Art Gangs

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Art Gangs
Protest and Counterculture in New York City
Alan W. Moore

Art Gangs explores the work of artists’ groups in New York City after 1968. From the Art Workers’ Coalition through Art & Language, Colab and Group Material in the 1980s, in Soho and the Lower East Side, these collectives built the postmodern art world. This is the key background story of today’s politicized international art world with its constellations of collectives, a scholarly text written in an accessible style.

Alan W. Moore worked with the artists’ group Colab and helped start the cultural center ABC No Rio. He has worked as a critic, media artist and teacher, and earned a PhD in art history from the City University of New York. He currently lives in Madrid.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On and Off the Collective Subject in Contemporary Art
Chapter One: Taking it Out of the Modern: Founding the Art Workers Coalition
Chapter Two: The Action Fraction: Guerrilla Art Action Group
Chapter Three: Soho Spring: The Alternative Space Arrives
Chapter Four: Revising American Art: Art &...

Markets Not Capitalism

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Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty
Ed. Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson

Individualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic privilege. They believe in freed markets, not capitalism. They defend a distinctive response to the challenges of ending global capitalism and achieving social justice: eliminate the political privileges that prop up capitalists.

Massive concentrations of wealth, rigid economic hierarchies, and unsustainable modes of production are not the results of the market form, but of markets deformed and rigged by a network of state-secured controls and privileges to the business class. Markets Not Capitalism explores the gap between radically freed markets and the capitalist-controlled markets that prevail today. It explains how liberating market exchange from state capitalist privilege can abolish structural poverty, help working people take control over the conditions of their labor, and redistribute wealth and social power.

Featuring discussions of socialism, capitalism, markets, ownership,...

2012 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints

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2012 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints
20 Years of Radical Heroes for the New Millennium!

Autonomedia’s Jubilee Saints Calendar for 2012!

Our 20th 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, saddlestitched

isbn 978-1-57027-238-7 : price $9.95 : 32 pages

Pay for two, and we will send a third calendar for free!...

Fukushima Mon Amour

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Fukushima Mon Amour
Essays on Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
Daniel de Roulet, Anne Waldman, Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis, Sabu Kohso

Four literary and political essays on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011, following the earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan.

Contents

You Didn’t See Anything at Fukushima
Letter to a Japanese Friend
DANIEL DE ROULET …………………………………….. 7

Introduction to
Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment
The Iovis Triology / Eternal War
ANNE WALDMAN ……………………………………….. 31

Must We Rebuild Their Anthill?
Letter to Japanese Comrades
SILVIA FEDERICI & GEORGE CAFFENTZIS …….. 37

Fangs Hiding in the Green:
Between Revolution and Disaster,
The World and The Earth
SABU KOHSO ……………………………………………. 47

Notes on Contributors ………………………………. 69

Notes on Contributors

DANIEL DE ROULET is the author of more than twenty novels,...

A User's Guide to Demanding the Impossible

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A Users Guide to Demanding the Impossible
Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.

“Art is useless, so they tell us, as soon as it truly affects the world it loses its status as art. (You never know, it might slide down the slippery slope, becoming instrumental,...

Unbearables Big Book of Sex

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The Unbearables Big Book of Sex
The Unbearables
Edited by Ron Kolm, Carol Wierzbicki, Jim Feast, Yuko Otomo, Steve Dalachinsky, and Shalom Neuman

Another mammoth compilation from Downtown New York’s “drinking group with a writing problem,” the previous perpetrators of The Worst Book I Ever Read, Crimes of the Beats, and Help Yourself!, among other innumerable assaults on decency and good taste. Now they finally turn themselves to their most likely subject matter ever (even if it’s frequently more a matter of fantasy and theory than of deviant practice)….

Contributors include Jonathan Lethem, Samuel Delany, Penny Arcade, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Bob Holman, Chavisa Woods, Amy Ouzoonian, Tsaurah Litzky, Gerard Melanga, Jordan Zinovich, Jennifer Blowdryer, Susan Scutti, and scores more With a color “Fusion Art” centerfold edited by Shalom Neuman.

640 pages, 32 pages in color 5.5 “x 8.5”