Recent Books

  • Shut Them Down!

    Price: $9.95

    Shut Them Down! is an essential collection of reflections on
    the movement against the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles,
    Scotland. As well as action stories from the frontlines of
    resistance to the summit, there are detailed accounts of
    how various aspects of the mobilisation were organised,
    and analysis of the lessons to be learned. But Shut Them
    Down!’s relevance extends far beyond the Gleneagles
    experience. It addresses fundamental issues such as the
    nature of openness and ‘horizontality’, and the limitations
    of the ‘activist’ identity. Most important of all, Shut Them
    Down! poses the question: how can we take those worlds
    we glimpse in such moments and generalise them so that
    they make sense in the rest of our lives?
    Visit the Shut Them Down! web site.
    Contents
    Introduction
    The Editors 9
    1 On the road
    The Free Association 17
    2 ‘This is how we do it’
    Kara N....

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  • Semiotext(e) SF

    Price: $14.95

    Massive and overbearingly hip anthology of post-cyberpunk science fiction and other matter. Varied and largely critically-acclaimed material by the obscure, the overexposed and the justly renowned. Take your pick from the likes of Ballard, Bey, Burroughs, Di Filipo, Farmer, Gibson, Metzger, Rabinowitz, Rucker, Shirley, Stang and all the Wilsons (Colin, Peter Lamborn and Robert Anton).

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  • Rotting Goddess

    Price: $14.95

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  • Root Is Man, The

    Price: $9.95

    A reissue of this classic text (first published in 1946), with a lengthy introduction from Kevin Coogan.
    “We must emphasize the emotions, the imagination, the moral feelings, the primacy of the individual human being, must restore the balance that has been broken by the hypertrophy of science in the last two centuries. The root is man, here and not there, now and not then.” —from the text
    “Macdonald has turned his back on every kind of doctrine that implicitly would treat man as an object, even from a benevolent point of view. What he is concerned with is to create a humanism that can hold its own in the face of enormous bureaucracies and the atomic bomb. In so doing he has had to renounce many things which he had heretofore energetically championed. This is further evidence of what a really serious person he is.” —Hannah Arendt

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  • Revolutionary Writing

    Price: $15.95

    Fourteen radical essays in “open” or “autonomous” Marxism, subverting (by critiquing) the typical concept of the political, and examining the current configurations of the insurrection of global labor against global capital. After a century of failed attempts to bring about radical social change,the concept of revolution is itself in crisis. The resurgence ofanti-capitalist movements across the globe is a hopeful sign. Yet, themost disturbing is the contemporary indifference to revolution. What doesanti-capitalism in its contemporary form of anti-globalisation mean if itis not a practical critique of capitalism and what does it wish to achieveif its anti-capitalism fails to espouse the revolutionary project of humanemancipation? Anti-capitalist indifference to revolution is acontradiction in terms. The misery of our time demands that we, onceagain, dream revolution, that is, orient our theoretical and practicalactivities on the ideal of the society of the free and equal.

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  • Subverting the Present, Imagining the Future

    Price: $15.95

    Subverting the Present, Imagining the Future
    Insurrection, Movement, Commons
    Werner Bonefeld, Editor

    Following on the prior anthology Revolutionary Writing, this
    volume of essays in and about contemporary radical political
    theory is organized in three main parts.

    The first section centers on current debates about the concept of
    Primitive Accumulation, with contributions by the Midnight Notes Collective, Massimo De Angelis, Werner Bonefeld, Paul Zarembka and Mariarosa Dalla Costa.

    The middle section examines aspects of subversion in everyday life, with essays by Stevphen Shukaitis, the Leeds May Day Group, Harry Cleaver, and Sergio Tischler.

    The concluding section has case studies in national contexts —
    the United States, Mexico and Argentina — from George Caffentzis, Patrick Cunninghame, and Ana Cecelia Dinerstein, and a final essay by Nick Dyer-Witheford on the concept of ‘The Multitude.’

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Subverting the Present, Imagining the Future:
    Insurrection,...

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