Expect Resistance: A Field Manual
Expect Resistance is not one but three books, each of which may be read as a complete work unto itself. The first book, printed in standard black ink, continues the inquiry into modern life and its discontents begun in Days of War, Nights of Love. Just as that book included improved versions of texts originally published between 1996 and 1999, this book draws on CrimethInc. material from 2000 to 2004, painstakingly refined and augmented with a great deal of new content. The second book, in red ink, is a composite account, related by three narrators, of the adventures and tribulations that inevitably ensue when people pursuing their dreams enter into conflict with the world as it is.
Together these comprise a third book, an exploration of the complex relationship between ideals and reality. Expect Resistance is a field manual for a field on which all manuals are useless, a meditation on individual transformation and collective resistance in disastrous times, and a masterpiece that raises the bar for radical publishing.
Contains 67 Illustrations, and 39 Photographs, French Flaps and text with black & red ink with full bleeds throughout
Table of Contents:
I. The Fantasy Rebels...
- It Begins
- The Secret World
- New Wings for Flighty Youth
- The Invitation
- The Rebellion of the Dead
- On the Threshold
- The Stillest Hour
- The Fault Line
- Wolves
- Indulge and Undermine
- At Sea
- We Can Make Our Own
- Mapping
- A Map
- Dreams
- Alchemy
- Beyond Democracy
- Two Councils
- Divided and Conquered
- The Eviction
- Crowd Dynamics and the Mass Psychology of Possibility
- And the Crowd Goes Wild
- One-Dimensional Man in the Three-Dimensional World
- Other Encampments
- You Can Run but You Can’t Hide
- All Roads Lead to Roam
- Infighting the Good Fight
- Hitting the Wall
- On the Battlefield
II. ...Becomes Reality
- The End of the World
- Some Run for Cover—We Rush to Bear Witness
- Disaster
- Off the Cliff
- Failure
- Crash and Burn
- Adultery
- Betrayers and Betrayed
- Abomination
- Reform and Revolution
- Despair
- Believing in Miracles
- Hope
- Explosions
- History as We Live It
- Extinction
- Nostalgia
- Darkness
- The Future
- Countdown to Civil War
- Leaving the 21st Century
- Dear Reader
- Where We’re Going
III. Afterward
- Inflamed Appendix: Maximum Ultraism!
- Disconnecting the Power
- About the Authors
- Hijack the Moon
- The Explosion of Stars
- The Future is Unwritten
- Inflamed Appendix: Maximum Ultraism!
- Disconnecting the Power
- About the Authors
- Hijack the Moon
- The Explosion of Stars
- The Future is Unwritten
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