New online edition of Bob Blacks classic book The Abolition of Work and Other Essays now available

Bob Black's seminal 1986 book The Abolition of Work and Other Essays has been republished in a new online edition, available free at inspiracy.com.

September, 2003 -- Bob Black's seminal 1986 book The Abolition of Work and Other Essays has been republished in a new online edition at inspiracy.com.

A collection of essays, rants, posters and epigrams originally published by Loompanics in 1986, The Abolition of Work and Other Essays is available free at http://www.inspiracy.com/black/.

Its well-known title essay - of which the International Times said "should be dropped in thousands from every aeroplane available" - has been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch and Slovene. Black's infamous Last International posters, most appearing here in their original format (augmented by several selections not part of the Loompanics edition) have been photocopied in the tens of thousands by punks, libertarians, anarchists, anti-authoritarians and other marginals. His caustic reviews and essays are legend, justifying Booklists praise of his "provocative, visionary humor of Twainian, Biercian ferocity and zest."

Contents of the Inspiracy online edition of The Abolition of Work and Other Essays by Bob Black:

Introduction by Ed Lawrence (author of Reinventing the Wheel . . . of Karma)

The Abolition of Work (1996 Revision)

Religion As Banality (poster)

The Ballad of Brenda Spencer

Theses on Groucho Marxism (poster)

(Ass)Holism (poster)

Because of Laws (poster)

The Correct Line

Déclassé(fieds)

Ins & Outs (poster)

20 Questions (poster)

Surrealist Destinies: Mix and Match

Workers of the World... Relax! (poster)

In Defense of Marxism (poster)

Who Is Gerry Reith?

Money Is No Object... (poster)

I've Got a Nietzsche Trigger Finger! (poster)

Fighting Words (poster)

The Exquisite Corpse: Gary Warne (poster)

Anti-Nuclear Terror

Let Us Prey!

A Bunch Abalone

Left Rites

Electing Not to Vote

Lying in State-and Elsewhere

Circle-A Deceit: A Review of Processed World

Review of Conan The Barbarian (film)

Grown-Ups Say the Darndest Things

The Political Theory of Ferlinghetti

A Lunatic Fringe Credo

Words of Power

Preface to The Right To Be Greedy

Feminism as Fascism

The Exquisite Corpse: Gary Warne (text)

The Libertarian as Conservative

Anarchy and Other Impediments to Anarchism

The Abolition of Work and Other Essays site also includes a selection of Black's more recent rants, including Beautiful Losers: A Historiography of the Industrial Workers of the World, The French Disease, The Refusal of Art, Why I Hate Survivors and Why Not Take a Holiday?

Bob Black is the author of Friendly Fire (Autonomedia), Beneath the Underground (Feral House) and Anarchy After Leftism (CAL Press).

For additional information, contact black@inspiracy.com

Inspiracy (R) is a design organisation specializing in pop media.

The Inspiracy Press imprint has previously published new editions of Bob Black's The Baby and the Bathwater and The Abolition of Work.