![]() My goal is to bring the resources of the new materialism into conversation with the apparatus of anarchist printing, printers, and presses. While some scholars and activists have examined the content of these publications, little attention has been paid to the form, the physical infrastructure and bodily practices producing and circulating this remarkable outpouring of radical public speech. Anarchists produced an environment rich in printed words by creating and circulating hundreds of journals, books, pamphlets, etc., in dozens of languages. Because the technology of publishing required many skilled printers, because commercial print shops often rejected anarchist materials, and because of a general anarchist reverence for the written word, printing was one of the most common occupations of anarchists. Printers were central to the physical and social reproduction of the classical anarchist movement in the United States from the Paris Commune to the Second World War. Anarchist Printers: Material Circuits of Politics
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