CrimethInc.Rezensionen

Like most anarchist thought, a combination of sensible and foolish, cynical and naive, silly jokes and deathly seriousness, inspiring and frustrating. Who is to say which is which? Worth a read for sure but you'll find yourself shouting at some bits and applauding at others - and I suspect that the authors would want that.

Περιεχόμενα
-Ζει μόνη... και ζυμώνει
Κατερίνα Μελισσανίδου: Χαμογελάνε οι Τζοκόντες;
Κωστής Ανετάκης: Η Γλαύκη της Ερημιάς
Κλεονίκη Ρήγα: Ωδή στον Κάτω Κόσμο
Κατερίνα Λαζίδου: Οι κάλτσες με τα χάρτινα καράβια
Φαννή Χατζημωυσή: Ζει μόνη και ζυμώνει
Σοφία Χατζηπασχάλη: Menage a trois
Ράνια Γεωργάκα: Πασχαλινά τσουρέκια
Καίτη Στεφανάκη: Στους κήπους του Αλή Καπή
-Μικρο-μυθ-ιστορίες
Κατερίνα Μελισσανίδου: Τέσσερις συγκάτοικοι
Tάνια Βοσνιάδου: Η Μήδεια
Ράνια Γεωργάκα: Ζωή σε αναμονή
Αποστολία Χατζησαρόγλου: Νόσος Ναγκασάκι
Κλεονίκη Ρήγα: Συριανά λουκούμια
Νόπη Τσιπίλη: Σταυροβελονιά
Κατερίνα Λαζίδου: Κόκνο μπρακί
Κλεονίκη Ρήγα: Τρυφερά γράμματα
Μαίη Βασιλικού: Εβδομήντα δραχμές
-Σημείωμα Γιάννη Μακριδάκη
Δήμητρα Βαλεοντή: Για τη ζωή μετά...
Φανή Αργυροπούλου: Ο θάνατος του Παναγή
Καλλιόπη Πασιά: Το βλέμμα του σκύλου
Τάνια Βοσνιάδου: Το κουτάβι
-ΑΠΑΓΟΡΕΥΤΑΙ ΤΟ ΔΕΣΙΜΟ ΖΩΩΝ ΕΚ ΤΗΣ ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΙΑΣ
Δήμητρα Βαλεοντή: Στην ελευθερία
Βάσω Καλαντίδου: ΑΠΑΓΟΡΕΥΕΤΑΙ ΤΟ ΔΕΣΙΜΟ ΖΩΩΝ ΕΚ ΤΗΣ ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΙΑΣ
Σοφία Χατζηπασχάλη: Σχέδιο μαθήματος
-Ανθισμένες κερασιές
Κατερίνα Λαζίδου: Ανεβασιά
Μαίη Βασιλικού: A Thousand Kisses Deep
Αποστολία Χατζησαρόγλου: Το λουτρό
Νόπη Τσιπίλη: Ανθισμένες Κερασιές
Λίλια Ιακωβάκη: Το στόμα
Δήμητρα Βαλεοντή: Γυναικεία λογοτεχνία
-Συνένοχοι
Απόστολος Καλουδάς: Μικροί συνένοχοι
Φαννή Χατζημωυσή: Οικογενειακοί μπελάδες
-Πρώτη φορά
Κωστής Ανετάκης: Παρένθετος ρατσιστής
Καλλιόπη Πασιά: Μέσα και απέναντι
Βάσω Καλαντίδου: Η βιαιότητα της συνήθειας
-Ταξίδια
Τάνια Βοσνιάδου: Το πέος
Βάσω Καλαντίδου: Οτοστόπ
Φανή Αργυροπούλου: San Michele
Νόπη Τσιπίλη: Το Μεγάλο Ταξίδι
Κατερίνα Μελισσανίδου: Λευκή μουσελίνα
Ράνια Γεωργάκα: Εννιάμισι
Καλλιόπη Πασιά: Υποδοχείς ψυχής
Αποστολία Χατζησαρόγλου: Ο ακάλυπτος
Λίλια Ιακωβάκη: Η βαλίτσα
-Του Αϊ-Φανούρη
Σοφία Χατζηπασχάλη: Ο Ντελικανής
Κλεονίκη Ρήγα: Η γραβάτα
Λίλια Ιακωβάκη: Ο Θεριός
Καλλιόπη Πασιά: Του Φανουριού τ' ανήμερα
-Ζώδιο Παρθένος
Ράνια Γεωργάκα: Πιάνο και ορχήστρα
Απόστολος Καλουδάς: Τζίνα
-Γυναίκα στη θάλασσα
Κατερίνα Μελισσανίδου: Οδηγίες προς διασωθέντες ναυτιλλομένους
Βάσω Καλαντίδου: Άνθρωπος στη θάλασσα
Αποστολία Χατζησαρόγλου: Θέα θάλασσα
Μαίη Βασιλικού: Μια παρτίδα μπιρίμπας
Κλεονίκη Ρήγα: Ιστορίες της θάλασσας
Απόστολος Καλουδάς: Πελαγία
Φαννή Χατζημωυσή: Η Αροκάρια
Καίτη Στεφανάκη: Στη θάλασσα των αποφλοιωμένων εαυτών

