Recent Books

  • File Under Popular

    Price: $11.95

    File Under Popular
    Chris Cutler

    Fervent and deep takes on pop music arguing against the culture of alienation and for a meaningful form, arrived at through theory, consciousness, and praxis. By one of music’s most ardent thinkers and innovative drummers (Henry Cow, Cassiber). “A stirringly aggressive antidote to contemporary pop cynicism.” — Simon Frith

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  • Exit 18 First Series

    Price: $20.00

    Exit 18 Pamphlets
    First Series

    This first set of five pamphlets in Autonomedia’s Exit 18 Series of upstate New York authors and topics includes “Ayahuasca and Shamanism: Michael Taussig interviewed by Peter Lamborn Wilson”; “Hieroglyphica” by Anonymous; “High in the Himalayas” by Marilyn Stablein; “Overcoming Fitness” by Robert Kocik; and “Select Strange Sacred Sites” by Th. Metzger. Series Editor: Peter Lamborn Wilson.

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  • Hieroglyphica

    Price: $5.00

    Hieroglyphica
    Anonymous
    Whoever learns to read hieroglyphics could also learn to write them — projective semiotics — text as spell — sarcophagus of disembodied will.

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  • God & Plastic Surgery

    Price: $14.95

    God & Plastic Surgery
    Marx, Nietzsche, Freud & The Obvious
    Jeremy Barris
    An unusual and intensive examination of the work of the intellectual progenitors of contemporary Western thought. A battery of insights into how to and how not to think, act, feel, eat, dress, dance, take tea, or fuck. Something like equal parts Gertrude Stein and Wittgenstein.

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  • Imaginal Machines

    Price: $16.00

    Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life
    Stevphen Shukaitis

    All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding of this self-institutionalizing process. But what exactly is radical imagination? Drawing from autonomist politics, class composition analysis, and avant-garde arts, Imaginal Machines explores the emergence, functioning, and constant breakdown of the embodied forms of radical imagination.

    What does it mean to invoke the power of the imagination when it seems that the imagination has already seized power through the power of the spectacle? Does any subversive potentiality remain? Perhaps it is only honest to think in terms of a temporally-bounded subversive power. It might be that imaginal machines only work by breaking down. That is, their functioning is only possible, paradoxically, by their malfunctioning. By reopening the question of recuperation,...

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  • Pioneer of Inner Space

    Price: $14.95

    Pioneer of Inner Space
    The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater
    Donald P. Dulchinos

    A biography of the largely unknown Fitz Hugh Ludlow, the ‘American De Quincey’ and best-selling author of The Hasheesh Eater in the years before the Civil War. Ludlow, a fixture in the bohemian circles of New York City in the 1860s, also made a bold journey to the West Coast on the Overland Stagecoach. Short story writer, music and drama critic, and journalist as well as pioneering psychedelic adventurer, he befriended Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, among other celebrated figures in nineteenth-century America. With illustrations.

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