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The list follows Rants and Incendiary Tracts: Voices of Desperate Illumination 1558–Present, a book edited by Bob Black

Bob Black

Bob Black is an American anarchist. He is the author of The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, Beneath the Underground, Friendly Fire, Anarchy After Leftism, and numerous political essays.-Writing:Some of his work from the early 1980s includes...

and Adam Parfrey

Adam Parfrey

Adam Parfrey is an American journalist, editor, and the publisher of Feral House books, whose work in all three capacities frequently centers on unusual, extreme, or "forbidden" areas of knowledge.-Life:...

. It is an anthology

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

of 56 rants.

It was co-published, as a 240 page paperback, by Amok Press and Loompanics Unlimited in 1989 (ISBN 0-941693-03-1).

Year	Title	Author
	Prelude	Adam Parfrey Adam Parfrey Adam Parfrey is an American journalist, editor, and the publisher of Feral House books, whose work in all three capacities frequently centers on unusual, extreme, or "forbidden" areas of knowledge.-Life:...
	Foreword	Bob Black Bob Black Bob Black is an American anarchist. He is the author of The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, Beneath the Underground, Friendly Fire, Anarchy After Leftism, and numerous political essays.-Writing:Some of his work from the early 1980s includes...
1558	from The Monstrous Regiment of Women The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women is a polemical work by the Scottish Reformer John Knox, published in 1558....	John Knox John Knox John Knox was a Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation who brought reformation to the church in Scotland. He was educated at the University of St Andrews or possibly the University of Glasgow and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1536...
1633	from The Pleasure-Loving Modern Woman	William Prynne William Prynne William Prynne was an English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure. He was a prominent Puritan opponent of the church policy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud. Although his views on church polity were presbyterian, he became known in the 1640s as an Erastian, arguing for...
1650	from A Fiery Flying Roll	Abiezer Coppe Abiezer Coppe Abiezer Coppe was one of the English Ranters and a writer of prophetic religious pamphlets.He was born in Warwick on May 20, 1619, and was a pupil of Thomas Dugard at The King's School, Warwick. From there he went to All Souls College, Oxford and also Merton College, Oxford...
1670s	Pirate Rant	Captain Bellamy Captain Bellamy -Piracy:* Pirate Captain Samuel Bellamy, a notorious pirate from the 18th century, known as "Black Sam".* Captain Charles Bellamy, another pirate captain from the 18th century.-In fiction:* James Bellamy, a character from Upstairs Downstairs....
1790	A Fair Dream and a Rude Awakening	Jean-Paul Marat Jean-Paul Marat Jean-Paul Marat , born in the Principality of Neuchâtel, was a physician, political theorist, and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution...
1795	from Philosophy in the Bedroom Philosophy in the Bedroom Philosophy in the Bedroom is a 1795 erotic book by the Marquis de Sade written in the form of a dramatic dialogue. Though initially considered a work of pornography, the book has come to be considered a socio-political drama...	Marquis de Sade Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle...
1812	King Steam	anonymous Luddite Luddite The Luddites were a social movement of 19th-century English textile artisans who protested – often by destroying mechanised looms – against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their way of life...
early 19th century	from Harrah! ou la Revolution par les Cosaques	Couerderoy
1829	A Sentimental Bankruptcy	Charles Fourier Charles Fourier François Marie Charles Fourier was a French philosopher. An influential thinker, some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become main currents in modern society...
1844	from The Ego and Its Own The Ego and Its Own The Ego and Its Own is a philosophical work by German philosopher Max Stirner . This work was first published in 1845, although with a stated publication date of "1844" to confuse the Prussian censors.-Content:...	Max Stirner Max Stirner Johann Kaspar Schmidt , better known as Max Stirner , was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism...
1849	from Murder Murder Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...	Karl Heinzen Karl Heinzen Karl Peter Heinzen was a revolutionary author who resided mainly in Germany and the United States. He was one of the German Forty-Eighters.-Biography:...
1867	from No Treason No Treason No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority is an 1867 essay by American individualist anarchist, political philosopher and legal theorist Lysander Spooner...	Lysander Spooner Lysander Spooner Lysander Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, political philosopher, Deist, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, legal theorist, and entrepreneur of the nineteenth century. He is also known for competing with the U.S...
1869	The Revolutionary's Catechism	Sergei Nechayev
1870s	Dynamite!	T. Lizius
1880	Speech of the condemned	Louis Lingg Louis Lingg Louis Lingg was a German anarchist who committed suicide while in jail, after being arrested as an agitator during the Haymarket Square bombing.-Birth:...
1880s	Speech to Missionaries	Red Jacket Red Jacket Red Jacket was a Native American Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan... , Seneca leader
1880s	An exchange	Judge Roy Bean & Judged Beaner
1888	Voters Strike!	Octave Mirbeau Octave Mirbeau Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde...
1896	from Might is Right Might Is Right Might Is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest, is a book by pseudonymous author Ragnar Redbeard. It heavily advocates social Darwinism and was first published in 1890...	Ragnar Redbeard
1908	from Degeneration Degeneration The idea of degeneration had significant influence on science, art and politics from the 1850s to the 1950s. The social theory developed consequently from Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution...	Max Nordau Max Nordau Max Simon Nordau , born Simon Maximilian Südfeld in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic....
1913	Manifesto of Lust	Valentine de Saint-Point
1917	Anarcho-Futurist Manifesto	A. L. and V. L. Gordin
