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Author Ferguson, Kathy E., author.

Title Letterpress revolution : the politics of anarchist print culture / Kathy E. Ferguson
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 330 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Printers and Presses -- Epistolarity -- Radical study -- Intersectionality and thing power
Summary "Anarchist collectives and associations have a long and robust history of independent publications and journals. Letterpress Revolution explores the radical print history of anarchism in the US and England from the late-19th century to the present to show how anarchist print culture has thrived through a combination of media technology, epistolary relations, and radical scholarship. Kathy Ferguson tells the story of anarchist presses, often located centrally in the homes, offices, and community centers of anarchist movement and run by everyone from professional union printers laboring in their off hours to lay artists and craftspeople learning new skills. These presses created what Ferguson calls a "fugitive public" that produced anarchist knowledge outside of formal educational institutions. Although anarchists are politically committed to dispersed and independent collectives, Ferguson argues that anarchist print culture has created an assemblage of dynamic and entangled networks that brings the movement together. Finally, Ferguson considers contemporary letterpress printers and other anarchist formations around material and intersectional politics that continue today-including Food Not Bombs, Protect Maunakea ʻOhana, and the feminist bookstore movement-which, she argues, strengthens anarchist theory by incorporating thing power and a critical analysis of anti-Blackness into anarchist politics"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2023)
Subject Anarchism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Anarchism -- England -- History -- 20th century
Press, Anarchist -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Press, Anarchist -- England -- History -- 20th century
Radicalism and the press.
Anarchafeminism.
Women's bookstores.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
HISTORY / Modern / General.
Anarchafeminism
Anarchism
Press, Anarchist
Radicalism and the press
Women's bookstores
England
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022035603
ISBN 9781478023869
1478023864