Cannabis Chassidis
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Cannabis Chassidis
The Ancient and Emerging Torah of Drugs
Yoseph Leib ibn MardachyaIs Marijuana Kosher?
Yes, of course it is! But the better question is: If I am going to get higher than high, isn’t there some useful traditional guidance about how best to do so? If not, then what good is the Torah?
Join Yoseph Leib on his travels and studies throughout Jerusalem, New York, and Rainbow Country, USA in search of guidance about how Cannabis and psychedelics have and have not been used in both ancient and emerging Chassidic traditions, and what the way we have related to our desires for medicines, gods and intoxicants can teach us about how we relate to ourselves, our community, and our G-d. The glorious problem of how what we can learn can set us free, in all kinds of ways.
Chassidis (“kind-ness”) means the way to do all the things we love doing,...
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A down-and-dirty survey of the Surrealist movement written under a pseudonym in 1970 by leading Situationist theorist Raoul Vaneigem. Intended for a high-school readership, and dashed off in two weeks, Vaneigem’s sketch bars no holds: disrespectful in the extreme, blistering on Surrealism’s artistic and political aporias, and packed with telling quotations, it also gives respect where respect is due. Locating Surrealism’s “original sin” in its ideological nature, Vaneigem clearly identifies the “radioactive fragment of radicalism” that the movement never managed completely to shed. If you want an unequivocal answer to the question, “What was living and what was dead in Surrealism?”, look no further. And for readers interested in the Situationists, this short book sheds a great deal of light on their attitudes, negative and positive, towards their Surrealist predecessors. Born in 1934 in Lessines, Belgium, Raoul Vaneigem was a member of the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970. Along with Guy Debord, he provided the main works of theory for this incredibly influential radical art group....
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Class Struggle and the Adamic Imagination in Herman
MelvilleIn Europe, after 1848, bourgeois consciousness in
revolt sought a new universal in the working class but
soon found itself in the orbit of the state civil
service; in America, bourgeois consciousness in revolt
found a new universal in what Melville called
“antemosaic” reality, Queequeg, embodied in the
multiracial working class, the “Anacharsis Cloots
deputation,” in radical antithesis to the state.Herman Melville (1818–1891) came to this perspective
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in the feverish production of six novels of the sea,
culminating in Moby Dick, in the 1846–1851 period. As
the whaling ship Pequod was destroyed by Moby Dick,
the Indian harpooner Tashtego nailed a red flag to the
mast, also catching the wing of a sky-hawk, with its
“imperial beak.” Thus Melville connects the red man
with the red flag, pulling down the imperial eagle,...Blue Line, The
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During the course of running the New York City Marathon, The Blue Line’s narrator finds himself remembering another marathon run years earlier to evade capture after an act of sabotage. He also struggles with the compromises that he has made in the years since then as he decides whether or not to assist an ex-girlfriend in another similar action. A richly detailed novel of moral deliberation, designed to include hundreds of images lining the actual route of the New York City Marathon run.
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Punkademics
Edited by Zack FurnessThe basement show in the ivory tower…
In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once marginal subculture documented in homemade ‘zines and three chord songs has become fodder for dozens of scholarly articles, books, PhD dissertations, and conversations amongst well-mannered conference panelists. At the same time, the academic ranks have been increasingly infiltrated by professors and graduate students whose educations began not in the classroom, but in the lyric sheets of 7” records and the cramped confines of all-ages shows.
Punkademics explores these varied intersections by giving voice to some of the people who arguably best understand the odd bedfellows of punk and academia. In addition to being one of the first edited collections of scholarly work on punk, it is a timely book that features original essays,...
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Occupy Everything! Reflections on why it’s kicking off everywhere
Ed. Alessio Lunghi & Seth WheelerPenned after the 2010 European student unrest and before what is now commonly referred to as the “Arab spring” began to escalate, BBC Newsnight economist Paul Mason’s “20 Reasons Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere” sought to establish an understanding of the motivations behind these globally disparate, yet somehow connected struggles.
What roles do the “graduate with no future,” the “digital native” or the “remainder of capital” play in the current wave of unrest? What are the ideas, ideologies, motivations or demands driving these movements? How is struggle organized and coordinated in the age of memetic politics and viral ad campaigns?
This collection of essays seeks to further explore Paul Mason’s original 20 Reasons in an attempt to better understand our turbulent present.
“A startling insight into the aims, dreams and ideologies of a generation of radicalized youth.” –Paul Mason,...
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