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Crash reviewed Direct Action by David Graeber
Direct Action: An Ethnography offers a lengthy, traditional anthropological account of anarchist organizing efforts, with …
Mess of a lovely book
I admittedly only skimmed over the first section of this book (the ethnography portion). However, I really enjoyed reading the second part. It's not that Graeber goes into anything I didn't already know about punk, anarchist, DIY movements. Instead I think he connects his insights really beautifully to larger concepts and moments in history in a way that is accessible and coherent.
I appreciated how he interrogated moral panics around anarchists and certain ill conceived stereotypes as well as certain contradictions and paradox's within the movement.
Crash rated Direct Action: 5 stars
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Crash finished reading Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
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