good punk lit?
define 'punk' how you will
I will that "punk" be defined as empty. Thus, the thread is over.
>>8004232
thank you for your contribution
>>8004203
Jean Genet in all senses of the term
Come Up and Bleed - Iggy Pop biography
ROTTEN - John Lydon's autobiography
Get in the Van - Henry Rollins' memoir of his time in Black Flag
Our Band Could Be Your Life - chronicle of 9 indie bands starting at the birth of hardcore punk up to Nirvana
Lipstick Traces by Greil Markus
The Soft Machine by William Burroughs
Neuromancer by Willie Gibson
Londonstani is kind of punk in a way.
Manimal
I came into this worldlike a puzzled panther
Waiting to be caged
But something stood in the way
I was never quite tamed
I crossed the paths of right and wrong
And saw them take their toll
I saw armies that marched
And like animals they crawled
I came into this world like a puzzled panther
Waiting to be caged
But something stood in the way
I was never quite tamed
Evolution is a process too slow
To save my soul
But I've got this creature on my back
And it just won't let go
If I am only an animal
Then I can do no wrong
But they say I'm something better
So I've gotta hold on
also this >>8004246
>>8004412
Have you read any other Burroughs? How does The Soft Machine compare to The Western Lands?Are there any books similar to TWL?
>>8004232
Bestgirl mugi of truth
>>8004477
The Soft Machine is part of his cutup trilogy. It's punk as fuck. Unfortunately that's the only one I've read, but I imagine his other books are pretty punk.
>>8004394
*Open-up and bleed.
Oh yeah I remember CrimethInc., never actually read them, might be interesting if I manage to find their books somewhere.
As for OP's question, my picks:
>Neuromancer - William Gibson
It's a kaleidoscopic, futuristic look into the average "punk story", only the gutters start in Japan and end in orbit. Usual cast of fuckups, badass girls, damaged beefcakes, rastafarian bros with some mystic science fiction. Kind of like what Powerman 5000 might have sounded like if they were a decent band.
>Anything - William Burroughs
Naked Lunch is a seminal punk text, schizophrenic, erotic and with an underlining tension towards self destruction - the Cut-up trilogy is an orgiastic explosion of words and worlds - his last trilogy is more linearly anti-government, looking at how rebellion and autonomy were implemented throughout history by small communities (obviously, viewed through Burroughs's usual imagery which is nice)
>TAZ and other Essays - Hakim Bey
From your favourite post-anarchist poet terrorist (and advocate for pedophilia, which makes me cringe everytime I read him and think about him - just fair to say it here) a collection of fairly funny essays on how to fuck up what you dislike in a weirdly charming manner. Plus, it's half made up of manifestoes and letters, which are always fun to read.
A few others, can't be bothered to really write at length about them
>The Orange Eats Creeps
>Apocalypse Culture
>Spinoza's Ethics
>Stirner's The Ego and Its Own
>William Pauley III's Doom Magnetic Trilogy
>Any Bizarro fic, if you think about them as the weird, iconoclastic, edgy, somewhat juvenile but necessary side of punk
Most punk of all punk lit is Hogg, anon, and that's undeniable.
If you haven't read it yet, are you even /punk/?
>>8004203
Clausewitz, On War
Dostoyevsky,The Brothers Karamazov
Birthday Boy, Civilization and Its Discontents
Recent Deathday Boy, Julius Caesar
>>8004203
>He lied about his hair colour
I have a book called Punk Fiction which is an anthology of stories by people who probably were punk musicians or something I don't know. It's an interesting read.
Emo kids love Murakami
Hardcore kids and crusties read Sartre (Nausea), Camus, and Faulkner actually
>>8004203
>CrimethInc
I got fed up with their bullshit when their Anarchist Cookbook said that protest groups should only be allowed when they align with their political views, and free speech only applies when it's not mean shit being said.
Also fucking typos. Fuck them.
>>8005547
Post-left anarchy and situationism are punk as fuck. It also fits a lot of 4chans older (and newer) antics, these writers should be memes here tbqh
Look no further than this beautiful man.
His poetry is goat, haven't read his novels, though
Burroughs, Gibson, Ballard, Dick, Thompson, and (Ryu) Murakami are sufficiently countercultural/subversive to qualify. Apocalypse Culture is an essential essay collection. I've heard people call Kathy Acker 'punk fiction' but I've yet to read her. Henry Rollins and Michael Gira have published fiction but I haven't read any of that either.
If you're /co/ many works by Moore, Miller, or Ennis would work. Generally any indie comic has 'punk cried' though.
Most of the punks I know irl, if they do read, stick to Bukowski, Thompson, or comics.
