Ardent Press is part of an effort to revitalize print publishing. We miss a time when new and challenging ideas were part and parcel of anarchist publishing, and when ideas, even disagreeable ones, were up for discussion and contemplation. We want anarchist and anti-political theory to live and move, and our texts reflect that.

Ardent publishes books and pamphlets that confront and challenge our assumptions about this social order and the transformation of the world.

If Bash Back! was the best expression of what self defense SHOULD look like, diy, queer as fuck, and pissed off then Queer Ultraviolance tells the complete story of a life of struggle in THIS world. There are over 200 pages of communiques (many published, many not) detailing the internecine daily lives of the queer body in the 21st century, there is the theory written by Bash Back! associates and new introductions and conclusions by the editors Fray Baroque & Tegan Eanelli

What citizens are abandoned to in the guise of "existence" is no longer anyth ing but a life or death effort to make themselves compatible with empire. But fo r the others, for us, each gesture, each desire, each affect encounters in some way the necessity of annihilating empire and its citizens.

On this criminal path, we take our time. What we are talking about here is nothing less than the constitution of war-machines.

This book tells the story of the most neglected tendency in anarchist thought; egoism. Not the great history of glorious failure but an obscure series of stories of winning. Victory defined by the only terms that matter, those who lived life to their fullest and whose struggle against the existing order defined them. This struggle was not one of abstractions, of Big Ideas, but of people attempting to claim an authentic stake in their own life.

This book takes examples from around the world, picking through history and anthropology, showing that people have, in different ways and at different times, demonstrated mutual aid, self-organization, autonomy, horizontal decision making, and so forth--the principles that anarchy is founded on--regardless of whether they called themselves anarchists or not. Too well documented to be strictly mythology, and too expansive to be strictly anthropology, this is an inspiring answer to the people who say that anarchists are utopian: a point-by-point introduction to how anarchy can and has actually worked.