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The Politics of the Joy of Printing

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March 26, 2023 | History

The Detroit Printing Co-op

The Politics of the Joy of Printing

Between 1970 and 1980, the Detroit Printing Co-op, spearheaded by Fredy and Lorraine Perlman, was responsible for the first English translation of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, printed journals like SDS' Radical America, ultra-left books by their in-house press, Black & Red, and countless posters, pamphlets, and books printed by high school students, black radicals, labor organizers, and anarchists who made use of the freely available facilities at the Co-op. Fredy Perlman was not a printer or a designer by training, but was deeply engaged in the ideas, issues, processes, and materiality of printing. While at the Detroit Printing Co-op, he rethought the possibilities of prit by experimenting with overprinting, collage techniques, and different kinds of papers. Behind the calls to action and class consciousness written in his publications, there was an innate sense of the politics of design, experimentation, and pride of craft. "The Detroit Printing Co-op" is a timely exploration of the history, output, and legacy of this unique enterprise, and serves as a testament to the power of printing, publishing, design, and distribution.

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Inventory Press
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English
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234

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Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Page 10
INTRODUCTION: THE DETROIT PRINTING CO-OP
Page 12
FREDY PERLMAN IN NEW YORK 1961–62
Page 26
F. Perlman, The New Freedom: Corporate Capitalism
F. Periman, Plunder
THE BLACK & RED GANG KALAMAZOO 1968–69
Page 34
Black & Red nos. 1–6
The Ten Commandments
Initiation Rites for Students and Professors
F. Perlman, I Accuse This University of Terror and Violence
R. Gregoire, F. Perlman, Worker-Student Action Committees: Paris May ’68
L. Lanphear, How I Became an Outside Agitator
R. Maier, Observorman
THE DETROIT PRINTING CO-OP OPENS 1970
Page 66
M. Glaberman, F. Perlman, M. Ravitz, Who Are You? Who Cares?
Facing Reality, We Want Out
A Child’s Garden of Perverse
P. Allen, F. Gould, Prolegomena
IWW, Little Red Songbook
FREDY PERLMAN AND THE OFFSET PRESS 1969–72
Page 74
F. Perlman, The Reproduction of Daily Life
F. Perlman, Birth of a Revolutionary Movement in Yugoslavia
F. Perlman, The Incoherence of the Intellectual
M. Velli, Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
The Fetish Speaks
RADICAL AMERICA 1970–75
Page 114
Radical America vol. 4 no. 2 through vol. 9
D. Montgomery, What’s Happening to the American Worker
d. a. levy, Stone Sarcophagus
4. a. levy, To Be a Discrepancy in Cleveland
D. Lourie, Lies
T. L. Kryss, New Majiks
American Labor History pamphlets
SITUATIONISTS AND THE CO-OP 1970–73
Page 132
G. Debord, Society of the Spectacle
R. Vaneigem, The Revolution of Daily Life (excerpt)
To Nonsubscribers of Radical America
SI, On the Poverty of Student Life
BLACK STAR 1970–72
Page 148
J. Forman, The Political Thought of James Forman
J. Forman, Control, Conflict, Change
brochures for Black Star Productions
1971 Vietnam calendar
US Out of Africa poster
THE GNOMON 1970–72
Page 162
The Gnomon vol. 1 through vol. 3
JUDY CAMPBELL 1971–74
J. Campbell, Free for All
J. Campbell, My Torrid Affair With Three Doctors and One Research Assistant Cost Me My Job
J. Campbell, Open Letter From a White Bitch to the Black Youth Who Beat Up On Me and My Friend
COMMUNITY AND FRIENDS 1971–76
Page 178
Lookin’ In
Rebels’ Voice
1971 and 1972 Cass-Trumbull Community Calendars
riverrun
ETR Gang, Jo Serve the Rich
Wildcat
ETR Gang, Ms. Interview: Gail Garrot, Big City Cop
Fuck Authority poster
A. Franklin, D. Watson, Fli-back
BEWICK/ED 1971–80
Page 196
M. Glaberman, Union Committeemen and Wildcat Strikes
P. Romano, R. Stone, The American Worker
C.L. R. James, Modern Politics
M. Glaberman, Punching Out
K. Marx, A Worker’s Inquiry
C.L. R. James, Facing Reality
C. L. R. James, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways
M. Glaberman, Wartime Strikes
BLACK & RED 1970–88
Page 204
M. Brinton, Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control
I. I. Rubin, Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value
B. Ehrenreich, D. English, Witches, Midwives and Nurses
P. Arshinov, History of the Makhnovist Movement
Voline, The Unknown Revolution
S. Van Der Straeten, P. Daufouy, The Counter-Revolution in Ireland
Barrot & Martin, Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement
J. Camatte, The Wandering of Humanity
M. Brinton, The Irrational in Politics
G. Munis, J. Zerzan, Unions Against Revolution
Lip and the Self-Managed Counter-Revolution
F. Arcos, Momentos
J. Peirats, Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution
A.Anderson, Hungary ’56
F. Perlman, Letters of Insurgents
I. C. O., Poland 1970–71: Capitalism and Class Struggle
Poland 1980–82
F. Perlman, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!
F. Perlman, Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
F. Perlman, On the Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
F. Perlman, The Strait
L. Perlman, Having Little, Being Much

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Dewey Decimal Class
686.20977434
Library of Congress
Z232.D48 A93 2019

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
234p.
Number of pages
234
Dimensions
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.3 centimeters

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Open Library
OL27940667M
ISBN 10
1941753256
ISBN 13
9781941753255
LCCN
2019948271
OCLC/WorldCat
1105599718, 1126153242
Library Thing
23721287
Deutsche National Bibliothek
1189838605
Google
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Wikidata
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Goodreads
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