Why did I translate Raoul Vaneigem’s La Résistance au christianisme: Les Héresies des origines au xviiie siècle, originally published in 1993 by Editions Fayard, into English?
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The Demand for Human Rights is a Revolutionary Act
by Rod Dubey
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
a review of A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings: On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man, Second Edition by Raoul Vaneigem, Translated by Liz Heron. PM Press, 2019
Dismantling the Biomechanical Leviathan
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
In Raoul Vaneigem’s 1967 Situationist treatise, The Revolution of Everyday Life, he recounts what resulted from the flooding of the basement of Ivan Pavlov’s laboratory where the Russian physiologist kept his famous salivating dogs as experiments in classical conditioning.
Obscurantism is Always the Light Source for Power
by Raoul Vaneigem
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
Translator’s Introduction Raoul Vaneigem, along with Guy Debord, was one of the principal theorists of the Situationist International. Active with the SI from 1961-1970, Vaneigem’s most well known book, The Revolution of Everyday Life, contains the slogans that frequently made …
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AnarchoShorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
It was fifty years ago this summer that the lead singer of a band from a working class Detroit suburb screamed into a mic, “Kick out the jams, motherfucker,” inaugurating a wild ride into rock history.
They once were rebels
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century by Raoul Vaneigem, translation by Bill Brown. ERIS, 2023 While evangelical Protestantism has for generations overwhelmingly been a force of deep reaction …
Notes on Captivity
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
“Few books today are forgivable. Black on the canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper, are perhaps feasible.” — R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
Anarchist Writers Bloc publishes new anthology of anarchist short stories
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
The Montreal-based Anarchist Writers Bloc (AWB) has published Subversions Vol II, their second anthology of new anarchist fiction. The 260 page, trilingual (English, French & Italian) text is a powerful collection of 28 original short stories from 28 established and …
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Cultural Appropriation and Shaming
by Rod Dubey
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
On college campuses, in urban squats, at hip city venues, and at anarchist events, one often sees young white people sporting dreadlocks or Mohawk haircuts. However, there has been an increasingly aggressive push-back by those who designate this as cultural …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
The barn is bursting with new titles & more to come. If you’d like us to review and/or distro your independent publication, bring it on
Charles Fourier Prefigures Our Total Refusal
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Issue #12 of Internationale Situationniste reported that, during a general strike in Paris on March 10, 1969, a group identified only as the “Guy-Lassac Street Barricaders” erected a handmade bronze-coated plaster statue of Charles Fourier. The new monument was placed …
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Cheerleaders of the Revolution Radical cheerleaders give a playful, yet militant, feminist flavor to anti-authoritarian protest. After reading through the third edition of the Radical Cheerleader Handbook, I want to grab a pair of pompoms and take to the …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
Send check, money order, or well concealed cash to: Fifth Estate Books PO Box 6 Liberty, TN 37095 Please add $2 shipping/handling for first item, $1 for the second and subsequent one, etc… Thanks for your recent order! Most book …
The Movement of the Yellow Vests in France
by Bill Brown
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
Five months after its explosive appearance on the French scene, the mass movement of the Yellow Vests (les Gilets jaunes) stands at a crossroads. It faces many choices.
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Books Bill Ayers Fugitive Days (2001) $10 James Bell The Last Wizards (2002) $5.00
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Back In Stock! Bolo Bolo, Anarchy Comix & other FE Favorites SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE by Pierre Clastres
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that—you give us …
Fashionable Feminism
by Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
How quickly and easily feminism, like all ideology, is used to affirm the language of power and powerlessness. The superficiality and marketability of its demands have been evident since its inception; but now feminism is being used to openly celebrate …
Free feasts, erotic play and the eruption of the marvelous
by M.K. Shibek, Unruhlee
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Unruh Lee: In 1994, we started the Gardeners Against the Work Ethic Association (or GAWE) together. I later wrote in a ‘zine with this name, that this project was an “anti-work experiment in self-sufficiency, creating a new way of life …
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Paradigms
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
To many, it seems there will be no escape from the dominant reality, no alternative to an irredeemably darkened modernity as civilization’s final, lasting mode. We are indeed currently trapped, and the nature of our imprisonment is not subject to …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
When you order books from the Barn, you support a collective and help keep the Fifth Estate physical space solvent. With your help, we’re trying to sustain an alternative to the commercialism of retail or web-based booksellers.
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by.
No Borders
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
“In any form of duality, the one we have judged as inferior is the one that rules us.” –Rodolfo Scarfalloto Of all the intoxicating notions of insurrection, “without borders” is one of the most enduring. The toppling of walls, the …
FE Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
The FE Bookstore is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit. We share space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and may be reached at the same phone number: (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
The FE BOOKSERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are at 5928 Second, Detroit, MI 48202. Telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to give …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 318, Fall, 1984
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit, MI 48202 USA — telephone (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in.
FE Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
The FE Bookstore is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit. We share space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and may be reached at the same phone number: (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Forget those L.L. Bean and Harry & David catalogs! When you’re picking out presents for the holidays, send revolutionary literature as gifts and help support independent publishers and booksellers. If you want a wider selection of anti-authoritarian titles, contact Left …
Anarchist Art in the Gallery
by Tom Nys
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
There is a common notion of the art world, a shared idea of what it is and what it is about. However, that also comes with a popular misconception: the perception of the art world as one, univocal concept when …
CrimethInc’s Overflowing Cup of Anarchist Elixir
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
reviewed in this article: Expect Resistance: a field manual, CrimethInc., $8, CrimethInc.com Rolling Thunder: an anarchist journal of dangerous living; P.O. Box 494, Chapel Hill NC 27514; rollingthunder – at – CrimethInc – dot – com
The Society of the Spectacle Reconsidered
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
a review of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Newly translated & annotated by Ken Knabb, Bureau of Public Secrets, 2014, 150 pages. $15. bopsecrets.org
The Punk Rock Candy Mountain
by Zack Furness
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
a review of Evasion. by CrimethInc ex-workers collective DIY Guide II by CrimethInc ex-workers collective Hunter/Gatherer. Journal of folklore and folkwar. CrimethInc ex-workers collective Editorial note: In the last issue, I began to express my solidarity with the far-flung posse …
The Life of Guy Debord: A History
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
reviewed in this article Guy Debord—Revolutionary by Len Bracken, Feral House, Venice, California, 1997, 267 pp.
Society of the Spectacle, 40th anniversary
by Bill Koehnlein
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du Spectacle), by Guy Debord, is the best-known and most influential text issued by the Situationist international (SI), and it informed–theoretically and practically–the most revolutionary sectors that emerged a year after its publication …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
The FE BOOKSERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate newspaper, both of which are at 5928 Second, Detroit MI 48202—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to give us …
On Fascists & Microfascists
by William D. Buckingham
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
a review of On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death by Jack Z. Bratich. Common Notions, 2022
Technology: There’s the Rub
by Alice Detroit
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
a review of Public Secrets, Ken Knabb, Bureau of Public Secrets, P.O. Box 1044, Berkeley, California 94701, 408 pp., $15 (available from FE Books)
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Both this newspaper in our last issue and Bad Attitude, No. 3 (POB 11589, Detroit Ml 48211) failed to give credit for the poem/ritual, “The Appeal of Anarchy.” It was taken from the compelling pamphlet by John Moore, Anarchy & …
Zines as Means for Change
by Len Bracken
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of War of Dreams: A Field Guide to DIY Psy-Ops by Jason Rodgers. PM Press, 2024
In any language: NEVER WORK!
by Kim A. Broadie
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of Never Work: Essays Against the Sale of Life. Detritus Books, 2022