>>8006244
Miller's pretty reactionary mate
But you're good with any british invasion writer, they were all druggy anarchists (though Moore, being older, was more of a hippie guy, he's also friends with David J from Bauhaus and the guys from the Damned)
>>8006256
Miller's work was more countercultural back on the day. Son City is quite anti-authoritarian, and a big hit with punks in my experience. Something like Holy Terror is probably inimical to punk ethos though haha
>>8004394
These are just books about punk. (Our Band Could Be Your Life is a great book but aside from Black Flag and The Minutemen it centers around alternative/college rock bands.)
If OP is really talking about "literature that is punk", >>8004412 is one way to go, I guess there's also John Cooper Clarke and Eileen Myles and the Saint Mark's Church poets.
GOAT punk writer aaron cometbus
http://www.amazon.com/Zeroes-Patrick-Roesle/dp/147004188X
Most of the punks I've interacted with are fairly well read.
As for anarchist stuff
>TM 31-210
>The Anarchist Tension -Bonnano
>Armed Joy - Also Bonnano
>Conquest of Bread - Kropotkin
>What is Property - Proudhon
>A Discourse in Inequality - Rousseau
> Anarchy Works - Peter Gelderloos (Highly Recommend)
>Society of the Spectacle - Debord
Generally Kropotkin, Bakunin, Proudhon, Marx, Camus, Sartre, Debord, etc.
Most of this can be found on theanarchistlibrary.org
i define punk as cyberpunk and chose Neuromancer
>>8004203
Punk lit must be the most vapid garbage, based on posturing and adhering to ludicrous sets of rules so you can conform to the standards of your non-conformist label.
>>8004203
>81
I define punk as early American Romanticism. Try reading some Emerson
Neuromancer was only branded cyberpunk retroactively
Repeat until hoarse
Ursula K LeGuin (think about it)
Slam by Lewis Shiner
China Mieville's stuff has always struck me as pretty punklike
>>8005581
Is that really the evasion guy? Did he drop his anonymity?
>>8004203
I'd recommend reading the Situationist's, Raoul Veneigem's - Revolution of Everyday Life and Debord's Society of the Spectacle aswell as early anarchist works like Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, etc.
I know a lot of punks who are also into existentialism, like Sartre and Camus
I'd say Bolano's Savage Detectives is pretty punk
>>8006197
crusties like sartre not sure about faulkner
>he thinks punk still exists
>>8007455
Seconding Mieville, also Michael Moorcock's novelization of The Great Rock and Roll Swindle (which has extra bits I won't spoil).
Carrie Brownstein - Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl
>>8006197
You must not be from the states. Faulkner is pure Goth Rock
>>8009960
>he thinks punk wasn't a cultural embarrassment
>>8007316
Only good post in thread, although I would add Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rocker, and Anarchism and Other Essays by Goldman, but other than that you're gold, man.
Also, my full reading list:
An Anarchist FAQ
Introduction to Anarchism Communism
Anarcho communism - an introduction
Anacho-syndicalism - an introduction
Alexander Berkman:
What is Anarchism?
Prison memoirs of an anarchist
The Russian Tragedy
The Bolshevik Myth
The Kronstadt Rebellion
Mikhail Bakunin:
Basic Bakunin - Anarchism Federation
Marxism, Freedom and The State
God and The State
The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State
A Critique of teh German Social Democratic Program
Pierre Proudhon:
What is Property?
The Philosophy of Poverty
The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
The Principle of Federation
Peter Kropotkin:
The Conquest of Bread
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Fields, Factories, and Workshops
Anarchism; & Anarchism Communism
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
The State - Its Historic Role
Act for Yourselves: Articles from Freedom 1886-1907
Errico Malatesta:
Anarchy
Anarchism and Organisation
Syndicalism and Anarchism
At The Cafe
Emma Goldman:
Anarchism and Other Essays
Living My LIfe, 2 Vols
My Disillusionment in Russia
Rudolf Rocker:
Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism
Nationalism and Culture
The Tragedy of Spain
The Truth About Spain
Nestor Makhno:
The Struggle Against The State And Other Essays
Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
Daniel Guerin:
No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism
Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
Albert Meltzer:
I couldn't paint golden angels: Sixty years of commonplace life and anarchist agitation
Anarchism: Arguments For and Against
The Floodgates of Anarchy
Murray Bookchin:
Social Anarchism of Lifestyle Anarchism
Listen, Marxist!
Post-Scarcity Anarchism
Anarchism, Marxism and The Future of The Left
The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936
>>8004203
well ... the protagonist was a punk
Luc Sante will probably be of interest, particularly Low Life. Not "punk" in the sense of studded jackets etc but it's about criminals in New York. He also has a blog filled with interesting little vignettes about his time in 1980s New York, hanging out with Jim Jarmusch etc http://lucsante.com/blog/
