Recent Books

  • The Joy Engineers

    Price: $19.95

    The Joy Engineers
    Two Science-Fiction Novellas
    W. Strawn Douglas

    The Black Hole Drivenovella deals with the rescue of a mining colony from pressing volcanic activity and getting these people to a new home while their old one cools off. Captain Hardesty and his first officer, Commander Bowman, must shelve their relationship long enough to save these hard-working people, and their supply of explosive anti-matter that they use for digging out precious ores. This material is intensely coveted by Earth’s corporate front, and is only given by the “ghosts,” a trans-dimensional life form that will only supply this substance to small, independent groups.

    The Oracle novella deals with the test of a new mental-illness drug which is in reality an ESP drug being put forward by doctors within the covert intelligence community. Young James McGregor has to steal enough of the drug and get it to the underground and into production so the folks at CIA and their dummy front called Bryce Pharmaceuticals don’t take over the world and turnit into a place where only the government can read minds....

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  • Dining in Refugee Camps

    Price: $15.00

    Dining in Refugee Camps
    The Art of Sahrawi Cooking
    Robin Kahn

    Cenando en los Campamentos de Refugiados:
    Un Libro De Cocina Saharaui

    A bilingual, collage journal that documents Robin Kahn’s month cooking with the women of the Western Sahara.

    As a guest artist selected to participate in ARTifariti 2009, Kahn stayed with Sahrawi families living in refugee camps in Algeria and in the desert of The Free Territories of the Western Sahara. There she created the collages for this publication by combining the sparse materials available locally with photos, recipes, histories and drawings. The result is a 50-page full-color journal that examines the art of Sahrawi food production: how kitchens are improvised, food is procured and prepared, and traditional recipes are innovated from UN rations and international aid. The book is a testament to the daily struggles of Sahrawi women whose role is to provide sustenance, fortitude and comfort inside a compromised society....

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  • Genocide in the Neighborhood

    Price: $16.00

    Genocide in the Neighborhood
    Colectivo Situaciones
    Translated by Brian Whitener, Daniel Borzutzky, and Fernando Fuentes.

    Genocide in the Neighborhood documents the autonomist practice of the escrache, a system of public shaming that emerged in the late 1990s to vindicate the lives of those disappeared under the Argentinean dictatorship and to protest the amnesty granted to perpetrators of the killing. The book is an example of militant research, an investigative method that Colectivo Situaciones has pioneered. Through a series of hypotheses and two sets of interviews, Genocide in the Neighborhood documents the theories, debates, successes, and failures of the escraches, investigates the nature of rebellion, discusses the value of historical and cultural memory to resistance, and suggests decentralized ways to agitate for justice. Think of it as a much needed model of political resistance.

    Colectivo Situaciones is a collective of militant researchers based in Buenos Aires. It has participated in numerous grassroots co-research activities with unemployed workers,...

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  • The Ass's Tale

    Price: $15.95

    The Ass’s Tale
    John Farris

    John Farris’s The Ass’s Tale is a Rabelaisian story of a dog’s search for his identity. Told in the existential down-and-dirty vein of Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed and Chester Himes, this book (in manuscript form) circulated through New York City’s Lower East Side for years. John is a longtime denizen of the neighborhood; he still lives above the Bullet Space Gallery at 292 East Third Street.

    “Hot dog! Dirty dog! If you ever wanted to know about invisible sex, check this out!” — Steve Cannon, author of Groove, Bang, and Jive Around and Director of Gathering of Tribes Gallery

    “There is a hidden blessing in knowing John Farris… deeply hidden.” — David Hammons, Installation Artist

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  • Fast Feminism

    Price: $15.95

    Fast Feminism
    Shannon Bell
    FAST FEMINISM is a new-old feminism grounded in politics,
    performance and philosophy. It is in close proximity to
    postfeminisms of the poststructuralist variety—third-wave
    feminism, queer feminism, cyberfeminism and feminism 3.0.
    While FAST FEMINISM operates in proximity to other
    feminisms, its ‘natural’ home is in queer theory. Queer gets its
    meaning and its politics from its oppositional relationship to
    hegemonic norms. To queer something is to disrupt it, to put
    it under scrutiny and to attempt to change it. FAST FEMINISM
    takes the hypermasculine speed of Paul Virilio and makes it
    feminist. FAST FEMINISM is the bastard offspring and the happy
    accident of speed theory.

    FAST FEMINISM is a philo-porno-political practice—a
    pragmatic philosophy and politics—enacted by the pornographic
    sage who moves through the text as “FF.” Fast feminist event
    sites include female ejaculation, drag-kinging, an infamous
    child-pornography trial,...

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  • Critical Strategies in Art and Media

    Price: $12.95

    Critical Strategies in Art and Media
    Perspectives on New Cultural Practices
    Konrad Becker and Jim Fleming, eds.
    With Ted Byfield, Steve Kurtz, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Claire Pentecost, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and others

    As information and communication technologies saturate our world, how is art giving way to new forms of cultural symbolic manipulation?
    Are there any strategies that can elude being reduced to styles in the service of sales, or are critical practices doomed to play cat and mouse with the forces of consumerism?

    Beyond the obsolete models of artist or author as genius and their fetish objects, what collective and collaborative practices are inventing new terrains and flows?

    In the fall of 2009, these radical critics and media theorists gathered to discuss these questions, and more.

    Additional interventions from Franco (Bifo) Berardi, Marco Deseriis, Rene Gabri, Brian Holmes, McKenzie Wark, Felix Stalder, and others.

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