Submitted by An_Old_Big_Tree in lobby (edited )

Comments and suggestions welcome. The reading group will be based in Southern Africa. It could especially use suggestions for the "Revolutionary Territories today, and also, actions that are taking / have taken place" section, and any examples of effective actions.


Topic: Reading Groups
Anarchist Study Groups (2 page pamphlet) https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/organizing/anarchist-study-groups/

Topic: Security Culture
What Is Security Culture - CrimethInc. https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2015/08/06/what-is-security-culture-audiozine/
A collection of texts on Security Culture can be found here: https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/security/

Topic: Decolonial / Race
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument - Sylvia Wynter (Essay)
Can the Subaltern Speak? - Gayatri Spivak (essay) - http://abahlali.org/files/Can_the_subaltern_speak.pdf
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book (essay) - Hortense Spillers Mamdani Essay List - https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c584186c3a0ed90b6b1000

Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism - Kwame Nkrumah (1965) (esp last chapter, The Mechanisms of Neo-Colonialism)
Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (introduction alone is fine) - David Scott
I Write What I Like - Steve Biko (1969-) (Book, compilation)
Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire (1950/5) (Book, short, approx 40pgs if you skip forewards etc)
Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon (1952) (Book)
Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon (1961) (Book)
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney (Book)
Poetics of Relation - Édouard Glissant (1990) (Book)
African Anarchism: The History of A Movement (PDF) - Sam Mbah and I.E. Igariwey (Book)
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition - Glen Sean Coulthard (Book)
The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge - V.Y. Mudimbe (Book)
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism - Mahmood Mamdani (1996) (Book)
Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity - Mahmood Mamdani (2012) (Book)
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth Century America - Saidiya Hartman (Book)
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human - Alexander Weheliye (Book)
Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization and the Future of the World - Gary Wilder (Book)
Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle - Maia Ramnath (2011) (Book)
Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide - Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Book)
Tribing and Untribing the Archive (Unavailable Online, very expensive)
Black Anarchism: A Reader
Black Power Reader - Libcom

Topic: Gender/Sex/Feminism in the South/Africa
Oyewumi, Oyeronke. "Conceptualizing Gender: The Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and the Challenge of African Epistemologies." Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. 2, no. 1 (2002).
Bakare-Yusuf, Bibi. “Yorubas Don't do Gender. A critical review of Oyeronke Oyewumi’s The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses’
Maria Lugones, ‘The Coloniality of Gender’
Zine Magubane (2014) ‘Spectacles and Scholarship: Caster Semanya, Intersex Studies, and the Problem of Race in Feminist Theory’, Signs Z
Zethu Matebeni (2013) ‘Intimacy, Queerness, Race’, Cultural Studies.
Ashley Currier and Thérèse Migraine-George (2016) ‘Queer Studies/African Studies’, GLQ
Sandy Ndelu, Simamkele Dlakavu & Barbara Boswell (2017) Womxn's and nonbinary activists’ contribution to the RhodesMustFall and FeesMustFall student movements: 2015 and 2016, Agenda, 31:3-4, 1-4 [Entire issue of Agenda available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ragn20/31/3-4]
Saba Mahmood (2011) ‘The Subject of Freedom’ from her Politics of Piety, Princeton University Press
Nthabiseng Motsemme (2007) ‘Loving in a time of hopelessness’: on township women's subjectivities in a time of HIV/AIDS, African Identities, 5:1, 61-87
Pumla Gqola (2015) Rape chapters 2&5

Writer: Achille Mbembe
Necropolitics (essay)
On The Postcolony (esp Introduction)
Critique of Black Reason (book)

Writer: Jackie Wang
Against Innocence: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Safety (essay) - https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/theory/against-innocence/
Oceanic Feeling and Communist Affect (zine) - https://www.dropbox.com/s/gx8hm0v33vss6fa/Oceanic%20Feeling%20%28Read%29.pdf?dl=0
Carceral Capitalism (book)

