Kali's Day
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Kali’s Day
Bonny FinbergIn Kali’s Day, a dysfunctional Manhattan family—cross-dressing father, pot-dealing stepmother and thrill-seeking, graffiti-artist daughter—go on a trip to Nepal, where they take
different spiritual paths, some leading to insanity and prison, others to sainthood.“This is a beautiful novel populated with characters that have nothing more to give of themselves than everything, and at all times. Kali’s Day travels exquisitely through (desperate) straits of violence, sex, sensuality, addiction, depravity, transcendental awakenings and physical transformations.
The writing is passionate and precise. Bonny Finberg has crafted a pulsating and vibrantly alive place
for all of us to dwell.” — Donald Breckenridge, author of This Young Girl Passing and You Are Here, and Fiction Editor of The Brooklyn Rail.“When it comes to characters, Finberg has a way of dangling the most enticing before our eyes—eccentric originals we’ve only glimpsed on the street. Androgynous, drug-taking, bohemian or transient—their lives are lived beyond the reach of us mere mortals,...
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Agents & Assets
Witnessing the War on Drugs and on Communities
Los Angeles Poverty DepartmentAGENTS & ASSETS reenacts a 1998 hearing transcript from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigating alleged CIA involvement in
crack cocaine trafficking
into the Los Angeles
area. This book contains
the script for the reenactment,
and a
narrative constructed
from transcriptions
of panels and conversations
that follow.THE LOS ANGELES
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POVERTY DEPARTMENT
(LAPD) was founded
on LA’s Skid Row
in 1985. It creates
performances and
multidisciplinary artworks
that connect the
experience of people
living in poverty to the
social forces that shape
their lives and communities.
LOS ANGELES
POVERTY DEPARTMENT
AGENTS & ASSETS reenacts a
1998 hearing transcript from
the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence
investigating alleged
CIA involvement in
crack cocaine trafficking
into the Los Angeles
area....riverpeople
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riverpeople
Peter Lamborn Wilson“Every map has its Night Sky because the Map is not the Territory — & yet it is….
Ordinary maps project ideological inscriptions onto the body of landscape — but a magical map would share essences with that landscape & engage in co-realization with it. Such a map could then act as a pilgrim’s guide to the Profane or— Secular Illumination — a pagan theory of Sacred Earth as cartomantic spell. Looked at this way, even ordinary maps possess an “invisible” or nocturnal dimension, or rather a set of stars & asterisms that replicate or mirror its topography & hydrography in the sleeping sky — ‘As Above, So Below’ — sciences that (as Novalis says) will then have been poeticized.”river people is a long poem mixed with bits of prose, insurrectionary
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history, hydraulics, swimming holes, Big Indian,
Oscar Wilde, the Woodstock witches, creeks, kills, vlys, lighthouses,
ice yachts,...Disrupting Business: Art & Activism in Times of Financial Crisis
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Disrupting Business
Art & Activism in Times of Financial Crisis
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Edited by Tatiana Bazzichelli & Geoff CoxDisrupting Business explores some of the interconnections between art, activism and the business concept of disruptive innovation. With a backdrop of the crisis in financial capitalism and austerity cuts in the cultural sphere, the idea is to focus on potential art strategies in relation to a broken economy. In a perverse way, we ask whether this presents new opportunities for cultural producers to achieve more autonomy over their production process. If it is indeed possible, or desirable, what alternative business models emerge? This book is concerned broadly with business as material for reinvention, including critical writing and examples of art/activist projects.
Contributors include Saul Albert, Christian Ulrik Andersen, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Heath Bunting, Paolo Cirio, Baruch Gottlieb, Brian Holmes, Geert Lovink, Dmytri Kleiner, Georgios Papadopolous, Soren Bro Pold, Oliver Ressler, Kate Rich, René Ridgway,...
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2014 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints
Radical Heroes for the New Millennium!
James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective
Autonomedia’s Jubilee Saints Calendar for 2014! Our 22nd annual wall calendar, with artwork by James Koehnline, and text by the Autonomedia Collective.Hundreds of radical cultural and political heroes are celebrated here, along with the animating ideas that continue to guide this project — a reprieve from the 500-year-long sentence to life-at-hard-labor that the European colonization of the “New World” and the ensuing devastations of the rest of the world has represented. It is increasingly clear — at the dawn of this new millennium — that the Planetary Work Machine will not rule forever!
Celebrate with this calendar on which every day is a holiday!
32 pages, 12 x 16 inches, saddle stitched
ISBN 978-1-57027-280-6 : price $9.95 : 32 pages
Get two, and we will send a third calendar for free!...
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A Superintendent’s Eyes
Steve DalachinskyA Superintendent’s Eyes by Steve Dalachinsky is a cycle of poems/prose dealing with the vicissitudes of being a building super back in the days when NYC streets were still mean; tossing out junkies, mopping the hallways, bagging garbage, listening to tenant complaints (both real and imagined) and trying to sell records and books on the side.
“Steve Dalachinsky put in his time as a super. Whoever coined the word ‘thankless’ must have had that job, but Steve endured it because he could describe it, because he could tune it like a radio that brings in the whole world of talk, and most of all because he could make it swing. He makes the ground floor apartment double as the catbird seat.” — Luc Sante, author of Low Life.
“A Superintendent’s Eyes is a one-of-a-kind neo-noir document of life in the rickety world of Lower Manhattan at the turn of the century....
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