Letterpress Revolution
The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture
Duke University Press · Print & ebook · February 24, 2023
While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press.
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- Who it’s for
- Printers, presses, and page design come into view as forces shaping anarchist movements.
- Genres
- Anarchism, How Media Works, Art & Politics
- Published
- Duke University Press, February 24, 2023
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While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution, Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s.
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Ferguson shows how printers—whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers—arranged text, ink, images, graphic markers, and blank space within the architecture of the page. Printers' extensive correspondence with fellow anarchists and the radical ideas they published created dynamic and entangled networks that brought the decentralized anarchist movements together. Printers and presses did more than report on the movement; they were constitutive of it, and their vitality in anarchist communities helps explain anarchism’s remarkable persistence in the face of continuous harassment, arrest, assault, deportation, and exile. By inquiring into the political, material, and aesthetic practices of anarchist print culture, Ferguson points to possible methods for cultivating contemporary political resistance.
Anarchist Print Culture
Printers, presses, and page design come into view as forces shaping anarchist movements.
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- Printers’ work across homes, offices, and community centers
- Correspondence and published ideas linking decentralized anarchist movements
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- The political, material, and aesthetic practices of anarchist print culture
- Possible methods for cultivating contemporary political resistance
Where it sits
| Anarchism | 99% |
|---|---|
| Art & Politics | 24% |
| How Media Works | 23% |
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Publisher categories
- Modern History
- Anarchism
- How Media Works
- Authors
- Kathy E. Ferguson
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- February 24, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Modern History