I'm an anarchist writer who likes to blow off steam by using twitter to dunk on every school of everything. I identify with Voltairine de Cleyre's "steal bread for the hungry" market anarchism. Here's a short thread of major subjects I've written essays on and that I return to:.

Retail is 23.95, but if you pre-order through C4SS, you can get it for 20. Infoshops and radical libraries in the US can order a bundle of five copies for $30 (including shipping) by reaching out to me.

We're juggling some release dates and shipping times (sadly you may get copies faster via amazon's release in a week), but when the first person posts a photo of a copy, I'll release the full PDF online for free. (IP is evil and hate-readers shouldn't be at a disadvantage.).

Chances are, you've heard a misrepresentation of "Sokal's Hoax." Sokal had valid points in '96, but he's since fallen to TERFism in ways that contradict scientific realism. The end of my book tears him and Kathleen Stock apart. Here's a sample chapter:.

The "science wars" refers to this fight over realism vs antirealism that started in the radical left, before spilling over into newspaper headlines worldwide. The legacy of *both sides*, the antirealists and the realists, continues to influence reactionaries and fascists today.

Figures like Rorty & Feyerabend shot to international attention by appropriating the trappings of antiauthoritarianism & "anarchism" for their position, while studiously rejecting political anarchism for the authoritarianism of liberalism. Anarchists were NOT HAPPY WITH THIS.

Proponents of "antirealism", from postmodernists in the subcultural scene around Semiotext(e) in NYC to a handful of relativist sociologists & philosophers, often packaged their positions as antifascist, anti-authoritarian, even "anarchist"—*while* denouncing actual anarchists.

In the 70s and 80s, a current emerged in leftist subcultural spaces and eventually in academia that aggressively denied that scientific models could ever capture any degree of a single underlying objective reality. This was vociferously opposed by anarchists and other radicals.

Hey, I wrote a book. Did The Science Wars Take Place?. Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting influences on the far-right. Pre-order here:.

RT @malonebarry: This isn't a thread about the genocide in Gaza. It's a thread about a likely genocide somewhere else: Ethiopia. But….

RT @schwarz: I recently joked that once criticizing Israel counted as antisemitism, soon ONLY criticizing Israel would count as antisemitis….

RT @NLH2224: Are people not used to anarchists being anarchists? Yes, I critique “socialist states,” yes, if you don't like it, you should….

Oh for the world-revolutionizing technology of easily tagging who a post's intended audience is.

RT @nsheorey: This is just the natural progression if you take seriously the imperative to critique all the systems that define our current….

RT @KFILE: The US government sent a totally innocent man to be raped in a foreign gulag.

RT @jvgraz: However bad you think Zionists are, they're actually far worse when they think no one outside their cult is listening.

RT @esjesjesj: Her mother is a famous right wing antivax antisemitic transphobic conspiracy theorist who pressured her into not getting che….

This is a balance to avoid harming those who would only read physical copy and don't want to be behind those who would read the PDF.

Now, to be clear: I'm taking pre-orders of my book, because some will want physical copies immediately and others see purchasing a book from me as functionally a donation. But the *first day* those preorders are physically delivered to the first person, I'm putting the PDF online.

Moreover there's an ethical dimension around providing clarity in purchases: insofar as the content of a book is obscured from a potential buyer, what you are selling becomes a de facto loot box. IP thus normalizes purchases as a gamble. "Is this car a lemon? Buy and find out!".

In short, the violence that sustains the Intellectual Property regime increases revenue for authors that already have social capital: those who would hate read or who are curious but not yet inclined to donate become marks, who are pressured into paying just to keep up.