Magical Urbanism
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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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The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman
Fred Barney TaylorMaestromedia is proud to announce the release of the two-disc DVD set, The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman. This 80-minute feature, directed by Fred Barney Taylor, is a cinematic portrait of this larger-than-life iconic figure.
The Polymath fluidly fuses meditative and experimental imagery, autobiographical anecdotes, family home movies, and literary excerpts to produce a stylized and highly unusual documentary. The film’s nonlinear structure follows Delany’s own use of autobiography, science-fiction, social criticism, pornography and semiotics. The film also features an appearance by novelist Jonathan Lethem.
The bonus disc contains 2 and 1/2 hours of never before seen Delany interviews and includes the full version of his film, The Orchid.
The Polymath debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007 and played to critical acclaim at LGBT film festivals in London,...
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Endnotes, Vol. 1
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Endnotes Collective
Endnotes is a new journal from some people who previously participated in the autonomist / ultra-left magazine Aufheben.
Issue #1 entitled, “Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the Twentieth Century”, begins where the engagement between Aufheben and the French group Thèorie Communiste left off. It consists mainly of a debate between Gilles Dauvé and Thèorie Communiste addressing why the traditional workers’ movement failed to overcome capitalism, and what the restructuring of the 1970s means for class struggle and revolution today.
Contents
1. Bring Out Your Dead
2. When Insurrections Die, by Gilles Dauvé
3. Normative History… by Théorie Communiste
4. Human, All Too Human? by Gilles Dauvé
5. Love of Labour? Love of Labour Lost… by Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic
6. Much Ado About Nothing by Théorie Communiste
7. Afterword
