#american methods

[musicandoldmovies]

Jewel Carmen on the set of American Methods with director Frank Lloyd and cameraman William C. Foster

[burningbooksbuffalo]

Kristian WIlliams, author of Our Enemies in Blue, American Methods, Hurt and more, discussing his latest book, Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency at Burning Books on November 13, 2013. (4th photo my Morgan Jamie Dunbar).

[southendpress-blog]

"Power does not only operate on our bodies, and the use it makes of our bodies is--even in extreme cases, such as torture--often but a means for imposing on our interior worlds. For power seeks to shape, mobilize, and exploit, not just our bodies, but our desires, fears, insecurities, loyalties, values, creativity--our whole selves. These elements--which characterize both our individuality and our shared humanity--may also be seen as sites of struggle, and may provide a basis for resistance."

::: Kristian Williams, Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy (Microcosm Publishing, 2012)

[southendpress-blog]

5/20: Kristian Williams on Counterinsurgency + Community Policing

Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 3:00pm

In addition to Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (South End Press), Williams is also the author of American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination (South End Press), which made the short list for the 2007 Oregon Book Award. He has contributed articles to CounterPunch, The World Today, the Columbia Journalism Review, and to the collection We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism (Verso, 2003). He is presently at work on a book about Oscar Wilde and anarchism. 

A collection of his articles, Confrontations (2007), is also available from Tarantula Radical Publishing and Distribution. 

Kristian Williams is a member of Rose City Copwatch in Portland, Oregon, and of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981).