Anarchist Ephemera

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 has been a writing machine for decades and it would be easy to miss out on the kind of writing that he likes best. Punchy, idiosyncratic manifestos (of a sort). This collection of Peter's Anarchist Ephemera is filled with heart and astute observations. All plans for "saving the world" ultimately rest on the assumption that humanity must undergo a change of heart. The paradox here is that if this change were to occur, no plans would be needed to bring about a "different world." The change of heart, the different consciousness, would be in itself the very shift in direction, the Reversion to human and spiritual values required for "salvation." Smash the machinic mind and there'd be no need to smash the actual machines. LBC Books is an anarchist press owned and run by Aragorn Moser. It is the parent label for Cruel Hospice, Ardent Press, Repartee, Pistols Drawn, and Green Anarchist Press. PART I: PURE CRITIQUE Domestication Critique of the Listener Notes on Play An Army of Jacks to Fight the Power Letter to Valencia PART II: AESTHETICS/POETIC TERRORISM Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism Salon Apocalypse/Secret Theater Robert Anton Wilson, Author of The Illuminatus Trilogy & Cosmic Trigger Series, Dies at 74 The Alchemy of Luddism Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters. San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007 Obit: Ivan Illich Presentation at Critical Strategies in Art and Media Conference Divining Violence Intellectual S/M is the Fascism of the Eighties - The Avant-Garde Eats Shit and Likes It Resolution for the 1990s: Boycott Cop Culture PART III: PROPOSALS/P.A.Z. P.A.Z. Permanent Autonomous Zones A Network of Castles A Hudson Valley Tour Pastoral Letter: A Fragment Escapism Somali Pirates Back to 1911: Temporal Autonomous Zone PART IV: HISTORY An Esoteric Interpretation of the I.W.W. Preamble Cross-Dressing in the Anti-Rent War Burnt Over Caliban's Masque: Spiritual Anarchy and the Wild Man in Colonial America