Rants and Incendiary Tracts

The list follows Rants and Incendiary Tracts: Voices of Desperate Illumination 1558–Present, a book edited by Bob Black and Adam Parfrey. It is an anthology of 56 rants.

It was co-published, as a 240 page paperback, by Amok Press and Loompanics Unlimited in 1989 (ISBN 0-941693-03-1).

Contents

Year Title Author Notes
Prelude Adam Parfrey
Foreword Bob Black
1558 from The Monstrous Regiment of Women John Knox
1633 from The Pleasure-Loving Modern Woman William Prynne
1650 from A Fiery Flying Roll Abiezer Coppe
1670s Pirate Rant Captain Bellamy
1790 A Fair Dream and a Rude Awakening Jean-Paul Marat
1795 from Philosophy in the Bedroom Marquis de Sade
1812 King Steam anonymous Luddite
early 19th century from Harrah! ou la Revolution par les Cosaques Couerderoy
1829 A Sentimental Bankruptcy Charles Fourier
1844 from The Ego and Its Own Max Stirner
1849 from Murder Karl Heinzen
1867 from No Treason Lysander Spooner
1869 The Revolutionary's Catechism Sergei Nechayev
1870s Dynamite! T. Lizius
1880 Speech of the condemned Louis Lingg
1880s Speech to Missionaries Red Jacket, Seneca leader
1880s An exchange Judge Roy Bean & Judged Beaner
1888 Voters Strike! Octave Mirbeau
1896 from Might is Right Ragnar Redbeard
1908 from Degeneration Max Nordau
1913 Manifesto of Lust Valentine de Saint-Point
1917 Anarcho-Futurist Manifesto A. L. and V. L. Gordin
1920 Iconoclasts, Forward! Renzo Novatore
1920 Literature and the Rest Philippe Soupault
1924 from The Anathema of Zos Austin Osman Spare
1925 General Security: The Liquidation of Opium Antonin Artaud
1929 I Wish You All Had One Neck Carl Panzram
1930s from The Eternal Youth Ralph Chubb
1937 from Bagatelles pour un Massacre Louis-Ferdinand Céline
1942 from Darkness Ezra Pound
1945 The Poets' Dishonor Benjamin Péret
1945 from Listen, Little Man! Wilhelm Reich
1953 Formulary for a New Urbanism Ivan Chtcheglov
1963 Concerning New Year 1963 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
1960s Ball of the Freaks Anon.
1967 There is a Great Deal to be Silent About Emmett Grogan
1968 from SCUM Manifesto Valerie Solanas
1970 Plea for Courage Mel Lyman
1971 P. O. W. Statement Timothy Leary
1971 On Fear The Process Church
1970s Occupy the Brain! Carsten Regild & Rolf Börjlind
1971 from Never Again! Rabbi Meir Kahane
mid 1970s Situationist Liberation Front Situationist International
1976 from The Invisibles Thibaut D'Amiens
1977 Misanthropia Anton Szandor La Vey
1979 The Anthropolitical Motivations Stanislav Szukalski
1981 The Correct Line Bob Black
1982 Investment in Survival Kurt Saxon
1983 The Roots of Modern Terror Gerry Reith
1983 from Meese Commission Report on Pornography Park Elliott Dietz, M. D.
1985 Reward of the Tender Flesh Ed Lawrence
1984 The Nine Secrets of Mind Poisoning at a Distance Kerry Wendell Thornley
1985 L'Revolucion Pour Neant Pascal Uni
1986 Sammy Prole Gets Tough John Crawford
1987 Population and AIDS Miss Ann Thropy (Earth First!)
1988 Out of the Magic of Venom: Creation Kathy Acker
1988 Intellectual S & M is the Fascism of the 80s Hakim Bey

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