Recent Books

  • 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

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    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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  • Surrealist Subversions

    Price: $22.95

    “AT THE FOREPLAY OF LIBERTY!”From its auspicious beginnings in the summer of 1966 to the present, the Chicago Surrealist GroupÑand the Surrealist Movement in the United States, which grew out of it — have continued to foment an exhilarating whirlwind of revolt while playfully igniting the sparks of Poetry, Freedom and Love in the crucible of the Unfettered Imagination. In so doing, it has brightly illuminated the pathways of absolute divergence that define the intrinsically anarchist trajectory of the surrealist adventure.Drawing on the full range of U.S. surrealist publications, from the original journal Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion to the very latest millennial communique from the front lines of the ongoing battle against miserabilism, this volume contains over 200 texts (more than two dozen appearing here for the first time) by more than fifty participants in the Surrealist Movement, making this the most comprehensive, diverse and lavishly illustrated compilation of American surrealist writings to have ever been assembled. Editor Ron Sakolsky’s provocative and far-ranging introduction explores the historical development of “Chicago Idea”...

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  • Wild Children

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  • Wiggling Wishbone

    Price: $9.95

    A sinister collection of stories that, through force of language, reveals the limits of power and commerce. His”intelligent rage” addresses Hitler from his dog’s point of view, a sexual liaison with Andy Warhol, the Pope’s wet dreams, and other targets. Plantenga has been called “the William Gibson of the Lower East Side,” “a punk Borges,” and simply “an incredibly talented underground writer.”

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  • Trotskyism & Maoism

    Price: Original price was: $14.95.Current price is: $4.49.

    A critical analysis (and comparison) of the two major interpretations of Marxist-Leninism, and their effects (particularly in the 70s) in both countries where they had some major influence. Based on a series of interviews, and discussions with, (then) prominent intellectuals, and activists, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Althusser, Amrir Baraka, James Cannon, Bob Avakian and more.

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