Bob Black

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Full Name	Bob Black
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jan 4, 1951(1951-01-04)
Age	73
Country	United States
Birth City	Detroit
Horoscope	Capricorn

Bob Black Biography

Bob Black is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on January 4, 1951 in Detroit, United States. Robert Charles Black Jr. (born on January 4 1951) is an American author and anarchist. The author is of The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, Beneath the Underground, Friendly Fire, Anarchy After Leftism and Destruction of the Currency, as well as numerous political essays.

“The Abolition of Work: Other Essays (1986) is a collection of some of the ideas of the Situationist International as well as that utopian group of socialists Charles Fourier and William Morris and anarchists like Paul Goodman, and anthropologists like Richard Borshay Lee and Marshall Sahlins. Black critiques work due to its neediness and, in an industrial society, for taking on the form of “jobs”–the limitation of the worker to a specific task that usually requires little or lacking in skills. Black’s idea is to get rid of the kind of work that William Morris called “useless toil” and the transformation of productive jobs in “productive play,” with the possibility of participating in a myriad of beneficial and enjoyable tasks that were suggested in the work of Charles Fourier. Beneath the Underground (1992) is a collection of essays related to the what Black refers to as the “marginals milieu”–the self-publishing subculture of zine that flourished during the 1980s and into the early 1990s. Friendly Fire (1992) is as Black’s debut book, a diverse collection that covers a variety of topics, like The Art Strike, Nietzsche, the first Gulf War and the Dial-a-Rumor phone project he co-created together with Zack Replica (1981-1983).

Two more essay collections were later published as books, Friendly Fire (Autonomedia, 1992) and Beneath the Underground (Feral House, 1994), the latter devoted to the do-it-yourself/fanzine subculture of the ’80s and ’90s which he called “the marginals milieu” and in which he had been heavily involved. Anarchy after Leftism (C.A.L. Press, 1996) is a more or less point- by-point rebuttal of Murray Bookchin’s Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm (A.K. Press, 1996), which had criticized as “lifestyle anarchism” various nontraditional tendencies in contemporary anarchism. Black’s short book (“about an even shorter book,” as he put it) was succeeded—as an E-book published in 2011 at the online Anarchist Library—by Nightmares of Reason, a longer and more wide-ranging critique of Bookchin’s anthropological and historical arguments, especially Bookchin’s espousal of “libertarian municipalism” which Black ridiculed as “mini-statism.” Black’s most recent book, “Instead of Work” (2015), collects his writings about work from 1985 to 2015.

Since 2000, Black has focused on topics reflecting his education and reading in the sociology and the ethnography of law, resulting in writings often published in Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed. His recent interests have included the anarchist implications of dispute resolution institutions in stateless primitive societies (arguing that mediation, arbitration, etc., cannot feasibly be annexed to the U.S. criminal justice system, because they presuppose anarchism and a relative social equality not found in state/class societies). At the 2011 annual B.A.S.T.A.R.D. anarchist conference in Berkeley, California, Black presented a workshop where he argued that, in society as it is, crime can be an anarchist method of social control, especially for people systematically neglected by the legal system. An article based on this presentation appeared in Anarchy magazine and in his 2013 book, Defacing the Currency: Selected Writings, 1992–2012.

Black is well-known for his essay from 1985 “The Abolition of Work,” that has been widely printed and translated into thirteen different languages (most recent, Urdu). The essay asserted that work is the primary source of power, comparable to the state and capitalism and must be transformed into the form of voluntary “productive play.” Black recognized as his sources of inspiration his apologists the French socialist utopian Charles Fourier, the British socialist utopian William Morris, the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin, and the Situationists. “The Abolition of Work,” and Related Essays was released in 1986 by Loompanics on the 26th of September, 1986 contained as well as his title piece, a selection of his shorter Last International texts, and certain essays and reviews which were that were reprinted from his columns published in the San Francisco’s Appeal to Reason, a tabloid of the left and counterculture that ran between 1980 and 1984.

Bob Black Net Worth

Bob Black is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bob Black 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Black earned his degree from University of Michigan and Georgetown Law School. He later took M.A. degrees in jurisprudence and politics from University of California, Berkeley and criminal justice at The University at Albany, SUNY and an LL.M in criminal law from the University at Buffalo Law School. In his first year of undergrad studies (1969-1973) Black began to lose faith in the New Left in the 1970s, and began lengthy studies in anarchism, the utopian socialism movement council communism, other leftist tendencies that were that were critical of Marxism-Leninism as well as social democratic principles. Black discovered a few of these sources in the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan which is a significant collection of revolutionary social, labor and anarchist material that serves as the archive for Black’s correspondence and papers. He soon became interested in Situationist ideas, egoist communism, and the anti-authoritarian analysis from John Zerzan and the Detroit magazine Fifth Estate. He produced a number with ironic, political ads titled “The Last International”, initially at Ann Arbor, Michigan, later to San Francisco where he moved in 1978. Within the Bay Area he became involved with the literary and cultural underground as a writer of reviews and critiques of what he termed”the “marginals milieu.” Since 1988, he’s lived in the upstate of New York.

His work from the 1980s’ early years (anthologized within The Abolition of Work and Other Essays) includes his criticisms on the movement to stop nuclear war (“Anti-Nuclear Terror”) and his editors from Processed World (“Circle A Deceit Review of Processed World”), radical feminists (“Circle A Dece Review of Processed World”) and the radical feminists (“Feminism as Fascism”) and right-wing libertarians (“The Libertarian as conservative”). A few of these essays have were previously published within “San Francisco’s Appeal to Reason” (1981-1984) the tabloid that was leftist and counter-cultural where Black wrote an article.

Defacing the Currency: Selected Writings, 1992–2012 was published by Little Black Cart Press in 2013. It includes a lengthy (113 pages), previously unpublished critique of Noam Chomsky, “Chomsky on the Nod.” A similar collection has been published, in Russian translation, by Hylaea Books in Moscow. Black’s most recent book, also from LBC Books, is Instead of Work, which collects “The Abolition of Work” and seven other previously published texts, with a lengthy new update, “Afterthoughts on the Abolition of Work.” The introduction is by science fiction writer Bruce Sterling.

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