Gabriel Kuhn

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Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy isbn: 9781604862799 (EPUB), 9781604862782 (MOBI) formats: epub mobi published: 11/2009 pages: 272 price: 14.00 euros

Gabriel was born in Austria but soon began moving around with his artist parents. He grew up in various countries, including Turkey, Italy, England and the US, but returned to Austria for most of his formal education and a four-year semi-professional soccer career. In 1996 he received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck. The following ten years he spent hitchhiking and couchsurfing around five continents. He moved to Sweden in 2006.

Active in radical politics since the late 1980s, publishing projects have always been a focus. In the early 1990s, Gabriel worked with the Austrian autonomist journal TATblatt and anarchist publisher Monte Verita, before turning his attention to DIY zine publishing. Alpine Anarchist Productions was founded in 2000, and distributes pamphlets to this day. Since 2005 Gabriel has been working closely with radical German publisher Unrast. His book "’Neuer Anarchismus’ in den USA. Seattle und die Folgen" was named "Book of the Year 2008" by Berlin’s Library of the Free. Gabriel also contributes regularly to the Swedish anarchist journal Brand.