HERE LIES FORGED 2019 – 2023
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Ecological Authoritarian Maneuvers: Leninist Delusions, Co-optation & Anarchist Love
by Alexander Dunlap
Following Feminist energy researchers, we might call this an expression of “climate masculinities,” emphasizing grand scales, reductionist data, rooted in approaches of scientific domination of the planet, which marginalize or ignore other processes of ecosystemic breakdown that contributes to larger planetary degradation. Climate reductionisms assists in permitting technological fetishism, which ignores the contaminating, material and energy intensive realities of the proposed technological solutions themselves…
On The Nameless
by Julian Langer
Earth has always been an unreasonable place to be, but this lifeless expanse of ruinated landscape seems a different unreasonableness – like the unreasonable logic of revolting reasoning, seeking to justify some suicidal endeavour. Why are you here? It does not matter. What matters is that you are here, alive. The real question is what are you to do now – do you embrace this life that you are now, or renounce it, as many of those who live upon these islands do today?
Bretannike Rebellion
by Julian Langer
But they did not merely tell them of grandmother’s words – they sung them, cried them, roared them, with an energy of beastly will…
My Anti-Cull Philosophy I & II
by Julian Langer
Moments later, we felt the badger die in our arms, as we desperately attempted to bring them to the car alive, to take them to a wildlife hospital. It was this experience, more than any other, than confirmed to me the intensity to which this culture is waging a violent campaign upon wildlife, akin to other militarist efforts in cultural-extermination. My awareness of this remains today and I remain on the side of wildlife…
Affirming The Open: An Ontological Anarchist Manifesto
by Julian Langer
I danced naked in the-open, as I felt rain fall on me through the gaps between pine trees. The bare wind caressing my open skin affirmed this transgression of custom and law. A glorious summer day, not even Alexander the Great could have blocked my sunshine, for my power exceeded that of empire. The music I danced to was the sound of pollinators humming and birds singing, in an orchestra that was held by the percussive beating of the raindrops upon the earth…
I Was a Teenage Luddite
by J. Jones
At its height, my Neoluddite fixation was strong enough that I chose to avoid all modern technology as far as possible. This being a neurotic obsession, it was impossible to achieve in full, instead I began to avoid basic appliances. Laptops. Light-switches. Buses. Microwaves. Phones. It would have been a compulsion if it wasn’t contrived with such ascetic logic…
Three Poems
by J. Jones
Instructions For Building a ____-____
Satan’s Glory Among Us
REPRINT for MANCHESTER ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2023:
Selections from Ursula Le Guin’s translation of Tao Te Ching
REPRINT for BRADFORD ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2023:
Against Leviathan by Fredy Perlman from Fifth Estate #311
REPRINT for PRAGUE ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2023:
Three pieces by Georges Bataille
REPRINT for LIVERPOOL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2023
Three titles from Bandicoot
REPRINT for SHEFFIELD RADICAL BOOKFAIR 2023:
Three pieces from Seaweed’s Land & Freedom
REPRINT for MANCHESTER & SALFORD ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2022:
Three titles from Warzone Distro
REPRINT for ANTIUNIVERSITY 2022:
Three titles from Black and Green Press and Species Traitor
REPRINT for BRADFORD ANARCHIST & RADICAL BOOKFAIR 2022:
Three titles from Re-pressed and Untamed Distro
REPRINT for EARTH FIRST! SUMMER GATHERING 2022:
Three titles from Do or Die!
REPRINT for ANARCHIST STUDIES NETWORK CONFERENCE 2022:
Against the Megamachine from Fifth Estate #306
Revolution Against the Megamachine from Fifth Estate #333
REPRINT for LIVERPOOL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2022:
Unknowable: Against an Indigenous Anarchist Theory from Indigenous Action
REPRINT for MANCHESTER & SALFORD ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2021:
Locating An Indigenous Anarchism by Aragorn! from Green Anarchy #19
Nihilist Animism by Aragorn! from Black Seed #4
REPRINT for ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR IN LONDON 2021:
Three titles from Venomous Butterfly
REPRINT for ANTIUNIVERSITY 2021:
Three titles from Willful Disobedience
REPRINT for BRADFORD ANARCHIST & RADICAL BOOKFAIR 2021:
Selections from Species Being
REPRINT for EDINBURGH ANARCHIST FEMINIST BOOKFAIR 2021:
The Storyteller Who Ate the World: Interview with Layla AbdelRahim from Backwoods
Layla AbdelRahim interview by Puntickovani Chrobaci
REPRINT for ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR IN LONDON 2020:
Selections from Feral Revolution
REPRINT for ANARCHIST STUDIES NETWORK CONFERENCE 2020:
Industrial Domestication from Fifth Estate #329
Who Killed Ned Ludd? from Fifth Estate #271
REPRINT for EDINBURGH ANARCHIST FEMINIST BOOKFAIR 2020:
A Queer Journal of Heresy (excerpt) from Baedan
REPRINT for ANTIUNIVERSITY 2020:
Against His-story, Against Leviathan! (excerpt) from AJODA #33
REPRINT for MANCHESTER & SALFORD ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2019:
Three titles from The Anvil Review
FORGED titles are available to read in print at 56a Infoshop (London), The Field (London), Aberdeen Social Centre, The Sparrows’ Nest Library (Nottingham), Partisan (Manchester), and the 1 in 12 Club (Bradford)
TBC: ACE (Edinburgh), BASE (Bristol), Cowley Club (Brighton), Sumac Centre (Nottingham), Warehouse (Birmingham), Wharf Chambers (Leeds), Star and Shadow (Newcastle), Oxford Action Resource Centre, Next to Nowhere (Liverpool), Ground Gallery (Hull), Glasgow Autonomous Space, Northampton Goldman Centre, Decentre (London), LARC (London), The Feminist Library (London), The Common House (London), Freedom (London), Sylvia’s Corner (London), MayDay Rooms (London), DIY Space For London, plus Freedom Shop (NZ) and Jura Books (AUS)
A selection of FORGED titles are available to order at Active Distribution
FORGED BOOKS exists to encourage thought and discussion. We do not agree with the content of any particular piece in the collection.
So ride alone / Or ride with many others / Just ride away / As fast as you can.
– Blackbird Raum