Willful Disobedience Wolfi Landstreicher Willful Disobedience by Wolfi Landstreicher Ardent Press, 2009 No copyright. This book is set in Adobe Caslon Pro. Table of Contents Introduction 11 Volume 1 Without Asking Permission 15 Steal Back Your Life 16 The Wild Dogs Howl 17 Belief: The Enemy of Thinking 20 Play Fiercely: Thoughts on Growing Up 22 Fear of Conflict 25 Technology: A Limit to Creativity 27 Volume 2 A Violent Proposition: Against the weighted chain of morality 35 The question of organization 37 Politics or Life? 38 Individualism and Communism: The Aims of Anarchist Revolution 40 Technology and Class Struggle 41 Beyond Resistance 45 Some Ideas on Insurrectional Anarchist Organization 46 Instrumental Logic and Anarchist Principles 51 Biotechnology and The Digitalization Of Life 54 The Economy Of Disaster 58 On The Necessity Of Social Struggle 61 The Fullness Of Life Without Measure 63 A Question Of Privilege 65 Thoughts On Alienation 68 Countering Institutions 71 Against Militarism: The State, Exploitation And War 77 Against Binary Thinking 79 On Dispossession and Individual Responsibility 82 Developing Relationships Of Affinity 86 Anti-Militarism And Social Insurrection 89 Against the Logic of Submission Against The Logic Of Submission 97 A Projectual Life 98 Free Love 102 Passionate Friendship 105 Hatred 108 Realism 111 Beyond Feminism, Beyond Gender 114 Security Culture And Expansive Living 118 Revolt, Not Therapy 123 Neither Intellectualism Nor Stupidity 127 The Subversion Of Existence 132 Volume 3 Plundering the Arsenal 141 The Refusal Of Representation 143 Avoiding Moral Vanguardism 146 No Act Of Revolt Is Futile 150 Against Compromise 150 Revolutionary Solidarity: An Insurrectionary Anarchist Perspective 158 On The Practice Of Theory 160 On The Aims And Methods of Critique 164 On Being Who We Say We Are 169 Some Notes on Marxist Analysis: 173 For Discussion and Debate Toward the Development of a Deeper Anarchist Social Analysis The Network of Domination The Power Of The State 181 The Cost Of Survival 187 From Proletarian To Individual: 190 Toward An Anarchist Understanding Of Class Work: The Theft Of Life 197 The Machinery Of Control: 200 Property: The Enclosing Fences Of Capital 205 Religion: When The Sacred Imprisons The Marvelous 208 A Family Affair 215 Why Do We All Live In Prison? Prison, Law And Social Control 219 Afterword: Destroy Civilization? 224 Volume 4 On Projectuality 231 For A World Absolutely Other 236 The Rising Of The Barbarians: 240 A Non-Primitivist Revolt Against Civilization Complicity, Not Debt: An Anarchist Basis For Solidarity 242 Deciding For Oneself: 251 Democracy, Consensus, Unanimity and Anarchist Practice “Everything Must Go!” Some Thoughts On Making A Total Critique 255 On The Mystical Basis Of The “Neutrality” 261 of Technology Different Aims, Different Methods: 265 On The Incompatibility of Reform And Revolution On Sexual Poverty 265 Waiting For The Apocalypse: 277 The Ideology Of Collapse and the Avoidance of Revolutionary Responsibility Against Renunciation: 284 The Revolt Against Civilization Will Be Expansive Or It Will Not Be At All. Volume 5 On The World In Which We Live 292 Cultural Appropriation: 296 A Few Points For Discussion The Myth Of Progress 299 and The Problem Of Civilization(s) On The Degradation Of Language 304 And The Art Of Listening The Revolutionary Wager 311