Paths Toward Utopia Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism

Consisting of 10 collaborative picture-essays that weave poetic words with intricate yet bold images, this collection aims to challenge readers into thinking of community action in a positive light. Depicting what it would be like to live, every day, in a world created from below, where coercion and hierarchy are largely vestiges of the past, Paths Toward Utopiasuggests some of the practices that prefigure the self-organization that would be commonplace in an egalitarian society. This stirring book ultimately mines what people do in their daily lives for the already-existent gems of a freer future--premised on anarchistic ethics like cooperation and direct democracy.

Josh MacPhee is an activist, an artist, and the author of Celebrate People’s History! and Signal. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Cindy Milstein is the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations and has contributed essays to the anthologies Globalize Liberation and Realizing the Impossible. She is a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. She lives in San Francisco. Erik Ruin is a printmaker, shadow-puppeteer, and a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. He lives in Philadelphia.