Unleashing the Collective Phantoms
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Unleashing the Collective Phantoms
Essays in Reverse Imagineering
Brian HolmesThese insurgent essays describe, prolong and critique some of the cultural and artistic projects that arose with the worldwide wave of protests around the turn of the millennium, against what the global South calls neoliberalism. Dissent and the refusal of a programmed existence continually return to the streets; but they also unfold in the imagination. Complex discourses and elaborate fictions weave their way through images, gestures and hilarious scenarios, hovering at the edges of reality and searching for whoever will give them voice. Museums, cinemas, books and theaters are temporary abodes for such things, and authors are only a convenience. But none of the wilder spirits ever really disappears. Time leaches away the graffiti of revolt, and the cynicism of power lays a new coat of paint. Still the collective phantoms return.
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Shalom Neuman
40 Years of Fusion Art, 1967–2007
Shalom NeumanAn oversized, full-color, hardbound retrospective volume surveying the visual and “fusion” art of Shalom Neuman, with accompanying texts by Enrico Baj, Donald Kuspit and Robert Morgan, an interview with Neuman conducted by Tsaurah Litzky, and photos by James Dee, Deborah Fries and Francis James.
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ISBN: 8889965552008Hardbound160pp.9”x 11.5”$29.95The Politics of Truth
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The Politics of Truth
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Michel Foucault
In 1784 philosophy acquired a new dimension when the philosopher Emmanuel Kant asked: What is enlightenment, what is our present made of? But asking ourselves what our actuality is, has, in our own age, become Nietzsche’s question. This volume, compiled by Sylvère Lotringer from a series of lectures that Foucault gave in Europe and America between 1978 and 1984, when he was writing The History of Sexuality, is to that question. As Lotringer notes, “Michel Foucault got interested in Kant very early on. He wrote his dissertation on Kant’s anthropology. But until the 1960s/70s, Foucault never referred to Kant, only to Nietzsche, the philosopher who established a diagnosis of the present.
Foucault’s examination of Kant’s “what is Enlightenment” is the most “American” moment of Foucault’s thinking. It is in America that he realized the necessity of tying down his own reflection to that of the Frankfurt School. Foucault’s discussion of “modernity”...The People Decide
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The People Decide
Oaxaca’s Popular Assembly
Nancy Davies
Preface by Al Giordano
Appendix by George Salzman
Photos by Rochelle GauseWhen on May 25, 2006 Nancy Davies published a reporter’s notebook entry on The Narcosphere titled “The Desperate Government in Oaxaca” few observers– other than Davies – saw the regime of Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz as desperate.
Ruiz, since coming to power in 2004, had run roughshod over social movements, imprisoned political opponents (the subject of two Narco News video newsreels last February, “Prisoners of ‘Democracy’” and “Marcos Goes to Jail”), violently attacked opposition journalists, and the movements themselves were historically divided. The teachers’ union known as Section 22 went on strike as it had every May 22 for the past quarter-century, but few expected that the 2006 strike would amount to anything more than modest gains.
Davies began what would become more than seven months of nonstop reports with an opening dispatch: “Oaxaca is a perfect example of a place where those in power see the collapse of order – their order....
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Gynocide
Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women
Edited by Mariarosa Dalla CostaHow much of contemporary medical practice still derives from a practice rooted in the witch-hunts that plagued Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, and burned at the stake, after horrible torture, hundreds of thousands of midwives and healers along with other poor women — the greatest sexocide in recorded history?
Women’s bodies and their medical knowledge were burned on those stakes to be replaced by a male “science” and a male gynecological profession controlled by the state and church. Has history run its course? Or, among the many reasons given today for hysterectomies, does its abuse still conceal, more or less covertly, a yearning for male domination over women’s bodies that reaches this most lethal form of conquest because it expropriates and destroys what makes a body a woman’s body?
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The powerful essays (and accompanying glossaries and testimonials) collected in Gynocide examine the historical,...The Worst Book I Ever Read
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The Worst Book I Ever Read
The Unbearables
Over 400 pages of the most searing, scandalous and scurrilous denunciations of fellow writers ever to appear in print! Innovative, free-form and traditional reviews of texts from the Bible and Ulysses to Borges, Calvino and David Sedaris by Luc Sante, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Jim Knipfel, Carl Watson, David Ulin, Sharon Mesmer, many more. Illustrated in color.“The Unbearables bare all; they are unbearably smart, unbearably talented, and unbearably lively — but here are the Unbearables at their highly bearable best. It’s a pleasure to find out what this group finds unbearable in such an engaging manner.” — Samuel Delany, author of Dark Reflections.
“The Unbearables are a bunch of cranks, crackpots, malcontents, misanthropes,ass-pains and brain-aches. Bless their sour pusses.” — John Strausbaugh, author of Sissy Nation and Black Like You.
“From stapling together issues of the National Poetry Magazine Of The Lower Eastside at CBGBs in the mid ‘80s,...
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