Proud To Be Flesh
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Proud To Be Flesh
A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net
Edited by Josephine Berry Slater, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Michael Corris, Benedict Seymour, Anthony Iles and Simon WorthingtonChapter Titles:
1. Direct Democracy and its Demons:Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
2. Net Art to Conceptual Art and Back
3. I, Cyborg: Reinventing the Human
4. Of Commoners and Criminals
5. Organising Horizontally
6. Assuming the Position: Art and/Against Business
7. Under the Net – the City and the Camp
8. Reality Check: Class and Immaterial Labour
9. The Open WorkIn late 1994, back in the days of dial-up modems and Netscape Navigator 1.0, Mute magazine announced its timely arrival. Dedicated to an analysis of culture and politics ‘after the net’, Mute has consistently challenged the grandiose claims of the communications revolution, debunking its utopian rhetoric and offering more critical perspectives....
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The Anarchists
A Portrait of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
John Henry Mackay“Germany’s Poet-Anarchist” John Henry Mackay (1864-1933), born in Scotland and raised in Germany, was an early associate of Die Autonomie, which published his first collection of radical verse, Sturm. His sojourn to London in 1887 became the basis of Die Anarchisten (The Anarchists), which won him world-wide fame. Leading the revival of interest in Max Stirner, Mackay authored the first biography of this most radical of the Young Hegelians and “forerunners of Nietzsche.” And under the nom de guerre of Sagitta, he issued several homoerotic “Books of the Nameless Love,” which — with his anarchist “Books of Freedom,” iconoclastic novels, stories, and poems — won him Nazi condemnation just before he died in Berlin. The Anarchists was first published in English by Benj. R. Tucker, the anarchist editor of Liberty in New York City. It is a thinly-disguised autobiographical journey of transformation from revolutionary self-martyrdom to radical self-ownership....
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An Existing Better World
Notes on the Bread & Puppet Theater
George DennisonWritten shortly before Dennison’s death in 1987, these notes cover much ground: reviews of Bread and Puppet shows in New York, in Europe, and on the theater’s home-base, a farm in Vermont; an analysis of Peter Schumann’s work in the context of Brecht and twentieth-century political theater; a history of Bread & Puppet Theater by a comrade and radical educator; and detailed descriptions of the day-to-day creative fabric of the “existing better world” of Bread and Puppet. Most of all, this book is an intimate memoir of a deep friendship, rooted in a sincere belief in the possibility of real social transformation.
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Essays on Empire and its Discontents
David Watson
The long-time editor of Fifth Estate writes: “Urban-industrial civilization is a vast junkyard. Everything, from the planets to the cells of our bodies, is contaminated with its poisons. What it means to be human is now in dangerous flux, while the entire edifice sways over us, threatening to crash down in ruins. The green world in which we evolved is being shredded by our instruments and our way of life.”About Face
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About Face
Race in Postmodern America
T. Maliqalim SimoneMaliqalim Simone melds the theoretical insights of postmodernists like Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Derrida with Afrocentric ethnology, psychology, and anthropology to expose the political ethics of race and racial experience in contemporary America.
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A Day in the Life
Tales From the Lower East, 1940-1990
Alan Moore & Josh Gosciak, eds.The tumultuous mosaic of artists, ethnics, poets, junkies, barflies, radicals, mystics, street people, con men, flower children, screwballs and eccentrics who inhabit the city’s edgiest neighborhood. Redefines what roots can be. Not very quaint, pretty, or tidy to the touch.Edited by Alan Moore & Josh Gosciak. Includes: Allen Ginsberg, Lynne Tillman, Ed Sanders, Miguel Pinero, Emily XYZ, Cookie Mueller, Ron Kolm andothers. Illustrated.
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