A User's Guide to Demanding the Impossible
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A Users Guide to Demanding the Impossible
Laboratory of Insurrectionary ImaginationThis 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,...
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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 NeumanAnother 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”
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Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the U.S. labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the American urban landscape. As he forcefully shows, this is a demographic and cultural revolution with extraordinary implications. With Spanish-surnames increasing five times faster than the general population, salsa is becoming the predominant ethnic rhythm (and flavor) of contemporary city life. In Los Angeles, Houston, San Antonio, and (shortly) Dallas, Latinos outnumber non-Hispanic whites; in New York, San Diego and Phoenix, they outnumber blacks. According to the Bureau of the Census, Latinos will supply fully two thirds of the nation’s population growth between now and the middle of the 21st century when nearly 100 million Americans will boast Latin American ancestry. Davis focuses on the great drama of how Latinos are attempting to translate their urban demographic ascendancy into effective social power....
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Forbidden Sacraments
The Survival of Shamanism
in Western Civilization
Donald P. DulchinosThe indigenous practice of shamanism has been under siege for as long as Western European societies have practiced colonialism and Christian missionary work. Only very recently has there been a backlash condemning the cultural chauvinism that labels indigenous shamanism “primitive.” Increasingly, shaman-centered cultures are respected for values of community, environmental consciousness, and first-hand spiritual experience. What is not widely known is that Western civilization itself, beneath layers of Christianity and industrialism, stands upon its own, largely suppressed, shamanic and entheogenic foundation. From the author of Pioneer of Inner Space.
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Autonomia
Post-Political Politics
Edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi7 x 10, 340 pp., 100 illus.
With a new introduction by Sylvère Lotringer, “In the Shadow of the Red Brigades”
Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails…. I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate of Autonomia. The survival of the last politically creative movement in the West was at stake, but no one in the United States seemed to realize that, or be willing to listen. Put together as events in Italy were unfolding, the Autonomia issue—which has no equivalent in Italy, or anywhere for that matter—arrived too late, but it remains an energizing account of a movement that disappeared without bearing a trace, but with a big future still ahead of it.
—Sylvère LotringerSemiotext(e) is reissuing in book form its legendary magazine issue Autonomia: Post-Political Politics,...
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