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

Issue Theme: D.I.Y.: Culture, Ethics, Aesthetics

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 new 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
Tributes to FE staffer and Editor Don LaCoss (1964 – 2011)
Green Scares Updates – Marie Mason and Eric McDavid
RNC 8 – Settlement from 2008 Republican National Convention
The Haymarket Martyrs – Guilty, but So What?
Making Anarchist Media
DIY Sex – Sex with Someone You Love; yourself!
Q & A with Kathleen Hanna
Trumbullplex – Almost 20 Years at a Detroit Living and Performance Space
Supporting the Scene – Is DIY Anti-capitalist?
Anarchist Convergence at the U.S. Social Forum
Return to Self Reliance – Emerson’s Relevance to D.I.Y.
Book & Music Reviews—
Revolution and other Writings – Gustav Landauer
Mecca Normal – How Art and Music Can Change the World
The Vegetarian Myth – by Lierre Keith.
Islands of Resistance, Pirate Radio in Canada – by Ron Sokolsky
d’bi young - Wombanifesto
Earth First! Journal, 30 Years of Resistance
Outlaw Midwifery
Many letters and exchanges

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