Writer: The Invisible Committee (useful and lucid contextualising podcast here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-invisible-committee-now-semiotexte-2017/)
Now (2017, 85pg book) - https://illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2018/02/Invisible-Committee-NOW-READ.pdf
Spread Anarchy, Live Communism (2011, Transcribed Talk as zine, 15pgs)
Fuck Off Google

Topic: Anarchism
A Non-European Anarchism - Aragorn! (Short text) - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-a-non-european-anarchism
Locating An Indigenous Anarchism - Aragorn! (short text) (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-locating-an-indigenous-anarchism)
History and Ideas of Anarchism with Mark Bray on RevLeft Radio (lucid Anarchy101, podcast)- http://blackrosefed.org/podcast-intro-to-anarchism/

Topic: Pedagogy/Education
Pedagogy Of The Oppressed - Paulo Freire
Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education - Robert Haworth (Especially the Introduction and Chapter 6)
Pathways to Free Education vols 1-3
Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich

Tendency: Nihilism
Desert (62 pages) - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert
baedan: journal of queer nihilism (72 pages) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/baedan-baedan
An Anarchist Response To The Nihilists - https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/theory/anarchist-response-nihilists/

Writer: Sara Ahmed
The Happiness Turn (essay)
Affective Economies (essay)
Happiness and Queer Politics (essay)
The Promise of Happiness (Book)

Writer: Fred Moten
Blackness and Nothingness (article, 42pgs, engagement between black optimism and Afro-pessimism) - https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/532dfc3e334fe06009500647
The Case Of Blackness (Chapter, 49 pages)
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (book)

Writer: Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson
As Black as Resistance (Book, not long)
The Anarchism of Blackness (article) - https://roarmag.org/magazine/black-liberation-anti-fascism/
http://www.zoesamudzi.com/#/writing/

Writer: Jasbir Puar
‘I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics (Essay)
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Book)
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Book)

Writer: Silvia Federici
Caliban and the Witch (book, 242pgs) (Engaged in Baedan 2 - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/baedan-against-the-gendered-nightmare)
Witches, Witch-hunting, And Women (book, 2018) https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5b85968a9ff37c411d622bee

Writer: Fredy Perlman
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism (Audio available at https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2015/06/25/the-continuing-appeal-of-nationalism/)
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
Against His-story, Against Leviathan (book)

Writer: Jacques Camatte
Against Domestication (24pgs)
On Organisation (40pgs)

Writer: Ellen Samuels
Critical Divides: Judith Butler's Body Theory and the Question of Disability

Writer: Giorgio Agamben
What Is An Apparatus? And Other Essays - (http://friendship-as-a-form-of-life.tumblr.com/post/85585222447/friendship-as-a-form-of-life-continuum-what-is)

Writer: Walter Benjamin

Topic: Squatting/Occupation
Topic: Disability
Topic: Sex Work
Topic: Cops
Topic: Psychiatry/Psychology/Psychopharmacology and the Medical Model
Topic: Zionism/Palestine/Israel

Topic: Abahlali
A Short Course in Politics at the University of Abahlali baseMjondolo - Raj Patel - https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/58f445769ff37c4e19cb2fb5
No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way (Book, compilation, produced from within a long running occupation in Cape Town) - https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/58f442de9ff37c4e17cb22f6

Topic: Student Rebellion / Universities
Toward a Global Autonomous University: Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge, and Exodus from the Education Factory (Sylvia Federici Chapter and Fred Moten Chapter)
Breaking A Rainbow, Building A Nation - Rekgotsofetse Chikane (pre-orderable book on Fallism, no PDF available, interview about it here: https://omny.fm/shows/mid-morning-show-702/breaking-a-rainbow-building-a-nation)

Topic: Religious Ethics and Influences
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber (+-120pg book)

Topic: Affect
Depression: a public feeling - Ann Cvetkovic https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/ann_cvetkovich.introduction.depression.a_public_feeling.pdf