Εισαγωγή, 4
Συνέντευξη Ντανιελ Μέντελσον. 54
Ο Καβάφης (επί) του παρόντος - Γουργουρής, Στάθης. 58
Ποιήματα (από τα «Αναγνωσμένα»). 62
Ποιήματα (από τα «Κρυμμένα»), 158
Το παρελθόν στα ζάρια - Παπαθεοδώρου, Γιάννης, 170
Μια όψη του χριστιανισμού στον Καβάφη - Δημουλά, Κική, 176
Από την υποθετική εμπειρία στο προσωπείο - Κωστίου, Κατερίνα, 182
Το αρχείο Καβάφη 186

Εισαγωγή - Guidorizzi, Giulio page 1
Ο μύθος - Braccini, Tommmaso page 21
Γενεολογία του Αχιλλέα page 74
Παραλλαγές του μύθου - Marfè, Luigi page 77
Ανθολόγιο page 105
Προτάσεις για μελέτη page 117

Stories
Εισαγωγή στη Μυθολογία - Guidorizzi, Giulio
page 7 / 8 pages
Ο μύθος - Beta, Simone page 21 / 47 pages
Γενεολογία του Οδυσσέα page 68 / 3 pages
Παραλλαγές του μύθου - Marfè, Luigi page 71 / 24 pages
Ανθολόγιο page 95 / 15 pages

This was a sweet if meandering tale of backpacking and squatting through Europe. The trajectory of the plot is entirely internal, which is rough, since it mainly consists of adjustment to and acceptance of the lifestyle of travel itself. The experiences recounted in the book ask questions of the radical lifestyle--how does one build a welcoming radical space? Where can it be done? How can sexism and prejudice be reduced or removed in interactions with strangers?--but do not answer these satisfactorily. I did enjoy that it ended before they returned to America; that felt more genuine than a circular journey would have. Felt like a conversation rather than a book, which is an understandable mood for a zine, as I understand this was originally published.

While I found it inspiring when I was first becoming radicalized, I find it to be incredibly trite now. I read this when I was starved for anything that validated my new anarchist politics, and this validated other things that perhaps got in the way of my anarchist organizing at university.

8 reasons capitalists want you to wear deodorant? This is hardly revolutionary to me anymore. It has become a cliche on the order of Evasion, and I can't in good conscience reccommend it to anyone now.

Heartbreaking and insightful.

Work is a lucid and thoughtful analysis of capitalism, work, and economics. Its strengths come from its its readability, its perspective, and, most importantly, its timing.

The authors of Work have a pretty amazing ability to explain the complicated concepts upon which our economy rests in just a couple of pages. The authors have engaged the hundreds of years of study of and resistance to capitalism that the working class and its allies have put forward, and done a great job of packaging that knowledge into a readable and exciting primer.

The book was written from the perspective of someone who wants to understand capitalism and their place underneath it. It is not for the captains of industry or the state policymaker. It is written as a dishwasher, a serviceworker, a proletarian who occupies a low rung of the corporate ladder. It is an explanation why going to work every day is such a terror, and why the only thing worse than this work is not having access to it while still living in this system. But it also explores areas of the terrain that are out of reach to the proletariat (such as the stock market, dividends, finance) and exposes the spell that it casts on its participants, how murderers are literally grinding up our bodies to push this machine forward at all cost (to us, to the planet, to themselves).

The timing of the book is great. When the markets are crashing all around us and capitalism seems in peril, this book comes out at a very strategic time. People are being evicted from their houses, fired from their jobs, or worse, have long been fired or evicted, and are starting to doubt the firmness of ground beneath them. This book describes the problem of capitalism, the false solutions and why they are false, and outlines some of the first steps of a real resistance to it.

One of the final segments of the book ("Fight Where You Stand") was so right on that I almost cheered aloud while reading it.

Recommended to: people just starting to see the cracks in the wall, those who want to smash it down

"Homelessness. Unemployment. Poverty. If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right."

Rootlessness. Unaccountability. Privilege. If you unapologetically wallow in all three, you aren't a revolutionary.

