Gone to Croatan (imperfect)
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This is a “hurt” copy of Gone to Croatan: Origins of American Dropout Culture. The cover may have a crease or some shelfwear, or the spine may have a small nick, but the insides are fine and readable. For a description of the book, go to here This volume is an episodic account of the ancestral dance of our crossblood brothers and sisters across the vagaboundaries of North America. By taking a liminal, rather than only a marginal, perspective on its subjects, it seeks to open doors whose very existence may have in some cases not previously been apparent to historians. It does not claim to be a comprehensive history, but it is a start in plotting the points on this particular cognitive map.
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This book accompanies “Grass, the Movie,” the award-winning documentary by Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann, with heavy color visuals throughout, drawn from the film by cartoonist Paul Mavrides, text by Ron Mann, an introduction by actor/activist Woody Harrelson, essays by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum on pot and film, Dr. John Morgan, M.D., on pot and music, and Keith Stroup of NORML on the past and present politics of pot.
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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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