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|title=Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination

|author=Jeff Shantz

|borrow=Maybe

|isbn=9781845402372

|pages=148

|publisher=Imprint Academic

|date=March 2011

|summary=Not for a general readership, but with a possible audience outside the strictest academia, ''Against All Authority'' is indeed as its author wished, a valuable opening in the exploration of the intersection between anarchist ideology and literary production. There are some noticeable biases but the passion makes it more interesting to read than the usual scholarly analyses.

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From Chesterton and Joseph Conrad to Joyce and Eugene O'Neil, Wole Soyinka to LeGuin, punk zines to Chomsky, Shantz offers students and scholars of literature a valuable and relatively unusual perspective (it's surprising how popular Marxist lit-crit is by comparison).

I was actually surprised in how readable, interesting and relevant I found some of the analyses in ''Against All Authority''.

[[:Category:Noam Chomsky|Noam Chomsky]] is the poster-child of North American anarcho-syndicalism and a required reading for anybody interested in revolutionary thought. [[:Category:John Pilger|John Pilger]] made it his life's task to offer stories of the dispossessed and forgotten crushed by the global cogs of power. [[:Category:Ursula K Le Guin|Le Guin]] is worth reading regardless of political persuasions. One author that very openly explores political options – including a lot of anarchist but not particularly feminist versions - is the Scottish speculative fiction writer [[:Category:Ken MacLeod|Ken MacLeod]] although we don't have reviews of the ''Fall Revolution'' series in which the political speculation is at its most vigorous. Speaking of Scottish sci-fi, [[:Category:Iain M Banks|Iain M. Banks']] Culture presents a world with a strong anarchist streak.

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