The Anvil Review started as an experiment. How do we, as anarchists*, engage with the world outside of ourselves. How do we present ourselves to the world or engage with the world’s presentation of us. We started The Anvil Review…
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For the Love of God
by Alex Gorrion • • 1 Comment
a continuation of “Golem in the Catacombs” When living beings are separated from their own expressions, gestures, tools, and traditions, they are reduced to golem, mere bodies, and every influence that these things, once a part of their being and…
Golem in the Catacombs
by Alex Gorrion • • 0 Comments
“The harmony of the seasons mocks me. I spend hours watching the sky, the lake, the enormous sea. This world. I feel that if I could understand it I might then begin to understand the creatures who inhabit it. But…
Mind the Dash
by Critila • • 2 Comments
The somewhat recent (2012) translation of Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl published by Semiotext(e) seems to be stimulating more conversation than the previous, less achieved, version. (Or at least the discussion is more above-ground and visible, likely due…
Anarchy in World Systems
by Alex Gorrion • • 0 Comments
A review of Giovanni Arrighi’s The Long 20th Century (1994, 2nd Edition 2010) Giovanni Arrighi’s The Long 20th Century is a history of capitalism, and a diachronic contexutalization of the distinguishing features of US dominance in the 20th century.…
Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism
by Alejandro de Acosta • • 1 Comment
Men have been so mad as to believe that God is pleased by harmony Spinoza Some of us have read Desert, and opted to reprint it, to promote its discussion, maybe to promulgate (at least repeat) some of what…
On Why Dr John Drury Is A Collaborationist Asshole: A Review of Cop-Out: The Significance of Aufhebengate
by tom nomad • • 6 Comments
On many levels it seems almost pointless to write yet another text on Aufhebengate, especially a review about a book on the scandal and the controversies and collaboration-sympathizing that occurred in the vain, and inexplicable, attempt to defend John Drury…