Interview, Review

Cindy Milstein and Erik Ruin Present Paths toward Utopia at the Baltimore Radical Bookfair Pavilion

Cindy Milstein & Erik Ruin, Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism Anarchist scholar Cindy Milstein joins radical graphic artist Erik Ruin for a series of short interventions into some of the here-and-now practices that prefigure, however imperfectly, the self-organization that would be commonplace in an egalitarian society. Their new collaboration mines what we do in our daily lives for the already-existent gems of a freer future—premised on anarchistic ethics like cooperation and direct democracy. Its pages depict everything from seemingly ordinary activities like using parks as our commons to grandiose occupations of public space that construct do-it-ourselves communities, if only temporarily.

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