Kevin Van Meter
Reading Struggles is the website of Organizer, Autonomist, and Author of Guerrillas of Desires and the forthcoming title Reading Struggles, amongst other things.
Reading Struggles...
Autonomists begin with a workers’ inquiry by “reading struggles,” recording everyday resistance and overt rebellions, as the working class creates new relationships and new subjectivities, escapes capitalist command (even temporarily), and is recomposed (and often decomposed) vis-à-vis its struggle with capitalism and the state apparatus.
BOOKS
Reading Struggles: Autonomist Marxism from Detroit to Turin & Back Again
Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance & Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible
Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, & Contemporary Radical Currents in the US
(with Team Colors)
Reviews
“
Kevin Van Meter’s eloquent and provocative book Guerillas of Desire gave me a whole new way to think about organizing.
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Few have approached radical theory with the rigor and skill of Kevin Van Meter. Empowering, lucid, and inspiring, Guerrillas of Desire provides an exhaustive (and much needed) retooling of anarchism that will align the dreams of ‘becoming revolutionaries’ with the reality of everyday resistance.
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Beautifully written, Guerrillas of Desire shows the power of the refusal of work of those
capitalism has subjugated…
ALEXANDRA BRADBURY,
editor at LABOR NOTES
ALEXANDER
REED ROSS,
author of AGAINST THE FASCIST CREEP
SILVIA FEDERICI,
author of CALIBAN AND THE WITCH
BIO
Kevin Van Meter is an organizer and independent-scholar based in the Pacific Northwest. He is author of Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible published by AK Press, amongst other works.
As an activist, organizer, and public intellectual, Van Meter’s efforts focus on reading the struggles that circulate in the United States, mutual aid and working-class self-activity, the refusal of work and everyday forms of resistance. Dr. Van Meter holds a PhD in Geography,
Environment and Society.
CONTACT
For speaking, workshop, and interview requests, contact the Institute of Anarchist Studies Mutual Aid Speakers Bureau.
For curriculum vitae and educational background, visit Van Meter's page at the University of Minnesota.
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