1920	Iconoclasts, Forward!	Renzo Novatore Renzo Novatore - Life :Abele Ricieri Ferrari was born in Arcola, Liguria, Italy on May 12, 1890 in a poor peasant family. He did not adjust to school discipline and quit in the first year never coming back after that. While he worked in his father's farm, he self educated himself with an emphasis in poetry and...
1920	Literature and the Rest	Philippe Soupault Philippe Soupault Philippe Soupault was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton...
1924	from The Anathema of Zos	Austin Osman Spare Austin Osman Spare Austin Osman Spare was an English artist who developed idiosyncratic magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilization based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self...
1925	General Security: The Liquidation of Opium	Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, more well-known as Antonin Artaud was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director...
1929	I Wish You All Had One Neck	Carl Panzram Carl Panzram Carl Panzram was an American serial killer, arsonist and burglar. He is known for his confession to prison guard and only friend, Henry Lesser. In graphic detail, Panzram confessed to 22 murders, and to having sodomized over 1,000 males...
1930s	from The Eternal Youth	Ralph Chubb Ralph Chubb Ralph Nicholas Chubb was an English poet, printer, and artist. Heavily influenced by Whitman, Blake, and the Romantics, his work was the creation of a highly intricate personal mythology, one that was anti-materialist and sexually revolutionary.-Life:Ralph Chubb was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire...
1937	from Bagatelles pour un Massacre	Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . Céline was chosen after his grandmother's first name. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and...
1942	from Darkness	Ezra Pound Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
1945	The Poets' Dishonor	Benjamin Péret Benjamin Péret Benjamin Péret was a French poet, Parisian Dadaist and a founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement with his avid use of Surrealist automatism.-Biography:...
1945	from Listen, Little Man!	Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry...
1953	Formulary for a New Urbanism	Ivan Chtcheglov Ivan Chtcheglov Ivan Vladimirovitch Chtcheglov, was a French political theorist, activist and poet, born in Paris to Ukrainian father and French mother.-Family background:...
1963	Concerning New Year 1963	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
1960s	Ball of the Freaks	Anon.
1967	There is a Great Deal to be Silent About	Emmett Grogan Emmett Grogan Emmett Grogan was a founder of the Diggers, a radical community-action group of Improv actors in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California...
1968	from SCUM Manifesto SCUM Manifesto The SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto written in 1967 by Valerie Solanas and calling for the elimination of the male sex.-Description:...	Valerie Solanas Valerie Solanas Valerie Jean Solanas was an American radical feminist writer, best known for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol in 1968. She wrote the SCUM Manifesto, which called for male gendercide and the creation of an all-female society.-Early life:Solanas was born in Ventnor City, New Jersey, to Louis...
1970	Plea for Courage	Mel Lyman Mel Lyman Melvin James Lyman was an American cult leader, musician, film maker and writer.-Musician:Lyman grew up in California and Oregon...
1971	P. O. W. Statement	Timothy Leary Timothy Leary Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison...
1971	On Fear	The Process Church
1970s	Occupy the Brain!	Carsten Regild & Rolf Börjlind
1971	from Never Again!	Rabbi Meir Kahane Meir Kahane Martin David Kahane , also known as Meir Kahane , was an American-Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist writer and political figure. He was an ordained Orthodox rabbi and later served as a member of the Israeli Knesset...
mid 1970s	Situationist Liberation Front	Situationist International
1976	from The Invisibles The Invisibles The Invisibles is a comic book series that was published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics from 1994 to 2000. It was created and scripted by Scottish writer Grant Morrison, and drawn by various artists throughout its publication....	Thibaut D'Amiens
1977	Misanthropia	Anton Szandor La Vey
1979	The Anthropolitical Motivations	Stanislav Szukalski
1981	The Correct Line	Bob Black Bob Black Bob Black is an American anarchist. He is the author of The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, Beneath the Underground, Friendly Fire, Anarchy After Leftism, and numerous political essays.-Writing:Some of his work from the early 1980s includes...
1982	Investment in Survival	Kurt Saxon Kurt Saxon Kurt Saxon, born Donald Eugene Sisco on March 6, 1932, is a survivalist and the author of The Poor Man's James Bond, a series of books on improvised weapons and munitions.-History:...
1983	The Roots of Modern Terror	Gerry Reith
1983	from Meese Commission Report on Pornography	Park Elliott Dietz Park Dietz Park Elliott Dietz is a forensic psychiatrist and criminologist who was educated at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University... , M. D.
1985	Reward of the Tender Flesh	Ed Lawrence Ed Lawrence Edward James Lawrence was a professional football player who spent two seasons in the National Football League with the Boston Bulldogs in 1929 and the Staten Island Stapletons in 1930. Prior to joining the NFL, Fleming played college football at Brown University...
1984	The Nine Secrets of Mind Poisoning at a Distance	Kerry Wendell Thornley
1985	L'Revolucion Pour Neant	Pascal Uni
1986	Sammy Prole Gets Tough	John Crawford John Crawford John Crawford may refer to:* John Crawford , Australian economist* John Crawford , American actor* John Crawford , Canadian hockey player...
1987	Population and AIDS AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...	Miss Ann Thropy (Earth First! Earth First! Earth First! is a radical environmental advocacy group that emerged in the Southwestern United States in 1979. It was co-founded on April 4th, 1980 by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, and less directly, Bart Koehler and Ron Kezar.... )
1988	Out of the Magic of Venom: Creation	Kathy Acker Kathy Acker Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S...
1988	Intellectual S & M is the Fascism of the 80s	Hakim Bey

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