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Contents
- IAS Updates
- Beyond the Crisis: Perspectives No. 30 is Here!
- Call for Submissions: Perspectives No. 31, Imagination(s)
- Grants Update
- T-Shirts, Get Your T-Shirts in 2019!
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IAS Updates
2018 has been busy for the IAS. We have a new part time administrator, Sara Libby, who is quickly learning the ropes. Welcome, Sara! Our board is also changing, and with this phase, we have the departure of a dear and longtime board member, Chris Dixon. Although Chris has left the IAS, he will continue with liberatory projects in Canada and beyond. We thank Chris for all of his work with us and send our care and support for all he continues to do.
Along with facilitating another issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, we’ve been able to connect with communities at various events, including: tabling at a speaking event for Dr. Silvia Federici, as well as at the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference in Portland, OR; at the Eastern Connecticut Workers Book Fair, in New London, CT; Montreal Anarchist Bookfair in Montreal, Canada; and at the DIY Arts Fest at New College, Sarasota, FL, among many others. Thanks to our board members and volunteers for representing the IAS!
Look for the IAS at your local radical events, and reach out if you’re interested in having the IAS at an event near you!
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Beyond the Crisis: Perspectives No. 30 is Here!
When the Perspectives editorial collective conceived of the "Beyond the Crisis" theme, we admit it, we were feeling pretty apocalyptic. But when we began receiving contributions, we realized that writers were already looking beyond that exhausting moment of immediate crisis and emergency reactiveness. They were exploring ways to proactively navigate sustained, long-game solutions. They wanted to talk about how they have been building a more equitable collective capacity to survive and thrive here, now, where we are—and in the future into which we’re heading.
Altogether, the existing experiments discussed in this issue raise questions of how to relate to current structures and institutions in interim or transitional ways, while attempting to move toward more radical alternatives. Our enemies—whether disaster capitalists, xenophobic nationalistic demagogues, or technotopian accelerationists—never let a good crisis go to waste. Why should we?
You can order Perspectives No. 30 on the IAS or AK Press websites for $12 plus shipping, or, look for it at the IAS and AK Press tables at your local anarchist book fair. With cover art and design by Josh MacPhee of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative.
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Call for Submissions:
Perspectives No. 31, Imagination(s)
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We know the importance of history—it teaches us about our origins and stories, it helps us understand the shape of the present, it provides cautionary tales and examples to follow. It gives us inspiration, wisdom, and role models—but it is also contained in the past. What are the visions that lead us forward into the future? What innovative, revolutionary forms have we yet to imagine?
Are you an organizer, an activist, a thinker, or a dreamer? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then the IAS wants to hear from you.
This year, we want to hear your fantasies, your alternate realities, and your wildest dreams. We believe that we need more than just analysis and hard work to make a better world—it takes the courage to imagine beyond our circumstances into the fantastic and the impossible. In that spirit, our theme for 2019 is IMAGINATION(S).
In English, “imagination” is rooted in being able to picture something new in the mind’s eye; in Arabic, “مُخَيِّلة,” or mukhayyila, can suggest a trance or vision; in Chinese, “想像力,” or xiǎng xiàng lì, implies the power or ability to make a wish into an idea. Share with us your pictures, your visions, your wishes. Help us imagine what new worlds are possible, and what role imagination might play in bringing them about. We will be accepting submissions of most genres: essays, journalism, poetry, fiction, reviews, lists, photography, and comics.
Our deadline for the next print issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is January 1, 2019.
All essay submissions should conform to the following requirements:
- Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style for general format and citation guidelines.
- Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. You must type your endnotes directly into the text (e.g. “Endnote (1)” rather than using superscript (e.g. “Endnote1.”) Do not use the “Insert Endnote” function in Microsoft Word, as it is incompatible with our layout software.
- Do not use page numbers on your manuscript.
- Do not indent new paragraphs. Use a full line break, instead.
- Be sure to include your name and reliable contact information, as well as a brief (3-5 sentence) bio that you would like printed alongside your article.
Please revise and prepare your manuscript as thoroughly as you can before sending it along for consideration. We strongly encourage you to read past issues of Perspectives to familiarize yourself with the length, voice, and style of work we tend to publish. Take care of proofreading and formatting before sharing your work. For poetry, comics, and other non-essay forms, please contact the editors for specific format requests.
If you have a concept for an article but are unsure how to develop and refine the ideas or language, we are happy to help you out with the writing process, particularly if you have never written for publication before. Please contact us as soon as possible to ensure you are able to meet the January 1, 2019 deadline.
Send your finished work or queries to PerspectivesOnAnarchistTheory@gmail.com
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Grants Update
Update on our Grants Program, 2019-2020:
The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) has reformulated our grants program. For our first 22 years, the IAS awarded money strictly to applications involving the written word, from original essays to translations and scripts. We have decided to expand those projects to include other media, such as podcasts and videos, with the goal of increasing our outreach and accessibility. Every year, we will select a current and relevant theme based on ongoing work and questions facing our movements. Successful grant applications will be geared toward this topic or inquiry, and our publications, journal, and multimedia for the following year will promote a range of work around that topic. For 2019, we have chosen the theme of Imagination(s).
Starting in 2018, we set out to raise money for basic operating costs and, beyond that, to award grants in support of projects addressing next year’s theme. We are grateful to everyone who pledged to contribute each month to the work of the IAS. We also thank everyone who has made a one-time donation, attended a fundraising party, made a contribution at an event, or bought one of our books or journals. All of this support has made our ongoing publication, education, and outreach work possible.
Unfortunately, we did not raise the additional funds that we need to be able to award grants in 2019. However, we still hope to offer smaller, equally-distributed amounts to our writers, as we believe in supporting both the material and intellectual needs of our contributors.
We are very excited about this expansion of our work beyond the written word, and we will work to raise enough money throughout 2019 to be able to award significant amounts in early 2020.
Please consider supporting the work of the IAS by becoming a monthly sustainer, making a generous one-time tax-deductible contribution, buying our books from AK Press, or by buying the current or previous issues of Perspectives.
Remember: your contributions are mutual aid in action! Help support radical thinkers and the development of anarchist ideas. Become a monthly sustainer, or, make a one time donation via a secure link to PayPal on our website.
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T-Shirts,
Get Your
T-Shirts!
Anarchist Kitty, Baseball Logo Style, and The Vampire State
In 2019, we’ll expand our fundraising to include t-shirts!
Keep an eye out for IAS designs: a decidedly anarchist cat, the fearsome state-as-vampire, and a sporty baseball-style logo in red and black.
We’ll update all our newsletter subscribers the day t-shirts go live!
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Support Independent Radical Scholarship
The Institute for Anarchist Studies is funded by donations from individual anarchists, anti-authoritarians, libertarian leftists, and other like-minded radicals as well as collectives, publishers, and projects interested in furthering anarchist scholarship–people like you! The IAS also raises funds through its Mutual Aid Speakers List and donations at events. In this way, the IAS is both independent and yet deeply interconnected with, and supported by, anarchist and like-minded folks and movements. The IAS, in short, is about the anti-authoritarian Left sustaining its own public intellectuals and critical intellectual spaces to provide funding for things like child care or taking time off work to enable organizers the time to reflect and write.
Thank you for your interest in contributing to the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Your donation is invaluable to the work of the IAS and its projects.
We accept secure credit card donations over the Internet through PayPal. You can provide a one time or a monthly donation here, or you can mail cash, checks or money orders to the address above.
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