; title: Fuck Authority poster; title: A. Franklin, D. Watson, Fli-back; title: BEWICK/ED 1971–80
pagenum: 196; title: M. Glaberman, Union Committeemen and Wildcat Strikes; title: P. Romano, R. Stone, The American Worker; title: C.L. R. James, Modern Politics; title: M. Glaberman, Punching Out; title: K. Marx, A Worker’s Inquiry; title: C.L. R. James, Facing Reality; title: C. L. R. James, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways; title: M. Glaberman, Wartime Strikes; title: BLACK & RED 1970–88
pagenum: 204; title: M. Brinton, Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control; title: I. I. Rubin, Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value; title: B. Ehrenreich, D. English, Witches, Midwives and Nurses; title: P. Arshinov, History of the Makhnovist Movement; title: Voline, The Unknown Revolution; title: S. Van Der Straeten, P. Daufouy, The Counter-Revolution in Ireland; title: Barrot & Martin, Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement; title: J. Camatte, The Wandering of Humanity; title: M. Brinton, The Irrational in Politics; title: G. Munis, J. Zerzan, Unions Against Revolution; title: Lip and the Self-Managed Counter-Revolution; title: F. Arcos, Momentos; title: J. Peirats, Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution; title: A.Anderson, Hungary ’56; title: F. Perlman, Letters of Insurgents; title: I. C. O., Poland 1970–71: Capitalism and Class Struggle; title: Poland 1980–82; title: F. Perlman, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!; title: F. Perlman, Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom; title: F. Perlman, On the Continuing Appeal of Nationalism; title: F. Perlman, The Strait; title: L. Perlman, Having Little, Being Much