Read Me!
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A compilation of writings and debates from the Nettime newsgroup and internet mailing list. This book documents the debates over emerging media technologies that are currently reshaping society. What are the liberatory potentials? Where are the points of political conflict and class struggle in this new culture? What are the pitfalls of new technology? Read Me! provides the beginnings of this discussion and an outline for what has become a continuing forum on the Net.
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A first-ever collection of documents that makes a strong articulate case for radio as a communication of hope and horror — an “other” medium. This is our Big Grey Book of Radio — from the avant garde to the prescriptive, radio as subversive instrument, political cudgel, and prank.Includes work by: Leon Trotsky, Tetsuo Kogawa, Ezra Pound, Abbie Hoffman, Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, Weill, Negativland, Marinetti, George Orwell, and many more.
... Read more about: Radiotext(e) »Psychedelics ReImagined
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This collection of writings on contemporary psychedelic culture covers a huge range of material, including biographical material on Casteneda, Ganesh Baba, and Fitz Hugh Ludlow, the Biblical history of certain plants, the intersecting of science and institutions in the drug world, rave culture, drug tourism, and more. Also includes preface material by Hakim Bey and Timothy Leary, the editor’s extensive networking contacts, and many book and journal reviews.
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Poetry and polemics have typically gone in opposite directions — the fine flame of the sonnet, blue cone in orange, versus the raging blazes of oratory. But opposites are alike in every way but one, and when poets have bcome politically aroused, Areopagiticas of language have been ignited (look it up!). Now three poets long associated with the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa in Boulder have joined their linguistic bonfires in a volume of polemical poems. Put a dark glass over your mind’s eye and read!
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As everyone knows, psychogeography is the study of the effects of the geographic environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals. So when Kees Califlora, a corporate psychogeographer (paid to locate places where people are predisposed to certain marketable behaviors), begins to doubt the validity of his own identity and experience, he’s too well-informed about the fictions of his own life to address it directly. The result is a dizzy unravelling, as Kees abandons friendships, interactions, and eventually even language. With an innovative page design and NYC photography by Dave Lombard.
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This is the first English-language collection from the noted Belgian critic Henri-Pierre Jeudy: a viable alternative to pomo nihilism. “History gives the appearance of being written as it unfolds: image events are becoming the only reality. The landscape of ideas seems to be building back on the ruins of ideologies. Theoretical violence has been retired to the museum of thought, even if the theory market is doing well.”
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