D.I.Y. — We Can Make It Happen: OURSELVES!

FIFTH ESTATE #384 Spring, 2011, Vol. 46, #1

Maybe the most persistent of all forms of external authority in our lives are the day-to-day tyrannies of specialists and experts. The Fifth Estate’s next issue investigates strategies of resistance to and liberation from this insidious system of technocratic mystification and domination with a look at the culture, ethics, and aesthetics of do-it-yourselfism.

Is DIY a creator-centered cultural activity intended to build a community? Or, is it self-centered and self-serving? Is it subversive intervention or counter-cultural lifestylism? Is it political, apolitical, or antipolitical? What are the relationships between do-it-yourselfist practice, radical free expression, creativity, and pleasure? Is DIY the cornerstone of autonomy?

Contents

• Don LaCoss Tribute

• Green Scares

• RNC 8

• The Haymarket Martyrs

• Making Anarchist Media

• DIY Sex

• Q & A with Kathleen Hanna

• Trumbullplex

• Supporting the Scene

• Anarchist Book Fair

• USSF

• Return to Self Reliance

• Book & Music Reviews

  • Revolution and other Writings

• Mecca Normal

• The Vegetarian Myth

• Islands of Resistance, Pirate Radio in Canada

• d’bi young

• Earth First! Journal

• Years of Resistance

• Outlaw Midwifery

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