Ebook: Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011

Part I: Resistance and Culture; Introduction: Of Tunnels and Theaters; 1. The Reader In the Factory; Part II: Speaking to Others -Anarchist Poetry, Song, and Public Voice; 1: The Poet's Feet; 2: The Devil's Best Tunes; 3: Two Crises of Language; 4: "A need without a hope"; 5: Fight or Flight?; Part III: "out of the bind of the eternal present" -- Anarchist Narrative; 1: White Rooms; 2: Varieties of Estrangement; 3: Outcast Narratives; 4: From Cretinolândia to Common-Sense Country; 5: Stronger Loving Worlds; 6: From Terre libre to Temps de crises; 7: Barbarizing Visions; 8: A Social Spectacle?;An exhaustive study of the richly textured "resistance culture" anarchists create to sustain their ideals and identities amid everyday lives defined by capital and the state, a culture prefiguring a post-revolutionary world and allowing an escape from domination even while enmeshed in it. Whether discussing famous artists like Kenneth Rexroth, John Cage, and Diane DiPrima, or relatively unknown anarchist writers, Jesse Cohn clearly links aesthetic dynamics to political and economic ones. This is cultural criticism at its best. Jesse Cohn.