Sep 18
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Derrick Jensen (1960–) is a radical environmentalist and author and is considered one of the most influential anti-civilization thinkers. He is more famous for his non-fiction works such as A Culture of Make-Believe and Endgame, but he has also written a couple of novels, a graphic novel, and a book about teaching creative writing—a subject which he has taught in both prison and college.

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derrickjensen.org

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Sep 18
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

M. John Harrison (1945–), author of the anarchist The Centauri Device among many other novels, said the following in an interview with Andy Darlington (S.F. Spectrum No.8, 1985):

We must accept—given that [all viewpoints come down to subjectivity]—that we must operate personally. I mean, that’s why I’m still an anarchist. If all value-judgements are subjective which they are by definition, linguistically and in the real world, then any evaluation we make of the universe is personal. It therefore behooves us to act with dignity, and act personally. Not to club together in big groups and say “because we have agreed on this personal evaluation as universal, from now on it will be universal, and we will hit anybody who doesn’t agree with us!”

Author’s site:

mjohnharrison.com

Author’s blog:

Ambient Hotel

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Sep 18
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Jimmy T. Hand (1984–) is an anarchist adventurer (to use his words) and writer. He’s written two autobiographical novellas, In the Hall of the Mountain King and The Road to Either Or. He ran away from home, never finished high school, and never regretted either. He’s been a part of anti-globalization, anti-war, and anti- logging activism, and has a tendency to travel.

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Sep 16
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Fly (n.d.), a comic author, has been squatting in New York City for over two decades. Her stories are beautifully honest and strange, fictionalizing elements of her life on the streets and in squats and traveling the world. Her work has been collected into the books CHRON!IC!RIOTS!PA!SM! and Total Disaster, as well as the graphic novel Dog Dayz. Her comic “Zero Content” appeared in Slug & Lettuce for years, and she’s done the covers of countless books, zines, and records.

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flyspage.com

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Sep 16
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Leslie Fish (n.d.), an accomplished folk singer and one of the creators of the “Filk” tradition (science-fiction/fantasy themed music), is also an author, anarchist, and Wobbly. She once wrote a guide to surviving the apocalypse in the form of an album, Firestorm, in which she relayed information about making antibiotics, gunpowder, and lenses. She also practices that renown form of plagiarism, fan-fiction, having fan-published a novel taking place in the Star Trek universe. She took part in writing a collaborative fantasy trilogy, The Sword of Knowledge, of which she authored the first book, A Dirge for Sabis.

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lesliefish.com

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Sep 16
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–), the famous beat poet, has long identified as a philosophical anarchist and a pacifist—it was only two weeks after Nagasaki was bombed that he, as an American solider, visited the ruins. In the ‘50s he started the City Lights bookstore and publishing company in San Francisco, where he published Ginsberg’s Howl and was therefore arrested and charged with obscenity. With the help of the ACLU, he won and set a legal landmark for other publishers of sex and drug literature. In addition to his poetry, he wrote two novels: Her (1960), a surreal and semi-autobiographical novel, and Love in the Days of Rage (1988), about a bourgeois anarchist caught up in the May ‘68 uprisings in Paris.

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Sep 16
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Mattias Elftorp (1978–) is a comic book author from Malmö, Sweden. A politically involved anarchist and cyberpunk, he is the author of the Piracy is Liberation books, which he describes as “Political theory, filtered through autobiography, masked as fiction in the form of cyberpunk postapocalypse.” Although most of his work is in English, he’s done recurring “Arg Kanin” (Angry Animals) short comics in Swedish that are printed in different publications and are used on political fliers. He recently did an exhibition “Violence,” on police brutality, that coincided with the EuroSocial Forum being held in Malmö.

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elftorp.com

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Sep 16
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Kristyn Dunnion (1969–), a vegan, queer anarchist from Canada, is the author of three novels for a wide age range of readers: Missing Matthew, Mosh Pit, and Big Big Sky. She’s also a performance artist under the name Miss Kitty Galore, plays bass for dyke metal band Heavy Filth, and has helped organize the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair.

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www.kristyndunnion.com

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Sep 16
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Kevin Doyle (1961–), a member of Ireland’s anarchist Worker Solidarity Movement, has been a writer of fiction and non-fiction for years. His stories have appeared in a number of magazines, his interview with Noam Chomsky has appeared in Chomsky On Anarchism, and he has an unpublished novel, Step F. He’s been involved in a number of campaigns over the years from pro-choice battles to No Borders campaigns. When I told him about this book project, he had some interesting things to say:

I think fiction is very important in our lives and in how we understand the world we find ourselves in. I think it is important to encourage and promote more writing from below. Some regard the writing process as “waffle” and a “waste of time”—maybe even “a diversion from the real struggle.” I wouldn’t agree at all. Writing from below is an essential part for me of creating an alternative culture and vital if we are to move anarchism into the broad center of world politics where it must be one day.

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kfdoyle.wordpress.com

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Sep 16
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Jim Dodge (1945–) is a bioregionalist theorist, an anarchist, and a writer. His novels explore a sort of modern folklore, often including magic amidst otherwise real-world events. In his bioregionalist essay “Living by Life”, he says that anarchy is an intrinsic value to bioregionalism, and says: “Anarchy doesn’t mean out of control, it means out of their control.”

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