This book wouldn't be so thoroughly annoying if it wasn't widely promulgated when I was first getting into anarchism as a book about "how to be an anarchist." In fact, it's largely entertaining for its own sake. But the amount of influence it had on late 90s//early 00s anarchists is depressing. And this coming from a straight-edge, vegetarian, anarchist punk who eats trash to keep living costs down. Imagine what people who are not knee deep in the subcultural ghetto of punk that this kid is up to his nose in think about it.

Recommended for: the dumpster

Also contains Errico Malatesta's and Leo Tolstoy's reflections on the assassination of King Umberto of Italy on July 29, 1900.

A notoriously stupid text that drips with a toxic anti-social outlook and is completely unaware of its privilege. It is funny how much time he hung out in the suburbs because they're easily scam-able. Never has lifestyle politics seemed not only ineffectual but also joyless and unglamorous.½

Absolutely fantastic, poetically written book about two women backpacking Europe, staying in squats, hitchhiking, and just generally doing what men have been writing about for ages, but women are always told it's not safe to do. It's "[b:On the Road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21E8H3D1JSL._SL75_.jpg|3355573]", but better written and from a woman's perspective.

CrimethInc. on yhdysvaltalainen autonomisista soluista koostuva 90-luvulla alkunsa saanut anarkistikollektiivi, joka ruohonjuuritason toimintansa lisäksi tuottaa ja jakelee anarkistista kirjallisuutta ja muita painotuotteita, kuten julisteita ja pamfletteja sekä musiikkia.

Work on nimensä mukaisesti työtä käsittelevä teos ja se on siis kirjoitettu anarkistisesta näkökulmasta. Teoksessa analysoidaan kapitalistista talousjärjestelmää ja avataan sen toimintamekanismeja tavoitteena siitä vapautuminen.

Kirjan graafinen suunnittelu on taitavasti toteutettu, kuvitusta on paljon ja teksti on helppolukuista ja yleistajuista.

How to be a completely selfish person who doesn't contribute a single iota to this world.

Anarchy & Alcohol: Wasted Indeed - How the Fiends Came to be Civilized. Addiction Culture, Strategies for Sobriety, Civilization and Booze.

Put out by Crimethinc

The first time I read this book was years and years ago. It passed me in the library and I was curious to see how I might think of it now. Far less now than before.

First, I will say that I like the book for it's sense of purpose and it's energy. The authors, by all means, seem very serious about practical (well, so to speak) changes both personal and beyond.

However, this is truly a very hypocritical book. Morals, they say, don't exist and individuals should create their own ethical systems (provided, naturally, that no moral-like-tenets of western anarchism are breached.) The anti-Christian rhetoric is piled on thick and narrow-sighted (one of the authors suspiciously claims to be Sufi too?) The call for co-operative, mutual economy is likewise tarnished by boast after boast of how they or others "cheated the system." Lots of ideas on how to steal; relatively none on how to produce in the absence of evil corporations. The first example I came across of anarchist economy, "it's kind of like throwing a party with your friends, and one person brings the music, the other the food..." True vision, folks.

In short, a book that asks a lot of good questions, and offers a lot of dumb answers.

this book took me a little while to get into, but once i did i really enjoyed it. part anarchist primer, part field manual it works at exposing the corruption of the world we live in while also pointing the way to a new reality. i would have appreciated some more real world ideas as i always want to know how this stuff actually plays out. but overall i would recommend this book to people who are thinking about anarchism, about living differently, about wanting to be a part of the revolution.

If you didn't like this book, you're not doing it right.

one of the weaker books published by crimethinc. this book comes off as very childish and preachy. it makes for decent reading, but one would be better off starting with "off the map".

At times silly, at times provoking a definite "Hmmm..."

Anarchy for beginners, laid out in a pleasing format, the dogma kept to a minimum. Snippets for the ADD-afflicted non-conformist who won't wear brand names and thinks Starbucks is a front for Satan. Energetic and idealistic.

Here is but a sampling from inside the front cover:
I had long awaited a book that resisted all parallels with other books save the use of ink and type: a book through which I might wander, losing myself in labyrinths and coming upon fantastic citadels to which I could not retrace my steps; a book into which I might plunge, skipping pages as a little girl skips rope, never to return to the world in which I'd began — emerging instead in another, or at least equipped to build one.
Escaping exile in an alien dystopia, human beings storm paradise and, upon reentering, tear off their clothes without shame.

This book made me rethink the way I live my life. Days of War, Nights of Love contains articles, essays, stories, interviews, posters, artwork, maps, myths, realities, fantasies, historical accounts, declarations, manifestos, and exclamations aimed at the revolution of your world. You can actually read MANY excerts from the book here: http://www.crimethinc.com/library/english/libdays.html
Check it out, it may just change your view on life.

fun and useful chapters on guerilla theatre, making a record player out of junk, and how to survive a court trial