A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal
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A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal

About this book

A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it

A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal is an unexpected approach to philosophy from a guerrilla-logic point of view. Harnessing critical theory to creatively reimagine counterinsurgency, guerrilla warfare, and interventions beyond the political mainstream, it takes us on a journey through anarchist infowar, queer outlaws, and black insurgency—through a subterranean network of communiques, military documents, contemporary art, political slogans, adversarial blogs, and captive media. In doing so, it provides powerful new insight into contemporary political movements that pose no demands, refuse labels, and offer no solutions.

Written to both inspire and provoke, A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal urges us to think through the refusal to participate in politics as usual. Author Andrew Culp demonstrates how evasion can combatively deny the existing order its power. Focusing on punk cinema, anarchist pamphlets, feminist art projects, hacker manifestos, and guerrilla manuals, he foregrounds invisibility as a novel force of disruption. He draws on concepts of criminality, fugitivity, and anonymity to bring a more nuanced understanding of how power makes things—and people—visible.

The book’s unique format is that of a theoretical manual, comprising freestanding segments instead of blueprints. Poised to reach beyond the academy into activist circles, this potent theory-in-action intervention forces us to reconsider the terrain upon which our struggles against patriarchy, anti-Blackness, capitalism, and the state operate.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Underground Philosophy
  6. Part I: Anonymity
  7. Chapter 1. The Guerrilla Force of Liberation
  8. Chapter 2. Propaganda of the Deed
  9. Chapter 3. The Voice of Bullets and Bombs
  10. Chapter 4. Messages without a Sender
  11. Chapter 5. The Sprawl
  12. Chapter 6. The Politics of Asymmetry
  13. Part II: Criminality
  14. Chapter 7. Society with Sexual Characteristics
  15. Chapter 8. Excitement and Exposure
  16. Chapter 9. A Heart That Burns and Burns
  17. Chapter 10. We Are Bad, but We Could Be Worse
  18. Chapter 11. We Don’t
  19. Chapter 12. Making Illness into a Weapon
  20. Part III: Fugitivity
  21. Chapter 13. Uprising
  22. Chapter 14. Self-Abolition
  23. Chapter 15. Searing Flesh
  24. Chapter 16. Captive Media
  25. Chapter 17. Black Out
  26. Chapter 18. Trapped between Withdrawal and Hypervisibility
  27. Conclusion: Communism at the End of the World
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. Notes
  30. Index
  31. About the Author