Topic: Post-left and post-Situationist advancement and critque of Leftism
The Society of The Spectacle - Guy Debord (book, shortish)
Leftism 101 - https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/theory/leftism-101/
Your Politics is Boring As Fuck (article) - https://crimethinc.com/2000/09/11/your-politics-are-boring-as-fuck
The NGO Sector: Trojan Horse of Capitalism (zine) - https://libcom.org/library/ngo-sector-trojan-horse-capitalism
Unions Against Revolution (Zine) - https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/history/unions-against-revolution/
Mass, The Left, And Other Walking Fossils (36pg Zine) https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/organizing/mass-the-left-and-other-walking-fossils/
Give Up Activism (https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/organizing/give-up-activism/)

Topic: Civilisation critique introductions:
A Primitivist Primer (http://www.primitivism.com/primer.htm)
Take What You Need and Compost The Rest: An Introduction to Post-Civilized Theory - Margaret Killjoy (http://birdsbeforethestorm.net/2012/08/take-what-you-need-and-compost-the-rest-an-introduction-to-post-civilized-theory/)
An Invitation to Desertion - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bellamy-fitzpatrick-an-invitation-to-desertion
(together with section for Writer: Fredy Perlman)
Agriculture: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/history/worst-mistake-history-human-race/
Uncivilized: A Primer on Civilization, Domestication, and Anarchy (zine) - https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/theory/uncivilized/
The Amazon is a Man-Made Food Forest, Researchers Discover (article) - https://returntonow.net/2018/08/01/the-amazon-is-a-man-made-food-forest-researchers-discover/

Topic: Revolutionary Territories today, and also, actions that are taking / have taken place
Rojava / YPG / Bookchin -
Post-Scarcity Anarchism - Murray Bookchin - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism
Chiapas / Zapatistas (Documentary: A Place Called Chiapas)
Exarcheia / Christiania

Topic: Direct Action
Fire At Midnight Destruction At Dawn: Sabotage and Social War [a case study of various effective forms of sabotage] - Kasimere Bran (Zine Length) - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-a-murder-of-crows#toc14
Black Flags And Windmills - scott crow (Book) [Autonomous disaster relief] - http://b-ok.xyz/s/?q=scott+crow+black+flags&yearFrom=&yearTo=&language=&extension=&t=0
Defend The Territory: Tactics and Techniques for Countering Police Assaults on Indigenous Communities - https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/direct-action/defend-the-territory/
A list of How-To zines (Graffiti, Banner drops, basic first aid, blockading, barricading, recon, managing police violence, street tactics etc.) - https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/direct-action/

Topic: Violence
The Illigitemacy of Violence and the Violence of Legitimacy (Article) - https://crimethinc.com/2012/03/27/the-illegitimacy-of-violence-the-violence-of-legitimacy
How Nonviolence Protects The State (Book) (also, audio version at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTeHv2rWFci6wlDAQ6OomdZ6WjOMrUXdW)

Topic: Water Conflict
Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity - Ramor Ryan (book)

Topic: The Haitian Revolution
Pre-face: Escaping Race, by Nick Nesbitt, in Deleuze and Race (https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5318b630334fe06ab44d92aa)
The Black Jacobins: Toussant L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution - C. L. R. James (Book)
(Something on Voodoo as resistance magic?)

Topic: Time
Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism - EP Thompson (43pgs) https://libcom.org/files/timeworkandindustrialcapitalism.pdf Time And its Discontents - Zerzan (Zine length) (http://www.primitivism.com/time.htm)

Topic: Human Rights
The Very Idea Of Rights: A Critique of Human Rights Discourse - Aragorn - https://medium.com/@aragorneloff/the-very-idea-of-rights-a-critique-of-human-rights-discourse-84706f002c85
Seven Theses on Human Rights - Costas Douzinas - http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/16/seven-theses-on-human-rights-1-the-idea-of-humanity/

Topic: Anti-Work
The Abolition of Work (Short text) - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
Let's Destroy Work, Let's Destroy the Economy! (Longer Text)
Bullshit Jobs (Essay, or Book) - https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

Topic: Prison Abolition
3 Positions Against Prison - https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2015/06/21/51/
Yalensky's Fable: A History Of The Anarchist Black Cross - https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/history/yalenskys-fable/

