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  • Shalom Neuman

    Price: $29.95

    Shalom Neuman
    40 Years of Fusion Art, 1967–2007
    Shalom Neuman

    An 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.
    ISBN: 8889965552008Hardbound160pp.9”x 11.5”$29.95

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  • The Politics of Truth

    Price: $13.95

    The Politics of Truth
    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”...

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  • The People Decide

    Price: $17.00

    The People Decide
    Oaxaca’s Popular Assembly
    Nancy Davies
    Preface by Al Giordano
    Appendix by George Salzman
    Photos by Rochelle Gause

    When 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

    Price: $14.95

    Gynocide
    Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women
    Edited by Mariarosa Dalla Costa

    How 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?
    The powerful essays (and accompanying glossaries and testimonials) collected in Gynocide examine the historical,...

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  • The Worst Book I Ever Read

    Price: $16.95

    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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  • Neo Phobe

    Price: $12.95

    Neo Phobe
    Jim Feast with Ron Kolm

    A serial rapist terrorizes the streets of New York City,
    forcing a low-rent group of freelancers to go head-to-head with a
    Fundamentalist-Industrial Complex in a race to solve the crimes.
    “Neo Phobe aims directly at the paradox that lies at the center of all sexual liberatory
    writing. Often it suggests brilliant resolutions of this paradox; sometimes it falls victim to it. Everyone should read this book.”
    —Samuel Delany, author of Dhalgren and Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
    “This is one of the strangest books I’ve ever seen.”
    —Barney Rosset, former publisher of Grove Press
    “Neo Phobe is a playful mystery novel that smartly comments on what it means to be a working-class writer (and detective) in NYC battling nowhere temp jobs, indifferent
    literary journals, and Christian zealots, respectively. It’s also a character sketch of
    The Unbearables, the anarchic group of verbo-visual terrorists and beer drinkers to which Feast and Kolm claim membership.”...

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