Topic: Gift Economies
The Really Really Free Market: Instituting the Gift Economy - https://crimethinc.com/2007/10/27/the-really-really-free-market-instituting-the-gift-economy

Tendency: Insurrectionary Anarchism
At Daggers Drawn: With The Existent, Its Defenders, and its False Critics (Zine) - https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/theory/at-daggers-drawn/ (audio - https://www.dropbox.com/s/6is1uvms6yqqvyd/At%20Daggers%20Drawn.zip)

Individual Texts:
Audiozines at https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/list-of-available-audiozines/
Tsafendas: Setting the record straight (article) - https://www.newframe.com/tsafendas-setting-record-straight
Temporary Autonomous Zone (Zine, section of book) (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism#toc45)
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Book) - https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5a36ec4d9ff37c2d3509f91d
“Yes, And: Results from the North American Contagious Antagonisms Inquiry” North American Society for the Advancement of Criminal Science (2012, article, 14pgs) in War In The Streets: Tactical Lessons from the Global Civil War - https://illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2016/12/War-in-the-Streets-revised-READ.pdf
Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher (Book)
Cruel Optimism: On Marx, Loss and the Senses - Lauren Berlant (Essay, 20pgs) http://chineseollie.com/didyouread/Berlant-Cruel-Optimism.pdf
Dangerous Spaces: Violent Resistance, Self-Defense, and Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender
No Selves to Abolish: Afropessimism, Anti-politics and The End Of The World - KA (Essay)
We Are All Very Anxious: Six Theses on Anxiety and Why It is Effectively Preventing Militancy, and One Possible Strategy for Overcoming It. (Zine, and 40 minute audiozine) - https://archive.org/details/WeAreAllVeryAnxious
Critical Thinking as Anarchist Weapon (Zine) (https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/organizing/critical-thinking-anarchist-weapon/)
There Is No Unhappy Revolution - The Communism of Destitution - https://illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2018/03/Tari-There-is-no-Unhappy-Revolution-Prologue-PRINT.pdf
Beyond The Sad Comforts and Stale Air of Radicalism - https://illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2018/07/Sad-Comforts-READ.pdf
The Next Eclipse: A Vision For Regional Autonomy - https://illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2018/08/The-Next-Eclipse-READ.pdf
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (book) - Raj Patel - https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5a3bf1eb9ff37c421509f937

Fiction:
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas – Ursula Le Guin (4pgs) http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf
The Day Before the Revolution – Ursula Le Guin (11pgs) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-day-before-the-revolution.pdf
Writer: Dambudzo Marechera (The House of Hunger - novella)

Special Interest

Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy - Gabriel Kuhn (2010) The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World - Elaine Scarry
Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge - Paul Feyerabend
Abolish Restaurants (zine) - https://libcom.org/library/abolish-restaurants
Reontologising race: The machinic geography of phenotype - Arun Saldanha (Essay)
The Screwball Asses - Guy Hocquenghem (92pg book of Queerness)
To Destroy Sexuality - Guy Hocquenghem
No Future - Lee Edelman
Joy Unto Death (a zine about suicide combining multiple theorists, with audio https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2016/02/12/joy-unto-death-audio-zine/)

Topic: Abjection
Topic: Witchcraft

Writer: Michel Foucault

Writer: Gilles Deleuze
On Spinoza (book? 32pgs) - https://www.dropbox.com/s/etf0mwm31zpf6xh/Spinoza%20%28read%29.pdf

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RosaReborn wrote

Looks like a great comprehensive list. Is there a set reading schedule planned for the group?

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An_Old_Big_Tree OP wrote (edited )

They haven't figured out the details yet. I think their first meeting is today, where they'll decide what they want to read etc.

And I think they're meeting fortnightly.

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RosaReborn wrote

Great well I'll definitely be reading some of those texts and can do some conversations on the /f/readingclub subraddle.

I think even if the text descions aren't being made in the /f/readingclub, regular threads at least offering ideas and a discussion is a good thing

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MHC wrote

Adults come with life experience. So welcome discussion!

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